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1492: Conquest of Paradise is a 1992 music score to the film of the same name by Greek electronic composer and artist Vangelis. The film , a recount of the voyage to America in 1492 by Christopher Columbus , was directed by Ridley Scott , for whom Vangelis had previously composed the music score for Blade Runner , in 1982.
It was the soundtrack from Ridley Scott's 1992 film 1492: Conquest of Paradise [2] and the lead single from the album of the same name. The song achieved success in many territories, including Flanders, Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland where it topped the singles chart, but was a relative failure in UK where it only peaked at number 60.
1492: Conquest of Paradise is a 1992 epic historical drama film directed and produced by Ridley Scott, written by Roselyne Bosch and starring Gérard Depardieu, Armand Assante, and Sigourney Weaver. It portrays a version of the travels to the New World by the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus and the effect this had on indigenous peoples.
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Director Ridley Scott had considered making a Christopher Columbus movie for the Salkinds but instead opted to direct a rival project from producer Alain Goldman and written by Roselyne Bosch: 1492: Conquest of Paradise. [22] The Salkinds filed a lawsuit against Scott, alleging that the director stole ideas from their project.
26th Street Pictures is an American film production company founded by Chris Columbus, Mark Radcliffe and Michael Barnathan in 1994 as 1492 Pictures. [1] The name is a play on Columbus's more famous namesake, Christopher Columbus , and his 1492 landing in the Americas . [ 2 ]
Christopher Columbus is an opera in one act by composer Eugene Zador with a German-language libretto by Archduke Joseph Francis of Austria. [1] Zador, a Hungarian Jew, wrote the opera while voyaging across the Atlantic Ocean in 1939 to flee persecution from Nazi Germany. [2] The work depicts the first voyage of Christopher Columbus to America in
Columbus Didn't Discover Us screened on May 16, 1992, in Deerfield, Massachusetts, as part of an exhibition titled 1492–1992: Many Voices Many Views. [1] The exhibition coincided with the Columbus Quincentenary, the 500th anniversary of the first of the voyages of Christopher Columbus. [1] [3]