Yasu quemada install#

Yasu quemada install#

Initially he is employed by the Admiralty to incite a rebellion against the Portugese and install an independent government.

Walker is sent to the island of Queimada on two occasions in furtherance of British interests in the sugar trade. Gillo Pontecorvo, the Italian director, had previously made the much admired Battle of Algiers on the theme of French colonialism. In it he was able to realise his long-expressed wish to make films of a serious, political nature and this one, which charts Britain's involvement in a Portugese colony in the Antilles during the mid 19th century, offers an unequivocally Marxist analysis of the struggle for freedom on the part of the black sugar cane workers. This exploration of colonialism is one of the better films Brando made in the sixties, if not the best. His British agent, Sir William Walker, is patrician, duplicitous, sardonic, manipulative, charming - the embodiment of perfidious Albion. Marlon Brando here perfects the portrayal of an upper class Englishman that he first essayed in Mutiny on the Bounty. She's yours only when you need her, you pay her only for that service, and you pay her by the hour! Which, gentlemen, is more important - and more convenient: a slave or a paid worker? Sir William Walker: It's true, isn't it? Gentlemen, I know it's amusing, but those are the facts, aren't they? Now with a prostitute, on the other hand, it's quite a different matter, isn't it? You see, there's no need to lodge her or feed her, certainly no need to dress her or to bury her, thank God. And then, of course, if you have the bad luck to survive her, you have to pay for the funeral! You're obliged to keep her a whole lifetime even when she's grown old and perhaps a trifle unproductive.

Now, a wife must be provided with a home, with food, with dresses, with medical attention, etc, etc. What is the cost of the product? What is the product yield? The product, in this case, being love - uh, purely physical love, since sentiments obviously play no part in economics. Which do you prefer - or should I say, which do you find more convenient - a wife, or one of these mulatto girls? No, no, please don't misunderstand: I am talking strictly in terms of economics. Now, my metaphor may seem a trifle impertinent, but I think it's very much to the point. Sir William Walker: Gentlemen, let me ask you a question.