have you watched nacho libre?

haha..just wondering if anyone here already watched this movie...what a crazy monk

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Nacho Libre is an American comedy film that was released on June 16, 2006, by Paramount Pictures, though it was released in select theaters earlier. It is a production of Nickelodeon Movies. The script was written by Jared Hess, Jerusha Hess, and Mike White. It was loosely based on the story of Fray Tormenta ("Friar Storm"), aka Rev. Sergio Gutierrez Benitez, a real-life Mexican Catholic priest who had a 23-year career as a masked luchador. He competed in order to support the orphanage he directed. The producers are Jack Black, David Klawans, Julia Pistor, and Mike White.

) is a Mexican friar without skills. His mother was a missionary from Scandinavia and his father was Mexican. They tried to convert each other but instead got married, and died while Ignacio was young. After growing up as an orphan in a Mexican monastery, he is now a grown man and the monastery’s cook, but is looked down upon by the other friars. All his life, Ignacio has dreamed of becoming a luchador (masked wrestler); because wrestling was forbidden by the monastery, his dream was crushed. Ignacio cares deeply for the orphans he feeds, but his food is terrible due to a lack of funds with which to obtain better ingredients.

After being robbed in an alley of the orphans' tortilla chips, he decides that he must hatch a plan to make money to buy better food for “the young orphans, who have nothing”. During the same few days, he reveals that he additionally desires to be respected and admired, as the luchadores are; that he is particularly hostile to one friar, who behaves in a sanctimonious way toward him; and that he harbors sexual feelings for the newly arrived tutor, Sister Encarnación, with whom he has many favorites in common. It is partly to impress Sister Encarnación with the idea that he is a good man that Ignacio calculates his later actions.

Ignacio eventually decides to become a luchador. He pairs up with the tortilla chip thief to earn money for the orphans. Donning a homemade mask, sweats, and a blouse, he enters the local competition, accompanied by the slender, atheistic street thief Steven (Hector Jimenez). Steven, under the name of Esqueleto ("Skeleton"), becomes Ignacio's tag partner in wrestling. Ignacio, in order to keep his identity secret from the monastic order, shortens his given name to "Nacho" while in the ring.

In their first match, Nacho and Esqueleto are defeated. To their surprise, the manager pays them anyway, explaining that every wrestler is entitled to a portion of the total revenue. He adds that the crowd has enjoyed their performance and asks them to return next week to fight another bout. By this means, their wrestling career begins.

Ignacio becomes frustrated by losing every fight (irrelevant to his annoyance, but notable, is the observation that some of his opponents cheat) and looks for help. Steven, eager to help, brings him to a gypsy-like man (Peter Stormare) who tells Ignacio to climb to an eagle's nest, crack open the egg, and swallow the yolk. This, he claims, will give him the powers of an eagle. Ignacio obeys, but still loses the following night's wrestling bout. He is very annoyed at having been disappointed. Later, he decides to seek advice from Ramses, the champion luchador. They sneak into a party and try to arrange an audience with the champion to try to become experts. They fail and are thrown out. Nacho is rather disgusted by Ramses' treatment of them, which disappoints Nacho immensely and kills his hero-worship of the champion.

Thereafter both Esqueleto and Nacho compete with several other popular wrestlers in order to earn the right to challenge Ramses. The wrestler Silencio ("silence") wins; Nacho comes in second place.

Ignacio is revealed to the monastery as a luchador, when his robe catches fire during a prayer. Because he is at the time thinking primarily of his confused motivations for wrestling and the clarification thereof, he does not notice when one of the candles by which he is surrounded falls down, igniting his robe. Beneath it are the colorful trousers of his wrestling costume. Thus exposed, Ignacio leaves the monastery to live in the nearby wilderness, taking only his clothes and a lucky machete given to him by Chancho (one of the orphans).

In the wilderness, Ignacio eats cactus and builds a crude framework of sticks, in an effort to create shelter. In the morning, Steven comes to see him. He tells him that Silencio's bunions are swollen and therefore cannot fight Ramses; because Nacho came in second, he now has the right to fight Ramses in Silencio's stead. During Steven's explanation, the viewer is shown a flashback, wherein Steven ran a motorized tricycle over Silencio's foot, having seen him quarrel with a tiny child over a loaf of bread.

Ignacio, at first, is skeptical of Steven's enthusiasm, due to the cause of an argument in which Steven had stated that he hated all the orphans in the whole world. Steven replies that he does not hate them anymore, and that the children need a hero. Ignacio accepts the role.

That night, Ignacio sends a message via Steven to Sister Encarnación, wherein he explains his plan and confesses his love to her. In the match, Nacho is nearly defeated - indeed, unmasked - by Ramses. Although the unmasking is a very significant move, suggestive of the player's defeat, the match continues with minimal acknowledgment of the act. Just as Nacho is about to lose, Sister Encarnación enters accompanied by the orphans, who are wearing masks to imitate Nacho. Inspired, Nacho throws Ramses off, chases him out of the ring, and jumps onto him with a flair recalling his earlier brush with eagle eggs and their supposed power. By doing so, Nacho beats Ramses and becomes champion.

Ignacio uses the prize money to buy a bus for field trips for the children. The film closes on one such trip, wherein Ignacio, Steven, and Sister Encarnación take the children to see an ancient city, Monte Albán, built by the Zapotec civilization. Ignacio, by now, has earned Encarnación's favor, as demonstrated by her signs of encouragement and his somewhat awkward acknowledgment thereof.


i just copied it..anyways it is really a funny movie..

lol nice movie

This was so dumb! Yet so funny... I love the way he gives the kids their food.

i luv his sidekick...that skinny guy keep on shouting

What skinny guy?

Esqueleto...the one who keeps on screaming

haha they get rolled so much

You can watch it at HBO this month.


That is a really good wrestling movie.

The part at the end where he jumps at Ramses is sooo rofl, its like superman FLY!

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what about when nacho tried to be a show off and beat up 2 guys thinking that they are the esqueleto's friends..very funny..and the corn thrown by esqueleto..lol

@TF

Yeah like it is really impossible for a human being to jump that long.

is this the guy with a band right?

haven't really seen the movie but i remember the trailer before . .

ah nacho libre..i watched it again this afternoon in HBO

talk about nacho

NAAACCHHHHOOO!!!!

LLLLIBBBBRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEE!

"stop this kind of posts"

NACHOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

LIBRE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay just stop K_B.


So anybody watched it at HBO yesterday.

i watched it again yesterday...

"we didn't win because your too fat- esqueleto..

anyone watched the fat lady who loves esqueleto?

Yeah its really eww.


Encarnacion, Encarnacio ohn, Encarnacio o o o o ohn


o o o o X X X O O O X X X x x x.

did you see the tunnel of the fat lady? ridiculous

Yeah!!


How in the hell did she fit in there?

poor esqueleto...i also like watching green mile..has anyone watched it?

What's that? Just make another thread about that.

Anyway Unhol'ys joining the pack.

when?

BTW i invited ghost and c_f to join us