La otra conquista Photos




La otra conquista - Topiltzin the hero, the warrior, the mud-man, the tlahcuilo (sacred scribe/painter), the unrecognized symbol of a nation. What is he thinking of? No one knows, not even Damian (I asked him). La otra conquista - My first shot, my first day of shooting, my first time behind a 35mm camera (a Panaflex). La otra conquista - The Indian nun has just given Topiltzin a Medieval cure (Mexican-style) for his hallucinatory fevers: chimicules, those lovely little pink worms we see in the film wriggling up and down Topiltzin's back. La otra conquista - In contrast to the previous photograph, here we see the loving, almost maternal tenderness in the way Dona Isabel looks at Topiltzin. Whether they are or not in truth siblings is subject to interpretation. Some people believe they are and some people don& La otra conquista - Like a reptile crawling out of the earth's womb, Topiltzin climbs the pyramid to escape the massacre of nobles at the Great Temple. I am particularly fond of this photograph because this was the first shot I ever directed on a 35mm feature film. La otra conquista - Friar Diego de La Coruna and Topiltzin in a moment of shared solitude inside Topiltzin's cell at the Monastery of Our Lady of Light. 'You and I, deep inside, share the same belief, Friar Diego, even though we come from different worlds. We live in La otra conquista - Topiltzin has a hallucination in which he sees himself as an Aztec high-priest about to sacrifice the statue of the Virgin Mary. He is surrounded by the women whom he loses throughout the film: from left to right, his grandmother Nanahuatzin, the princess La otra conquista - In response to Friar Diego's plea for mercy during Topiltzin's rite of conversion, Captain Cristobal decides to burn the Indian's feet. This act of brutality has strong connotations for us Mexicans because of a famous historical passage in whi La otra conquista - A defiant Tecuichpo (Emperor Moctezuma's daughter) confronts Hernando Cortes when Captain Cristobal decides to intensify Topiltzin's punishment by switching from the leather whip to the chain. La otra conquista - Topiltzin about to offer his codex to the Mother Goddess: 'Tonantzin, here is our breath, the word of our ancestors... our lasting heritage.'


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