Universal Pictures (USA) 1998.

Starring: antonio banderas

Catherine Zeta-Jones

Anthony Hopkins (Anthony Hopkins)

Director: martin campbell

Type: action movie

Classification: PG- 13 (violence)

182 1 year, Spain's 300-year rule over Mexico was coming to an end, and the peasant rebels led by Santa Anna swept through the whole province of California, which was then Mexican territory. Farmers want to pay off the blood debt of the last Spanish governor, Lamar Montero. Although Rafael Montero was ordered to return to Spain, he still refused to stop there and tried to fight to death. He arrested three protesting farmers and prepared to kill them. At this critical moment, the legendary hero Zorro once again shattered Montero's plot, but then Zorro was put into prison and his daughter was taken away by Montero's gang ... Twenty years later, Montero led the army back to Mexico and tried to establish an independent Republic of California.

At this time, Zorro, who is old, stepped forward again. He trained the young farmer Allarduo, who had a deep hatred for the nobility, into a new generation of Zorro, fought side by side with Allarduo, finally killed Montero, saved a large number of miners, and his daughter Elena also returned to her side. ...

Zorro is the embodiment of justice and the patron saint of the people. Zorro will never disappear as long as the people need it. ...

The film's director, martin campbell, directed the acclaimed James Bond film "golden eye" and the blockbuster "Vertical Limit" recently released in China. Spanish antonio banderas, British Catherine Zeta-Jones and Anthony Hopkins starred.

◎ Chinese name Zorro's mask/Black Xia Zorro

◎ Zorro's mask

◎ Year 1998

America.

Category Love/Adventure/Action/West

Language English

◎ Director martin campbell martin campbell

Starring antonio banderas antonio banderas ... Alejandro Murrieta/Zorro.

Anthony Hopkins Anthony Hopkins ... Don Diego de la Vega/Zorro

Catherine Zeta-Jones Catherine Zeta-Jones ... Elena Montero/Elena Murrieta

Pedro Amenda Reyes Jr. ... Don Pedro.

Murray Chagin maury chaykin ... Warden.

JD Roberto ... Drummer of the firing squad (unedited)

Pedro altamira, monitor.

Tony Amendola ... Don Luis.

Vanessa Butch vanessa bauche ... Indian girl.

Fernando Bethel ... one of the six old men.

Tony Cabral ... the soldier with the wanted poster.

Erica Carlson ... Don Pedro's wife.

Alberto Carrera ... one of the six old men.

Humberto Elizondo Don Julio.

Sergio Espinosa ... Zorro the leper.

◎ Jane

Twenty years ago, the masked hero Zorro was followed by the troops of Spanish Governor Montero. In the resistance movement, Zorro's wife was killed by Montero, and his young daughter was taken away by Montero. Zorro was arrested and imprisoned.

Twenty years later, in order to fulfill his unfinished wish, Zorro put on a mask and escaped from prison. At this time, the former Spanish governor Montero continued to do evil, and he was planning to buy the ownership of the whole California from Mexican President General Santo Anan.

In order to stop Montero's action, Zorro found the wanted thief marita, and trained him as his heir, hoping that this young man could destroy Montero's dream. So, the legendary Zorro mask came to marita's hand. However, when the new Zorro pointed her sword at the aggressive spanish princess, it was discovered that she was the daughter of the old Zorro who was kidnapped that year. ...

When glamorous Catherine Rita Jones meets glamorous antonio banderas and aristocratic Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins, what sparks will these three people have? The result is this romantic and adventurous action film set in 18 century, which describes the legendary masked chivalrous man of Mexico, Sulo, leading the Mexican people in northern California to resist the oppression and rule of Spain.

Since the novel was published in 19 19, Russell's legendary story has been put on the big and small screens. With the help of producer Steven Allan Spielberg, he directed martin campbell, who became famous for the 007 film golden eye. The whole story is fluent, nostalgic, romantic and modern. In particular, the scenes of the hero and heroine in the film are more memorable than the sword and the tango dance, and they are called the best screen couple in 1998.

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The background of the story is that Spain ended its rule in Mexico. Western colonists did not want to leave Mexican territory. Zorro appeared, wearing a black mask and a shawl on the ground, riding a galloping horse. He is the embodiment of a national hero. The sword shone brightly in the sun and was engraved with his mark "Z".

Later, when Zorro was old, he happened to see the labels he used to hang on the heads of two children around the neck of a young man who lost his brother. That year, two childish children played naughtily, picked up pebbles on the ground and secretly helped Zorro fight the invaders.

Maybe many people's lives are pointed in a certain direction before they are born. So the new Zorro was born. Passion is infinite, but lack of composure. Cultivating gentlemanly manners and falling in love with the daughter of a senior Spanish official is actually a daughter snatched from old Zorro.

All heroes have this trait-putting aside personal grudges and fighting for the interests of the people, which he didn't understand until a long time later. Strong body, elegant manners, humor and wit.

Ann is a natural singer of musicals. If you are interested, you can see his phantom role in Phantom of the Opera. What hasn't changed is his eyes, sharp, just like the eyes when he danced with Catherine.

Compared with those petite and dependent female stars, Catherine's overbearing manner is not too aggressive, but I like it. There is a long arc behind her lips, and her eyebrows are slightly raised and she is very attractive when she smiles. Frankly admit, "father, I fell in love with a dangerous man, and he swept me off my feet." People who have always felt attracted to each other must have similar temperament. Perhaps the beauty in Catherine is also a dangerous temperament.

What impressed me the most was the scene where Zorro and Catherine tried fencing, first the skirt, then the shoulders, and finally the cloth on the chest. Being cut one by one, just right, and stealing kisses in a hurry, a little prank, can also be accepted happily.

Zorro's mask: It turns out that Zorro is half the father of America.

I've heard of Allen Delong's Zorro before. I always thought Zorro was a European story. After reading The Mask of Zorro, I suddenly don't believe that Zorro happened in America. A more surprising discovery is that Zorro is the future father of America. Of course, the founding father of the United States is another person, but Zorro's great achievements in Zorro's Mask can always be regarded as half of the founding father of the United States.

Interestingly, Alandron's version of Zorro was co-produced by France and Italy. The suzerain country of an old colony like France seems to deliberately hide the location of the story in that film. Maybe it's because they don't want to mention the sad place they lost. They just said that it was the Spanish colony in South America, New Aragon and Zorro who replaced the dead governor to eradicate the colonel. Zorro, filmed by Americans, was simply defending the later American land, so both the old and new Zorro were named Diego, but the American version of Zorro has distinct American regional characteristics.

In fact, according to the sequence of stories, The Mask of Zorro should be a Allen Delong version of Zorro's story in his later years, and it focuses on the successors cultivated by Zorro, indicating that Zorro has successors in his career, especially the new Zorro and the old Zorro's daughter have formed a good relationship, which symbolizes the eternal spirit of Zorro.

In The Mask of Zorro, unlike Zorro in French and Italian versions, a colony in South America is unknown. The film tells us from the beginning that that place is now California in the United States.

At that time, the land still belonged to Mexico and was just taken over from Spain. But Spain is unwilling to fail. Rafael Montero, the former Spanish governor in the film, was driven out of the American continent, but his ambition never died out. Instead, he often returned to this old place to engage in some conspiracy activities.

We are all too familiar with this plot. Those colonial countries will not be willing to fail when they see a piece of fat in their hands thrown away for nothing. Therefore, the main plot of the Spanish governor after the return is to make this land independent. In fact, Britain did not treat Hong Kong like this at that time. As 1997 is coming, they are still racking their brains to make trouble on the Hong Kong issue. The ideal way is to internationalize the Hong Kong issue and make it independent, which is also a good choice. In addition, the historical problems left by Britain on the Sino-Indian border and India-Pakistan border are the products of this post-colonial concept (a term "Hou" has been coined), which still puzzles these neighboring countries. This is a time bomb deliberately set by their colonists after they lost their cities and territories. In The Mask of Zorro, the Spanish did not want California to be independent when they were in power. After returning to Mexico, he seems to have changed his face, cared about the fate of Californians and encouraged them to become independent. After many years, the wolf's ambition is still similar. Watching more movies like this is also a kind of political education for us.

Take Zorro as an example. His main task is to destroy the plot of Spanish national interest spokesman to make California independent.

Why did Zorro have such lofty consciousness?

Of course, ethnic hatred and family hatred are linked in the film. Originally, Zorro never asked right or wrong when he was brave. In his eyes, it seems that there is no national interest of Spain, Mexico or even the United States. As long as the person who slaughters ordinary people is a villain, he will draw his sword to help. So at the beginning of the film, it is not the Spanish governor who defends his regime. The film didn't politicize them at all, but only used him to kill three innocent locals to illustrate his evil. In fact, if he is only protecting Spain's national interests, you really can't classify it as evil.

When the Governor tried to kill someone, Zorro had to come out to rescue him, resulting in his whereabouts being discovered, his wife being killed, his daughter being taken away and himself being imprisoned. So twenty years later, he came out against Raphael Montero, mainly to avenge his family.

This is the guilt of the movie. Zorro came out to maintain the integrity and unity of California, which is just a by-product of his revenge. Imagine if Zorro met a good governor, whether he opposed California independence. If the Americans invade California, will Zorro protect this Mexican territory?

The film had to explain this fact vaguely, but it only strengthened personal grievances. In the process of revenge, he destroyed the old Spanish governor's attempt to split and engage in independence.

So Zorro accidentally kept California from splitting, waiting for the flood in the western United States and sending this land into the tiger's mouth of the United States.

This Zorro really became half the father of the United States with no effort, because the land area of California may be similar to that of the United States at that time.

With this tone, let's take a look at the plot of this movie. To tell the truth, the plot of this movie is a bit cliche.

The Spanish governor took Zorro's daughter and raised it himself. This plot is a bit like the shadow of Yang Kang in The Condor Heroes. Adopting the enemy's children to fight the enemy may be the cruelest form of revenge. So this idea is not new in history, and this film will also use this design.

The story of Zorro's escape from prison, you say, is like Ren Woxing who escaped from the dungeon in Eight Branches of Long Qie, instead of copying the count who escaped from the dungeon in The Count of Mount Kiddo.

Zorro escaped. But he is old after all. At this time, he began to train successors. This passage is a bit like the shadow of a hero. Zorro trained vagrants to become assassins. In order to get close to the former Spanish governor, he had to learn from the upper class. That little Zorro finally started his career. Unknown approached the king of Qin by obtaining the head of the killer in the Jianghu, while little Zorro was able to enter the upper class by learning a set of aristocratic etiquette.

The following things are much simpler. The film also avoids the lofty consciousness of describing old Zorro, and does not show Zorro's great motive of opposing anti-cracking from the national standpoint. It can only show that Zorro can't let the gold in the gold mine be taken away by the Spanish and fight for it with amazing money to escape the trial of independent fate decision. This is the Jianghu. Rivers and lakes always care about good and evil, and never judge whether the choice is correct or not from the political level. So Zorro never studied the pros and cons of independence for California. It seems that under the arrangement of the American director, he has been looking forward to the arrival of Americans many years later. Therefore, what he has to do now is to oppose violence in Spain. Therefore, the film specially arranged a gold mine war to save the people. There is no political choice here, just a simple good or bad cartoon. It is such a simple judgment that the Spanish murder is undoubtedly a bad person.

Movies play the fool again and again under the political theme, always corresponding political judgment to simple judgment of good and evil. Zorro solved the evil, avoided the judgment of political right and wrong, and avoided thinking about the fate of California. He just prevaricated with an empty fight for the people. In fact, all Zorro's actions, old and new, are fighting for the United States and for Zorro to become the father of half the United States.

Last-minute rescue, who wins and who loses will not be said.

In addition to the contradictions in the above themes, there are more contradictions, omissions and simplifications in this film.

The main clue of the film is that Zorro's daughter becomes the adopted daughter of the enemy. It should have been possible to design a violent collision plot clue, but in the film it seems to be understated, avoiding the important and avoiding the light. When Zorro's daughter faces her own truth, how fierce will her thoughts struggle? How will she face her adoptive father who has never had a bad feeling towards her in the film? Caught between the hatred of her biological father and adoptive father, how will she make a judgment and choice? All this is invisible in this film, because it is not a psychoanalytic film after all, but a bold action film. Therefore, in the film, she has never experienced the contradiction between psychological contest and pain. In the last scene, she simply abandoned her adoptive father who had raised her for many years and returned to the position of her biological father, showing no gratitude to her adoptive father for getting along with him for many years. This makes the film feel very ethereal when these contradictions are set.

In addition, the film also wants to show some humorous elements in some paragraphs. For example, in the process of stealing horses, the ugly scene of the tramp Zorro is obviously funny. However, there is no humorous description in other aspects of the whole film, which makes this local noisy scene inconsistent with the style of the whole film, but finds this interesting and funny scene embarrassing.

The most amazing stunt in the film should be the description of jumping over obstacles on horseback, falling down and getting back on the horse. This passage is amazing.

For the hero, I think I lack the masculine chin of Allen Delong. I remember I met a woman writer in China who admired her broad and powerful chin most, especially when she was masked. The only iconic part of a man was her powerful chin. But not to mention the old Zorro in this film. The young Spanish actor of Zorro looks slender and has no strong chin, so he is not masculine.

What impressed me most in the film was the actress who played Zorro's daughter. She was named the most beautiful actress in Hollywood from this film. In the film, she is really beautiful. Her appearance, I think the animated girl in Shrek is designed according to her appearance, or I think she has a cartoon shape. The real person is like a cartoon, and this actress really reaches the ultimate beauty of the people in the painting. The actress's name is Catherine Zeta-Jones. Searching for the following names on the internet, there are few comments on the film, but there are a lot of contents about the actress. She married mike douglas enough to be her father. An agreement was made on how to divide the property in case of divorce before marriage, which caused a storm in the city. These gossip events have nothing to do with movies.