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Las Aventuras de Robinson Crusoe DVDRip XviD by MakingOff Org

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The most surreal aspect of this adaptation of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe is how faithful Surrealist director Luis Bunuel is to the original book! Which is not to say it's sluggish or literary--Bunuel recreates the story with lush scenery and vivid images, as if he himself were discovering the tropical island along with the Englishman shipwrecked in 1659. Crusoe (Daniel O'Herlihy, later to appear in RoboCop) spends 28 years building a home and struggling to maintain his sanity; only a friendship formed with a former cannibal whom he dubs Friday (Jaime Fernandez) breaks his isolation. Bunuel (Un Chien Andalou, Belle De Jour, That Obscure Object of Desire) hews scrupulously to even the most colonial aspects of the original material. Crusoe's original expedition set out to trade slaves, and when Crusoe first meets Friday, he introduces himself as "Master" and comments, "How pleasant it was once more to have a servant." But moments of puckish humor--such as a theological debate in which Friday questions the emotional stability of God--reveal that Bunuel was hardly blind to these issues. Bunuel's sharp eye results in a straightforward but superb version of the classic adventure story. The dvd has a small handful of extras, including an extensive audio interview with O'Herlihy (who was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance), in which he reminisces about Orson Welles and reveals that though the movie is in English, Bunuel never spoke it and O'Herlihy had to learn Spanish so he could take direction. --Bret Fetzer

# Actors: Dan O'Herlihy, Jaime Fernández, Felipe de Alba, Chel López, José Chávez, See more
# Directors: Luis Buñuel
# Run Time: 90 minutes

# Language: English / Spanish
# Subtitles: English, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese

# IMDB: http://imdb.com/title/tt0044386/

# Size: 699 Mb
# Video Codec: XviD
# Video Bitrate: 981 kbps
# Audio Codec: MP3
# Audio Bitrate: 102 kbps
# FPS: 23.976
# AR: 1.333 @ 464 x 352

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