Madonna - Evita - 01 Requiem For Evita (1996)

[LittleMissAndromeda]

People around the world who glorify Evita, please understand this:

It was under Eva and her husband that the middle and upper class were stolen from. It was under her husband that thousands went missing. And it was the world that supported him while he killed them all off with his Peronist party. Yes, this is a marvelous movie, a marvelous musical written by a marvelous composer- however, it's as if a musical was made about a Nazi general. Though the art is good, the woman was not. Thank you.

[TitanicLover96]

You only dream to have a funeral like hers

[lemlia]

This is my favorite song. It's so powerful, and always makes me emotional when I hear it. Thank you for uploading this!

[stambeccuccio]

@lemlia you're welcome :)

[BrickLaneBetty]

All for some disgusting fascist Nazi sympathizer. what a joke.

Eva Peron and Juan ROT IN HELL.

[Ignatius212]

Doesn't anyone else get chills when the scene suddenly flips from her as a child being denied into the church to thousands mourning her as her body passes, not to mention the awesome music shift behind it?

[eduardoveras1980]

que lindo funeral

[BangkokSpark]

una ramera = a harlot

[ilovethejoy]

MAN CAN ONLY DO SO MUCH TO PRODUCE FILM AND IT'S SUBJECT. ANYONE WHO HAS NOT BEEN MOVED BY THIS OPENING, IS CLEARLY NOT FUNCTIONING ON THIS PLANE. GOD BLESSED THE FILMMAKERS HERE AS DID YHE SPIRIT OF EVA PERON. THE BEST AND ONLY AMAZING WORK MADDONA HAS PRODUCED. ANTONIO IS MAGIC AS ALWAYS.

[thesuperstar864]

Sorry, but I honestly found this song atrocious.

It sounds more like hellfire and misery rather than something that actually captivates the death of a beloved leader.

[VanitasxAura]

The funeral scene makes me angry (the Chivilcoy funeral). Just because Eva and her siblings were illegitimate they had a right to see their father when he died. Eva got her rights when she married Peron. May she live on forever.

[UCN2027]

the argentinian soldires uniforms looks like the uniforms of the germans in ww2

[NicoGrind]

@UCN2027 eso es verdad por que el ejercito argentino era antes de "Tradicion prusiana",y tambien era de corte filo aleman,tambien habia militares alemanes que entrenaban a los generales argentinos..

[SoFirmoLo]

estos norteamericanos no saven nada xD

[NicoGrind]

En esta parte d la peli hay un error,LOS GRANADEROS ANDAN A CAVALLO,ELLOS HACEN LA ESCOLTA A CAVALLO NO A PIE¡¡¡..Por algo se llaman "Regiemiento de granaderos a cavallos general san martin"...

[AAmmyy22]

Once that electric guitar starts ou can totally tell that this is Andrew Llyod Webber in this song

[SimonTube71]

che scena terribile, mi vengono i brividi ogni volta; la musica poi, eccezionale

[anisete46]

grazie mille

[stambeccuccio]

In questa introduzione e anche per tutto il resto, il regista Alan Parker è stato unico e magistrale nel trasmettere sensazioni ed emozioni.

Credo che Alan Parker sia uno tra i più grandi registi della storia.

[anisete46]

@stambeccuccio sono d'accordo

[stambeccuccio]

Every time I watch this video, I get emotional.

To me, Madonna was a great interpreter of the character of Eva Peron.

Even the director was masterful as the whole staff.

Also music.

This Musical will be remembered in history for centuries ... as well as Evita Peron. Her legacy and her image is and will be immortal.

[sunshineavenue79]

the movie is kinda sad to me some people did not like ava peron and some did i always thought that she wanted to help people but some people on here are saying she was basically selfish and only cared about herself well same goes for the us gov our government is selfish and so is our president america is also bankrupt or will be soon the us is not so great either. maybe eva tryied to help but couldn't i don't know but i don't think it is right to slander her she is decessed.

[fabiantubet]

I'm Argentinian and I like to say that this movie and the musical reflect the true essence of Eva Peron, she was a woman with great force and conviction, able to do anything to achieve their goal. and could not find better actress than Madonna to play such a role, I reckon she must have felt very recog with Evita.

[strobe155]

Boy! Alan Parker can direct the shit outta ANYTHING! WOW!!!!

[ThePharaoho]

Wow! as a child and teen she was treated with such little respect. Look at what she became.

[GoddessofCoruscant]

I love the musical and movie, no matter how much the Argentines deny it, for the most part, it gives a very accurate portrayal of the Perons-- for the most part. However, I have two major issues with it. TBC

[GoddessofCoruscant]

@GoddessofCoruscant 1. It gives Eva too much credit for Argentina's downfall and Juan too little. It was Juan's policies that bankrupted the nation. Eva just followed her husband and went along for the ride, even though she did play a big role.

2. Che as narrator. THe real Che was just as much a dictator as the Perons, and maybe even worse!

Other than that, a great musical and a powerful warning!

[Ignitethestarz]

@GoddessofCoruscant as an Argentine I can't thank you enough for actually being this informed and for putting it out there. I always get so annoyed when my friends (many music majors, etc.) start spouting how wonderful she was, etc.... I just give them a deadpan look and begin explaining.

[GoddessofCoruscant]

@Ignitethestarz thank you for your comments. I've been flamed on here by many Peronists who worship a woman and a man that took your country from first to third world status. It baffles me...

[tabugirl]

@GoddessofCoruscant Sweetie, tell me when Argentina was first world. I have MANY Argentine relatives, since Im half latina, and never in their history have they been technically first world. they were rich...but in the pockets of the landed gentry who rules argentina....sweetie. that is a fact.

[GoddessofCoruscant]

@Ignitethestarz and I love this movie and the stage show, but I get concerned that it glorifies a fascist woman and her husband that harbored Nazis and robbed their country blind taking it from first to third world status. Argentina has never recovered and never will. I also get concerned that it glorifies Che Guevara, who, imo, was worse.

[heyjules65]

I love the EMOTION! :D I participated in a school play of Evita, and we all sang out our hearts with REQUIEM ETERENEM, DONA EVITA, without knowing what the hell we were saying!!

[MezHorseStar]

@heyjules65 Requiem Aterenem Dona Evita= Rest Eternaly Madame Evita!!

[YazminIzabella]

2:50

[YazminIzabella]

Beautiful opening, the choir is very emotional...

[anisete46]

I love the music, what I don't like is the way it's recycled.. if you listen carefully, there are only five or six tunes performed differently with different words...

[newrochellephoenix]

I think making -the real wife-witchy was meant to help the plots idea that Evita hated the respectable upper class,as the wife was.Love the way she storms out of the funeral service to confront -the lady friend -and family .

[cheesenedd]

love the jimi hendrix guitar at the beggining

[Taty025]

Yo también amo esa guitarra

[lostPhantom666]

the kid playing the brother looks so familiar who is him

[akatsukiconcubine]

@lostPhantom666

i think that's antonio Banderas i'm not sure though

[D22queen]

@bighockeyfan18 I know but it's still rubs me the wrong way.

[D22queen]

@TheJJ Oh okay.

[D22queen]

@evaperonfan Then why did those men carry the little out?

[TheJJ]

@D22queen: What evaperonfan is saying is that portion of the film is not historically accurate. In real life the wife of Eva's father wasn't such a bitch.

[evaperonfan]

Well, we don't know how the legal wife really acted at the funeral. What we do know is that she relented and let Dona Juana see the body. I don't blame her for being upset though. I mean if my husband had an affair, I'd be mad too.

[D22queen]

That bitch just because her husband had an affair that doesn't give her the right to stop his other children from saying goodbye to him. He was their FATHER!

[evaperonfan]

It wasn't really like that. Dona Juana and her children were allowed to see the body for five minutes.

[bighockeyfan18]

@D22queen it was common for husbands to take mistresses but illegitament children were outcasted during tis time period because they were illegitament eva's mother lived a very hard life

[potplants11]

yes, but she asked for it, sleeping with some-one eles husband

[cheesenedd]

I love that guitar in the beggining very jimmy hendrix.

[cardwitch91]

Why do so many start talking about Che Guevara in posts about this musical? "Che" in Evita is supposed to represent the 'everyman' while acting as a POV for the audience and inner voice/conscience for Evita. I have to say watching this film when I was young I fell a little bit in love with Antonio. :)

[silhuetto]

@cardwitch91 In the stage musical, it's actually Che Guevara (he's dressed in the traditional combats and green beret and smoking the cigar ^_^). In the movie, they made Antonio Banderas' Che character an "everyman" observer, like you said. :)

[Ignitethestarz]

@cardwitch91 THANK YOU!! Thank you for pointing that out, haha. I come on here and see lots of people arguing about "the" Che (Ernesto Guevara) when in fact that isn't the case at all. She died in '52 and Ernest "Che" Guevara was only arouund '51 getting involved in anything beyond medical school...

[omfg4000]

@cardwitch91 I think Che is representing the conscience of Argentina as the nation. Maybe even the conscience of Evita. Or maybe it is her inner will to do more. Che was a socialist, a revolutionary. He wanted to rid "the evil" in a much faster and maybe brutal way. But clearly she resisted this beliving it could both lead to problems and it didn't fit her more diplomatic and strategic personality as it would leave rifts in society not mendable.

[FFQueen92]

@cardwitch91 In stage performances he IS Che Guevara. He dresses in the iconic clothing and is aged 17 (as Che would have been)

I think it's because Che is a product of the Peron era. He was a medical student, and what he saw during the era of their reign drove him to rebellion. He's not the "everyman" at all, but a person angered by injustice. He spends a lot of time mocking her and states that she was nothing special.

[Juliaflo]

The real Maria Eva Ibarguren Duarte de Peron would have been 90. What would she say about the world today?

[manimomo87]

My school did Evita as our Fine Art's production. The opening song gave me chills, our choir is amazing. :)

[pharmboy27]

hello everyone. Does anyone know if the movie that is being played in the theatre of the musical a real movie? If it is, does anyone know the title of it? Great appreciate it..thanks

[CAMILOERNESTO47]

Cuando la mujer que más amé en el mundo me dejó, la desgarradora escena de la pequeña Eva sacada de la iglesia clamando por su papá y el cambio abrupto a su funeral me hizo golpear la mesa de un puñetazo y agarrarme a llrar desconsoladamente.

[2pintsluver]

this music almost made me cry at a high school version of this

[Yasminna24]

Evita is one of the best musicals ever! If not the best!..

[juhurata]

"Requiem aeternum dona Evita..."

[orsolyaerdelyi]

I also love the opening... it gives me goosebumps

[GoddessofHyrule]

I love the opening- you can see how much the people loved her- but then the movie is ruined by Che, who was a murderer.

[AliviaWinchester]

I thought Che wasn't an actual person but a representation of how people felt about Evita. I don't think he's a murder.

[musicaltheatergeek79]

Che in this movie isn't Che Guevara. I know in the original play, he is the spitting image of Guevara. But in the movie he's just the Everyman, the narrator whom the audience is supposed to identify with.

[GoddessofHyrule]

yes, I know. but that technique backfired on me. I identified with Eva, b/c I have a lot of pain in my past too, so I understand her motivations.

[anisete46]

absolutely, don't know why people make that mistake..

[alcockell]

Agreed. The "Che Guevara" bit you can lay at the feet of Hal Prince, who staged the original London run.

And he got it wrong.

[melodiepohua]

Know your words before you speak them. Che Guevara was alot of things but not a cold blooded murderer.

[GoddessofHyrule]

then explain the quote "to send men to the firing squad, proof is unnessary" Yup, that's your hero!

[doltolke]

Wait, wait. A person who admires Elizabeth I is trying to get on a moral high horse about executioners? BWAHAHA.

[eliud82]

Yeah, people are stupid. Che Guevara helped Fidel Castro become dictator. El Cher Guevara killed many cubans in the "Plaza De La Revolucion" in Cuba. El Che Guevara was a coward that was hiding in the montains running away from the CIA. To say that "CHE" was a freedom fighter is almost like saying that Osama Bin Laden is a saint.

[evaperonfan]

yeah exactlly. And Elizabeth I only killed people who were plotting against her, she didn't go after innocent children like Che did.

[thegreatfriend]

You ignorant. Putin and Che are the typical figures for you to attack, aren't them, you ignobile capitalists, it's you're fault the economy is how it is

[eliud82]

Tell that to a cuban, and to the families of those who el Che executed, you'll get your ass handed to you. You ignorant asswhipe.

[rippinsteo]

@melodiepohua : Che Guevara was a cold-blooded murderer.

[stambeccuccio]

certainly, it was been the largest funeral of the 20th century

[Dogos73]

@stambeccuccio it was the biggest funeral in history as it was a whole country at it, but not for the show but becouse was for them like loosing a mother.

[GoddessofCoruscant]

@stambeccuccio I thought that was Princess Diana's....

[countrywillneverdie]

@stambeccuccio when the news came over the radio that she died the country pretty much stopped. business were closed for a week for mourning her. her entire funeral services latest almost a month.

[stambeccuccio]

@countrywillneverdie I Believe it! I already wrote that avoids Evita's funeral, in my honest opinion, was the biggest event of the twentieth century.

Without controversy. Evita's funeral was attended and heard more than even that of the tragic death of Princess Diana, also because at the time the media were minors and were not even in the era of globalization television.

Sorry to everybody, for my English not very good, but English is not my language. I hope you understand the meaning :)

[darklordmacavity]

@stambeccuccio On the contrary, your English appears to be better than most American's.

[macrent2]

@stambeccuccio It was, many people pasted out and a few died in line just to see her body when she died!

[stambeccuccio]

@macrent2  ...every time I see this video, I am touched .. it 's a really shocking reality

[jonzfriend]

Still riveting. I saw this before the gigantic funeral for Princess Di, and now after the funeral for Michael Jackson.

Neither matches the truly monumental spectacle of Evita's funeral.

[pudciccone]

demand to be buried like eva peron.

[LGal1971]

Thank you for posting this. Love the movie and one of the best starts to a film I have ever seen ...