There are the ‘good’ Muslims who are well established on the
Iberian peninsular, who are honourable, who wear brightly coloured clothes, who
want to practice their religion in their own community, and who don’t want any
trouble.
Then there are the ‘bad’ Muslims who’ve formed an army and come
over from North Africa with Ben Youssuf. They’re
what we would until recently have called ‘Fundamentalists,’ but who are now
generally referred to as ‘Islamists.’ They want to invade the whole of Spain with a
view to turning it into a Muslim country, they’re nasty and mean, they wear
black clothes, and they’re out to make a hell of a lot of trouble.
Doesn’t this all sound oddly familiar? El Cid was made around fifty years ago, and it has me wondering
whether there was some kind of prior knowledge involved in its creation. Just a
thought.
And El Cid isn’t a
particularly favoured film any more. Having been a half decent action movie for
most of its length, it dissolves into absurd farce at the end, which is a bit
of a shame. It also contains one of the most glaring continuity errors I’ve ever
seen.
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