Please do not, under any circumstances, support the Elcano and Magellan movie. It portrays colonizers in good light like they're heroes when Magellan brought suffering to the native Filipinos. And it also portrays natives (especially Lapu-Lapu, one of our country's national heroes) as villains, which is WRONG.
The film tells the story of the Spanish expedition around the world in the 16th century led by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan and Spanish navigator Juan Sebastián Elcano, the latter of whom took over the journey after Magellan was killed in the Philippines.
"This is the story of the brave seafarers who grabbed the helm of history and changed its course forever," CrystalSky Multimedia, the film's Philippine distributor, said in a since-deleted Facebook post. "A journey which, as many people know, was started by Ferdinand Magellan who was killed by Lapu-Lapu and his men from the Philippines at the battle of Mactan but that not so many know was concluded by Juan Sebastián Elcano." As a film rated for all ages, the conceit of "Elcano and Magellan" is similar to that of Disney's "Pocahontas" in that it is a children-friendly rendering of one of the most well-known cases of colonialism, many denizens remarked. But unlike "Pocahontas," which humanized the indigenous Americans, critics say that "Elcano and Magellan" is filled with historical inaccuracies that demonize native Filipinos who fought to protect the land from the Spanish conquistadors.
Elcano & Magellan: The First Voyage Around the World
2019 [BASQUE]
Action / Adventure / Animation / Romance
Elcano & Magellan: The First Voyage Around the World
2019 [BASQUE]
Action / Adventure / Animation / Romance
Plot summary
The director of Mystikal (2010) celebrates the 500th anniversary of the most incredible journey by sea ever made. 1519. Seville, Andalusia (south to Spain). Juan Sebastian Elcano is a young and irresponsible man who only wants to live as captain of his little boat, but due to the debts he has with the bank of the city, bank manager confiscates Elcano's boat and orders the guards arrest him as defaulter. Trying avoid the jail, Elcano enlists as part of an expedition of five ships commanded by Portuguese Admiral Fernando de Magallanes, nicknamed The Navigator, in order to arrive in Moluca Islands (Indonesia) to get spices, very valuable by Kingdom of Castile that rules Spain. But Portuguese ambassador Dacosta tries that the trip fails since Moluca Islands belongs Kingdom of Portugal, and hires Yago as spy and saboteur to prevent the success of the journey. Unaware of it, Magallanes completes the crew of the five ships (Trinidad, San Antonio, Concepcion, Victoria and Santiago) and starts the travel but Elcano, hoping to have his own ship, works as helmsman for Captain Juan de Cartagena, who despises him and is suspicious about Magallanes, taking him as a traitor who secretly works for Kingdom of Portugal. At the same time that Yago makes some sabotages, Cartagena conspires with the others captains to get Magallanes' secret map to navigate by unknown lands. But when Magallanes dies after a battle with natives of the Philippine Islands, Elcano is promoted by the crew as new leader of the trip. Always traveling to the west following the sun and determined to fulfill the mission, Elcano will find himself fighting against not only Yago and Dacosta, but time and starvation to make history and give the first trip around the world.
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I watched it dubbed in English with Spaniards saying "blimey." This was an animated version of the Magellan voyage that sticks to the basic facts. It would have been nice to have a modern map flash on the screen to show you the voyage and where they were at during certain events. It includes dramatization. Would have made for a good showing in my fifth-grade history class.
Bit higher rating in response to those "specifics" who doesn't even bother to watch the film!
The other reviewer was right, the scene that "specifics" cry about last only a couple of minutes, well maybe not the most accurate portrayal of their appearance but this is Spanish kids show not a accurate account of historical piece that shove to general public. Of course the logic of the film is Spanish - good; everyone else - bad. Isn't that a common practice on most movies in Hollywood?
If there are injustices I think the one who should complain are the Portuguese, they are portrayed as straight bad guys but they are not crying like those "specifics". As if the "specifics" has concrete basis and knowledge on their ancient history, what happened is they let their neighbors wrote their own history for them?
The movie was entertaining, the animation was average and the characters were likeable (except Yago). Don't listen to the haters they just hopped on hate train without seeing the movie first and the bias that "butchered their history". How can you 'butchered' that something that doesn't exist?