Captain Alatriste

by **Jim** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 5:21 pm

G'day All,

I have recently seen the film Captain Alatriste, and it is absolutely fantastic!

Has anyone else seen it?

It stars Ara.. Viggo Mortensen, and is the most expensive Spanish language film ever made.

It is set in the 17thC and goes through Alatriste's involvement in Spain's wars of empire in Europe.

It makes me want to get a terico or five up and running. It very good stuff - especially the fight sequences, where you see swordsmen dashing under the engaged pikemen and causing all sorts of problems.

Cheers,

Jim

by **Holger** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 7:55 pm

I saw the movie in the cinema when it was released here in Spain. Fantastic scenery, costumes and actors. It could have become a great movie, but in my opinion the plot was not very well structured. It was like narrated multiple stories at the same time, dozens of personalities appeared which were not well integrated into the plot and the battle scenes would have required more attention. The tercio only consists of several dozens of men and there are only a handful of French cavalry attacking. With modern computer techniques it should have been easy to produce some mass scenes of the kind produced for "Alexander the Great" or even basic computer animated battle scenes like in the recent "Mongol" movie. So I think it was a lost opportunity. Nevertheless it's a good movie.

by **Jim** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 8:01 pm

Okay well yes thats also all true.

My wife couldn't watch it because she thought the plot was all over the place and didnt know who was who.

She thinks I was just smitten with Viggo

Cheers,

Jim

by **SgtPerry** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 5:39 am

Last summer, I found the french version of the comic book based on the adventures of Capitan Alatriste. It seems to have been published in 2004 in castellano ( Arturo Pérez-Reverte (writer), Carlos Giménez (scriptwriter), Joan Mundet (cartoonist)). The drawings, in black and white, are really superb. It’s a great inspiration to begin to work on spanish scenics.http://www.songe.fr/weblog/images/BDAlatriste.jpgI don’t know if an english version exists and how many comic books have been published.http://www.sceneario.com/Planche_bd_9587_capitaine_alatriste_(le)_tome_1.jpgAnd a portfolio of illustrationshttp://www.joanmundet.com/Cayoediciones%20index/PortaAla.htmlOlivier

by **Gallowglass** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 5:16 pm

I enjoyed it.

Don't think it's available in the US (which is why I brought my copy of the DVD with me)

by **Marcus Flatulas** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 6:24 pm

Hi, what was the Mongol movie about?