Take that, Soderbergh
Commenter kbob_54 alerted us to a clip on youtube. Here's the description of the clip:
Director Steven Soderbergh's two-part "Che," released this month, is the film industry's latest attempt to glorify Argentine guerilla leader Ernesto "Che" Guevara. The film's running time of 4.5 hours provides ample opportunity to reflect on Hollywood's unsettling habit of rewriting history—and on Soderbergh's epic attempt to glorify Guevara's bloodthirsty role in Cuba's violent revolution.
MPI is pleased to offer an alternative account of Che's place in Cuba's troubled history, in the form of a Moving Minutes clip from Cuban-born actor and director Andy Garcia. Garcia lived through the Cuban Revolution—and in "Saxophones!", a segment from his 2005 film "The Lost City," he movingly evokes the betrayal of liberty committed by a dictatorship that, fifty years on, still has Cuba in a violent and repressive stranglehold.
Maybe all Cubans should just change their name to Cassandra. It makes very little difference how often, how much or how loudly we tell the truth, or at least it hasn't for the last 50 years. We've been ignored or maligned all that time, and it's still pretty much the same.
Andy pretty much knew he was gonna get soaked (box-office wise) on this movie ( I hear). For him it was a labor of love and a story that HAD to be told.
Soderbergh & Benicio, however, thought they'd clean up at the box-office
HAH!!
How can Soderbergh and Benicio and those who went to see this silly movie look themselves in the mirror without puking?
Okay, I'll stop.