Ah...this scene almost made me cry.

[Incendiarism]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx3Ud9pbpNU

I don't feel like typing about the scene, but the wikipedia plot synopsis should suffice to understand it:

"A young boy, Moncho, goes to school for the first time and is taught by Don Gregorio about life and literature. When fascists (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascist) take control of the town, they round up known Republicans, including Don Gregorio. Moncho's father is also a Republican, and his family fears that he too will be taken away in the purge if the fascists discover his political leanings. In order to protect themselves, the family goes to the town square to jeer the captured Republicans as they are paraded out of the court house and boarded onto a truck. The film ends with Moncho, despite his continued great affection for his friend and teacher, yelling hateful things and throwing rocks at Don Gregorio and the other Republicans as the truck carries them away, though the last thing Moncho yells are the words for the tongue of a butterfly, espiritrompa (in spanish), a favorite word taught to him by Don Gregorio, presumably in an attempt to let his dear friend know that he doesn't truly mean the words he is yelling."

[Dóchas]

what movie is that?

[Incendiarism]

La lengua de las mariposas

[Dóchas]

it looks pretty good...subtitles would help though!! :lol:

[Incendiarism]

Oh.

Well, when they're leading the teacher out the man who shouts at him and denounces him as an anarchist is the young boy's father who is also a republican. He's crying because he doesn't really mean it, but it was necessary to hide his leftist inclinations as it would endanger his entire family.

The boy's mother urges him to do the same, and so the boy calls the guy an atheist and red, but as he chases him in the end he shouts out espiritrompa to let the teacher know he doesn't really mean what he is saying.

[BIG BROTHER]

awwwww that's so sad:(:crying:

[Dóchas]

oh right ye i just noticed the description under it. makes a lot more sense now. it looks like a very moving film

[JimmyJazz]

Kind of reminds me of a dramatic scene in For Whom The Bell Tolls (the book) where Republicans townspeople are throwing the town fascists off a cliff.

[Dr Mindbender]

Republicans townspeople are throwing the town fascists off a cliff.

that sounds like quite a joyous movie.

[Dóchas]

Kind of reminds me of a dramatic scene in For Whom The Bell Tolls (the book) where Republicans townspeople are throwing the town fascists off a cliff.

you sure its not a comedy?

[rednordman]

Kind of reminds me of a dramatic scene in For Whom The Bell Tolls (the book) where Republicans townspeople are throwing the town fascists off a cliff.
Yep. that too mad me feel warm inside.

[JimmyJazz]

It's still a heartrending part because Republicans, unlike Fascists, weren't sadists and didn't enjoy having to kill.

[Angry Young Man]

Although it is sort of joyous until it comes to the man they don't want to kill and the man who crumples.

And I can swear that it is not a comedy. I was in a proper sullen mood when El Sordo's band got wiped out. If that spoilt it for you, you should've read it by now.

[Comrade B]

very good movie, saw it a few months ago

[x359594]

Kind of reminds me of a dramatic scene in For Whom The Bell Tolls (the book) where Republicans townspeople are throwing the town fascists off a cliff.

That scene is included in the restored version of the 1943 film. Incidently, the director was Sam Wood who was a fierce anti-Communist and Hollywood Red hunter.

In the film there is no mention of communists, anarchists or socialists. Instead the struggle is reduced to Loyalists versus Republicans. An earlier film about the Spanish Civil War called Blockade with Henry Fonda and Madeliene Carrol plays the same game.