![]() In the 16th century, the name of Cuba was "Isla Juana". The cultivation of sugar cane in Cuba began in the 18th century. Cortez stated that once they touch land, Tulio and Miguel would be sent to Cuba to work as slaves on sugar cane fields.Cortez' troops probably wore sallets, kettle hats, and burgonets. The morion helmets worn by Cortez and his conquistadors were a fashion of the second half of the 16th century and the early 17th.In the time of Cortez the rapier was still in its embryonic stages, differing hardly at all from the medieval knightly sword apart from the ricasso and some extra bars on the hilt. Those ultra thin cup-hilted rapiers used by the guards in Seville didn't exist until the mid 17th century.(The Spain-Spanish dub corrects this to the period-appropriate maravedí and doblón.) The peseta wasn't introduced until 1869, exactly 350 years after the time the movie is set in. The main characters make mention of the peseta as a currency.For example, ruff collars and trunk hose for men didn't catch on until a couple decades later. Fashion in general is way too ahead of its time.Anachronism Stew: The story is supposed to begin in 1519, which makes several bits of costume and equipment inappropriate.Truth in Television for a tropical rain forest environment! Particularly of note are the animals seen within El Dorado, including gigantic catfish and tall, but friendly, flightless birds. Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: Of all kinds.All There in the Manual: The tie-ins reveal the armadillo's name: Bibo.Aliens Speaking Maya: Despite Miguel and Tolio being implied to be the first Europeans the Doradans have ever encountered, nobody has any issue understanding eachother.Tzekel-Kan: Now everyone will know the truth of your 'divinity'! Air Quotes: Used by Tzekel-Kan when he sics the jaguar statue on Miguel and Tulio, sarcastically emphasising "divinity" towards them.Adipose Rex: Chief Tannabok, who is obese but still fit enough to walk to the top of the temple, while Miguel, Tulio and Altivo are all left breathless.The High Priest of the original story was not the Ax-Crazy Evil Sorcerer with a fetish for grusome slaughter, but was simply a man rooting out the lies of a pair of conmen exploiting his religion. Adaptational Villainy: In stark contrast to The Man Who Would Be King, Tzekel-Kan is not a Villainy-Free Villain like his counterpart was and that is the most direct thing that can be said.Tulio and Miguel on the other hand, are not, lacking the Evil Colonialist nature of their counterparts, showing no racism or undeserved contempt towards the native populace. Daniel Dravot and Peachy Carnahan were straight-up villain protagonists. Adaptational Heroism: The movie began life as an adaptation of The Man Who Would Be King and still is a loose adaptation.When he sees that they're about to be crushed by a giant pillar, he rushes back to save them. Achilles in His Tent: Miguel, after a fight with Tulio, decides to stay in El Dorado while Tulio and Chel sail back to Spain.There's a lot of this, since many of the backgrounds are CGI.The barrels the duo hide in are also CGI.DreamWorks wrote special animation software to make the gold look "gold" rather than merely "yellow".Unfortunately the film failed to equal Prince of Egypt commercially and critically, and DreamWorks, after releasing the Direct to Video Joseph: King of Dreams and the theater-released (but barely advertised) Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron and Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, thereafter wholeheartedly embraced computer animation. The studio may have been hoping to rival the success Disney had enjoyed with the Renaissance of the 1990s. Only the second traditionally animated feature-length offering from DreamWorks, after The Prince of Egypt. Seeking enough gold to "buy Spain", they set off into the jungles of Central America, where they'll find something worth much more than treasure. ![]() A game of chance earns them a Treasure Map which seems to point the way to El Dorado: the lost " City of Gold." The two men stow away by accident on the Hernan Cortéz's flagship, and their escape strands them in the New World with only Cortéz's horse and the treasure map for company. A traditionally-animated 2000 film by DreamWorks Animation, The Road to El Dorado, follows the adventures of Spaniards Tulio (voiced by Kevin Kline) and Miguel (voiced by Kenneth Branagh) as they try to con and cheat their way to fame and fortune. ![]()
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