This version of "El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote De La Mancha" brings the ancient tale to modern day but all the old familiar names are there. As in Cervantes's tale, Don Quixote is persistent in his belief in chivalry and honor. He clings to the old ways and is reluctant to give way to modern behaviors. He sees things in a different way, the smoke stack of a factory is a beast to be conquered, his bicycle is his trusty steed and the hapless man stranded by a transit strike who tries to help suddenly finds himself to be the sidekick to the deluded Quixote.
Acting
John R. Taylor commits completely to unhinged nobility.
Practical Effects
Bicycle-as-horse staging is genuinely inventive.
Writing
Dense literary adaptation crammed into 36 minutes.
Director
Lance Peverley
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Tom Braidwood later became an X-Files producer; this is his rare on-camera appearance as the beleaguered Sancho stand-in.
The transit strike setting grounds Cervantes in Vancouver's 2003 labor unrest—a deliberately Canadian Quixote for the gig economy's grandparents.
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