Benítez quiere ser torero
About Benítez quiere ser torero
Benítez plays at being a bullfighter with anyone who will stand still. His friends, tired of it, dress up as a bull. When he has to face the animal he runs. The police take him in for the disturbance. His wife comes to the station, scolds him, and makes him cut off the pigtail. The last shot has him look into the camera. Ángel García Cardona directed the burlesque for Casa Cuesta.
Cast & crew
More about Benítez quiere ser torero
Spanish Wikipedia times the short at 3 minutes 19 seconds and also lists the company as Films Cuesta. Cardona had already made bullfight pictures, documentary and fiction, before this parody. The year on the page is 1910.
Themes
Making
Cardona turned the bullfight subject he had already filmed into a joke: a man who will fight everyone until the bull is his own friends.
Notes
- The pigtail is the mark of a torero. Cutting it is the wife’s punishment.
- The fake bull is the friends, not a ring animal.
- The look at the camera is the last shot.
- Film Español is not the company on the Spanish page.
Scenes
- The friends come at him dressed as a bull, and he runs.
- At the station his wife makes him cut the pigtail.
- He looks into the lens.