Lets Go with Pancho Villa
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Director Fernando de Fuentes Music director Silvestre Revueltas Language Spanish | 7.8/10 IMDb Genre Drama, War Duration Country Mexico | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Fernando de Fuentes , Rafael F. Munoz , Xavier Villaurrutia Release date 31 December 1936 Initial release December 31, 1936 (Mexico) Cast Antonio R. Frausto (Don Tiburcio Maya), Domingo Soler (Francisco 'Pancho' Villa), Manuel Tamés (Melitón Botello), Ramón Vallarino (Miguel Ángel del Toro 'Becerrillo'), Carlos López (Rodrigo Perea), Raúl de Anda (Máximo Perea)Screenplay Fernando de Fuentes, Xavier Villaurrutia Similar movies Blackhat , Argo , Valkyrie , Brooklyn's Finest , Salt , Summer of '42 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Let s go with pancho villa 1936 mexican film excerpt
Lets Go with Pancho Villa (Spanish: Vamonos con Pancho Villa) is a Mexican motion picture directed by Fernando de Fuentes in 1936, the last of the directors Revolution Trilogy, besides El prisionero trece and El compadre Mendoza.
Contents
An anti-epic based on a novel, it focuses on the cruelty of the Mexican Revolution and Pancho Villa himself, contrary to most of the Mexican movies about this national hero.
The movie is thought to have been the first Mexican super-production and led to the bankruptcy of the film company that made it.
The 1910 Mexican Revolution is on its way when six brave peasants, known as "Los Leones de San Pablo", decide to join Pancho Villa's army and help end the suffering in their community by assisting in the struggle. Together, they will endure the tragedies and hardships of a civil war.
Plot
Villa was portrayed by Domingo Soler. Directed by Fernando de Fuentes, the film tells the story of a group of friends who hear about the revolution and Villa and decide to join him, only to suffer the cruel reality of war under the command of a Villa who simply does not care about his men.
The movie has two endings: the original ending shows the last surviving friend returning to his home, disenchanted with both Villa and the Revolution.
The second ending, discovered many years later, returns to the same scene ten years later, when an old and weakened Villa tries to recruit the last survivor again; when the father hesitates as he does not want to leave his wife and daughter behind, Villa kills the wife and daughter. The angry father then tries to kill Villa, before another man shoots the father dead. Villa takes the sole survivor, the son, with him.
Similar Movies
Viva Villa! (1934). Fernando de Fuentes directed Let’s Go with Pancho Villa and El Compadre Mendoza. Fernando de Fuentes directed Let’s Go with Pancho Villa and Prisoner 13. And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2003). Villa Rides (1968).
Background
A great failure when released, interest in the movie resurged many decades later, and today is considered one of the best movies of Mexican cinema both for its approach to the theme and its technical merits.
It stands apart among the many movies made about Villa in that it portrays the man and the Revolution in its cruelty; most other films, like those by Ismael Rodriguez in the 1960s, take an almost idyllic view of both, following the official (government) mythos.
The movie music was composed by Silvestre Revueltas, who makes a cameo appearance.
References
Lets Go with Pancho Villa WikipediaLets Go with Pancho Villa IMDb Lets Go with Pancho Villa themoviedb.org