I did it. You didn't. 'Conquest of Paradise'

Sanchez: [Columbus stops Sanchez after he leaves an audience with the Queen. Sanchez looks at him, disgusted] You're a dreamer.
Columbus: [shooting a glance out of a window] Tell me, what do you see?
Sanchez: [pausing to look] I see rooftops, I see palaces, I see towers, I see spires that reach... to the sky! I see civilisation!
Columbus: All of them built by people like me.
[Sanchez doesn't respond - shocked]
Columbus: No matter how long you live, Sanchez, there is something that will never change between us. I did it. You didn't.

Arojaz: [Looking at Columbus from a distance after the discovery of America is attributed to Amerigo Vespucci] What a tragedy. What a waste of a life.
Sanchez: A waste? Well, if your name or mine is ever remembered it will only be because of his.

[Kriegsbeil]

Armand Assante's character arc is truly one of the gems of this movie. He went from doubting Columbus, downplaying his importance, even working against him, to eventually seeing the errors of his ways and truly realizing the greatness of what Columbus has achieved in the very end of the movie.

[javierdelvalle]

This scene is powerful, and at the end Sanchez learn to respect Columbus.

[amodelchucrut]

That smile and delivery when he says "All of them built by people like me" is probably the greatest comeback ever.

[Vaggos-kpsl]

"A waste? Well, if your name or mine is ever remembered it will only be because of his"! What a great line! This movie is the definition of "underrated movie": Great perfomances glorious soundtrack and a very interesting script!

[JanielDavidAlfaros]

Nobody knows who Sanchez was, but every person alive knows who Columbus was.

[dirklyssens]

One of his best soundtracks ever made by Vangelis. RIP Vangelis. Greetings Dirk Belgium.

[TheAndorianWarrior]

I never understood why this film got a bad rep

I mean Braveheart for example is incredibly historically inaccurate, but has a massive following. Sitting aside the inaccuracies i still thought this film was really good.

[mjohnson]

I dont care how good or bad the story, screenplay, direction or editting... Armand Asante is awesome in everything. He devours the screen with passion.

[Szederp]

"Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent."

[henrysheffield]

There wouldn’t be a new world without Colombus, he believed in it, and he did it, he made it to the new world. Although he wasn’t the first to reach the Americas, he was the first to reach the new world. He did it, I’m glad he has the credit for it in modern day.

[pepleatherlab]

In case there's any confusion, the discovery may have been Columbus', but the navigation of the entire continent earned Amerigo Vespucci the naming in the early 1500's. Granted there are major inconsistencies with his logs, charts and manuscripts, ..but the naming was largely a politically facilitated slap to Columbus. The First takes all the risk, ..then the charlatans appear in droves. Always the way.

[shoeburning]

omg, thanks for sharing these ingenious scenes with sanchez out of an ingenious movie👍👍👍

[JorgeVazquez-rtmc]

In the second 0:41 the current city of Segovia appears, which the Catholic Monarchs actually lived in during the events of Christopher Columbus

[Jabberwockybird]

Frenchest italian guy talking to an An actual Italian-(and irish)-American

[ΚωνσταντίνοςΞενιτόπουλος]

ΌΤΙ ΚΑΛΌ ΈΧΕΙ ΧΤΙΣΤΕΊ, ΕΊΝΑΙ ΤΟΥ ΘΕΟΎ, ΌΤΙ ΚΑΚΌ ΈΧΕΙ ΧΤΙΣΤΕΊ, ΕΊΝΑΙ ΔΙΚΌ ΜΑΣ!!!

[kl.]

The Vikings were the first to discover the Americas, some 500 years earlier. Columbus himself, during his lifetime, was certain that he had gone to India and not a new continent.

[Szederp]

There is something about the passion of Spaniards (don't be fooled by my nickname). Watching this and perfomance throughout the movie is magnificient as is Olivares'. Also there is something about this language that is savage and commands respect.

[MarkL-weuk]

It is quite long, predominately European cast and requires full attention

[waterofsouls]

in my opinion, Columbus is more "Moses" for Christianity than what is being portrayed in the scene.


by the way, the fall of Granada scene(?) where Columbus meets the Spanish Queen for the first time, is the movie implying that the Spanish plundered Granada to fund Columbus' expedition? or am i letting my imagination fill in the blank?

[ShannonFreng]

Depardieu's enunciation, in this scene, is quite poor.