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...Guevara characterized in Walter Salles’ seductive new film The Motorcycle Diaries is a far cry from the iconic figure, sporting beard and beret, found in so many dorm rooms and poetry lounges. This is Ernesto Guevara de la Serna (Gael GarcÃa Bernal) in his mid-twenties, before he was Che. The film picks up Guevara’s life in 1951 as he embarks with his compatriot, Alberto Granado (Rodrigo de la Serna) on his travels—powered, initially, by the namesake motorcycle, of course—bound for the southern tip of South America...
...computer business. "He was bone idle," says Taramov. "He played computer games all night and then slept until the early afternoon." Nevertheless, Taramov grudgingly kept him on the payroll until late 1991. The only sign of Basayev's political interests, Taramov says, was his fascination with Che Guevara and "anyone else who carried a gun." In November 1991, Basayev shot to fame when he hijacked a plane in the southern Russian city of Mineralniye Vody and forced it to land in Turkey to draw attention to Chechnya's incipient independence struggle. Basayev released all the passengers unharmed, and the Turks...
...Guevara characterized in Walter Salles’ seductive new film The Motorcycle Diaries is a far cry from the iconic figure, sporting beard and beret, found in so many dorm rooms and poetry lounges. This is Ernesto Guevara de la Serna (Gael GarcÃa Bernal) in his mid-twenties, before he was Che. The film picks up Guevara’s life in 1951 as he embarks with his compatriot, Alberto Granado (Rodrigo de la Serna) on his travels—powered, initially, by the namesake motorcycle, of course—bound for the southern tip of South America...
...until the surprise September election of political agitator Leung (Long Hair) Kwok-hung. Sworn in last week before a chamber filled with startled colleagues (whom he labeled "insane"), Leung shouted, "Long live democracy!" and assailed the council President for suggesting he wear something fancier than his ubiquitous Che Guevara T shirt...
...tracing the journey of Guevara from restless child of the upper middle class to abettor of the Cuban revolution, the movie runs into dead ends of sentiment (the little people Che bonds with include a gorgeous leper) and nearly sinks in bathos (he swims a wide river for one last visit to the leper colony). It's all to demonstrate the radicalizing of a guerrilla hero. "We wanted to show where Che came from and where he was going," García Bernal says. "So finding the tone was very delicate, like fine embroidery." Certainly his participation is faultless. He brings...