Spanish Bullfight

1900
4.9| 0h1m| en
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With a crowded arena in the background, a stationary camera records a bull charging a picador astride his horse. An attendant on foot throws stones at the rump of the horse to get it to move. Various toreadors run past the bull to try to get him to charge or at least run about.

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Btexxamar I like Black Panther, but I didn't like this movie.
GazerRise Fantastic!
Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.
Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.
Michael_Elliott Spanish Bullfight (1900) The title should tell you all you need to know in regards to the plot. This clocks in just under a minute and we see a bull go after several people in the ring trying to get at it. There's certainly nothing overly special about this film but it's worth noting that the cinematography is actually extremely good for the time that this was made. It's also worth noting that it seems the director made sure that the "performers" knew what they could and couldn't do in the frame. I say this because it seems everyone involved tries to make sure that the bull doesn't go out of the frame so this here is something that makes this film stand out.
JoeytheBrit While this film is technically competent for its time the subject matter, it has to be said, is one not worthy of the celluloid wasted upon it. The pomp and glamour of the bullfight is mere gaudy dressing to disguise the morally repugnant cowardice of its practitioners and, as another reviewer has already noted, shorn of its glamorous trappings the ritual is exposed for what it is. Gaily uniformed men on horses taunt a bull already weakened for the kill. Dazed and bewildered, its blood glistening on its flanks, the helpless creature lunges blindly at its tormentors. The brave taunter of the bull is safe though; it is the horse on which he is mounted that bears the brunt of the doomed bull's horns...
Snow Leopard The photography - in particular, the composition - in this early short feature is very good, but the choice of material is possibly less so. It's one of the earlier examples of the many movies that have combined technical skill with subject matter that some viewers will find uncomfortable.The movie shows about a minute or so of footage from a bullfight, and in technical terms, it is quite successful. The footage survives in surprisingly good condition, and it films the events from what seems to have been a carefully chosen vantage point. You can clearly see a portion of the crowd in the foreground, then the main action, and then, in the background, a pretty clear view of the crowd on the other side of the arena.While formal development of techniques like deep focus photography may have been a much later innovation, this is one of a number of very early films that show that even very early film-makers had the idea, without necessarily using a specific term for it, of trying to take a clear picture of both a foreground and a distant background.In its content, the movie covers a popular but somewhat inhumane activity, which lessens its entertainment value except for those who would not be bothered by it. (And indeed, some viewers would find nothing objectionable about it at all.) The footage does not, in fact, contain any particularly brutal sights, but the nature of the material being filmed would diminish for some viewers the satisfaction that otherwise could be had from the good quality technical aspects of the movie.
Alice Liddel Inadvertently - in that I presume this film was shot for its exotic subject matter - 'Spanish Bullfight' completely deglamorises the noble art of the corrida. Filmed in stark black and white, shorn of the gaudy, brightly-coloured, gilt-edged uniforms; the sun-drenched Mediterranean arena; the vociferous, passionate crowd; the kind of godlike vantage-point that allows one to pontificate metaphysically; the whole thing is exposed as a shambolic sham.Hemingway would not have found much nobility or meaning here - all we get are a group of young cowards terrorising a poor animal, like the scorpion-baiting kids before the opening slaughter of 'The Wild Bunch'. Here is documentary doing what it so rarely does, exposing the unpalatable truth behind the glittering surface. The sight of the poor bewildered beast, alone in the frame for excruciating seconds, before what we know will be the next attack, is agonising. Luckily, he manages to lunge a few times at the thugs.