In order to shoot, the film crew made a lot of preliminary preparations, and it took two years to go back to the same year, Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Cuba. During this journey, the film crew faced Guevara's family and met Albert, who was still alive in his 80s, in Havana. The crew came from various regions in Latin America. The filming of this film also took the same 8 months as Che Guevara’s journey that year. There were more than 30 shooting locations, including the Andes mountains below minus several degrees and those over 45 degrees Celsius. The Amazon River and the leprosy hospital where Che Guevara stayed for 3 weeks
. Photographers try to adopt a simple and direct language in the shooting process. Most of the time, their thinking is to follow what they see and hear along the way, instead of following the established shooting plan
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The Motorcycle Diaries The filming process of the locomotive traveling diary
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Extended Reading
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Title Card: In 1960 Granado was invited to live and work in Cuba. The invitation came from his old friend Fuser, now "Comandante" Ernesto Che Guevara, one of the most prominent and inspiring leaders of the Cuban Revolution. Che went on to fight for his ideals in the Congo and Bolivia where he was captured, and with the support of the CIA, murdered in October, 1967.
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Silvia (Peru): What is wrong with you?
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna: I was born with bad lungs.
Silvia (Peru): What a shame!
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna: No, is not that bad. Thanks to that i skipped the military service, I didn't have to shine anyone boots.
Silvia (Peru): Is that why you became a doctor? Because you are sick?
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna: Is possible.The first word i learned was injection. I want to be useful in some way.
Silvia (Peru): You are wasting your time.
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna: Why?
Silvia (Peru): This life is hell.
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna: Yes, it's really fucked up, but we have to fight for every breath and tell Death to fuck off.