6/11/2023 0 Comments The legend maker film![]() Elena already knows his identity as do the audience the only important character it's a reveal for is his son. Dramatic Unmask: Zorro gets captured and unmasked by the bad guys, who also have his wife and child in tow.The Dragon: McGivens is a bandit hired by Armand to act as muscle in his schemes.'Sounds a lot like a Notorious 1946 movie. Does This Remind You of Anything?: Elena marries a rich tycoon who creates weapons of mass destruction and hides them in wine bottles.Doesn't Know Their Own Child: Elena quizzes Alejandro on details of their son Joaquin's life to make a point that he's so busy being Zorro that he's being a poor father.Death by Looking Up: McGivens ends up defeated, with his head right below a nitroglycerin container which is leaking a drop.Culture Clash: The film has elements of this, contrasting the Hispanic trappings of the old California to the increasingly Wild West aesthetic of the to-be-American state.Corporal Punishment: Joaquin's teacher is strict, and resorts to punishing unruly students with a cane to maintain discipline, leading to a mock- Sword Fight with the boy.Clark Kenting: Alejandro was so good at playing the Upper-Class Twit that he had his own son Joaquin fooled.He lost all his teeth just in the first reel. Butt-Monkey: McGivens only exists to get hurt and humiliated.Bond Villain Stupidity: While it's also an Even Evil Has Standards moment where Count Armand shows himself to have a tiny bit of morality by not executing Zorro on the spot in front of his wife and son, his decision to not immediately kill his foe and to just ride off on his train with Elena and Joaquin ends about as well for him as you'd expect, with Zorro escaping death and coming right for him immediately afterwards.Big Bad: Armand is the mastermind of the entire plot.Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Elena runs across a dirt field at full speed, fights with a shovel, runs back across the same field at full speed, falls in the dirt at least once, and when she gets back to her room her white nightgown is spotless and she doesn't have a hair out of place.Bald of Evil: Armand's Battle Butler doesn't have a hair on his head. ![]() A scrawny-looking, unassuming priest who punches out mooks (and who braves bullets to conceal Zorro's identity)? That approaches even Zorro's level of badass. Turns out they're quite capable of putting up a fight when pushed to it. Badass Bystander: The Cortez couple seem to be set up to be another pair of helpless victims in need of rescuing.Doubly so for a state which then still retained Mexican Catholic culture, which also looked down on divorce. In 1850s California, it would be almost impossible for an upper class woman like Elena to divorce her husband and raise her children alone without her social standing ruined.On top of that, Abraham Lincoln, who is shown welcoming California into the Union, never traveled to the state, as president or otherwise. Some of the most glaring ones in the film, which is set in 1850, are the role of the Confederate States of America (which weren't formed until 1861), the First Transcontinental Railroad (which wasn't completed until 1869 in fact, California wouldn't gain its first railroad until 1856) and the California Statehood Referendum which is entirely fictitious.There's a shot of the horse's eyes widening. Animal Reaction Shot: Zorro manages to land his horse on top of a moving carriage train, only to notice that it's about to enter a tunnel.Now they're plotting to cause a civil war in the USA to prevent it becoming a rival to their power. According to Padre Felipe, they ruled Europe from the shadows for many centuries. Ancient Conspiracy: The Knights of Aragon.Cue a desperate battle on multiple fronts to win the day and the girl. Meanwhile, a new Smug Snake ( Rufus Sewell) has entered the scene with eyes on both Elena and California, whose impending statehood is imperiled when Alejandro uncovers yet another conspiracy to carve the state and hand it over to various baddies. Ten years after the last film's events, the demands on Zorro are putting a strain on Alejandro and Elena's marriage, so they have a temporary trial separation. ![]() Like the first, it was directed by Martin Campbell and stars Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones. The Legend of Zorro is a 2005 swashbuckler film and the sequel to The Mask of Zorro.
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