How did El Cid capture the Moor Princes?
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angmc43 — 16 years ago(July 12, 2009 08:57 AM)
The beginning of the movie has Ben Yussef sending the Spanish Moors on a rampage in Castille. Rodrigo, on his way to marry Chimene, captures their leaders.
There is the question on how he did it. His wedding party could have numbered an army, but judging by the number of his captives, it must have been outnumbered by what the Moors had. Was the rampage force just a small band that the wedding party annihilated? Did the rampage force simply retreat when they saw their leaders captured? Did the leaders stupidly distance themselves from their soldiers so Rodrigo's party could ambush and capture them? Or was God already giving Rodrigo his good luck (like when he almost single-handedly defeated Alfonso's 13 guards)?
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Rueiro — 12 years ago(March 29, 2014 04:24 AM)
The circumstances involving the capturing of the Moors are of no importance. The event is just a way of kicking the story off in a dramatic way and setting up the relationships between the three key characters in the scene -Rodrigo, Garcia Ordonez and Mountamin- for the rest of the film.
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jstang411 — 11 years ago(May 18, 2014 10:01 AM)
For starters you have to consider that this was a high Spanish noble heading to his wedding, presumably with all his side. So say the wedding has four or five hundred guest, half that number might be coming with himwhich could mean one hundred or more men of fighting age. Not such a bad force.
And all though not in the movie, the reasons only the princes were left was because they were the only ones deemed "ransom worthy." Might be that they just left out the executions of the other folks. Sounds brutal, but that is how stuff worked in the 11th century.