The Bullfight

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The Bullfight
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The Bullfight

• History of Bullfighting
• The spectacle of bullfighting has always existed
  in one form or another.
• Bullfights were popular spectacles in ancient
  Rome

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The Bullfight

• The Spectacle (corrida)
• Matadors
• Costume
• Silk Jacket
• Montera (hat)
• Traje de Luces (suit
  of
  lights)

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The Bullfight

• Toril (bull pen gate)
• Bull is greeted with a series of maneuvers or
  passes

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The Bullfight

• The Spectacle (cont.)
• Fighting bulls charge anything that moves
• Novilleros (beginners)
• Fight bulls at least 3 years old
• Full Matadors
• Fight bulls at least 4 years old

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The Bullfight

• The Spectacle
• Corrida (faena)
• Trumpet sounds
• Aficionados (ardent fans)

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Manolete (1917-1947)
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Manolete

• 1930 (13yrs old)
• Makes public debut
• June 1939
• "Novillero"(novice)
• Ocober 1939
• Matador

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GREAT MATADORS

• Rodolfo Gaona
• Armillita (Fermín Espinosa)
• Arruza, of Mexico
• Belmonte, Manolete, and Antonio Ordoñez, of Spain
• Americans
• Sidney Franklin and John Fulton Short
• Women
• Patricia McCormick of the U.S.
• Conchita Cintrón of Spain

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Big Business

• Over 1 Billion in ticket sales annually
• Million dollar salaries for top matadors
• Paid with injuries / lives
• Fight up to 100 corridas / year