Steven Soderbergh made two movies about Che Guevara, The Guerillia and The Argentine. They both star Benicio Del Toro and they’re both in Spanish. They both screened together at Cannes under the title Che. Today we have a brand new trailer for The Argentine, still without subtitles. I’m not sure what the strategy here is. If you want people to care about something that’s in a different language, you need a presenter with huge cans or someone in a gorilla suit. It’s just science.
One project that has really slipped under the radar is Steven Soderbergh’s two-movie take on Che Guevara – The Argentine and The Guerilla, both starring Benicio Del Toro (who’s right up there with Forrest Whitaker as Idi Amin and Morgan Freeman as Mandela in the annals of obvious casting). They don’t have a distributor yet, so the release date is still uncertain, but today, this bootleg trailer for The Argentine hit the web. It’s all in Spanish without subtitles, but it looks pretty good. The language of squinting is universal.
IESB had some brand new pics of Benicio Del Toro playing Che Guevara in Steven Sodaburg’s upcoming movies The Argentine and The Guerilla. I’m not sure about this whole Famous-Person-As-Separate-People trend of biopics. At least these are two separate movies - I tried to watch I’m Not There ("inspired by the many lives of Bob Dylan") yesterday and it was like watching a guy smell his own farts for two hours. Oh my God, you’re so innovative! Can I award you the Oscar for smartest person in history?!
On a more positive note, Del Toro was born to play Che Guevara like Forrest Whitaker was born to play Idi Amin and Morgan Freeman was born to play Mandela. Casting just doesn’t get easier than that.
Also: I wish there was some way to turn Benicio Del Toro into a hologram projected next to my full length mirror. That way I could get dressed and then look at the mirror and go, "So… how do I look?" And the Benicio hologram could take a long drag of its cigarette, furrow its brow, then exhale and smile really slowly. "Berry good, my fraing. Berry berry good," he’d say. -Robo with the assist again
