Benicio Del Toro has love for the memory of Argentinean mercenary Che Guevara after playing the communist revolutionary in Steven Soderbergh's biopic of Che. Benicio says he spent months studying Che and is now convinced that he was just a warrior with a bad reputation.
Del Toro tells Latina magazine he thinks the the mass murderer was just like Batman: "We tell stories about Batman, and he was a type of Batman. No one can deny that he was trying to stop man exploiting man. Whether he was successful or not...."
"Two people who I met learned how to read and write because of him. It was really moving... The most revealing thing was that he (Guevara) was a human being."
He says, "I remember Che being included in a TV show that showed pictures of terrorists. I was like, 'Why isn't (President Richard) Nixon there for the Vietnam war?' You'd have to put a lot of pictures of other people there before you'd put Che's."
Benicio's one-sided is breathtaking. How can he say Che was not a mass murderer who ordered the execution of thousands of innocent people? The families of Che's victims would certainly object to it.
