10-14-2011, 12:27 AM
Yeah! The photography in the movie is wonderful! It costed 30 million dollar and looks like a 100 million movie. The paintings of Velazquez are clearly a reference, and really important in the book: Alatriste is supposed to be one of the soldiers in the painting "La Rendiciòn de Breda"! I hope you can read them, they are wonderful. My favourites are the "wartime" books: "El sol de Breda" is like Appocalypse Now in the xvii th century, and in "Corsarios de Levante" you can really feel all the salt and sun of the old Mediterranean in your face. I love them.
Eduardo Vázquez