Watch The Motorcycle Diaries Online | 2004 Movie | Yidio Watch The Motorcycle Diaries "Before he changed the world the world changed him." An international co-production, The Motorcycle Diaries details an eight month journey taken by the young revolutionary Che Guevara and his friend, Alberto Grenado across South America. During the movie attempts are made to provide details of how and why Guevara became a Marxist revolutionary after initially setting out on a fun road trip designed to end with a stint as a volunteer at a leper colony in the Peruvian jungle. The Motorcycle Diaries is based on the memoir written by Guevara about his trip and uses Grenado's own memoir as source material. The Motorcycle Diaries begins in 1952 with the traveler's, Ernesto Guevara and Alberto Grenado leaving their family homes in Buenos Aires, Argentina and setting out on a journey to Peru. At the outset of the journey the two men are looking solely for a good time, their aspirations go so far as to meet women and party in different South American countries.

Problems with Grenado's Norton 500 motorcycle force the pair to seek refuge in poverty stricken regions of South America before the motorcycle finally gives out and the pair are forced to hitch rides. After the motorcycle breaks down the tone of the movie changes with the images of poverty and social inequality between the peasant's and rich people of South America. By the time the pair finally arrive in the leper colony in Peru Guevara has become a political radical beginning to believe in the Communist manifesto. The colony serves as a metaphor for South America with the staff of the colony and patients separated at the end of the working day by a river that divides the island. After celebrating his birthday Guevara swims across the river and sleeps in a leper building to show his solidarity with the patients. The Motorcycle Diaries was warmly received by critics and won many awards at international film festivals. Brazilian director Walter Sallas and star Gael Garcia Bernal were singled out for particular praise. The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) - Movie - YouTube 14,910 views Last updated on Apr 8, 2013 Brazilian director Walter Salles Jr.

follows up the Golden Globe-nominated Behind the Sun with this filmed adaptation of Argentinian-born Cuban revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara's journals of the same name. The Motorcycle Diaries stars Gael García Bernal (Y Tu Mamá También, Amores Perros) as a young, pre-revolution Guevara, a 23-year-old medical student in 1952 traveling across South America on a motorcycle with his friend Alberto Granado (Rodrigo de la Serna), who co-wrote the source material. As they embark on their journey, both young men come of age and find their individual world views broadened farther than they ever expected. The Motorcycle Diaries premiered at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. less Brazilian director Walter Salles Jr. follows up the Golden Globe-nominated Behind the Sun with this filmed adaptation of Argentinian-born Cuban revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara's journals of the same name. The Motorcycle Diaries s...

more Che Guevara Publishing Project: The Motorcycle Diaries : Notes on a Latin American Journey by Ernesto Che Guevara (2004, Paperback, Revised, Movie Tie-In) | eBay Textbooks, Education Share Che Guevara Publishing Project: The Motorcycle Diaries : Notes on a Latin American Journey by Ernesto Che Guevara (2004, Paperback, Revised, Movie Tie-In) 5.0average based on 2 product ratings 5 Trending price is based on prices over last 90 days. Brand NewLOWEST PRICE Sold by thrifttaco Est. delivery by Jan 30 Sold by bzrong Est. delivery by Jan 30 Sold by goodwillswpa Est. delivery by Feb 1 All listings for this product Any Condition Synopsis Synopsis Special movie tie-in edition of Che Guevara's youthful travel diaries to coincide with the Fall release of Redford & Salles's film of the book.

Says director Walter Salles: "If the film reaches a younger audience, I hope it will inspire people to read The Motorcycle Diaries, to have the impression that change can occur." "As his journey progresses, Guevara's voice seems to deepen, to darken, colored by what he witnesses in his travels. He is still poetic, but now he comments on what he sees, though still poetically, with a new awareness of the social and political ramifications of what's going on around him."-January Magazine "The Motorcycle Diaries could easily go on to become the first Spanish language nominee for Best Picture."-Roger Friedman, Fox News,The book of the popular movieSTARRING GAEL GARCIA BERNALNOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER" "The young Che Guevara's lively and highly entertaining travel diary.This new, expanded edition features exclusive, unpublished photos taken by the 23-year-old Ernesto on his journey across a continent, and a tender preface by Aleida Guevara, offering an insightful perspective on the man and the icon." " "As his journey progresses, Guevara's voice seems to deepen, to darken, colored by what he witnesses in his travels.

He is still poetic, but now he comments on what he sees, though still poetically, with a new awareness of the social and political ramifications of what's going on around him."--"January Magazine" "A journey, a number of journeys. Ernesto Guevara in search of adventure, Ernesto Guevara in search of America, Ernesto Guevara in search of Che. On this journey of journeys, solitude found solidarity, 'I' turned into 'we'." --Eduardo Galeano "When I read these notes for the first time, I was quite young myself and I immediately identified with this man who narrated his adventures in such a spontaneous manner...

To tell you the truth, the more I read, the more I was in love with the boy my father had been..." --Aleida Guevara "Our film is about a young man, Che, falling in love with a continent and finding his place in it." --Walter Salles, director of "The Motorcycle Diaries." Also available in Spanish: DIARIOS DE MOTOCICLETA (978-1-920888-11-4) Features of this edition include: A preface by Che Guevara's daughter Aleida Introduction by Cintio Vintier, well-known Latin American poet Photos & maps from the original journey Postcript: Che's personal reflections on his formative years: "A child of my environment." Published in association with the Che Guevara Studies Center, Havana"" Product Identifiers The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends.

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Director: Alfonso Cuarón In 1956, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and a band of Castro-led Cuban exiles mobilize an army to topple the regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista. Director: Steven Soderbergh An examination on the effect of Franco-era religious schooling and sexual abuse on the lives of two longtime friends. Director: Pedro Almodóvar In 1967, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara leads a small partisan army to fight an ill-fated revolutionary guerrilla war in Bolivia, South America. Director: Steven Soderbergh A horrific car accident connects three stories, each involving characters dealing with loss, regret, and life's harsh realities, all in the name of love. Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu An ad executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum. Director: Pablo Larraín In 1990, to protect his fragile mother from a fatal shock after a long coma, a young man must keep her from learning that her beloved nation of East Germany as she knew it has disappeared.

Director: Wolfgang Becker As a director and his crew shoot a controversial film about Christopher Columbus in Cochabamba, Bolivia, local people rise up against plans to privatize the water supply. Director: Icíar Bollaín Edit Storyline In 1952, twenty-three year old medical student Ernesto Guevara de la Serna - Fuser to his friends and later better known as 'Ernesto Che Guevara' - one semester away from graduation, decides to postpone his last semester to accompany his twenty-nine year old biochemist friend 'Alberto Granado' - Mial to his friends - on his four month, 8,000 km long dream motorcycle trip throughout South America starting from their home in Buenos Aires. Their quest is to see things they've only read about in books about the continent on which they live, and to finish that quest on Alberto's thirtieth birthday on the other side of the continent in the Guajira Peninsula in Venezuela.

Not all on this trip goes according to their rough plan due to a broken down motorbike, a continual lack of money (they often stretching the truth to gain the favor of a variety of strangers to help them), arguments between the two in their frequent isolation solely with each other, their raging libidos which sometimes get ... Written by Huggo Before he changed the world the world changed him See more » Genres: Rated R for language | See all certifications » Parents Guide: 15 October 2004 (USA) See more » Also Known As: The Motorcycle Diaries See more » Filming Locations: $375,461 (Brazil) (7 May 2004) Gross: Did You Know? Trivia When Ernesto and Alberto are in Temuco, walking with the bike and reading "El Diario Austral," Alberto complains because they misspelled his last name. El Diario Austral still exists, and it's the biggest newspaper in the Araucanía region of southern Chile. During filming in Temuco, the newspaper wrote a new article about the making of the film, and deliberately misspelled Alberto's last name again, 50 years later.

See more » Goofs The movie is set in the early 1950s. When Ernesto and Alberto arrive in Valparaiso, Chile, a blue floating dry-dock (the "Valparaiso III", owned by SOCIBER) is visible on the bay. It first appeared in 1985. See more » Quotes Ernesto Guevara de la Serna : Even though we are too insignificant to be spokesmen for such a noble cause, we believe, and this journey has only confirmed this belief, that the division of American into unstable and illusory nations is a complete fiction. We are one single mestizo race from Mexico to the Magellan Straits. And so, in an attempt to free ourselves from narrow minded provincialism, I propose a toast to Peru and to a united America. Crazy Credits The real Alberto appears at the very end of the film just before the credits.

See more » Connections by arrangement with Warner Strategic Marketing Editorial Vasudeva & Universal Music Publishing Group Bias is downfall of this movie 22 January 2005 | by cybersrfr1287120 (United States) – See all my reviews I would not consider myself to be an ultra liberal, but I am somewhat knowledgeable about what has been going on in South America for the last 100 years, and Che Guevara is a part of it. Going into this movie all I knew about him was that he is on a lot of t-shirts, and that "che", despite what ignorant people think, is not his name, it is what Argentinians say to each other like in the US saying "dude". I am also a big fan of the purity of movies, not this Spider-man crap that is all over the place, but the true art of films, and I am fairly serious when I go into a movie for the first time. A part of this is that I watch the movie throwing all bias I might have out the window and watch it as if I had never heard of it before.

That said, I believe this movie was excellent because it had superb cinematography of the beauty of South America, had excellent acting, great chemistry between the two main actors (despite Ebert saying they did not), and an overall political theme. This movie did not get great reviews in the US, and I haven't seen reviews from Latin American countries, but I am guessing they are better. This is because many people either shied away from the movie once they heard the word Che, and if they did see it, through the whole movie they were probably thinking "commie, commie!". I have since read up on Che Guevara, and he is actually a fascinating person to study because he began as a rich boy who through his journeys learned how much people were suffering beyond his imagination, and part of this was how he got to be so rich, by suppressing the native people. The movie does an excellent job of showing this transition from his carefree exploring until later having an epiphany about his destiny to help the people. Yes, he got extreme after a while, but the study of him is compelling nonetheless.

It is interesting to know that coffee and bananas that say "Guatemala" are still grown today by slave laborers on farms, and that the US does not mind the slave labor because they were the ones who sponsored a coup in 1951 to install a dictatorship that in history books says it was an ousting of communism, which makes it okay. This is a much bigger and important example than the movie, but it is the same bias involved: People in the United States (I don't say America because that refers to every country from Argentina to Canada, not just the US as people in this country like to think) not only don't care about the suffering of people in other countries (unless it's mentioned on Oprah or involves economic rewards) but have the nerve to call them evil when they try to better themselves, which at the time was the communist movement in South America. This is not the communism of Castro or even of the later Che Guevara, but simply to give more to the starving and suppressed that are today suppressed to make your bananas and Starbucks coffee.

Because of the biases people have towards the people of countries they know nothing about, this movie has been extremely underrated in the wake of films that comparatively suck ("Ray", way overrated) yet have been rewarded because of their popularity and appeasement to the ignorant people that attend theaters in the United States. 367 of 489 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes My ride with Che | Film | The Guardian Movies My ride with Che Fifty years ago, Alberto Granado travelled across Latin America on a motorbike with Che Guevara - a journey that has now become a film, The Motorcycle Diaries. He relives the trip of a lifetime with Geoffrey Macnab Share on Messenger Close It is now over 50 years since a young Argentinian called Alberto Granado spent $800 on a 1939 Norton 500 motorbike so that he and his close friend Ernesto Guevara could travel round Latin America. He was 29 at the time, a biologist and researcher working in a hospital in the provinces - "tired, bored and fed up". Guevara was six years younger.

The motorbike, Granado remembers, was a symbol of their yearning for knowledge and freedom. The pair's journey took them across Argentina, Chile, Columbia and Venezuela, transforming both their lives. Granado, who lives in Cuba, was due to attend the Sundance film festival last month for the world premiere of The Motorcycle Diaries, Walter Salles's film about the friends' epic odyssey. Incredibly, the US authorities refused him a visa. "It's always easy to blame the imperialists, but maybe we didn't ask for the visa in time," the 81-year-old sighs. "I would have loved to have been there." Instead, earlier this week, Granado came to the Berlin film festival for the screening of Travelling with Che Guevara , Gianni Mina's documentary about the making of The Motorcycle Diaries. There is a sense of Chinese boxes about Mina's project. He follows Granado as they retrace his journey across South America, and he also shows scenes from the shooting of Salles's movie. In one, we hear the Argentinian describe how he and Guevara arrived in a new town and caused a sensation in the local press by pretending to be distinguished experts on leprosy.

In the next, we see Salles filming this very incident with his two young actors, Gael García Bernal (as Guevara) and Rodrigo De La Serna (as Granado) while the real-life Granado sits on a director's chair behind the cameras. It's as if they were acting out his memories. Only very slowly do the politics come into focus. Travelling with Che Guevara begins as a story of two hedonistic and adventurous youngsters, out to have a good time. "I lived in an era of good soccer and good tango," Granado remembers of early-1950s Argentina. The documentary is full of songs by Carlos Gardel and anecdotes about the scrapes the two companions got into. They briefly tried to go to Easter Island because they had heard that there were 11 women to every man on the island. Once, when they'd drunk the local wine, the travellers were almost lynched by the furious husband and friends of a woman who had been flirting with Ernesto. "Luckily, they were all drunk too or they would have got us," Granado confides.

In a strange aside, we hear how the "rambling tramps", as Guevara and Granado styled themselves, had a chance meeting with the Real Madrid soccer player Alfredo Di Stefano, and asked him for tickets to a match (which he gave them). In later years, Di Stefano could still remember the incident, but he was astounded to discover that one of those scruffy Argentinian boys turned into a revolutionary leader. The more they travelled, the more their eyes were opened to the injustices around them. Guevara was incensed by what he witnessed in the American-run tin mines in Chile, where many of the workers were dying of silicosis. Of all the defining moments during their journey, perhaps the most important came when Guevara, on the night of his 24th birthday, swam across a treacherous river to reach the San Pablo leprosy colony where he and Granado had been working. The river was full of piranha and there were whirlpools. We see footage of Salles shooting this swim for The Motorcycle Diaries. García Bernal (who refused to use a double) plunges into the water.

Doing a jerky crawl, he slowly disappears into the dark. De La Serna, as Granado, waits by the shore on one side of the river; the lepers they have befriended are on the other. When the young Guevara makes it to the other side, the lepers greet him as if he was a messiah. In real life, Granado tells me, the incident wasn't quite as dramatic as Salles shows it. No, he never felt the urge to jump in after Guevara. He was too afraid of the water. Instead, he followed behind on a little raft, carrying a torch. But he acknowledges that the river crossing had a huge symbolic significance for his friend. Guevara was striking out entirely on his own for the first time. "It shows us what Che Guevara has inside him and that he doesn't care about danger," Granado says. A tiny, impish man in a black leather jacket and a green cap, Granado comes across as both wise and mischievous. We see him greeting people he met on his journey all those years ago. Again and again, he expresses his gratitude to the film-makers for allowing him to "relive a dream".

There's a steeliness to him, too. "Although I came from a poor family, I wanted to be a scientist," he says. "I wanted to travel the world. I wanted to cure leprosy." When I speak to him in the bar of the CineMax cinema in Berlin after the screening of the documentary, Granado dismisses the idea that he played an important part in helping his friend find his political identity. "Fifty years after that marvellous adventure, it's a little difficult to say I had any influence on Che Guevara." Camillo Guevara (Che's son, who accompanied Granado to Berlin) is not so sure. He explains that, a year after his father's trip with Granado, Guevara made a second journey through Latin America. "He wrote a short story, part fiction, part reality, about how much he missed Alberto during the second trip." As Camillo emphasises, Ernesto's life could have been very different if Granado hadn't bought that motorbike all those years ago. After the Cuban revolution, Granado founded the Santiago School of Medicine in Cuba. It's four years since he retired; now, he spends his days reading and dreaming.

Yes, he tells me between sips of red wine, he admires both the documentary and Salles's feature film. "They show what I have been saying again and again - that Che Guevara was a real person, a person of flesh and blood," he reflects. "Walter sees the story through a very beautiful lens. He shows how we both developed. At the start, I was the older one, the one with more responsibility, but more and more, Che assumed this responsibility ... in Walter's movie and in Gianni's documentary, you see how everything became too small for him. First medicine became too small for him, then the revolution became too small for him and then Cuba grew too small for him. You can define Ernesto by the things he couldn't stand - he couldn't stand lies or unfairness or getting things he didn't deserve." In the end, as Romano Scavolini's Che: The Last Hours (another film screening in Berlin) reveals, Guevara's war against injustice ended on a grim and squalid note in October 1967 at a school house in La Higuera, a poverty-stricken village in Bolivia. The guerrilla fighter was captured by Bolivian Rangers.

On the orders of CIA-backed President Rene Barrientos, Bolivian radio broadcast the news that he had been killed in combat when he was still alive. When the order came to execute him, none of the Bolivian soldiers was willing to take on the job. Eventually, a sergeant who wanted the money, and who was determined to prove he was not a coward, agreed to carry out the assassination. He was so drunk that his colleagues recall him vomiting outside the school house before he went in to shoot Guevara. Even in death, the revolutionary leader still mesmerised those he came into contact with. Scavolini tracked down Susana Osinaga, one of the nurses who cleaned his filthy body prior to his burial. She told Scavolini that she felt his eyes were following her round the room. "I felt he was looking directly into my heart. He was like Jesus Christ." Nowadays, as Camillo acknowledges, Che Guevara is a pop culture icon whose image is as ubiquitous as that of Elvis or Madonna. "People love the myth of Che Guevara and to have T-shirts, hats and posters in their room, but they don't respect the integrity of what he did. They don't really know the story.

I'd love that they understood who he was ... he was not a model." Granado, though, fully understands why his old friend has such a magnetic pull on the imagination of the young. "He was heroic by nature," he says as if that explains it in a nutshell. But he is still fretting over a broken promise he made more than half a century ago. Before they embarked on their 1952 trip together, Granado assured Guevara's father that he would bring his son home and make sure he finished his degree. "His family blamed me for his going away on a motorbike, while for my family, he was the guilty one - the one who had me in his pocket ... but the fact is that I had promised I would bring him back to Buenos Aires where he could get a degree. After that, we planned to meet again to continue our trips. But somehow it didn't turn out that way." · The Motorcycle Diaries will be released in August. The Motorcycle Diaries - Buy, Rent, and Watch Movies & TV on Flixster More reviews for The Motorcycle Diaries Flixster Audience Score: 92% Flixster User Reviews Kevin Cookman As a road trip film, it's stellar.

As a historical insight into the events and psychological gear grinding that influenced the revolutionary leader known… More As a road trip film, it's stellar. As a historical insight into the events and psychological gear grinding that influenced the revolutionary leader known as Che Guevarra, it falters. Cynthia S. I just watched this movie for the second time. I really like this movie. It doesn't hurt that Gael Bernal is a very good actor, also....but that was just… More I just watched this movie for the second time. I really like this movie. It doesn't hurt that Gael Bernal is a very good actor, also....but that was just icing on the cake. There was alot of thought put into this movie. It was serious at times, touching at times, and also very funny at times. Lady D'arbanville After a drawn out beginning, there unwinds a much more meaningful tale. It would be easy to give up on this one near the start, but feel it?s worth sticking… More After a drawn out beginning, there unwinds a much more meaningful tale. It would be easy to give up on this one near the start, but feel it?s worth sticking with.

My biggest disappointment was watching it on Film 4, where they failed to put up all the sub-titles and left periods of speech un-interpreted. Aaron Neuwirth Ernesto Guevara de la Serna: This isn't a tale of heroic feats. It's about two lives running parallel for a while, with common aspirations and similar… More Ernesto Guevara de la Serna: This isn't a tale of heroic feats. It's about two lives running parallel for a while, with common aspirations and similar dreams. The film recounts the 1952 journey, initially by motorcycle, across South America by young Ernesto "Che" Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado. As the adventure centered around youthful hedonism unfolds, Guevara discovers himself transformed by his observations on the life of the impoverished indigenous peasantry. Venturing across mountains, deserts, and down rivers, the pair encounter and are forever changed by witnessing the social injustices of exploited mine workers, persecuted communists, ostracized lepers, and the tattered descendants of a once-great Incan civilization.

Directed by Brazillian director Walter Salles, this is a very good looking film, using the actual locations traveled to as a beautiful back drop to what is essentially a road trip movie, backed by an undercurrent that would lead to Guevara's eventual revolutionary ideas. Gael Garcia Bernal and Rodrigo De la Serna make a very good team together, working as an entertaining pair to see cross through South America. The characters they meet along the way are good as well. The soundtrack, as with the scenery, is very fitting in an elegant sort of way to back up what is going on in this film. It works as a comedy-drama, depicting the lives of these younger men, backed by a road adventure setting to make it very watchable. Ernesto Guevara de la Serna: Mother. Mother Sister Alberto: Yes? Alberto Granado: We want to eat. Ernesto Guevara de la Serna: We deserve to eat like everyone else. Mother Sister Alberto: Yes, but you didn't go to mass. Ernesto Guevara de la Serna: No. Mother Sister Alberto: Then, how do you expect to feed the body if you didn't feed the soul first?

Alberto Granado: Er, denying food is not very Christian-like. Ernesto Guevara de la Serna: Yes, I doubt Jesus would act like this. Mother Sister Alberto: In this house, we have a set of rules that have to be followed. Ernesto Guevara de la Serna: [to Alberto now, as she turns away] I haven't read any rule book. Alberto Granado: Neither did I. I think that if I find it I would eat it. Kevin M. Williams Whatever the intentions of its filmmakers what ultimately succeeds here is the opening of South America as more than simply a world party/nightclub stop as two… More Whatever the intentions of its filmmakers what ultimately succeeds here is the opening of South America as more than simply a world party/nightclub stop as two young professionals put their promising lives on hold for a bit in order to sightsee their own unknown and surprisingly impoverished continent. Curtis Lilly Didn't hold my interest very much. Kinda seemed just like a movie to show how wonderful of a person Che Guevara was. Could somebody be that selfless?… More Didn't hold my interest very much.

Kinda seemed just like a movie to show how wonderful of a person Che Guevara was. Could somebody be that selfless? Sure I guess. Who knows. I have a hard time believing in perfectly unflawed characters. Chris Weber Wonderfully written and beautifully shot tale of two friends who embarked on a road trip that would forever change them, especially Ernesto Guevara. I love road… More Wonderfully written and beautifully shot tale of two friends who embarked on a road trip that would forever change them, especially Ernesto Guevara. I love road movies and travelogues, and have an interest in Che Guevara, so it was only a matter of time before I would finally get around to seeing this. Overall, I really liked it, but was not blown away by it. It is very interesting and inspiring, but not a masterpiece. The film does put Che up on a Christ-like pedastel a bit, and hints at what he was to become, but also only alludes to the bad things he did later on as well. It's a good story, and isn't preachy with the politics, so it's the sort of movie that just about everyone could watch and find something to like about it.

Lenny Muggsy The Motorcycle Diaries (10/10) Movie CLIP - Swimming Across the Amazon (2004) HD - YouTube The Motorcycle Diaries (10/10) Movie CLIP - Swimming Across the Amazon (2004) HD Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Uploaded on Jun 24, 2011 The Motorcycle Diaries movie clips: BUY THE MOVIE: Don't miss the HOTTEST NEW TRAILERS: CLIP DESCRIPTION: Against Alberto's (Rodrigo De la Serna) advice and better judgment, Ernesto (Gael García Bernal) decides to swim across the Amazon to celebrate his birthday with the leprosy patients ... and succeeds. FILM DESCRIPTION: Brazilian director Walter Salles Jr. follows up the Golden Globe-nominated Behind the Sun with this filmed adaptation of Argentinian-born Cuban revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara's journals of the same name.

The Motorcycle Diaries stars Gael García Bernal (Y Tu Mamá También, Amores Perros) as a young, pre-revolution Guevara, a 23-year-old medical student in 1952 traveling across South America on a motorcycle with his friend Alberto Granado (Rodrigo de la Serna), who co-wrote the source material. As they embark on their journey, both young men come of age and find their individual world views broadened farther than they ever expected. The Motorcycle Diaries premiered at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. CREDITS: Cast: Rodrigo De la Serna, Gael García Bernal Director: Walter Salles Producers: Mónica Lima, Karen Tenkhoff, Rebecca Yeldham, Robert Redford, Diego Dubcovsky, Edgard Tenenbaum, Daniel Burman, Paul Webster, Michael Nozik Screenwriters: Alberto Granado, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, Jose Rivera WHO ARE WE? The MOVIECLIPS channel is the largest collection of licensed movie clips on the web. Here you will find unforgettable moments, scenes and lines from all your favorite films. Made by movie fans, for movie fans.

SUBSCRIBE TO OUR MOVIE CHANNELS: The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey: Ernesto Che Guevara: 9780007736126: Amazon.com: Books "Das Kapital meets Easy Rider." (Times) "A Latin American James Dean or Jack Kerouac." (Washington Post) ..."Ernesto Guevara in search of Che. On this journey of journeys, solitude found solidarity, 'I' turned into 'we'." (Eduardo Galeano) "An extraordinary first-person account. ... It redoubles his image and lends a touch of humanity with enough rough edges to invite controversy." (Los Angeles Times Book Review) "For every comic escapade of the carefree roustabout there is an equally eye-opening moment in the development of the future revolutionary leader.

(Time) "There is pathos in these pages -- the pathos of Che himself, ever thoughtful, ever willing to sacrifice all, burning with guilt over his own privileges and never letting his sufferings impede him." (New Yorker) "This candid journal, part self-discovery, part fieldwork, glimmers with portents of the future revolutionary." (Publishers' Weekly) "A revolutionary bestseller... It's true, Marxists just wanna have fun." (Guardian) "What distinguishes these diaries... is that they reveal a human side to El Che which historians have successfully managed to suppress." (Financial Times) "This book should do much to humanize the image of a man who found his apotheosis as a late '60s cultural icon. It is also, incidentally, a remarkably good travel book about South America." (The Scotsman) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. By chandra greer on May 11, 2016 Format: Paperback|Verified Purchase I loved this book for many reasons, and strongly recommend it.

It attracted me because I have just traveled to Cuba, and had been to many of the other countries and places listed in this book. The idea of a man getting up one day with a close friend and spontaneously deciding to set off on a continental motorcycle tour was also appealing because of the adventure and travel aspects. This book exceeded all the expectations I had for it. Che Guevaraâs writing style is unlike anything i had read before. The artful, beautiful way he describes everything from landscapes to his patients makes the reader feel like they are living the experiences he is, sometimes in a deeper way than the reader may have experienced themselves. Che dives into each topic or picture he sees with great emotion and personal opinion while at the same time leaving some space for the readers opinions and ideas to take form. You get the historical sense of what is being observed, with facts provided (the architechture and stories behind the churches in Lima and Cuzco) while at the same time getting Che's somewhat romanticized take on it. There is a great amount of action- (for example the dog scene, the boat scene, and motorcycle breakdowns), contrasted with the demonstration of the social problems of Latin America (racism, poverty, indecent health care).

It is fascinating to see Che develop as a social being, and to see how he transforms from a freshly graduated medical student to an iconic revolutionary, while also seeing the primary discussions evolve from strictly landscapes to issues and people stories much like HONY. I read this book for an english class assignment, and have already found myself recommending it to others multiple times. I think its interesting to have read if you are following USA/Cuba relations right now. By G. Branch on December 1, 2016 Format: Paperback|Verified Purchase Before he was a revolutionary Ernesto Guevarra was a young man from a privileged back ground, and a medical student. He and a friend decided to travel, to see the world. Sounds very much like many if not most young men even today. He kept a diary of the adventures, escapades, and mishaps along the way. He saw a world that was new and disturbing in some places to him. Through that trip he would become the eloquent speaker, military planner, doctor, and a crusader for the downtrodden. He became Che Guevarra. But that last part is for another volume.

This book introduced me to the idealistic and maybe even naive young man that he was at that point in his life. By Greg Davis on November 18, 2016 Format: Paperback|Verified Purchase I once biked across the country. In that vein, I really enjoyed the book as a diary of a guy going across the country on a motorcycle. Some of the commentary on oppression, particularly in Peru, led me to think about differently about South America and world geopolitics. I don't know much about Che Guevara, and the book didn't really provide much more on that topic, regardless. I do appreciate the fact that he didn't change his original motorcycle diaries after the fact in order to stay true to the original text and adventure. By Kindle Customer on February 28, 2014 Format: Paperback|Verified Purchase I was told to read this before a trip to Cuba so I could understand Che. If you have never heard of Che, this is a useful guide to understand his philosophy, or at least his philosophy as a young man. It does not however describe in any way shape or form Cuba.

Che wrote what seems to be about a million journals, roughly all of which are translated into English so if you want to understand the Cuban revolution read on of those. This journal gives a vivid and well-written description of Argentina and Chile and a few other South American countries in the 1950s. It is a vivid snapshot in time of the poor conditions which led to populist and Communist revolts in so many nations. Spoiler: the motorcycle only makes it through part of the book so it is not literally motorcycle diaries for most of the way. By Michael on June 27, 2015 Format: Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase I really enjoyed this book. It was interesting to read how what started out as a college student's adventure had so much of a profound effect on Che that the journey completely altered the course of his life. The high point of the book was his observations of Macchu Pichu and Cuzco and his observations on the relations between the indigenous peoples and those of Spanish heritage today, or at least fairly recent times. He also provided a good historical, political, and cultural background to the usual travel writer's observations about the countries he visited and traveled through.

Question: Which 2004 movie mapped the journey across South America by a young Che Guevara?
Answer: The Motorcycle Diaries