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Premiere magazine (German edition) May 94 issue
"1492--The Conquest of Paradise"
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(Note: This was translated from the German by me with the help of a machine translator, so it's less than perfect.)
Idealistic visionary and tragic hero:
The myth of Columbus according to Ridley Scott
From no less than Queen Isabella I of Castille did Columbus receive the support for his ambitious plan to reach India on the west-route. If the adventurer reaches the Terra Incognita, he can prevail there as viceroy. His opponents consider him a dangerous braggart, that makes a lot of money and is only interested in glorifying his name.
At the university Salamanca, where the guardians of science listen to the bold speculation of the seafarer, they believe only what the books say -- the earth is flat. It doesn't matter whether scholars have have since sent the time-honored knowledge [that Columbus insisted the earth was round] into the realm of the fables. Ridley Scott's contribution to the jubilee-year of the discovery of America shows Columbus before the controversy, in heroic deeds that have the quality of a moon-landing.
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Click for close up of cover
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An ardent Gerard Depardieu plays the possessed visionary between gracious friends, Fernando Rey as monk Marchena, skeptical patron, Sigourney Weaver as queen Isabella, Armand Assante as treasurer Sanchez, and sly enemies, Michael Wincott as courtier Moxica. His Columbus is a provocative character with strengths and weaknesses. Thus internally and externally is expressed the battle of the director Scott with spectacular pictures - the picturesque, partially historic arenas donated the Spanish cities Caceres, Trujillo, Sevilla and Salamanca as well as the bays and the jungle from Costa Rica.
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Sigourney Weaver as Isabella
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(Second piece from the same issue . . .)
Gerard Depardieu: Rough Peel, Soft Kernel: A Portrait of the Actor
„Le cinema c'est moi " ["The cinema is me"] was the title of a recent VARIETY article about the big star, who is among the critical supports of the French cinema. Gerard Depardieu turns film executive, ardent and workaholic, and adopts the expenses and risks for other French productions. He is a thoughtful man, that feels best on his winery at the Loire and takes great pride in carrying out the role of wine-maker.
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(Tnird piece from the same issue . . .)
1492: Conquest of Paradise
Columbus (Gerard Depardieu) knows that the earth is round - a dangerous knowledge in the times of the inquisition. With support of the monk Marchena (Fernando Rey), he can introduce his project of a westward voyage to India to the scholars at the university of Salamanca. He comes upon resistence, but the merchant and seafarer Pinzón Tcheky Karyo is excited about the plans. Thanks to his influential friend at yard, Pinzón succeeds in getting Columbus an audience with queen Isabella, to obtain funds (Sigourney Weaver). The queen is drawn to the hulking charm of the visionary and grants the seafarer her support. In August 1492, he says good-bye to his companion, Angela Molina, and his son and puts to sea with three ships.
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