Cultural depictions of Emiliano Zapata

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Marlon Brando as Zapata in the 1952 movie Viva Zapata!
Marlon Brando as Zapata in the 1952 movie Viva Zapata!

References and depictions of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, places and things named for and commemorating him.

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[edit] Places named after Zapata

  • Metro Zapata, Mexico City Metro
  • Emiliano Zapata, Morelos
  • Emiliano Zapata, Veracruz
  • Emiliano Zapata, Baja California Sur
  • Emiliano Zapata, Chiapas
  • Emiliano Zapata, Chihuahua
  • Emiliano Zapata, Coahuila
  • Emiliano Zapata, Durango
  • Emiliano Zapata Norte, Mérida, Yucatáθn
  • Emiliano Zapata, Michoacán
  • Emiliano Zapata, Nuevo León
  • Emiliano Zapata, Sonora
  • Emiliano Zapata, Tamaulipas
  • Emiliano Zapata, Tlaxcala
  • Emiliano Zapata, Zacatecas

And many other towns, schools, streets, housing developments, etc. across the country.

  • Zapata County, Texas, in the United States, is named for Antonio Zapata, a Texas rancher, not Emiliano Zapata.
  • Grupo Zapata, a large Ford dealership based in Tlalnepantla, Estado de México was founded in the 1950's and does not claim any connection to Zapata the revolutionary.

[edit] Emiliano Zapata in movies and tv

  • The western subgenre Zapata Western.
  • The film Viva Zapata! (1952), with Marlon Brando as Zapata
  • The film Lucio Vázquez (1968), with Jaime Fernández as Zapata
  • The film Emiliano Zapata (1970), with Antonio Aguilar as Zapata
  • The film Pafnucio Santo (1977), with Gina Morett as Zapata
  • The Mexican-Russian film Campanas Rojas (1982), with Jorge Luke as Zapata
  • The film Zapata en Chinameca (1988), with Antonio Aguilar repraising the role of Zapata
  • The film Zapata: El sueño de un héroe (2004) with Alejandro Fernandez as Zapata
  • The film El Fin del sur (2004), with Gabriel Porras as Zapata
  • The film Santos peregrinos (2004), with Alberto Estrella as Zapata
  • The short soap opera Zapata: Amor en Rebeldía (2004: Telemundo or Argos), with Demian Bichir as Zapata
  • Zapata appears in the Mexican soap operas Senda de gloria (1987) with Manuel Ojeda as Zapata and El vuelo del águila (1994).
  • Zapata has also been represented in the movies by Tony Davis, (1969)
  • Nickelodeon game show Legends of the Hidden Temple - in one episode, the artifact that teams competed to retrieve from the temple was The Applewood Amulet of Emiliano Zapata.
  • In the 2007 film Ocean's 13 the character Virgil refers to Emiliano Zapata to inspire his fellow maquiladora workers.

[edit] Emiliano Zapata in music

  • In E.L. Doctorow's historical fiction novel Ragtime, the character of Mother's Younger Brother goes off to join Zapata in the Mexican Revolution after the main events in the novel. It is mentioned at the end by Mother's Younger Brother in the musical version.
  • Political Rap/Metal band Rage Against the Machine have a song, Zapata's Blood, and also refer to him in the song Calm Like A Bomb. and Maria
  • Australian band Midnight Oil quote Zapata at the conclusion of their song "Power and the Passion" with the line "It is better to die on your feet, than live on your knees".
  • cLOUDDEAD reference him in the song Son of a Gun.
  • Spanish ska punk music group Ska-P has a song dedicated to the memory of Zapata called Juan sin tierra, written by Jorge Saldaña, which contains the line, "Gritó Emiliano Zapata: Quiero tierra y libertad. Y el gobierno se reía cuando lo iban a enterrar." (Emiliano Zapata shouted: I want land and freedom. And the government laughed as they went to bury him.)
  • Finnish leftist hardcore punk band Etulinja has a song called Zapata -vive!
  • Indie rock group Spoon, which hails from Austin, TX, uses Zapata's image accompanied by the text "Austin, Tejas" on a 2006 tour t-shirt.
  • A 1970s Mexican psychedelic rock band called themselves La Revolución de Emiliano Zapata.
  • Mexican rock group Maná reference Zapata in their song, "Justicia, Tierra, y Libertad," from their 2002 release entitled "Revolución De Amor."
  • Swedish electro group The Knife has a song called "Zapata"
  • the Cincinnati based American brass band "the Queen City Zapatistas" take their name from the fallen leader, but do not subscribe to any political affiliation.

[edit] Tourism and museums

The Ruta Zapata through important Zapata related sites in southeastern Morelos serves as a pilgrimage path for latter day Zapata admirers. Some of these sites are [1]:

  • Casa de Zapata museum in Anenecuilco.
  • Ex Cuartel de Emiliano Zapata (Zapata's former headquarters) in Tlaltizapan.
  • Hacienda de Chinameca site of Zapata's death and an equestrian statue of Zapata.
  • Plazuela de la Revolución del Sur in Cuautla.

[edit] Murals and other depictions in art