Viva Zapata!

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Rami A @Bunt101 06/15/2025 While not accurate, this is still an entertaining movie. Even though, the role of Zapata should've been given to a Mexican actor, I still thought Marlon Brando did a decent job. It's not his best role, but still decent enough. See more Liam D @Mediawatcher2003 06/07/2024 While an very engaging and well made film but the casting of Marlon Brando over the time it’s questionable See more Cameron M @Cameron11 01/08/2022 An entertaining film about of history I didn't know anything about. However, though Brando tries his best, he is woefully miscast as Zapata. I enjoyed the story of the film where Zapata fights for his people's land but then becomes part of the government that ignores the people's pleas. Zapata's confrontation with his brother was well-written and well-acted by Anthony Quinn. However, the shoot-out was confusingly shot, which was odd as most of the shot-outs in the film had good cinematography. The film is notable for being one of the few films scripted by John Steinbeck, but, although the story has similarities with Steinbeck's literary works (i.e. poor working class people looking for a better life), the writing was nothing of note. Brando was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar but lost to Gary Cooper. Out of the other nominees, I've only seen Kirk Douglas in The Bad and the Beautiful and his performance was leagues better than Brando's. Quinn won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar but, although Quinn's performance was better than Hunnicutt's acting in The Big Sky, I thought Richard Burton's performance was better in My Cousin Rachel. Steinbeck was nominated for the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar which I don't think was deserved, but I haven't seen the other nominated films in that category. Overall, Viva Zapata! was an entertaining film with some good acting and some beautiful cinematography but some pacing issues and a bland screenplay did hurt the film's overall quality. See more Ru S @Runes 07/09/2021 Miscast, overacted specially Brando with too his too emotional act. Somehow I find this film a bad representation of its story. The fighting was ok and the cinematography was delightful, still not enough to make it a honourable. See more steve d @RT35616104 07/21/2020 The weak script dooms it. See more S R @ScottR 02/23/2018 I was interested in this one, but it ultimately left me a little confused and wondering why it wasn't better made. There was a story here, but it struggled to come out in a coherent way. I saw it since it was on the NYT 1000 movies list. SLC DVD. See more Read all reviews

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