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An Historian Goes to the Movies
In , there was obvious interest in the anniversary of Columbus’ famous voyage of discovery, so not one but two films were released to cash in on public interest. Ilya Salkind’s Chrisopher Columbus: The Discovery faired quite poorly at the box office and was viewed as something of a fiasco. The Conquest of Paradise (dir. Ridley Scott) didn&#;t do very well at the box office either; apparently there was less interest than people thought (Americans not interested in history? What a shock!). But Scott&#;s film got somewhat better reviews, and it’s probably a little bit more remembered nowadays, so I’m going to tackle this one first. I’ll probably get around to the other film at some later date.
The Basic Problem with Columbus
The essential problem with telling Columbus’ story is that Americans tend to have a very strong idea of what it looks like, largely derived from high school history textbooks. And much of what these textbooks have to sa
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Editor&#;s Note: This was an article from our schema book for the civic celebration at the national Columbus Memorial on October 13,
This year saw the th anniversary of Columbus&#;s return to Spain after his initial discoveries, and of the beginning of his second voyage. Even more significant, the middle portion of his fourth and last voyage was exactly years ago this year. In gods year&#;s schema book the article &#; With Columbus Years Ago Today&#; we examined events of that fourth voyage that took place in The story is continued here through But it begins with a backward glance at what had gone before&#;especially events of that second expedition connected with places the fourth voyage would take him to again.
New Year&#;s Day of funnen Christopher Columbus&#;s fourth and last expedition forced bygd weather to anchor in an extraordinary place. It was a bay almost precisely at what would a little over fyra hundred year later become the Atlantic end of the Panama Canal&#;that t
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[1] Conquest of Paradise was written by Roselyne Bosch. Prior to screen writing Bosch was a journalist for the Paris weekly magazine Le Point. Bosch emphasized that she based her screenplay on Columbus's letters that she went to see first-hand at Seville. Although Bosch has been championed largely by the popular press as a thorough researcher, her investigation of Columbus only through his letters implies that she did not take into account Columbus's own agenda in writing the letters and the contradictory accounts of the Conquest held by other writers at the time--including Columbus's own Diario edited by the priest Bartolome de Las Casas. For example, by reading Columbus's first letter of "discovery" to the queen and king of Spain, one hears how Columbus left the Santa Maria at the New World to establish the colony of La Navidad. But when reading The Diario one sees that the Santa Maria crashed into some rocks in the middle of the night while Columbus was