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Viva Zapata!

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Viva Zapata!	comment	Viva Zapata! is a 1952 film directed by Elia Kazan, starring Marlon Brando and Anthony Quinn.Emiliano Zapata (Brando) is a peasant farmer from the southern Mexican state of Morelos. He and his fellow peasants petition President Porfirio Diaz for assistance against the sugar barons that have taken their land, but Diaz, a corrupt autocrat, instead tries to have Zapata arrested. Zapata, accompanied by his brother Eufemio (Quinn), lead a peasant revolt and raise an army. Other rebels rise up, including Pancho Villa in northern Mexico, and Diaz is forced to flee the country.Diaz is replaced by Francisco Madero, a liberal, but Zapata is unsatisfied by the pace of Madero's reforms. Things get worse when conservative general Victoriano Huerta pulls off a coup d'etat and has Madero murdered. Zapata gathers his men once again, and, working in tandem with Villa, is able to overthrow Huerta as well. Zapata briefly holds power in Mexico, but fears that power may corrupt him.Star-Making Role for Quinn. John Steinbeck wrote the screenplay, the only original screenplay he ever wrote (he also adapted his own novel The Red Pony, and he wrote the original story for Lifeboat). Alfred Newman composed the music. Alan Reed, who appears briefly as Pancho Villa, would later voice Fred Flintstone on The Flintstones. Jean Peters, who stars as Love Interest Josefa, retired from acting a few years after this movie when she married Howard Hughes.Compare Viva Villa!, a movie made 20 years before with a similar title and recounting many of the same events, but from Pancho Villa's POV.
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Viva Zapata! / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Shouted in triumph after they get the news that Diaz has fled into exile.
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Viva Zapata! / int_28114487	type	Bald of Evil
Viva Zapata! / int_28114487	comment	Bald of Evil: Victoriano Huerta, as he was in Real Life (both evil and bald), murdering Madero, establishing himself as dictator.
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Viva Zapata! / int_4ef62a4d	type	Full-Circle Revolution
Viva Zapata! / int_4ef62a4d	comment	Full-Circle Revolution: A theme of the film. Government succeeds government in the Mexican Revolution, each being as bad as its predecessor. Eufemio steals land from the peasants, just what he and Emiliano were fighting against early in the movie. Emiliano himself nearly does this when as president he meets a group of peasants just as in the opening scene (see Call-Back above) but makes a conscious decision to cast power aside and continue to fight.
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Viva Zapata! / int_5aa2b7c8	type	Powder Trail
Viva Zapata! / int_5aa2b7c8	comment	Powder Trail: Diaz's solders, manning a fort, take little notice of the old ladies that are hauling bags of produce to market. They do not realize that the old ladies aren't hauling bags of produce, they're hauling bags of gunpowder, and they're leaving trails on the ground via holes cut in the bags. The soldiers start shooting when the old ladies get too close to the gates but it's too late, as the trails are lit, the gates are blown, and Zapata's men take the fort.
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Viva Zapata! / int_5dc04c4e	type	Brownface
Viva Zapata! / int_5dc04c4e	comment	Brownface: Used for most of the actors. The surprising thing for the era is not that they used Brownface on actors like Brando, but that they managed to cast two actual Mexicans, Anthony Quinn and Margo.
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Viva Zapata! / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Viva Zapata! / int_7febc23b	comment	The film opens with a group of meek peasants from Morelos obtaining an audience with President Diaz. They ask for relief from the sugar barons; Diaz makes empty promises about how the peasants can get their land back if they sue in the courts. Then all the peasants start shuffling out, dejected—except for one, Zapata. Standing tall, he calls Diaz out, noting that peasants never win legal fights against the land barons under Diaz's government. He even holds up his hand to quiet Diaz when Diaz tries to argue. Diaz for one appreciates the Establishing Character Moment, circling Zapata's name as someone genuinely dangerous. Werner Herzog named this as the greatest opening scene in movie history.
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Viva Zapata! / int_8296f61d	type	King in the Mountain
Viva Zapata! / int_8296f61d	comment	King in the Mountain: The film ends with the peasants who see Zapata's mangled body refusing to believe that he is dead. They say "he's in the mountains", and that if the people ever need him, he'll come back again.
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Viva Zapata! / int_9bfb2f41	type	Dead Guy on Display
Viva Zapata! / int_9bfb2f41	comment	Dead Guy on Display: Zapata's corpse is displayed in the square to crush the spirits of the peasants, but it doesn't work.
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Viva Zapata! / int_a90fff3	type	Based on a True Story
Viva Zapata! / int_a90fff3	comment	Based on a True Story: As with most biopics of the era, accuracy wasn't considered a very big deal. The real Emiliano Zapata was not illiterate. He never held power in Mexico City, even briefly, although he did pose with Pancho Villa in the palace◊ as is depicted in the film. Huerta was not present at the murder of Madero. The key role of American ambassador Henry Wilson in the overthrow and murder of Madero is omitted.
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Viva Zapata! / int_d21a93f4	type	Hand Gagging
Viva Zapata! / int_d21a93f4	comment	Hand Gagging: Zapata doesn't let a little thing like being a fugitive from Diaz's government stop him from courting Josefa, instead sneaking into a church to talk to her. Eufemio puts a Hand Gag over Josefa's mother's mouth while Emiliano and Josefa talk.
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Viva Zapata! / int_e2db9ef	type	Multiple Gunshot Death
Viva Zapata! / int_e2db9ef	comment	Multiple Gunshot Death: Zapata is gunned down in the square by an entire regiment. An officer looking at the body muses "They must have been really afraid of him; they shot him to ribbons."
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Viva Zapata! / int_e9a3a1ed	comment	Never Learned to Read: A source of shame for Zapata. He has to get his buddy Pablo to read letters from Madero. Later, he gets his wife to teach him to read so that he can deal with government types.
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Viva Zapata! / int_ebe34da1	type	The Revolution Will Not Be Vilified
Viva Zapata! / int_ebe34da1	comment	The Revolution Will Not Be Vilified: Zapata after succeeding in his rebellion takes office but worries that he'll become a tyrant like he once opposed, so he resolves to fight and live among the people inspiring them from below rather than above.
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Viva Zapata! / int_ff6ae1f6	comment	Evil-Detecting Dog: Zapata's old horse is twitchy and snorting as Zapata pets him. At the moment the soldiers appear on the rooftops, the horse rears up, screams, and gallops off.
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