Cortez part II
Gregorio Cortez was looked at as a rebel and extreme badass in the corridos we read and looked at. In the movie we saw in class, he was looked at in two different ways. The defendant had him as innocent and everything he did was in self defense. I don’t agree with this as I liked him as a badass cowboy instead. In the movie they pointed out he was a killer and tried to emphasis that people had died here, and tried to stear the juries decision by emotion. But in the written version (ballads), they loved Gregorio Cortez because he taunted authority and was the man of the hour. This makes one wonder if that difference in character is just like to corridos changing from person to person, town to town, or if they changed it to just make a better movie?
I’m thinking that it got changed just for creating the movie. I think the porducer of the movie saw the corridos we saw and just didn’t want it like that so he changed it. I could easily be wrong but thats what I think happened.
I agree with you that Cortez was better portrayed in the written Corridos. I also liked him better as a bad ass and not as a killer who they are just trying to plead guilty.
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