Response to Lauren's Sixth Blog:

Lauren, I really like the connection you made here between the survival of the Mexican Revolution and Palmares. It makes a lot of sense, both movies represent the fact that an ideal is stronger than just one person, and once you have enough people who believe in this ideal, a single death cannot kill it. Like in Viva Zapata, they may have been able to kill the man behind the revolution, but they couldn't kill the idea, or in this case his horse. Implying that the driving ideals still live on and are stronger than ever.