The Mission
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The film was written by Robert Bolt and was produced in 1986. Fernando Ghia produced it. The movie was about a man who was trying to start a mission in the new world when he meets a former mercenary who is willing to renounce his former ways and become a priest. The Spanish try to take the land fr ....
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.... was forced to do in order to renounce his former ways.
Captain Rodrigo Mendoza, a mercenary and slave trader who first came to the top of the water fall in order to capture Indians for slave, was later one of Father Gabriel’s closest followers. Captain Rodrigo’s penance or self-punishment was to carry a huge bag of armor up the hill and over the water fall. Once he got to the top they cut it off and threw it down freeing him from his former life and making him “eligible” to becom ....
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