Ridley Scott’s 1992 historical epic 1492: Conquest Of Paradise was a box office turkey and critical flop. The liberties it took with the story of its subject, the explorer and brutal coloniser ...
“1492: Conquest of Paradise” is a revisionist version of the discovery of the New World from the painterly hand of Ridley (“Blade Runner”) Scott. Gerard Depardieu plays a Columbus who saw in the New ...