Why didn't they use another plan in The Road to El Dorado?

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At the end of the Dreamworks movie The Road to El Dorado (2000) :

They use a ship full of gold and waste it all in order to stop the Spanish army to attack El Dorado

Why would they do that ? If the goal was :

to destroy two columns

With all the resources El Dorado have (like giant columns for example), why did they have to use that way less convenient plan? Is there a in-movie explanation?



Best Answer

Tulio and Miguel are pressed with time to come up with a plan to stop the quickly approaching Spanish army. They know they need to knock down the 2 main support pillars in the tunnel to close the passageway to El Dorado, but there is no time to rig something up outside of ramming them with the ship that has been made for them. Remember the two support pillars are not in an easily accessible area and surrounded by flowing water, so simply knocking other pillars into them wouldn't have been possible with the limited time.

It was never their intention to lose all the gold on the ship when ramming the pillars, their plan was to simply ram the pillars and escape with the gold.

Simply put: With the limited time and resources this was the best plan they could come up with.




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Was The Road to El Dorado hand-drawn?

The Road to El Dorado is a 2000 American traditional 2-D hand-drawn animated adventure-musical film produced by Universal Feature Animation, DreamWorks Animation and Amblimation and released by Universal Pictures.

Will there be a road to El Dorado 2?

The Road to El Dorado 2 is a 2020 animated adventure comedy film. It is a sequel to the 2000 film The Road to El Dorado. Produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Universal Pictures. Released on March 31, 2020.

Why is Road to El Dorado so underrated?

The content of the film and the animation were at odds, as well; the humor and dynamics proved to be much too dry and sarcastic for children, while the hand-drawn animation was much too cartoony to attract adults, thus leaving the film to struggle to find an audience after its initial release.

Why is The Road to El Dorado problematic?

This is an outrage, given the reality that the Spanish conquerors were responsible for the genocide of 23 million of our people--killing 95% of our population. The film makes it look as if we were immoral and evil when it was the Spaniards who were immoral. They stole our gold, labor and land.



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