Zorba The Greek

It was a sultry hot afternoon in June. I was sipping beer in some low down hotel in Jamshedpur sometime in the mid nineties watching television. Amitabh Bachchan was giving an interview. During the interview he commented that he would give anything worthwhile in his lifetime just to act with Anthony Quinn. I understood then what Anthony Quinn meant!

If one wants to watch Anthony Quinn at his best, I would suggest The Man From Del Rio {1956}, La Strada {1954} and The Guns of Navarone . After watching these and some of his other movies, specifically {Viva Zapata (1952), Ride, Vaquero! (1953), Attila (1954), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Marco The Magnificent (1965) and the Greek Tycoon (1978) – One MUST watch – Zorba The Greek (1964).

Once having viewed Zorba the Greek – and having read works of Aristotle, Russell, Plato, Schopenhauer, Chekov, Darwin, Dickens, Hume, Kafka, Dostoevsky, Shaw, Orwell, Flaubert, Maupassant, Kant, Rousseau, Sartre, Wittgenstein, Tolstoy, Nietzsche, Descartes, Kierkegaard, Spinoza, Thomas Hardy, Voltaire, Shakespeare, Emile Zola, Beckett and having gone through the cycle of Nihilism, Depression and self proclaimed Intellectual – one has to read the book – Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis.