BURN

[joanna bujes]

At 08:33 PM 04/21/2002 -0400, Yoshie wrote:
>Critical Perspectives on Wars, Classes, & Empires
>
>Screening: _BURN!_
>(Dir. Gillo Pontecorvo, 1969)
>
>William Walker (played by Marlon Brando), a British agent
>provocateur, arrives at the Caribbean island of Queimada -- a
>lucrative sugar-producing colony of Portugal (so named after the
>island was burned down to quell a slave revolt) -- to incite a
>nationalist revolution, only to have England replace Portugal as new
>neo-colonial master.  Used and betrayed by Walker, former slaves, led
>by Jose Dolores, rise up against the comprador regime installed by
>the British.  Queimada will burnŠagain.

This IS a fun movie and a kind of anti-colonialism 101 thing. Marlon Brando 
playing a Brit aristo is funny. The guy playing Dolores is terrific. This 
movie is also available in video for those of you who don't live in Ohio.

Joanna