Icons Of Our Time Che Guevara

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00:35 In order for someone to become an icon,

00:37 you have to have a very particular combination

00:40 of elements at a particular time.

00:44 There are many complex aspects of Che Guevara's work

00:47 and his contribution and his character and his vision.

00:51 In Che's case, it was almost certainly

00:52 the question of his youth, his death in action, his looks,

00:58 and even the disheveled looks.

01:02 People who met him, whether they liked

01:04 what he did or not, said he's very magnetic.

01:07 That sense we've got in the famous image of someone

01:09 who's handsome, who has a charisma, has presence.

01:14 And the fact that he's associated somehow

01:16 in people's minds with some romantic age

01:19 and some heroic age, which is now gone.

01:23 People love tragic heroes who die young.

01:25 It's a classic syndrome.

01:28 Well, I think it's become synonymous with revolution,

01:30 hasn't it?

01:31 Any time anybody wants to launch something

01:33 that is revolutionary, they tend to gravitate towards that image.

01:36 I think it's that combination which

01:38 makes him, at any time of protest, particularly appealing.

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01:49 (laughing)