Cheap Evita (DVD) (Antonio Banderas, Madonna) (Alan Parker) Price
CHEAP-PRICE.NET ’s Cheap Price
$14.99
Here at Cheap-price.net we have Evita at a terrific price. The real-time price may actually be cheaper — click “Buy Now” above to check the live price at Amazon.com.
| ACTORS: | Antonio Banderas, Madonna |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Alan Parker |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 10 January, 1997 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Miramax |
| MPAA RATING: | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
| FEATURES: | Closed-captioned, Color, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Drama, Movie, Musicals, Musicals & Cast Recordings, Musicals (Theatrical) |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 717951000200 |
Related Products
Customer Reviews of Evita
Another nice music from Andrew Lloyd Webber. I first watched Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita when I was about eight years old. I have to confess that I was not so fascinated with the story much. Maybe because I was too young then, but when I watched it again when I was twelve or thirteen, I felt that it was a very good movie. Though I don't like it as much as The Phantom of The Opera, but Webber's composition stood captivated me in Evita. The soundtrack is the combination of Rock, Opera, and Jazz. I could say that this is the modern composition for the movie. When I watched Evita in 2004-2005, I even cried when Madonna sang the song called "You must love me". And this song had become my favourite track from the soundtrack album, and also, it has become my favourite scene from the movie. IF... you give your attention to this movie, I'm quite sure that you're going to know something more from one woman's heart. Basically, I don't like Madonna much, but in this movie, I have to admit that she was beautiful and her acting was brilliant.
certainties disappear
Worth noting that Evita is wall-to-wall music with virtually no spoken lines: not an opera so much as an extended music video, so the pop-music motifs need not be an anachronism.
<
>
<
>I'm not a fan of Madonna, I find Andrew Lloyd Webber's music a bit obvious .. and yet -- and yet. Here everything seems to come together. It's a visually gorgeous film, the added songs (The Lady's Got Potential, You Must Love Me) are strong enhancements. The Che character's change from Che Guevara in the stage version to an Argentine Everyman here (desk clerk, bartender, cabinet minister, union activist) is an improvement over the stage musical and Antonio Banderas is a smoldering presence who carries the movie. Jimmy Nail is perfect as the oily tango singer; Jonathan Pryce capable in an equally slick role. The montage songs are splendid, like Goodnight and Thank You, that bucket-brigade sequence of Eva's lovers that she uses (and the film uses) to get her from the street to the Casa Rosada, or like A New Argentina, in which Eva takes Juan from jail to the presidency. The faux-English country house lawn where Eva faces down upper-class disdain (Peron's Latest Flame, The Actress Hasn't Learned the Lines You Like to Hear) is another brilliant staging. It all rings true, visually.
<
>
<
>I've had others tell me the lyrics seemed shallow. "Don't cry for me, Argentina, and don't forget to get milk and bread at the store ... " Well, yes. That's the point. She didn't say much more than that. Banality often suffices in public life; politics are shtick in a media age; actors can leverage elections. The lady couldn't act but she could, as others have said, seduce a nation. She won't be the last actor to do so.
<
>
<
>Recommend owning the DVD for the cinematic values at the very least. It's a dark vision of public affairs but the times probably affirm it. And it was the best role of Eva's lifetime. And Madonna's.
Santa Evita's Reincarnation - Madonna, Patron Saint of Ambition
Icon playing icon ... from her death in 1952 she was immortal and immortalized by the famous musical and then the 1997 film starring Madonna. Banderas is a great protagonist against Madonna's Evita. Just like Desperatley Seeking Susan ... Eva Peron was a role made for Madonna, she really was born to play her. Their personal stories parallel ...
<
>
<
>Both raised in VERY Roman Catholic environments they rebelled against
<
>15 year old Eva runs off to Buenos Aires/17 year old Madonna dashes off to New York - both against the concerns of parents
<
>Eva began as a radio and stage show actress/Madonna as a dancer and somewhat professional club kid
<
>Eva went from zero to Frist Lady/Madonna went from semi-homeless street urchin to Reigning Queen of the Pop World
<
>Both have legions of fans who love her, and their critics who don't. There is no middle ground to the reactions they stir
<
>Eva and Madonna both lived out the line "you were just a backstreet girl, hustling and fighting, scratching and biting. High Flying Adored. Did you believe in your wildset moments ... all this would be yours? That you'd become the Lady of them All
<
>Eva went from poor illegitimate fatherless child to the cover of time at 26/Madonna went from working class motherless daughter to the cover of Time also at 26
<
>Both looked stunning in designer clothes
<
>And ultimatley ... both are self-made, calculating, and aimed for the stars with a fire in their belly and becamein their own right .... one of the most powerful women of their time ... all before turning a mere 27.
<
>
<
>Evita is mostly sung but it will inspire, politics aside.
<
>
<
>