What is this based on?
Is it based on the famous book by French-Mexican historian Jean Meyer?
shareit seems it is, or at least they took Meyer's book as one of their main sources of information
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MovieChat Forums > For Greater Glory: The True Story of Cristiada (2012) Discussion > What is this based on?
For a good, short history of the Cristiada and the Christeros, read this: http://www.catholicapologetics.info/catholicteaching/history/cristero. htm
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Your suggested link contains so many inaccuracies that it is practically worthless. It is just another piece of anti-Semitic, anti-masonic garbage!
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If you look at other sources, you will see that Plutarco Elias Calles was a descendant of sephardic jews. Many Mexicans have that ancestry, myself included. However, you will also find that his uncle, on his non-jewish side of the family was an athiest and indoctrinated him with hatred towards the church. Those are facts. How is that being biased? He was an evil man. Growing up during that time, my grandma had to dress like a boy so she wouldn't get raped by thugs hired by the government to enforce his unlawful ways. My mom's town was masacred... my great grandfather was condemned to death. He was spared, but if he wasn't, I wouldn't be here.
shareThank you for an interesting note. I've just seen and enjoyed the film about the Cristeros wars, a period about which I knew very little, despite a degree in Latin American Affairs from The University of Texas at Austin,20 years residence in México and Mexican citizenship.
shareSo anyone who says anything against The Jews and The Masons is a liar? LOLOL! You DO realize that everytime you trot out the old 'anti-semite' tag, it just means that you've run out of ideas?!!!
sharePlease don't call that piece of propaganda History.
shareI wrote the screenplay. It is based on research from many, many sources, Meyer amongst them, but in the interest of telling a dramatic epic film story many things were adjusted, changed, altered. It is true to the spirit of the Cristiada and most of the characters are real historical figures, but the film should be considered fiction "inspired by real events."
shareI wish you would have portrayed some of the actual priests who died and were martyred. There were no English priests.. as much as I love Peter O'Toole, you could have made his character a Mexican priest. Most of these priests were very European, you could have pulled it off lol.
shareAlas the writer is not king once the script is delivered... Peter O'Toole's character was Padre Salinas. When they were able to cast O'Toole they changed the name. I am delighted that he is in it though. There were many European priests in Mexico who were deported -- most from Spain and Italy, but also some Irish.
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i bet he did´nt this is propaganda putting the cristeros as some innocent fellas. Many of them had fought the mexican revolution. Having Andy Garcia - the republican cuban- as the major role in it just confirms it.
shareInteresting. My family, (Grandfather, etc.) that fought as Cristeros were simple farmers. None of them had fought before. Come to think of it, many of the compadres, tios, and friends had family fight la Cristiada, and none of their peeps had fought in the Mexican revolution either. I met a guy in college who had family that fought for the federales. Boy, what a chip on his shoulder! When I blessed my food and made the sign of the cross before eating, he looked at me in disgust and said, "By the sweat of my brow I eat!". May God bless and help these poor people, so full of hate. My grandfather and grandmother never uttered words of hate and they lived this! What an example for me!
shareBelieve it or not, there are some people and some causes that are just right. To try to draw some moral equivalency between people who are fighting to keep from being killed for what they believe, and those who are doing the killing as a matter of policy, is both sad and frightening. To say that your actions, when you defend your family, are morally the same as the actions of those who are trying to rape and murder your family shows a weird moral compass that points nowhere and allows any action to be justified or condemned based on a personal whim.
Moreover, to immediately assume that the Cristiadas committed atrocities as a matter of policy just because the federales did so, is in itself its own brand of propaganda -- the kind that says good is evil and evil is good.
I'm REALLY looking forward to this film! Far too many people in America say that "it can't happen here." Guess what, folks - it can and has. Check out the Missouri Constitution of 1865.
Having said that, I do have to agree: I wish you could have included some of the heroic martyrs that gave their lives during this time. In particular, Blessed Fr. Miguel Pro is a hero of mine.
Meyer´s a sellout. He is now a very important part of the catholic church and its leaders. It is said that when he first wrote his book - which is robbed from a thesis and other works that he doesnt cite- he was non catholic. Something happend between those years and now. His new writings tell you so, even his view of the war.
shareThe U.S. wasn't very kind with Catholics either
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DF4RvRTIGM&lc=RWBCcnhC24eyY96-sz6i37kjgpq2W7eI2p1_nw4f6EQ&feature=inbox
As a history buff, I'd like to know if you also based some of the story on the book entitled 'Mexico: The History of Power' by Enrique Krauze. Krauze's works are considered some of the finest historical background of Mexico's leaders from the 18th century forward.
shareIt should also be considered propaganda for right wing Catholic meddling into US politics. Is it any coincidence this movie is being made and released just when the autocratic Catholic Church is trying to bring down the healthcare law in the US?
shareWhy are you so scared? You sound more like a vampire afraid of a crucifix than a rational human being. Relax amigo, relax. God loves you, no need to be so paranoid hermano.
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