Movie Review: Examining 'Evita'
Evita (1996) Directed by Alan Parker Written by Alan Parker and Oliver Stone, based on Tim Rice’s book for the stage version of Evita Starring: Madonna, Antonio Banderas, Jonathan Pryce, Jimmy Nail Ché : Tell me before I seek worthier pastures and thereby restore self-esteem, how can you be so short-sighted to look never further than this week or next week to have no impossible dream? Eva Perón : Allow me to help you slink off to the sidelines and mark your adieu with three cheers! But first, tell me who'd be delighted if I said I'd take on the world's greatest problems - from war to pollution, no hope of solution, even if I lived for one hundred years? Alan Parker’s Evita, which stars Madonna as Eva Duarte de Peron, Antonio Banderas as Che, and Jonathan Pryce as Argentinian dictator Juan Peron, is a flashy but superficial adaptation of the popiular 1979 rock opera. Like its title character, Evita represents the triumph of style over substance; we marvel ...