Vicuña

1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992)

Actors: Sigourney Weaver (actress), Ángela Molina (actress), Michael Wincott (actor), Kevin Dunn (actor), Jack Taylor (actor), Juan Diego Botto (actor), Arnold Vosloo (actor), Gérard Depardieu (actor), Tchéky Karyo (actor), Frank Langella (actor), Mark Margolis (actor), Armand Assante (actor), Fernando Guillén Cuervo (actor), Ridley Scott (producer), Fernando Rey (actor),

Plot: Big budget account of Christopher Columbus' discovery of the Americas. Released in 1992 to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the discovery. Shows the disastrous effects the Europeans had on the original inhabitants, and Columbus' struggle to civilize the New World.

Keywords: 1490s, 1500s, abuse, admiral, armory, bare-butt, bare-chested-male, blood, box-office-flop, brother-brother-relationship
Genres: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History,
Taglines: Centuries before the exploration of space, there was another voyage into the unknown.

Quotes:

[first lines]::Young Fernando Columbus: Of all the words my father wrote - and there were many - I remember these the most: "Nothing that results from human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. And those who are enlightened before the others are condemned to persue that light in spite of others."

Columbus: Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier.

Columbus: We are trying to adapt to the Indian diet. Meat is only a memory for us.

Queen Isabella I.: [referring to Columbus' proposed expedition] The costs would be ruinous.::Sanchez: No more than the costs of two state banquettes.

Columbus: Paradise and hell both can be earthly.

Sanchez: [Columbus stops Sanchez after he leaves an audience with the Queen. Sanchez looks at him, disgusted] You're a dreamer.::Columbus: [shooting a glance out of a window] Tell me, what do you see?::Sanchez: [pausing to look] I see rooftops, I see palaces, I see towers, I see spires that reach... to the sky! I see civilisation!::Columbus: All of them built by people like me. [Sanchez doesn't respond - shocked] No matter how long you live, Sanchez, there is something that will never change between us. I did it. You didn't.

Antonio de Marchena: You are a passionate man, Sir. Columbus.