Biography - Evita: The Woman Behind the Myth (A&E DVD Archives)
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Actor: Biography, Eva PeronAudio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 50 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-08-10
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: A & E Home Video
Movie Reviews of Biography - Evita: The Woman Behind the Myth (A&E DVD Archives)
Movie Review: She did it all at 26 ... and died at 33
Summary: 5 Stars
Santa Evita - and why Madonna truly was born to play her. This biography is a case for reincarnation. After Santa Evita died in 1952 ... Madonna brought her back to life in 1997.
Eva Peron was an out-of-wedlock teenager who took the train into Buenos Aires. She went from third rate actress to First Lady. From the day she died she was embalmed and immortalized. An icon Patron Saint of Ambition played by an icon herself (Madonna) years later. This is an honest account of a woman's who had so many demons they influenced Argentine social policy during her reign.
Santa Evita to the poor who adored her. A wicked witch opportunist to the rich. Only Madonna, another Patron Saint of Ambition, could play Evita on the silver screen. Both lead parallel lives ... fatherless 15-year-old daughter who ran to the big city (Buenos Aires) just like a motherless girl who hopped a place to New York at 17. Both women ran off to follow their dreams despite parental concerns. Both politically savvy, ruthless ambition, and a fire in the belly that only fame would satisfy. The similarities continue as you watch this biopic:
Eva started out an actress and became a political force to be reckoned with/Madonna was a dancer who turned to singing
Both were on the cover of Time at 26
Eva was the most powerful woman in South America at 26. Madonna the most powerful recording artist at the same age
Teenage Eva lived in pension rooms in boarding houses living off coffee before becoming First Lady of Argentina. Street urchin Madonna crashed at various friends' places before become the reigning Queen of Pop
Both looked stunning in designer gowns by French haute couture houses in Paris
Both inspire love or hate, no middle ground
Both very misunderstood since a powerful woman who is attractive is more threatening than any alpha male around to both genders
Both did not return to their home towns until they made something of themselves in a big big way - Eva from the balconey of the Casa Rosada, Madonna from the world stages of New York,London, Paris, etc
Both were brunettes who found fame with bottle blonde hair
And finally ...both epitomize the lines in one of the musicals songs: You were just a backstreet girl, hustling and fighting, scratching and biting, High Flying Adored, Did you Believe in your wildest moments - all this would be yours? That you'd become the lady of them all?"
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