In Ben Pearson’s unique oral historical past of “The Masks of Zorro” for /Movie, screenwriter Terry Rossio, who shares a writing credit score together with his longtime writing companion Ted Elliott and John Eskow, disclosed that Hopkins stepped ahead throughout pre-production and stated, “There is a scene lacking.” As Rossio advised Pearson:
“Hopkins pointed on the market was not a scene the place Diego de la Vega obtained to talk together with his daughter Elena alone, one on one, with him not capable of reveal the reality. ‘It is like two ends of a triangle have not been related,’ he stated, and he was proper. That led to us writing one other scene within the steady, the one the place the horse is groomed. Diego and Elena are capable of join as adults on an emotional degree, and naturally it is a completely crucial scene.”
It is a fantastically written second the place de la Vega, posing as a nobleman, walks proper as much as the road of telling Elena the reality, going as far as to say she could be very very similar to her mom. Elena, who’s keen on Hopkins’ nobleman, finds this an odd assertion, so de la Vega deftly maintains his cowl by noting that she is nothing like her father; ergo, she have to be her mom’s daughter. And when he learns that Montero has described Elena’s mom as a “correct” girl, it hits him that he’s the one one that is aware of the precise reality. And so he realizes his mission isn’t just considered one of revenge, however a righteous act of salvation.
His remaining scene with Elena and Alejandro would not be almost as efficient with out this second, and that is why you rent Sir Anthony Hopkins ought to the chance come up.
