The curse of Zapata: he would be a great movie. The 20th century's purest revolutionary. If only Hollywood could get over the fact he was Mexican.(filmmaker Gregory Nava plans movie on life of Emiliano Zapata)

Los Angeles Magazine | December 1, 2002| | Copyright

THE HERO OF THE MOVIE IS MEXICAN. A REAL Mexican. Not the buffoonish, servile, talk-like-dees invention. Not even the exoticized, rico/suave, bonbon-shaking version. But a righteous and defiant Mexican. A short, brown, Indian-featured, cowboy-attired Mexican. With a paintbrush mustache, and a bullet-laden bandolier, and a thumb half lost to the rodeo. A badass Mexican.

His name is Zapata. He was a revolutionary--not an intellectual or an ideologue but a horseman, a campesino, a man of the earth--the first true populist warrior of the 20th century. His fight was over ...

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