He's played by Anthony Hopkins, who in his daytime identity as Don Diego de la Vega has a beautiful wife and child. In an opening setup, Zorro interrupts a public killing, inspires the population, and escapes back into domestic bliss. There's even the always-popular situation where the hero and the girl start out in a deadly struggle and end up in each other's arms.Īll of this action is set in Mexico and California as it was in the first half of the 19th century, when the evil Don Rafael Montero ( Stuart Wilson) rules the land, chooses peasants at random to be shot by a firing squad, and earns the enmity of the mysterious masked man Zorro. The director, Martin Campbell, did the Bond picture 'GoldenEye,' and in a sense 'The Mask of Zorro' is a Bond picture on horseback: There's the megalomaniac villain, the plan to take over the world (or, in this case, California), the training of the hero, the bold entry into the enemy's social world, the romance with the bad guy's stepdaughter, and the sensational stunts. The movie resurrects a character first played in silent films by Douglas Fairbanks Sr., and again on TV in the 1950s by Guy Williams, and launches him in what the producers no doubt hope will be a series. It also has a lot of zest, humor, energy and swordplay it's fun, and not an insult to the intelligence. evil, and blood debts are nursed down through the generations. So I just think that they've got – they've got the talent and I know that they have the drive.'The Mask of Zorro' has something you don't often see in modern action pictures: a sense of honor. I've had a wonderful life in this business so I only – if they want to do it, they know the hardships and the percentages of who makes it and who doesn't. They go to summer camp every year, they do three musicals and straight plays, they love it. I know it's going to be hard for them because they've got their grandfather Kirk, they've got me, they have Michael, but they so inherently love it.' When asked if her kids were interested in following in her footsteps, Catherine, 47, told chat show host Jimmy Kimmel: 'They are, they are. She recently revealed that her son Dylan, 16, and daughter Carys, 13, are already considering a career in Hollywood. 'Candid on set of Zorro,' Catherine wrote Catherine rarely shares photos of her children, and the throwback snap was no doubt welcomed by her fans on Instagram. The mum-of-two shot to fame in the nineties after appearing in the swashbuckler film, starring opposite Antonio Banderas as the actor's love interest Elena. 'Candid on set of Zorro,' Catherine wrote.

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