Don Quixote (TV Movie 2000) - Plot Summary - IMDb.
Don Quixote is a Spanish gentleman from La Mancha. Nearing 50, his birth name is Alonso Quixano, which he changes when he becomes a knight-errant modeled after his beloved chivalric romance novels. Accompanied by his elderly horse, Rocinante, and his loyal squire, Sancho Panza, Don Quixote roams the countryside looking for opportunities to right wrongs, aid the poor, and help damsels in.
Taking up a lance and sword, Don Quixote sets out on a hilarious journey across medieval Spain, defending the helpless and vanquishing the wicked. Hopelessly unprepared and increasingly losing his grip on reality, with each calamitous adventure the two hapless heroes experience, the romantic ideal of Quixote’s books seems further away than ever. Following its sell-out run at the Swan Theatre.
People taunt and torment Don Quixote because he is mad. Violence. A surprising amount of violence for a book filled with pictures. Most of it is played humorously, but involves severe beatings, blood, knocked-out teeth, broken limbs, stabbings, split heads, and other serious injuries. A mention of a heart being cut out of a dying man, and of men hanged from trees. Sex. Language. Some mild.
Similar to Don Quixote, Roland realizes his fault by exclaiming, “Almighty God, mea culpa in thy sigh, forgive my sins, both the great and the small, sins I committed from the hour I was born until this day, in which I lie struck down” (1156. This event enlightens the otherwise depressing scene where many are dead and covered in blood. As Roland understands his mistake, he asks God for.
Don Quixote promised to follow his advice scrupulously, and it was arranged forthwith that he should watch his armour in a large yard at one side of the inn; so, collecting it all together, Don Quixote placed it on a trough that stood by the side of a well, and bracing his buckler on his arm he grasped his lance and began with a stately air to march up and down in front of the trough, and as.
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Don Quixote is a glorious knight in his imagination, but in reality, he is seen by people that surround him as a mere bizarre. Persecuted by his ideas and imagination, he feels a surge of energy, but others react to his deeds too rude. All the “craziness” of Don Quixote came to him from tales of strong, courageous and brave knights who traveled the world, defended the rights of the poor.