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Is there a strangling scene in this one?

posted 17 years ago by pressina
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I saw it about 10, 12 years ago and I want to check if it's the movie I have in mind. One thing I remember clearly is someone tied up and then strangled. Is it in this version?

[–] dalmatica 17 years ago

yes there is a scene where two or three people are tied to posts and then strangled.

[–] pressina 17 years ago

Thanks!

[–] intigfx 17 years ago

and not only strangled. burned too. some of them alive.

[–] eigerwall 17 years ago

Its the "garrote". The famous spanish execution device. Pretty horrible scene....

[–] pressina 17 years ago

Yes, it shocked me when I first watched it, this is why I remember it after all these years. I was about 6 years old and I couldn't get it out of my head for days.

[–] Sid-Blitzen 16 years ago

The strangling occurs within he context of the Inquisition persecuting the Jews of Spain. Those who agree to convert to Catholicism are given a quick death by strangulation. Those who hold to their Jewish faith are burned.

[–] Champagnerocker 13 years ago

The main victims of the inquisition were "conversos" ie people from Jewish families who had already converted to catholicism [either after the Alhambra Decree or many decades earlier in mass forced conversions].

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[–] chilidoggg (13109) 3 years ago

I think there were two strangling scenes, one towards the beginning with the Inquisition, and one in the New World after CC's second voyage, I think there was a rebellion of sorts from the Spanish settlers, or they instigated an attack on the natives against CC's orders.