Che Poster

We have the poster for Che to show you this afternoon thanks to our friends over at In Contention.

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Benicio Del Toro looks pretty bad ass as Che Guevara. As a Canadian communist sympathizer I am very interested in seeing this film, it’s scheduled for release sometime in 2008 but no specific date has been locked down. If no one picks it up for distrobution, I will have to hunt it down on DVD.

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25 thoughts on “Che Poster

  1. “Do we all really need a history lesson?!”

    Unfortunately, assuming a competency in history on the part of a modern North American / Western internet audience is a losing proposition. Especially on a website devoted to movies.

    Given that the most cogent defense of Communism to be seen on these pages is (paraphrase) “it looks good on paper,” I think expecting much reasonable analysis is setting yourself up for disappointment.

    BTW, for those who are interested (and I don’t know many are): no, it doesn’t “look good on paper.” It looks just as insidious in theory as it does in application.

  2. Ok, let me rephrase that since in Cube the government pretty much brainwashes propaganda onto the people. In Miami, you will not find a Che shirt. If its so repected than why is the government so scare of their athlete defecting every time they place abroad? And Athletes are probably treated the best in Cuba.
    Che, Mao, Lenin…all are immortalized in their cities. Does this make them all good men? Do we all really need a history lesson?!

  3. Che is a god in cuba! communism is respected in cuba. go there and see for yourself. does anyone know one thing that miami cubans have in common? and tvo, you cannot walk an inch in havana without seeing a “trendy” che shirt or statue or some kind of memorial to the great man.

  4. Let me first say that I’m looking forward to seeing this. It looks like it’s going to be a very well done movie.

    Now…having spent some time in Central America, I can tell you that all of those kids running around with Che tshirts they bought on Daddy’s credit card don’t have a clue. They would’ve been among the first that Che put up against a wall. Yes, he did things like that. I know he’s a hero to some (I’ve seen a total of two Che paintings on walls in Central America). To most in Latin America, he is a villain. There are a lot of corpses whose only crime was to disagree with the man. My argument is not about Communism vs. Democracy. I cannont call a man a hero who makes it his legacy to travel from country to country, turning people against each other and puting guns in their hands. That is what he did. He was a professional “war-starter”. Call it what you want, but that is exactly what he did.

  5. CIB3K, sounds like the communist education system has done its job with you. Guevera became basically what he fought against. He replaced one system of domination with another, his own. Hopefully the movie will tell the whole story not just the hero worship story. Its ironic that Guevera probably would have ideologically been against a commerical movie where the rich get richer off his image.

  6. I lived in communism for a while, until the revolution that turned the country to capitalism. And I’ll have to say it was better before. A lot of people here are thinking the same way. The situation in the country was actually better during the communist president, as stupid as he was, and some people now look back at him as a hero. I’m not saying there were great times before – there were problems and I understand the people that hate that period, but overall they were better times. The quality of the people was certainly higher. There was less poverty, people were more educated, humble and wiser. The revolution (that was actually initiated from outside) has replaced one imperfect system with another one even more imperfect. Democracy is not the answer. Democracy is the dictatorship of the clueless masses. In the land of the idiots, the mediocre man is a king. People don’t have to be let do what they want. People need guidance and education. The problem is choosing the leaders, which more than often leads to a mess.

    In the recent Transsiberian movie, a russian character played by Ben Kingsley has this to say about the post Soviet existence: “Once we were a people living in darkness, now we are a people dying in the light, you tell me which is better.” I’m not from Russia but this applies to my country also.

  7. @ EricD

    I believe communism is a fantastic idea, and far superior to capitalism (on paper). Unfortunately, I also believe that due to human nature – it will never work, save for some communes and the kibbutz .

    In order to make it work, communist countries have to resort to totalitarianism and/or dictatorships; which I do not support.

    As T-Vo has already mentioned, the theory works far better than the practice.

    In order for communism to work you would need a one world government and a planet of Vulcans.

  8. T-Vo I know people that still live in Cuba and the American cuban are afraid to talk about anything about their past because of foreign policies that the United States has with Cuba.

    I can tell from firsthand experience also that people that live in Cuba . I have some family members their and were not even from Cuba we are French I they been living there since 1988. When I was in high school I was seeing this girl for a few weeks and her family was form Cuba. They only talk about the man how he was a god.

    Cuba is such a touchy subject because of the past history in the United States with the people that were in charge during the revolution perfect example was a man named Paul Robeson ( American actor, singer and civil rights campaigner) Try going to Cuba but yet the CIA took his passport and drug him with hallucinogen called BZ him as part of the MK-ULTRA program. In the 1950’s.

    Robeson was targeted by Senator Joseph McCarthy’s anti-communist hearings. The campaign effectively sabotaged his acting and singing career in the states.

    Lesley I am sorry but what is the TIFF ? Toronto International Film Festival ?

  9. I love how people who don’t live in Communist countries thinks Communism is so great. I have lived in one and don’t appreciate the lack of freedom or unjustified murders of it civilians.
    Your romantic notions of Chu and revolution is a distortion of the truth, ask people who have lived in Communist or Socialist states. Yes, talk to people or live there, don’t read it in a fucking book.
    Nuff said.
    Whens X-men 4 coming out?

  10. Simon, before you presume I don’t read about Che, I’ll do you one better. I know Cubans! Jes. My GF is cuban and I have spoken to her parents and grandparents and friends or friends and friends who actually lived in cuba during the “Revolution”. Now do you want to debate his time in Cuba through a fucking book or real life experiences? Ever seen the trendy “Che” shirts in Cuba or Florida? I Don’t think so.
    Like I said South America = Good
    Cuba = Killer

  11. Doug, I am curious what qualifies someone to be a communist sympathizer these days. Does that mean you feel bad for the unfortunates stuck living under communisim?

  12. (Type your comment here. Make sure you’ve read the commenting rules before doing so) Apparently some murderous totalitarian ideologies are better than others or something.

  13. T-Vo read a book that was not published in the US or look for other media outlet then the one you get your facts from.

    DYLKiILL – thanks for the trailer it looks great.

    it also looks like we are going to get this story in two films

    “Che is an epic made up of two individual films (The Argentine and Guerrilla) that chronicle the life of Che Guevara and is directed by Steven Soderbergh, of Traffic, The Good German, and the Ocean’s Trilogy previously”

    but I am not sure about Peter Buchman writer of JP3 and Eragon

  14. Four hours long wow maybe there some hope out there.
    I have not seeing the trailer.

    Yet I think Benicio Del Toro has the same face that Che.Had I just hope the kept it in Spanish because I would be very mad to see this film in English.

    I would love to know when it start off in his story when he first met Fidel Castro in Mexico and join him as part of the 26th of July Movement. That is when I would start the film.

    I hope they also kept his fight with crippling bouts of asthma that were to afflict him throughout his life and also the fact that he was a doctor and the a big part why he help Fidel after he saw going on in Latin America at the time.

  15. I have a hard time believing that there isn’t a studio out there that’s willing to pick this movie up. They’ll release horse shit all year long, but a movie that literally lit Cannes up like a Christmas tree can’t find a home?

    Whether they release it as one film, or two, get it in theatres so we can see it. Del Toro looks amazing in the trailer.

    And who knew all this time that Doug was a Communist sympathizer?

  16. It went down a storm in Cannes apparently and Del Toro gives the performance of his career.

    The film is about four hours long as they screened it and I think they are editing it as two films for release.

  17. DRAGONSLAYER do you know who Ernesto “Che” Guevara was ? only one the greatest men who ever live.

    I worried about this film. Since it is made here in the states. They have been working on it since 2002.

    As part of the Socialist Party here in the states. I’m afraid that will never get the true story of this great universal hero.A what amazing person he was and what he did.

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