El Cid, the whole damn movie.

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1. I just finished watching all 17 parts. Thank you for posting it. I’m afraid, though, that if anyone’s hoping to use El Cid to start an anti-Muslim crusade, they’d better do a more propagandistic remake fast and not count on this 1961 version. It’s pretty clear the interfaith army of the Cid are the good guys and the extremists on both sides (Ben Yusuf, but also Alfonso the anti-Muslim Christian for most of the movie) are the bad guys. It’s a two-hour cinematic argument for the Convivencia, not the Reconquista.

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