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Synopsis
High-flying,
adored! The film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical depicting
the infamous real-life story of Eva "Evita" Duarte
de Peron, the wife of President Juan Peron, who rose from
poverty to become the most famous Argentine woman in history.
Her huge political influence and constant charity works earned
her scorn and fear from the military and upper classes but
adoration and love from the workers and descamisados. Evita's
legendary life is displayed before your eyes as the most hated
and most beloved woman in Argentina. Written by O.G.
Lavish
musical drama, based on the hit stage production by Andrew
Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, telling the life story of Eva Duarte
who leaves her rural home for Buenos Aires in the company
of Latin singer Agustin Magaldi, eventually becoming the wife
of President Juan Peron and a heroine to the people of Argentina.
Written by Jonathan Broxton {j.w.broxton@sheffield.ac.uk}
Based
on the incredible true story, Eva (Evita) Peron, starts out
life as a poor girl who goes on to become an actress and then
become the wife of the president of Argentina, Juan Peron.
The musical is a story of love and politics, showing all the
battles and triumphs Evita has in her short, but amazing life.
Written by x_babyangel (See
here)
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A movie
version of the highly successful musical by Andrew Lloyd Weber
and Tim Rice, "Evita" is the story of Argentina's
most controversial First Lady, Eva Perón (1919 - 1952.) Her
awe-inspiring funeral, attended by seven million devoted followers,
is the opening to the musical, with the narrator then brining
the story back by over a decade, explaining how a B-movie
actress became the object of such controversial devotion.
Trapped
and bored with her family in rural Argentina in the late 1930s,
Eva Duarte (Madonna) convinces a womanising musician (Jimmy
Nail) to take her with him, back to the capital city, Buenos
Aires, where she is determined to become a star. After being
abandoned by the musician, Eva endures humiliations and poverty
before using her feminine wiles to climb the ladder of the
city's entertainment scene, eventually becoming a well-paid
radio and film actress.
At a benefit
to aid the victims of an earthquake she meets Colonel Juan
Perón (Jonathan Pryce), an ambitious politician with designs
on the presidency. They fall in love and Eva encourages his
plans to become dictator of the country, even using her star
power to get him released from prison when his enemies order
his arrest. On October 17 1945, Perón is elected president
with a huge majority, but it quickly becomes apparent that
its his glamorous wife who's the focus of the people's love.
Affectionately
nicknamed 'Evita' by her millions of devoted followers, Eva
founds a huge charity to alleviate the suffering of the nation's
poor. Throughout it all, the beautiful first lady is dressed
in the latest high fashion and she is accused of being a distraction
for the people, rather than an aid, by the embittered and
cynical narrator (Antonio Banderas.) With millions of people
still utterly devoted to her, Evita continues to appear in
public, dazzling her supporters and enfuriating her enemies,
despite being secretly consumed with terminal cancer. At the
end of the musical, she dies, aged 33, resulting in hysterical
mourning throughout Argentina.
The musical
is famous for a number of songs, including the satirical "Oh
what a circus!" "Buenos Aires," "Rainbow
High," "The Money Kept Rolling In" and the
show's signature solo, "Don't cry for me, Argentina."
For the movie version, a new solo was added for Evita, "You
must love me."(See
here)
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