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Few historical figures have been as polarizing as Christopher Columbus. So, how does someone create a film which - as if piecing together an historical puzzle with personal journals, newly discovered archaeological and forensics evidence and more - paints a dramatic portrait of both sides of the man: at once a brave and brilliant navigator, explorer and missionary; but ultimately also an obsessed seeker of gold, exploiter of a continent, and slaver? Well, leave it to Ridley Scott. Lauded today as the director of such classic historical dramas as GLADIATOR and KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, as well as more contemporary ones the likes of BLACK HAWK DOWN and AMERICAN GANGSTER, back in 1992 he was mostly known as the man behind highly stylized and extremely pulpish genre films such as ALIEN, BLADE RUNNER, LEGEND and BLACK RAIN. But in a year which saw three other Christopher Columbus films – one another historical drama, one a comedy, and one even an animated family film! - Scott’s blend of hardcore fact and fascinatingly plausible speculation, ... which landed in theaters 500 years to the day of Columbus' landing in the "New World", ... was the only one which refused to put the Columbus statue on a pedestal, but chose not to topple it either. Rather he and screenwriter Roselyne Bosch moved it into the filmic equivalent of an interactive museum (so to speak) where it could be placed in context, debated, parceled and argued over as one of the best realized (if not always flattering) examinations of the controversial explorer outside a History Channel documentary. Not a success at the time of it's initial release, as many didn't much care for it's (so-called) "darker tone, 1492: CONQUEST OF PARADISE nonetheless remains the unsung (and still mostly unseen) jewel in director Scott's storied cinematic crown.
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