1492: Conquest of Paradise

Paramount Pictures | Release Date: October 9, 1992

6.3	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 12 Ratings

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drecool95Aug 18, 2022

Historically inaccurate, terrible acting, terrible direction, terrible script. What an embarrassment coming from a director as good as Ridley Scott.

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FilipeNetoJun 23, 2018

This film seeks to show the journey in which Christopher Columbus allegedly discovered America. About this there is a lot of historical controversy and its very difficult to be sure if the true discoverer was him, Amerigo Vespucci or theThis film seeks to show the journey in which Christopher Columbus allegedly discovered America. About this there is a lot of historical controversy and its very difficult to be sure if the true discoverer was him, Amerigo Vespucci or the Portuguese João Vaz Corte-Real (who seems to have explored the Canadian coast twenty years before Columbus's voyage). There are also doubts about the origins of Columbus. Some think he was Castilian and not Italian, others think he was from Sardinia, others claim that he was born in Portugal. But the film does not explore these controversies, remaining faithful to the canonical version of the facts: a Genoese navigator who discovers America to Castile. But even so the film makes mistakes. Columbus was an adventurer and not a man in search of a dream, and the Castilian kings only allowed themselves to finance him because they had information that already had given as probable the existence of new lands in the region that Columbus wanted to explore. Thus, the navigator died believing that he had arrived in Asia and only later navigation's determined to be a new continent. Everything I've said here throws out some ideas of the film and proves that the writer made a serious mistake by completely ignoring the navigator's travel diaries and basic facts of his biography, not restraining himself from inventing when he pleased, under the argument of creative freedom that, even in a movie, should not justify all that the screenwriter invents. Okay, it's a movie and not a documentary, but if it's a historical fact there should still be some rigor in the way it's portrayed. The interpretation of Depardieu is not bad, but the accent was something that he messed up a bit. The way the Indians were portrayed also seems incorrect and stereotyped. Even so, the film is worth it because its cinematically beautiful, has almost epic scenes and depicts very well the effort and daring of those who ventured across the seas. One thing I cannot fail to point out: the extraordinary soundtrack of Vangelis, which has become an icon of music for cinema.… Expand

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BroyaxApr 27, 2023

Une grosse production qui ne lésine pas sur les moyens et qui ne fait sans doute pas dans la finesse… on peut lui reprocher à juste titre d’en faire un peu trop dans le panégyrique, dans les effets de manches et de confondre « épique » avec «Une grosse production qui ne lésine pas sur les moyens et qui ne fait sans doute pas dans la finesse… on peut lui reprocher à juste titre d’en faire un peu trop dans le panégyrique, dans les effets de manches et de confondre « épique » avec « »naïveté » »… en somme un certain manque de recul mêlé à quelques atermoiements ici et là… sans compter quelques longueurs tout de même !

Mais « 1492 » reste un pour autant un très beau film, « beau » au sens strict d’ailleurs : c’est à cet égard le plus beau film de Ridley Scott après Blade Runner. Une esthétique soignée, une photographie très étudiée.. Et bien entendu, notre super Depardieu (inter)national est complètement habité par le rôle et la musique fabuleuse et majestueuse de Vangelis remet une couche à l’envoûtement général qu’on ne refuse pas. Non pas un chef-d’oeuvre le « 1492 »… mais un coup de coeur, certainement !… Expand

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