El Cid 1961 - Battle of Valencia (against Ben Yussuf)

[fubleduck]

Was the part where they propped his corpse up on his horse true? Funeral custom, & combat diversion @ the same time. Spanish victory @ Valencia & El Cid's last battle can't be accurate, as all accounts I read point to an Arab victory over Valencia.

[1999521]

@fubleduck Wrong, when el Cid was alive, the almoravids tried many times to conquer the city, but they failed. Only after El Cid´s death in 1099 could they recover the city. But just for a little more than a century. King James, returned Valencia to Christendom for good.

[rcx8777c]

KILL THOSE DIRTY MOSLEM APES.

MOHAMMAD SUCKS GIANT ELEPHANT DICKS IN HELL !!!!!

[dben842504]

That is true, what hollywood produces is nothing like what actually happened. If they made movies realistic no one would go to see them because they would be boring. Then they would be called documentaries. Who would pay good money to watch a documentary. El Cid at times was a mercenary and fought for Moors and against the Moors.

[edhaje]

@dben842504 yes, thanks for the insight.. after i search history of islam in spain in middle ages, they were in (somewhat) secular business (in my undestanding)..

So lines are not drawn by religion, but by politics..

*btw, almoravids drummers truly sounds dreadful*

[edhaje]

i get confused, arabs and european fight against arabs?

[spinocus]

@edhaje The period in which Rodrigo Diaz (El Cid) lived was nothing like the fantasy Hollywood and popularized/politicized history would have you believe. Christian & Muslim lived and fought side by side in many parts of Spain; the relationship being neither harmonious or antagonistic but somewhere in between. El Cid and other Spanish nobles actually fought for the Moors and vice versa, mainly to further their own self-interests.

[edhaje]

@spinocus hmm.. that make sense.. so there were times when thy lived in dilematic state in their relationship.. i thought they were like crusaders, expelling each other, therefore both europeans and arabs never be in same side...

[Pancerni]

My favorite scene from El Cid.One can almost feel the dread and despair the defenders felt at the sound of the Almoravid drums.