History Buffs: 1492 Conquest of Paradise
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Published 2015-11-09
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1492: Conquest of Paradise (in French, 1492 : Christophe Colomb) is an epic 1992 adventure/drama film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Roselyne Bosch, which tells the fictionalized story of the discovery of the New World by the Genoan explorer Christopher Columbus (Gérard Depardieu) and the effect this had on the indigenous peoples of the Americas.
The film was released by Paramount to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Columbus' voyage.
All Comments (21)
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"Greeks figured out the Earth was round over 2,000 years ago" Meanwhile it's 2018 and you still have people thinking the Earth is flat.
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The whole "Columbus wanted to prove the earth was round" myth came from Washington Irving. An author who, like Ridley Scott, didn't really care about historical accuracy.
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Most of what we "know" about Columbus, actually comes from the romanticised writings of Washington Irving... The guy who wrote Sleepy Hollow... The novel about the Headless Horseman
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"Columbus's claim to fame isn't that he got there first," explains historian Martin Dugard, "it's that he stayed."
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I can pass over the inaccuracies, but the true atrocity in this movie is Christopher Colombus`s french accent.
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so basically ridley scott should focus on alien movies? got it
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You know Bartholomew de la Cases as one of the world first major human rights activist deserves his own movie
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16:14 Interesting that you mentioned him. For those who don’t know, Bartolomé de las Casas wasn’t a member of Columbus crew, but he was one of the Spaniards to arrive in Hispaniola. Despite becoming a hacendia and a slave owner, he left his hacienda and became one of the first people to write down Spanish atrocities and even tried to petition the Spanish king to abolish slavery in the colonies.(though the king died before he could approve the proposition)
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As an American, I absolutely HATE that for all of elementary school everyone said that Columbus found out the earth is round. Even teachers were spouting these lies!
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11:59 "we come in peace and with honor." The next clip is a guy with a fucking gun.
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Just imagine, you do things so inhumane that even 15th century people are like "BRO WTF CHILL!"
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My great grandfather Hjalmar Rued Holand was actually one of the historians who proved that Vikings had made their way to North America before Columbus by discovering stone tablets that had the history of their journey inscribed on them. The family story as I heard it says that he found a farmer using it as a doorstep.
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“We’ve been told lies for so long. That THIS...” slaps spherical globe “... was as flat as this table!”
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Only a little detail of one inaccuracy that make me fun. In the 19:07 of this video appears a cathedral. That cathedral is the cathedral of my town Segovia (Spain) wich was not finished until 1577!!! Colombus death was in 1506!!!
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Explorer = Italian Flag = Spanish Land = Bahamas Thoughts = India Holiday= American Hotel? Trivago
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One quick note: the Bible never claims that the earth is the center of the universe. The Catholic Church claimed that, not the Bible.
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Hey I like the guy.. don't forget, "in 1492, Columbus got us a day off schoo"- Eric Cartman..
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Fun thing about Galileo is that he wasn't tried for his worldview either but rather for insulting the pope, who, just to add another layer of injury, had been a close friend of his few years earlier.
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I say in 2092, we remake this movie more accurately and release it as a horror film
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When I was at school my teacher made all the kids see this movie and told us that the movie was very accurate. She literally quoted the movie when we didn’t know something about the voyage. Absolutely stunning.
