“Evita” quotes
(1996)
Title Evita
Year 1996
Director Alan Parker
Genre Drama, History, Musical, Biography
Year 1996
Director Alan Parker
Genre Drama, History, Musical, Biography
Plot – 1952. The radio announces the death of Evita Peron, the woman who has changed the history of Argentina over the past decade. In a flashback, Che Guevara narrates Evita's childhood. She was the illegitimate daughter of a farmer and was born in a town west of Buenos Aires. Grown up, she tied to Agustin Magaldi, a famous tango dancer. Ambitious and determined, Eva wanted to become an actress. When she met Juan Peron, an emerging Argentine political, they became very close and got married. After 1945, Peron was elected president and his wife Evita was his first counselor and supporter. The first lady then took a trip to Europe and established the 'Eva Peron Foundation'. She also formed the 'Peronist women' party and her charisma among the population arised. At the peak of her popularity, she was diagnosed with a tumor. Everybody mourned for the death of a woman perhaps unique.
All actors – Madonna, Antonio Banderas, Jonathan Pryce, Jimmy Nail, Victoria Sus, Julian Littman, Olga Merediz, Laura Pallas, Julia Worsley, María Luján Hidalgo, Servando Villamil, Andrea Corr
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“The choice was your's and no one else's. You can cry for a body in despair. Hang your head because she is no longer there. To shine, or dazzle, or betray.”
“How she lived. How she shone. But how soon the lights were gone.”
“The greatest social climber since Cinderella!”
“One always picks the easy fight. One praises fools, one smothers light. One shifts from left to right. Politics - the art of the possible.”
“Sometimes it's very difficult to keep momentum when it's you that you are following.”
“I want to tell the people of Argentina - I've decided I should decline all the honors and titles you've pressed me to take. For I'm contented - let me simply go on as the woman who brings her people to the heart of Perón. Don't cry for me, Argentina. The truth is I shall not leave you. Though it may get harder for you to see me, I'm Argentina,...” (continue)(continue reading)
“What the people can do. True power is yours, not the government's, unless it represents the people!”
“Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away. You must love me.”
“What is the good of the strongest heart in a body that's falling apart? A serious flaw.”
“Statesmanship is more than entertaining peasants.”
“There is evil ever around fundamental system of government. Quite incidental!”
“She filled a bull-ring - 45,000 seater; but if you're prettier than General Franco, that's not hard.”
“Have I said too much? There's nothing more I can think of to say to you. But all you have to do is look at me to know that every word is true.”
“Don't cry for me, Argentina. For I am ordinary, unimportant, and undeserving of such attention unless we all are - I think we all are. So share my glory, so share my coffin...”
“- Juan Perón: Eva, you are dying.
- Eva Perón: So what happens now? Where am I going to?
- Juan Perón: Don't ask any more.”“She had the right friends, and we all know a career depends on knowing the right fella to be stellar!”
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