Shallow Villainy Does not a Good Story Make
Current Reads: Orsinian Tales by Ursula K. Le Guin Attack of the Copula Spiders by Douglas Glover Sabriel by Garth Nix Current writing projects: Same as last time This weekend I watched the film The Legend of Zorro with Antonio Banderas for the first time. I have not seen the first film with Banderas as Zorro, but I enjoyed watching the old black-and-white Disney series Zorro in reruns when I was a kid and I thought I would give this newer version of Zorro a try. What I found was unsurprisingly a fun action movie with lots of sword fighting and acrobatics and a decent storyline. My issue with the film was its secondary villain, the one who opens the film: Jacob McGivens (whose name I had to look up because I don't ever remember hearing it in the film itself). This man appears at...