The shadow of revolutionary leader,

literature and film making with outlaw characters

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to analyze the characters represented outside the law in the film ‘The shadow of revolutionary leader’, thriller and political drama by Julio Bracho, based on the novel by Martín Luis Guzmán, an outlaw narrative that the filmmaker highlights in authority and institutionalized figures such as the Mexican Army, legitimized by the sovereign. The research is based on the model of Lauro Zavala’s Elements of Cinematographic Analysis, with an interrelation of the historical events that contextualize the novel and the current events that happened in the period in which the director tries to project and distribute the film which was censored by the military hegemony and the presidents in power for 30 years to
cover their backs, not so much because of the massacre in Huitzilac at the end of the film, but because of the militia’s repression of different social sectors in the years before and after filming, which called into question the patriotic image of the Army, the generals and the supreme commander of the Armed Forces himself.