It's also mostly fiction, actual History tells a completly different version of events. People can still enjoy the movie but should also be aware of who Columbus actually was and what he actually did.
1:17 The sound of this bell marks beginning of first European settlement in the New World! Very emotional way of portraying this magnificent event ! Outstanding music by Vangelis ...
Totally agree. I was born in South America and live now in Europe since 2004 and this movie hits me emotionally since I can see now the frontier between these two cultures. I wonder if the Europeatization of Americas started or the Americanization of Europe. What do you think?
Definitely a historic moment. A shame though that people are not educated about all the Native Americans who were slaughtered, enslaved, raped, and more by the Spaniards during this period.
One of Ridley Scott's lesser known movies which was a flop at the cinema which was a shame because it's a good movie with a great score by vangelis, aptly demonstrated in this memorable scene.
Vangelis being a masterclass in music, like always. Shame this piece was not released with the film soundtrack. 0:45 when the music picks up and the chorus follows suit is just amazing.
I don’t care what the critics say. Despite his accent, Gerard Depardieu plays the role of Columbus so smashingly, you forget he is French. Ridley Scott’s vision and Vangelis’s score are so paramount that this fictitious take on history is a thrill ride.
It's a horrible Columbus. The man was nuts, harsh af to his men. He was a stereotypical bad guy. Idk who the hell this French Hippie is but that's not CC. Seriously when he showed up one of his statements he made after meeting natives were.... Well this is gonna be easy to r*** and enslave these people. Look they don't even know how to use a sword. Wft.
yeah the score to the film match every scene .Ridley Scott made a good choose by using Vangelis obviously he worked with Ridley on other film such as blade runner
@@ephraimcampos5232 Does NOT change that he is the great unifier. He brought the different parts of the world together Permanently. He did. No one else was ultimately responsible for it.
I loved that he as a Greek was chosen to score the 2004 epic 'Alexander', another incredible piece of musical brilliance. Chariots of Fire, 1492, and Alexander are my favorite soundtracks of his, but really all of his music is off the charts.
Lol...... do you even know who were you before the spaniards invaded Mexico ? Do you know what language you spoke before Spanish was forced on you? And yes there are 100 pct indigenous people. Remember The spaniards invaded the Caribbean islands before before they went to north, central and South America. Why would you want to be part of something your people die from
All humans are brothers and sisters. Europeans, Asians, Seneca, Cherokee Aztecs all have their controversies but they have also done great things for the world.
Im Irish and Italian. The Irish fought the English for years but Im not against the English people. War is unfortunate but its a part of human history.
The Spanish Empire was a great Empire. Neither black or white people are perfect brother but certainly Africa and Europe produced some of the great Empires of history.
Why is that Italian being played by a French accentee Frenchman? Also why are those west indies natives being played by south American tribesmem who live thousands of miles away? It's like having a movie that takes place in Mexico by the culture and people are all native America Cherokee. Just bizarre af. Never underestimate how much Scott doesn't know nor care about history. Wow.
I know the story behind Columbus. But irregardless of history this is a masterpiece of a movie, with great cinematography and a great score. You're not doing history any favours by coming on to this upload by choice and airing swear words inside atheist dogma.
The score alone made me enjoy the movie even if the historical stuff was WAY off (plus it came out in 1992 before we found out how nuts Columbus really was in Francisco de Bobadilla's journals)
@@andresacosta4832 3 year old comment just noticed i made the common mistake on "regardless" - thats exactly my point. the shots. the score. the dialogue. all makes a great mmovie. Braveheart was very historically innacurate but its a damn good movie. people should not throw out the baby with the bath water. :P
@@andresacosta4832 it has been done however. i cant name stories or movies right now but i know it has been. 1492 typically represents the nobility in fantasy storytelling, and braveheart usually some off distant savage peoples.
They brought diseases and destruction grappled with sadism and genocide. Tf you mean they brought civilization to theses people? The indigenous peoplewere more civilized and hygienic unlike those syphilic Spaniards
@@elplebe1762 building temples for human sacrifice to pagan gods is horrible, as a Mexican I stand against that and I hated the Aztec and Mayan cruelty. Bloody thirty warriors willing to conquer lands and sacrifice people as livestock.
No fue un acto de amor..Fue interés, bajo la lógica del hombre nuevo renacentista. Ideas que los conquistadores supieron llevar bien mediante la destrucción...
it was not an 'acto de amor auspiciado', Mr. Estudio. It was an act of agression and killing in which God himself was disrespected. Tell that to your 'reyes catolicos'.
Natives sure did horrible things before the colonization, the pint is that lot of conquistadores used the evagelization to mask their true intentions and did horrible things with people. There was priests like Bartolomeu de Las Casas that heavily opposed the Conquistadores for these acts.
@@pootisman2218 Yes Glory to God. Christian countries are the most liberal and welcoming of all time, pro lgbt, no sacrificial deaths those facts against satan and facts win!
@@jackm007ify Liberalism... you can even say left-leaning thinking, LGBT, gender etc. are tools of Satan... you have not recognized the distortions and signs of the times and also the harvest that this fallen world will soon expect with its false teachings spread like a plague and let Babylon 2 start again, the western world is overflowing
All in all a pretty nice heroic tale about Columbus and indeed the director seems to have quite a hand for telling such tales, though of course his movies are by no means brilliant or profound, like the ones of Akira Kurosawa or the plays of Shakespeare and are full of the cheap modern clichés (against the church or the nobility for example), which can be quite annoying; but still they are nice to watch at times, as not even I can watch “Ran”, ”Throne of Blood” or “Kagemusha” all the time.
Yes it was a beautiful film my lady. Columbus actually wrote in praise of the Taino people btw. Columbus and Spanish Civilization and that of Aztec and other indigenous American civilizations are celebrated in Dia de muertos or day of the dead. The Europeans and ingenious peoples of Americas did great things for the world.
Columbus certainly was a very courageous man, I give him that. But a great man? Definitely not. He was personally responsible for enslaving and brutalizing the Indians, his motives were primarily power and money, not the cultural exploration of the New World. No wonder he was replaced with Francisco de Bombadilla and sent back to Spain in chains. When I think of great men at the time I think of Erasmus of Rotterdam, Michelangelo or Leonardo da Vinci...not Columbus.
Oh, and the Spanish did bring god to that "dark" part of the world, yes, and they brought the Encomienda that caused only misery, havoc and death. The Arawak and Taíno were almost completely exterminated within 50 years after Columbus' discovery.
Are enslaving, torture, brutal genocide (burning people alive, feeding babies to dogs ecc.) taking children for sex slaves actions of a great man? He didn't even realize he is in a place unknown to Europe, he thought he was in Asia till he died.
El trabajo coletivo el espiritu de sacrificio y la elebacion moral pueden conquistar grades metas para un pueblo y para una cibilizacion gloria ha nustra sagrada España un saludo y con Dios asta mañana si Dios quiere el unico dios Jesucristo y amen osea creo
@@iuris_studentus no if you read his history you will read he was not interested in the lives of any people from there only in his carrier. He wa looking for power for himself and that was it
@@sedatuguz2727 history, or an interpretation of it. Besides, if Ridley Scott doesn't identify as a cath, wouldn't he portray Columbus in more cruel way? I'd carefully think about it.
It also reminds me what happened when the Portuguese conquered Malacca in 1511. Catholicism was first introduced to the Malaccans when the Portuguese first erected a churuch on the hill, known as the St. Paul's church at Fort A Famosa
actually it started with a simple cross and a mess, the church was after the introduction of the Catholicism. I am Portuguese myself so i study these things in school. Portuguese preaches and missionaries during XVI century where actually very human like, they respected the populations and seek to teach, not to enforce. However the nobility back then holded the arms and they would kill and enslave if needs be to achieve riches and dominate the land, that was how things where back then. An example of this is Brazil, the Catholicism was not enforced, in fact the first mess was given on a beach and the natives approached on their own and even helped to raise an enormous wooden cross. This is documented by Pero Vaz de Caminha in 1501. Well in case of Columbus I think it was quite different.
@@BigChikinEatNigTyron Europeans also did fine before Christians came. They had their own Pagan religion. Civilisation also happens without religion. The Romans weren't Christian either. Good that they put that asshole of a Jesus on a cross, too bad it worked out for the worse.
Fuck off. You'd have to make the same claim for every powerful nation and empire in human history. Are you recommending humans stop being humans. Why not recommend lions and tigers start eating leaves while you are at it?
RIP Vangelis. Died May 17, 2022. Thank you for your timeless music.
Vangelis is unique. It makes the soul rise in astral. One of the only composers to make me tear when I listen.
Same here my friend. Το ίδιο κι εδώ φίλε. Greetings from Greece. Χαιρετισμούς από την Ελλάδα.
Ignore the critics and the ignorant masses: this is one of the best movies of the '90s
Taste can be different
Agree!
What lol!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂 Bet this guy gets off to the Patriot too
It's also mostly fiction, actual History tells a completly different version of events. People can still enjoy the movie but should also be aware of who Columbus actually was and what he actually did.
ignorant? Yeah no lol.
Despite the historical inaccuracies present in the movie , the music, cinematography, and costumes were 💯
1:17 The sound of this bell marks beginning of first European settlement in the New World! Very emotional way of portraying this magnificent event ! Outstanding music by Vangelis ...
Ferruccio Guicciardi
Ridley Scott knows how to make a great movie - scene by scene. Would you agree?
Ferruccio Guicciardi Such an excellent scene!
Totally agree. I was born in South America and live now in Europe since 2004 and this movie hits me emotionally since I can see now the frontier between these two cultures. I wonder if the Europeatization of Americas started or the Americanization of Europe. What do you think?
Definitely a historic moment. A shame though that people are not educated about all the Native Americans who were slaughtered, enslaved, raped, and more by the Spaniards during this period.
@Plus Ultra you really have no idea what your talking about. Don’t be willfully ignorant, these things are well documented.
One of Ridley Scott's lesser known movies which was a flop at the cinema which was a shame because it's a good movie with a great score by vangelis, aptly demonstrated in this memorable scene.
Also in Deutschland ist er sehr bekannt!
one of my favorite scenes in the history of cinema . Just magnificent...
fantastic score by Vangelis
+Ilsimeone Do you know the title of the score? I cant seem to find it
unfortunately the track is not on the official soundtrack
@@augustuscaesar8020 Check my channel, there are many unreleased 1492 tracks. Soon I will upload this one.
@@Ilsimeone Check my channel and search.
Vangelis being a masterclass in music, like always. Shame this piece was not released with the film soundtrack. 0:45 when the music picks up and the chorus follows suit is just amazing.
I don’t care what the critics say. Despite his accent, Gerard Depardieu plays the role of Columbus so smashingly, you forget he is French. Ridley Scott’s vision and Vangelis’s score are so paramount that this fictitious take on history is a thrill ride.
When he says, “And I will prove it.” after being rejected. He was believable
It's a horrible Columbus. The man was nuts, harsh af to his men. He was a stereotypical bad guy. Idk who the hell this French Hippie is but that's not CC. Seriously when he showed up one of his statements he made after meeting natives were.... Well this is gonna be easy to r*** and enslave these people. Look they don't even know how to use a sword. Wft.
It's not "fictitious". Historical revisionists will tell you that. This is the real story without the Spanish propaganda
SO EPIC, BEACUSE IS MORE EPIC TO BUILD AND CREATE THAN TO DESTROY AND TO HACK
What an epic and great scene
Vangelis en todo su esplendor.
Gerard Depardieu is amazing !!
yeah the score to the film match every scene .Ridley Scott made a good choose by using Vangelis obviously he worked with Ridley on other film such as blade runner
undoubtedly an underrated movie.
Βαγγέλη, ήσουν μια μουσική ιδιοφυία. Αναπαύσου εν ειρήνη. Ένας συμπατριώτης σου και κοντοχωριανός σου.
I need that beautiful music!!!
This is so so powerful!
this scene shows the great contributions of Spain and the Catholic Church for the new world
J. F. Gómez López OT lol
Absolutely. I love it ✌🏼
Quizás Estaré Ahí lmao are u stupid? They brought disease and their criminal ways, just their disease alone killed many nations. Dam are they human?
Quizás Estaré Ahí hahahahahahHaha
@@ephraimcampos5232 Does NOT change that he is the great unifier. He brought the different parts of the world together Permanently. He did. No one else was ultimately responsible for it.
Simply stunning.
I feel like I was transported in 1492 I can't explain you feel like you're back in time
Why didn't the music from this scene make it into the soundtrack?
Civilization.
Beautiful ❤
Brilliant❤️
Only a Greek (Vangelis) can compose such beautiful music
May his spirit live for ever!
@@realrembrandt8273 He passed away recently, but his name will echo in eternity in this age of degenerate music
I loved that he as a Greek was chosen to score the 2004 epic 'Alexander', another incredible piece of musical brilliance. Chariots of Fire, 1492, and Alexander are my favorite soundtracks of his, but really all of his music is off the charts.
@@USAR8888 100% agreed
And Italians
This awasome track in the beginning seems like a epic and subtle variation from the tune of " City of Isabel"
Ideas can change the world
When I watch a movie scene with music conceived by vangelis , I wonder which one perfects the other: the music or the film
I want this music!!!!!!!
The country where he lands at you wouldn't believe this is the country of my mom's heritage is from the Dominican Republic
Epic!
'One Who Sings Prays Twice'❤🙏🏽🎶
I love this film my heritage is from Spain
Lol...... do you even know who were you before the spaniards invaded Mexico ? Do you know what language you spoke before Spanish was forced on you? And yes there are 100 pct indigenous people. Remember The spaniards invaded the Caribbean islands before before they went to north, central and South America. Why would you want to be part of something your people die from
All humans are brothers and sisters. Europeans, Asians, Seneca, Cherokee Aztecs all have their controversies but they have also done great things for the world.
Im Irish and Italian. The Irish fought the English for years but Im not against the English people. War is unfortunate but its a part of human history.
Mr. Castillo, your ancestors are trash. Evil and disgusting.
The Spanish Empire was a great Empire. Neither black or white people are perfect brother but certainly Africa and Europe produced some of the great Empires of history.
Fantástico**
Where is this church today?
Dominican Republic
Why is that Italian being played by a French accentee Frenchman? Also why are those west indies natives being played by south American tribesmem who live thousands of miles away? It's like having a movie that takes place in Mexico by the culture and people are all native America Cherokee. Just bizarre af.
Never underestimate how much Scott doesn't know nor care about history. Wow.
And filmed in Costa Rican pacific coast back early 1992!!
I know the story behind Columbus. But irregardless of history this is a masterpiece of a movie, with great cinematography and a great score. You're not doing history any favours by coming on to this upload by choice and airing swear words inside atheist dogma.
The score alone made me enjoy the movie even if the historical stuff was WAY off (plus it came out in 1992 before we found out how nuts Columbus really was in Francisco de Bobadilla's journals)
@@andresacosta4832 3 year old comment just noticed i made the common mistake on "regardless" - thats exactly my point. the shots. the score. the dialogue. all makes a great mmovie. Braveheart was very historically innacurate but its a damn good movie. people should not throw out the baby with the bath water. :P
@@neonlight4778 I'm using Braveheart and 1492's aesthetic in one of my fantasy stories, though it'll be hard to make them mesh well
@@andresacosta4832 it has been done however. i cant name stories or movies right now but i know it has been. 1492 typically represents the nobility in fantasy storytelling, and braveheart usually some off distant savage peoples.
@@andresacosta4832 you need to do some more research about Columbus because that does journal is bulls**t
Que lindo🖒💙
I love this scene from 1492 it shows it shows Columbus determination to create the first European colony bring civilization to the Indian
They brought diseases and destruction grappled with sadism and genocide. Tf you mean they brought civilization to theses people? The indigenous peoplewere more civilized and hygienic unlike those syphilic Spaniards
You are delusional
@@elplebe1762 This is nature in action. There truly is no such thing as a invasive foreign species unless you are a hardcore creationist.
@@elplebe1762 building temples for human sacrifice to pagan gods is horrible, as a Mexican I stand against that and I hated the Aztec and Mayan cruelty. Bloody thirty warriors willing to conquer lands and sacrifice people as livestock.
To me this scene is very emblematic of perseverance. Just HIEVE!
Tierra de América para La iglesia.
Viva España!!!
La colonización fue un gran acto de amor auspiciado por los Reyes Católicos.
Pero luego todo se fue a la mierda,XD
No fue un acto de amor..Fue interés, bajo la lógica del hombre nuevo renacentista. Ideas que los conquistadores supieron llevar bien mediante la destrucción...
Y la barbarie donde queda?
it was not an 'acto de amor auspiciado', Mr. Estudio. It was an act of agression and killing in which God himself was disrespected. Tell that to your 'reyes catolicos'.
Natives sure did horrible things before the colonization, the pint is that lot of conquistadores used the evagelization to mask their true intentions and did horrible things with people. There was priests like Bartolomeu de Las Casas that heavily opposed the Conquistadores for these acts.
Glory to God!
No !
@@pootisman2218 Yes Glory to God.
Christian countries are the most liberal and welcoming of all time, pro lgbt, no sacrificial deaths those facts against satan and facts win!
@@jackm007ify If you believe that facts win and also that there's a homo sapien like god in the sky then your train of thought is incoherent
@@jackm007ify Liberalism... you can even say left-leaning thinking, LGBT, gender etc. are tools of Satan... you have not recognized the distortions and signs of the times and also the harvest that this fallen world will soon expect with its false teachings spread like a plague and let Babylon 2 start again, the western world is overflowing
why that bell is made by 1494
Is not it easier to swing central body rather than the bell?
Für die höhere Ehre Gottes
❤❤❤
😭😭😭
Que lindo💙👍
Imagine someday, someone will find this bell, buried deep in the Central American jungle for centuries...
Moxical the character played by Michael wincot might be based on historical facts about. His second voyage to the New world 🌎
A great movie to watch would be one about the real Columbus. Who is this guy?
this is from his journals and diego's writings
Épico!!!
I wonder what happened to that great bell of 1594?
I was looking for dany burning king’s landing but I got here. Lol
All in all a pretty nice heroic tale about Columbus and indeed the director seems to have quite a hand for telling such tales, though of course his movies are by no means brilliant or profound, like the ones of Akira Kurosawa or the plays of Shakespeare and are full of the cheap modern clichés (against the church or the nobility for example), which can be quite annoying; but still they are nice to watch at times, as not even I can watch “Ran”, ”Throne of Blood” or “Kagemusha” all the time.
Yes it was a beautiful film my lady. Columbus actually wrote in praise of the Taino people btw. Columbus and Spanish Civilization and that of Aztec and other indigenous American civilizations are celebrated in Dia de muertos or day of the dead. The Europeans and ingenious peoples of Americas did great things for the world.
Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky) vibes
Europeans made forest America into a dream world!
How did europens live on this land ( I want every class rich, poor middle class etc)
Plvs Vltra
Columbus was a great man. He brought civilization and god to a dark part of the world.
Columbus certainly was a very courageous man, I give him that. But a great man? Definitely not. He was personally responsible for enslaving and brutalizing the Indians, his motives were primarily power and money, not the cultural exploration of the New World. No wonder he was replaced with Francisco de Bombadilla and sent back to Spain in chains. When I think of great men at the time I think of Erasmus of Rotterdam, Michelangelo or Leonardo da Vinci...not Columbus.
Oh, and the Spanish did bring god to that "dark" part of the world, yes, and they brought the Encomienda that caused only misery, havoc and death. The Arawak and Taíno were almost completely exterminated within 50 years after Columbus' discovery.
So no one commentators did not notice provocation!?Just look the name and face of provocator...
Ilsimeone Agreed. Columbus was a gangster!
Are enslaving, torture, brutal genocide (burning people alive, feeding babies to dogs ecc.) taking children for sex slaves actions of a great man? He didn't even realize he is in a place unknown to Europe, he thought he was in Asia till he died.
El trabajo coletivo el espiritu de sacrificio y la elebacion moral pueden conquistar grades metas para un pueblo y para una cibilizacion gloria ha nustra sagrada España un saludo y con Dios asta mañana si Dios quiere el unico dios Jesucristo y amen osea creo
Now that almost everything on Earth is discovered, the only thing left us to do is go down to the depths of the oceans and travel to space.
The movie is really nice but the real story behind columbus who was only looking after gold and power is the real
Gold for Crusade, not himself, it was even stated in this film history mate. Old time "religious" men weren't modern cool-christian hypocrites
@@iuris_studentus no if you read his history you will read he was not interested in the lives of any people from there only in his carrier. He wa looking for power for himself and that was it
@@sedatuguz2727 history, or an interpretation of it. Besides, if Ridley Scott doesn't identify as a cath, wouldn't he portray Columbus in more cruel way? I'd carefully think about it.
L'inizio di un bel guaio :((
Shoving Christianity down the throats of the native people... good job!
Yes, it would have been better if they just squatted naked in the jungle for another 1,000 years afraid of their own shadow.
It also reminds me what happened when the Portuguese conquered Malacca in 1511. Catholicism was first introduced to the Malaccans when the Portuguese first erected a churuch on the hill, known as the St. Paul's church at Fort A Famosa
actually it started with a simple cross and a mess, the church was after the introduction of the Catholicism. I am Portuguese myself so i study these things in school. Portuguese preaches and missionaries during XVI century where actually very human like, they respected the populations and seek to teach, not to enforce. However the nobility back then holded the arms and they would kill and enslave if needs be to achieve riches and dominate the land, that was how things where back then. An example of this is Brazil, the Catholicism was not enforced, in fact the first mess was given on a beach and the natives approached on their own and even helped to raise an enormous wooden cross. This is documented by Pero Vaz de Caminha in 1501. Well in case of Columbus I think it was quite different.
snowflake
@@BigChikinEatNigTyron Europeans also did fine before Christians came. They had their own Pagan religion. Civilisation also happens without religion. The Romans weren't Christian either. Good that they put that asshole of a Jesus on a cross, too bad it worked out for the worse.
Fatastic
Today was the 500th when Cortes met Montezume, a sad day for all.
America's beginning of the "HYPOCRISY"
Fuck off. You'd have to make the same claim for every powerful nation and empire in human history. Are you recommending humans stop being humans. Why not recommend lions and tigers start eating leaves while you are at it?
White people working... Hahaha
la ia inteligencial altificial
Beautiful