Today's recommendation is an ancient epic film - "Heroes of All Ages".
Co-produced by the United States, Italy and the United Kingdom, the film was released in 1961 and ran for 182 minutes. Directed by Anthony Mann and starring Charlton Heston and Sophia Roland, Douban scored 7.8.
The film is based on the famous play "Cid" by pierre Corneille, a famous French classicist writer of the 17th century. It mainly tells the legendary experience of the hero of Spanish history, Rodrigo Diaz de Vival (Cid).
As a large-scale production jointly produced by many countries 60 years ago, the film, whether it is a war scene or a construction scene, is magnificent and magnificent, not only perfectly showing the characteristics of the times, but also exuding the arrogance of sufficient budget everywhere.
The lens is exquisite and meticulous. In particular, the art and the film's unusual pursuit of aesthetics make modern people almost feel like crossing.
Playing such a legendary knight by Heston, who is more than two meters tall, is simply the best choice, and Heston also jumps out of the stereotype of "rude warrior", presenting us with a brave and tender knight.
In comparison, Sophia Roland's performance is much inferior, and it doesn't matter, anyway, she has always been famous by her breasts, and the expression on her face is not important.
The film's director did not limit himself to the play, but made many adaptations, especially the ending of the film.
The play "Cid" ends with the happy marriage between Cid and Shi Manna, and "Heroes of All Ages" is told until the end of Cid's life, and ends with the final climax of "retreating from the enemy with a corpse", which perfectly interprets the spirit of Cid's "fight to death".
This kind of treatment, which is both factual and generous and tragic, directly elevates the "small family fun" of the original work to the "national belief", and the level is high and low, which can almost be called a model of "magic reform" in literary works.
Well, about the film introduced here, let's review the history involved in the film as usual--- the Spanish Restoration Movement.
Since there is a restoration, there must be an invasion first. This invader was the Arab Empire that spanned the three continents of Asia, Africa and Europe.
In 711 AD, civil unrest broke out in the Visigothic Kingdom that ruled Spain, and a contender for the throne rushed to the doctor and asked the Arabs across the sea for help.
This was done properly to "lure the wolf into the house", and as a result, the Arab army crossed the Strait of Gibraltar and began the history of the conquest of the Iberian Peninsula.
The head of the Arab expeditionary force learned from Xiang Yu to "break the cauldron", and after going ashore, he burned all the warships, and the expeditionary army without a way to retreat burst out with amazing strength, and defeated the Visigothic king in one battle in the Battle of Guadalete.
After this war, the Arab conquest of visigoths was like a tourist, and in just half a year, most of the Iberian Peninsula was incorporated into the territory of the Arab Empire.
The wandering Arabs even crossed the Pyrenees on the Spanish-French border and broke all the way into France, until they met Charlie Matt, the French Minister nicknamed "Hammer", and were hammered back to Spain.
After the fall of the Visigoths, the remnants retreated into the barren and desolate mountains of Asturias in the north to establish the Kingdom of Asturias, which began the 800-year-long campaign to recover the lost land.
For eight centuries, the Iberian Peninsula was repeatedly contested between Christianity and Islam.
This history is long and chaotic, enough to write a bunch of books, let's pick up the main ones.
First of all, christianity was left with the last small kingdom of Asturias, which, before it could stop, split into the kingdoms of León and Castile.
After france rose in Europe, it felt that it had the responsibility and ability to defend Christendom as the leading big brother, so it took the initiative to cross the mountains and mountains to find trouble for the pagans, winning first and then losing, and finally being beaten back.
Christians who could not defeat muslims may have been motivated by loneliness, and then the kingdoms of Aragon and Navarre were created.
On the Muslim side, the Umayyad dynasty was overthrown and replaced by the Abbasid dynasty, and the last remaining prince of the Umayyad dynasty ran to the Iberian Peninsula to establish the post-Umayyad dynasty.
The post-Umayyad dynasty also flourished, and Rahman III also crossed the Strait of Gibraltar to counterattack the Abbasid African territory and dominate the Mediterranean, making Spain one of the richest regions in Europe.
At that time, the image of Muslims and today's terrorists was very different, the ruling class was almost all fond of literature and art, the policy of the rule was tolerant, the technology was developed, and the Muslim palaces and mosques represented the highest architectural level and aesthetic standards in the world at that time.
However, the prosperity is bound to decline, and the traditional program of the Arab nest fighting is once again staged to the extreme, and the entire empire is shattered into one place, splitting into dozens of small Thai and French countries, fighting each other into a pot of porridge.
So the situation became more chaotic in the following time: Christians and Muslims fought, Christians and Christians fought, Muslims and Muslims fought, Christians helped Muslims beat Christians, Muslims helped Christians beat Christians...
Seeing that this is not going to be confused, please believe that we are a serious historical public name, I write historical facts, not tongue twisters.
In short, for the sake of survival and profit, everything else can be put aside.
Cid is a typical representative of this period, and according to the current vision, he is actually a mercenary leader. His army included Castilians, Catalans, Frenchmen and Muslims, and everyone who believed in anything.
This team was basically supported by robbery, and the Cid treated this equally, whether it was a Christian church or a mosque. Almost as many Christians and Muslims were killed in combat.
In the end, for the sake of practical interests, the Cid chose to join forces with Alfonso VI on the Christian side against the Muslims.
The elite mercenaries he personally created were almost defeated on the battlefield, and the Cid became the hero of the defeated Spanish Christians. Alfonso VI also lamented that one Cid had plagued Spain, and the other had revived it.
In 1198, Pope Innocent III, who saw Christians fighting each other, felt too bad and stood up and called on Christian countries to stop infighting and unite against Islamic forces.
As the head of the world's largest organization at the time, the Pope's words worked. The cross, organized at the call of the Pope, finally defeated the Muslim Almohad army at the Battle of Tolossa.
More than half of the 120,000 Muslim troops were lost and have since been devastated. But at this time, the Christian forces did not seize the opportunity to unify the rivers and lakes, but were busy fighting in the nest.
It was not until 1469 that The marriage of Princess Isabella of the Kingdom of Castile and Prince Fernando of the Kingdom of Aragon was a major turning point in the reconquista.
The two were called the "Two Kings of the Catholic Church", and the merger of the two countries led to the birth of the Kingdom of Spain.
In 1492, taking advantage of the civil unrest in the Nasr dynasty, the last Muslim regime on the Iberian Peninsula, Spain besieged its capital Granada, and after two years of bitter fighting, Mehmed XII surrendered. At this point, the Restoration Movement came to an end.
The Restoration Movement shaped a unified Spain, providing a realistic basis for the subsequent Geographical Discoveries of Columbus.
Say a little more about the Cid, Spain, which has become a unified nation, began to work hard to excavate the glorious history of the nation, looking for it, except for Tang Qui goethe, who is famous for the Cid, and since there is no choice, then use the Meitu P under the general to use it.
As a result, the mercenary side of the Cid was deliberately erased, and the side of fighting against muslims was infinitely magnified.
Then, after his death, cids not only was able to ride a horse against the enemy, but also ran from the battlefield into history, and from history to legend, completing the gorgeous transformation from the head of the mercenary to the national hero.
History is a science and a discipline full of practical interests. Sometimes it doesn't matter what the ancients did or didn't do, what matters is to be able to serve their current needs.
Is that right?
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