Yet Aguirre, the Wrath of God’s opening crawl confirms El Dorado is a fabrication, invented by the natives to mislead the gold-craving, fortune-seeking Spaniards. In truth, the myth does more to dishearten and destroy their enemy than slings and arrows. And the river — which “God never finished” as the film’s tagline states — is a breeding ground for madness.
Or was the madness there all along, ripe for harvesting?
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