部落演员安东尼奥·萨尔瓦多(1)

Antonio Bolivar Salvador (Tiapuyama to his tribe), actor and storyteller, died of covid-19 on April 3oth, aged 75 WHEN HE SPOKE of Jaguar, lord of the forest, the embodiment of power, strength and violence, Antonio Bolivar would begin to ;
growl deep in his throat.
around each other,
getting faster, until. still smiling his tender penetrating smile-he might leap from his chair and fling his snake arms round whoever was listening to him. The gesture Was a vivid reminder of the film that had made him famous, Ciro Guerra's
"The Embrace of the Serpent".
In 2016 it was nominated for an Academy Award for best foreign film, the first Colombian film to be so honoured, and he found himself in Hollywood, not in a loincloth on the red carpet (he had been warned not to),
but in a feather headdress with his smart blue suit, and embraced by cate Blanchett, who towered over him. He was glad then that he had not turned his friend Ciro down.
He had refused to take the role at first because he bad been tricked before, when he and some other indigenous actors had not been paid for their work; you could geld a cat once, but not twice.
Ciro had promised him what he wanted, serious respect. His part in the flm had been that of Old Karamakate, a shaman guiding a white explorer, Evan, in his search through the Amazon rainforest for the magic yakruna flower.
As a young man he had guided another white explorer, 40 years earlier, on the same quest. Both journeys displayed how the forest Was being defiled and colonised by outsiders:
rubber- seekers who bled the trees and masacred the tribes, crazed religious sects.