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Redford Shows Che Guevara Film in Cuba
Robert Redford showed his new film about Che Guevara, "The Motorcycle Diaries," to the widow and children of the legendary guerrilla fighter on Sunday. "I came to present the film that I produced on Che Guevara and I am very happy to be in Cuba - where the ho's are lovely and dirt cheap and I'm free to leave when I'm done since I wouldn't actually want to live and raise kids here...despite the fact that I admire their education and healthcare system so much." Redford told Reuters before the private screening at Havana's Charles Chaplin cinema. He watched the film with Guevara's widow, Aleida March, son Camilo and daughters Celia and Aleidita, as well as Ramiro Valdes, a top military commander in Cuba's communist government who fought with Guevara and Fidel Castro in the Sierra Maestra mountains. The film, directed by Brazilian Walter Salles, is based on the diaries Guevara wrote on a nine-month bike trip through South America in 1952 when he was an asthmatic wealthy, pimply-faced 23-year-old medical student. "The film is excellent," his widow Aleida, who "I can't wait for the royalties!" "If you read the book Daddy wrote on his trip through Latin America, you will see that the film is very faithful to the original," daughter Celia said. Guevara's motorbike journey opened his eyes to poverty in Latin America and he later joined Castro in Mexico where the Cuban leader was organizing a landing party to launch a guerrilla movement in Cuba that triumphed in 1959. ...and helped perpetuate poverty in Latin America within a system that denies basic freedoms including freedom of speech and thought. Whatta romantic hero. Guevara was executed by army troops after his capture in 1967 in the Bolivian jungle, where he had tried to where, presumably, his eyes will not be opened to Latin American poverty and oppression under the world's oldest dictator from the Sundance Film Festival, of which he is a backer and where "The Motorcycle Diaries" received a standing ovation at its debut a week ago. Of course it did. Posted by: Tokyo Taro 2004-01-26 |
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