6/27/2012

Bullfight: La Fiesta Brava DVD (2004) Review

Bullfight:  La Fiesta Brava DVD (2004)
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If you get charged $50 for a hamburger, you expect something
special--something more than a $5 fast-food burger. With this
DVD, for your $90 you get 50 minutes of video, much of which is
about the ancient hstory of bullfighting, scenes of ganaderos
making notes about the quality of calves, etc, and about 10-15
minutes of a corrida meat-and-bones (to continue the hamburger
analogy) with a very skimpy couple of minutes on the final
tercio--the work with the muleta, which nowadays is the heart
of the fight. If you want to learn a little bit about the
bullfight and don't mind spending the $90, then this dvd is OK.
1) If this DVD cost $15, say, I'd give it 4 stars--reasonable
value for the money.
2) For $90, just like a $50 hamburger, you should get something
special: a book on the basics of bullfighting, such as Marvin's
Bullfight or Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon (a bit dated
but still excellent)--both available from Amazon, or Fulton's
Bullfighting (used copies through Amazon), plus about 5 hours
of video. Footage of some of the past figuras, footage of the
different major styles--Ronda, Seville, Tremendismo, etc,
Footage of the cape and muleta passes, showing good and bad
examples. Footage of adornos. Examples of how tremendous
emotion can be generated, and footage of cowardly torear.
Footage of how to distinguish a good bull from a bad one,
footage of what makes a good kill, what makes a bad kill.
Overall--about 2 1/2 hours to show what to look for in a fight.
Then a complete--start-to-finish--decent corrida at a good
ring to see how the previous footage applies. A corrida takes
2-3 hours. Such a package would be a good buy for your $90.
3) Or--buy Marvin or Hemingway, read the book, and then buy
a bullfight DVD of a corrida. There are half a dozen places
in North America you can get such DVDs--including ebay
(e.g. lasaves & dalbo9) and torosfilms.com (mostly Mexican
fights). Most of these DVDs are in Spanish, with some in
French and some documentaries in English: prices run from $7
to $20 for a 2-3 hour corrida on DVD. If you don't know
Spanish but have read one of the books, you'll still enjoy the
DVDs--the excitement of the crowd and the TV commentators will
come through very well. Look for the corrida at the Plaza
Mexico Feb. 5th, 2005--that's one of the best in the last 10
years, or look for a corrida wil El Fandi--he usually puts on
a very dramatic show. The DVD sellers on ebay, etc, will
list the bulls and matadors and usually the trophies awarded--
"dos orejas y rabo" is "2 ears and the tail" indicating a very
good fight.

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