Starring “Money Heist” and “Elite” star Jaime Llorente, Amazon’s “El Cid” hit the streaming platform worldwide on Dec. 18, weighing in as Spain’s first scripted Amazon Original and one of its biggest swings to date in continental Europe.
While Charlton Heston’s El Cid in the eponymous 1961 film was a product of the Cold War, an agent of Christendom battling invading aliens, Llorente’s Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, alias El Cid, is less glorious, more grounded and far truer to its age while interpreting events with modern-day political and gender sensibility. This is a medieval epic, but with attitude, and Spain setting the record straight.
Here are six takes on the five-part season 1, and a brief Q&a with co-creator José Velasco and producer Sara Fernandez-Velasco. (Warning: may contain spoilers)
The Dawn of Democracy
Driving to the heart of its drama, in an early episode one flash-forward, Llorente’s 20-year-old El Cid,...
While Charlton Heston’s El Cid in the eponymous 1961 film was a product of the Cold War, an agent of Christendom battling invading aliens, Llorente’s Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, alias El Cid, is less glorious, more grounded and far truer to its age while interpreting events with modern-day political and gender sensibility. This is a medieval epic, but with attitude, and Spain setting the record straight.
Here are six takes on the five-part season 1, and a brief Q&a with co-creator José Velasco and producer Sara Fernandez-Velasco. (Warning: may contain spoilers)
The Dawn of Democracy
Driving to the heart of its drama, in an early episode one flash-forward, Llorente’s 20-year-old El Cid,...
- 12/21/2020
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
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