History Film / FourteenNinetyTwoConquestOfParadise

In 1485, Christopher Columbus (Creator/GerardDepardieu) had already been refused once by the King of Portugal the means to try crossing the Atlantic Ocean, sailing to the West. He turns to Castile and travel to Granada to meet [[[[UsefulNotes/TheCatholicMonarchs Queen Isabella]] (Creator/SigourneyWeaver), who, after another refusal, finally allows him to sail away, on August 1492.

In 1485, Christopher Columbus had already been refused once by the King of Portugal the means to try crossing the Atlantic Ocean, sailing to the West. He turns to Castile and travel to Granada to meet the Queen, who, after another refusal, finally allows him to sail away, on August 1492.

It stars Creator/GerardDepardieu as Christopher Columbus, Creator/SigourneyWeaver as [[UsefulNotes/TheCatholicMonarchs Queen Isabella I of Castile]], Creator/LorenDean as the older Ferdinand Columbus, Creator/ArmandAssante as Gabriel Sánchez, Creator/MichaelWincott as Adrián de Moxica, Creator/TchekyKaryo as Martín Alonso Pinzón and Creator/FrankLangella as Luis de Santángel.

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The movie starts in 1485, when Columbus had already been refused once by the King of Portugal the means to try crossing the Atlantic Ocean, sailing to the West. He turns to Castile and travel to Granada to meet the Queen, who, after another refusal, finally allows him to sail away, on August 1492.

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''1492: Conquest of Paradise'' is a 1992 film, celebrating the 500th anniversary of the official discovery of the [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericas American continent]] by UsefulNotes/{{Europe}}ans and taking the form of a {{biopic}} of UsefulNotes/ChristopherColumbus. It was directed by Creator/RidleyScott, stars Creator/GerardDepardieu as Christopher Columbus and Creator/SigourneyWeaver as [[UsefulNotes/TheCatholicMonarchs Queen Isabella I of Castile]]. Music/{{Vangelis}} composed the soundtrack.

''1492: Conquest of Paradise'' is a 1992 film, celebrating the 500th anniversary of the official discovery of the American continent by Europeans and taking the form of a {{Biopic}} of UsefulNotes/ChristopherColumbus. It was directed by Creator/RidleyScott, stars Creator/GerardDepardieu as Christopher Columbus and Creator/SigourneyWeaver as [[UsefulNotes/TheCatholicMonarchs Queen Isabella I of Castile]]. Music/{{Vangelis}} composed the soundtrack.

* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition is portrayed as the classic "evil religious zealots that fight any sign of progress".

* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition is portrayed as the classic "evil religious zeloats that fight any sign of progress".

* TantrumThrowing: In the monastry, Columbus loses it and start throwing manuscripts around.

* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Columbus is portrayed as the direct opposite of his aggressive, greedy and overzealous behaviour.

* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: The story of Christopher Columbus is presented here with significantly less genocide than as it actually happened, while the man is portrayed as the direct opposite of his aggressive, greedy and overzealous behaviour.
* SceneryPorn: It's a Creator/RidleyScott film. The highlight is the New World unveiling itself from a dense mist - which is what a dying Columbus remembers most of his travels.
* TantrumThrowing: In the monastry, Columbus loses it and start throwing around ''manuscripts''.

''1492: Conquest of Paradise'' is a 1992 film, celebrating the 500th anniversary of the official discovery of the American continent by Europeans and taking the form of a {{Biopic}} of UsefulNotes/ChristopherColumbus. It was directed by Creator/RidleyScott, stars Creator/GerardDepardieu as Christopher Columbus and Creator/SigourneyWeaver as Queen UsefulNotes/IsabellaIOfCastile. Music/{{Vangelis}} composed the soundtrack.

** The movie uncritically parrots the old ideas about Columbus "proving" the Earth isn't flat. ''Nobody'' in the 15th century with half a brain cell thought the earth was flat. Oddly, this is contradicted within the film not much later when the Spanish only object to Columbus' plan because of his gross miscalculation of the Earth's circumference.

* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Columbus is depicted as a calm, kindly explorer who is fascinated by the Native peoples he encounters when he reaches San Salvador. In reality, as deduced from Columbus' own writings, the man was aggressively religious to the point of fanaticism (which is never shown in the film)[[note]]Though he does kneel and pray as soon as he finally reaches San Salvador, and quickly erects a church bell[[/note]] and considered the Native people he met to be an "intrusion of nature" - he had absolutely no respect for them, and as a governor of San Salvador enslaved most of the indigenous population that he didn't outright massacre - to the point that he was considered excessively brutal even by contemporary Spaniards, leading to UsefulNotes7TheCatholicMonarchs to remove him from his job.

** Santangel was much more important than depicted in introducing Columbus to the Queen. He wasn't a banker, he was the finance minister of Castile.

** Columbus wasn't the first European to discover America. Leif Eriksson was. And of course the [[UsefulNotes/NativeAmericans native Americans]] knew that the place they lived in actually existed!

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: It's a biopic of Christopher Columbus, so it's a given. Aside the man himself, there is Isabel of Castile, her ministers, various members of Columbus crew and so on.
* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Columbus is depicted as a calm, kindly explorer who is fascinated by the Native peoples he encounters when he reaches San Salvador. In reality, as deduced from Columbus' own writings, the man was aggressively religious to the point of fanaticism (which is never shown in the film [[note]]Though he does kneel and pray as soon as he finally reaches San Salvador, and quickly erects a church bell[[/note]]) and considered the Native people he met to be an "intrusion of nature" - he had absolutely no respect for them, and as a governor of San Salvador enslaved most of the indigenous population that he didn't outright massacre - to the point that he was considered excessively brutal ''even by contemporary Spaniards''.

''1492: Conquest of Paradise'' is a 1992 film, celebrating the 500th anniversary of the official discovery of the American continent by Europeans and taking the form of a {{Biopic}} of UsefulNotes/ChristopherColumbus. It was directed by Creator/RidleyScott, stars Creator/GerardDepardieu as Christopher Columbus and Creator/SigourneyWeaver as Queen Isabel of Castile. Music/{{Vangelis}} composed the soundtrack.

* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Columbus is depicted as a calm, kindly explorer who is fascinated by the Native peoples he encounters when he reaches San Salvador. In reality, as deduced from Columbus' own writings, the man was aggressively religious to the point of fanaticism (which is never shown in the film [[note]]Though he does kneel and pray as soon as he finally reaches San Salvador, and quickly erects a church bell[[/note]]) and considered the Native people he met to be an "intrusion of nature" - he had absolutely no respect for them, and as a governor of San Salvador enslaved most of the indigenous population that he didn't outright massacre - to the point that he was considered excessively brutal ''even by [[EveryoneHasStandards contemporary Spaniards]]''.

* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Columbus is depicted as a calm, kindly explorer who is fascinated by the Native peoples he encounters when he reaches San Salvador. In reality, as deduced from Columbus' own writings, the man was aggressively religious to the point of fanaticism (which is never shown in the film [[note]]Though he does kneel and pray as soon as he finally reaches San Salvador, and quickly erects a church bell[[/note]]) and considered the Native people he met to be an "intrusion of nature" - he had absolutely no respect for them, and as a governor of San Salvador enslaved most of the indigenous population that he didn't outright massacre - to the point that he was considered excessively brutal ''even by [[EvenEvilHasStandards contemporary Spaniards]]''.