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A 6 page paper which evaluates whether or not the film realistically depicted the events as they actually took place during the eighteenth century in what is now Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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often a very ambiguous series of tales, and whether or not they are to be accepted as fact or fiction often depends upon whether the historical accounts reflect a pro-Jesuit
or anti-Jesuit bias. The anti-Jesuit sentiments date back to the Enlightenment era of the eighteenth century, when the European Catholics began to regard the New World Jesuits as wielding
too much power (Lippy et al, 1992). But the Portuguese representatives attempted to establish a cordial relationship with the Jesuits by taking their missionary sacraments and bestowing cash gifts
onto the Church (Block, 1994). This alliance formed the basis for Roland Joffes 1986 film, The Mission, about a Jesuit mission that during the mid-eighteenth century was set in
the jungles of what is now the borders of Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil (The Mission, 1995). The film begins as a narrative recollection by Father Altamirano, who according to the
films screenplay (penned by Robert Bolt), was assigned to the region by Pope Benedict XIV to ease growing tensions between the Europeans and Indians in the New World (The Mission,
1995). There is an immediate sense that his assignment was unsuccessful, and the breathtaking cinematography panning over the South American rain forest, which would later represent the convergence of
Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina, symbolically depict a convergence of the human kind - between the Guarani Indians, the Jesuit priests, and the New World clergy and political representatives (The Mission,
1995). Within this historical context, the film is taking a few liberties since there indeed was a Jesuit priest named Diego Francisco Altamirano stationed in the region as an
adviser and decision-maker, but the time period was 1700 and not the mid-eighteenth century time period of Benedict XIVs papacy (Block, 1994). Altamirano, instead, was a member of the
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