about a year ago we expected this time. Over the past weeks, and were bombarded by advertising, interviews, articles and trailer that reminded us that soon we could see, at last, Captain Alatriste. Thanks to the enthusiasm that Perez Reverte himself put on the characterization of Viggo Mortensen as the captain, and photos, we knew that at least the protagonist does not disappoint us. The writer told that the only condition that put Diaz Yanes was that their beloved master were like us, the readers, and as he himself reading his adventures we imagined. Yañez Díaz not only kept his promise, but all players have exceeded expectations. The seventeenth century English as we assume it was: Dark, decadent, violent. An empire on the verge of collapse still spends his remaining strength to keep the domain and the power he wields in the world. The fight will last for two centuries until the end of 19 when Cuba is the last brick to fall.
rarely in Spain has put so much on the grill for a movie: an investment of 24 million euros, an illusion, a script that attempts to summarize a great saga of adventure, not just the recreation of an era but an entire worldview. The accounts appear leaving, for now, in the black. A million spectators have seen Alatriste in the first weekend, and as consideration Perez Reverte, he is satisfied with the results and the actors were crying when the lights of the cinema the night of his first screening.
Alatriste is one of my favorite characters, and the truth is that Viggo is the best captain who might have known. There are countless stories of the extraordinary efforts made by the actor for his performance. Castilla was kicked around looking for the ideal place where he may have born the captain, (information that novels do not reveal) are not only memorized the script, as is their job, but also the complete saga, almost made the Prado museum home, again and again studying the paintings of Velázquez. And the end result is that it humanized the captain. Diego Alatriste ("was not the best or the most pious, but it was a brave man," the phrase that begins the first novel and has been taken as the slogan of the film) is a bit more cynical about the novel. Gestures, Viggo deep blue eyes, her tears, her walk, her gestures, give a cockiness but also an awareness of always being a defeated man ("be with those boots are a sign of pride, or lack of money, captain? "asked the Count-Duke of Olivares," both things, His Excellency, "replied Diego.) Actually, I remembered the captain as a hero in the novel, when in reality it is a poor man immersed in his violent and bloody times to the head. A hit man for bad life, but a generous man, deeply loyal. And sometimes those details that I missed (or I 0lvidaron) in the novel, Viggo are impossible to forget, remember them with every step or every gesture. Not only is impeccable in its Viggo performance, but most of the performances are deeply moving: Juan Echanove as Quevedo, Eduard Fernandez and Sebastian, Eduardo Noriega as the Count of Guadalmedina (I confess I was surprised, not between my favorite actors) are the ones I liked. But Walter Malatesta also seems straight out of the novel and Javier Camara as the Conde Duque de Olivares is also impressive, and Ariadna Gil pride. Up to three sentences of Pilar Lopez de Ayala makes their tiny share a great contribution. And Unax Ugalde is my favorite young actor, so I was delighted when I knew it would Iñigo Balboa. The only I did not like, and it's not their fault, but the amendment that made his character was Alquézar Angelica, played by Elena Anaya. For starters, Angelica Alquézar was blond and blue eyes, and it is minor is a lesser evil. The Worse was the terrible evil, a demon disguised as an angel, a manipulative interested. It was intriguing and cool. And in the film was as a girl in love who is carried away by circumstances, by the opportunities presented, giving love almost an obligation to class otherwise. And that, to lie, it smacks off the subject. Because the novel was always good to imagine now that mischief was going to leave the evil Angélica the innocent Iñigo.
Another thing I liked, but we have already said much Carlos and me is that the film has a story around, but rather, out of the novels the "high lights" with a storyline that connects them. This is enough to Alatriste geeks like us who know the context and everything that happens before and after each adventure, but I think that a viewer who has not read any novels are left with a narrative void. Narrative is where I see the weakness and strong point is definitely plastic, visual, but the movie sometimes seems a succession of moving pictures by Velazquez: the same light, the same contrasts. It has a precious picture, a dark setting as the time, a stark reality and real life from that moment, but maybe for a "not started" that is not enough. We will have to ask.
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