YMMV / Zorro (1975)

• Awesome Music: The film's opening theme, composed by the De Angelis brothers. Seriously, it's an earworm. An instrumental rendition of the same song can be heard during other action scenes in the film as well, for instance during the prison breakout.
• Complete Monster: Colonel Huerta is the tyrannical dictator of Nueva Aragón who enforced a militaristic rule on the town, oppressing the local citizens with tyranny and hiding the reality of his reign as governor by having innocents punished by public flogging for trying to speak of their rights. When protagonist Diego tries to expose Huerta while disguised as the folk hero known as Zorro, Huerta responds by having innocent citizens suspected to be Zorro—or otherwise affiliated with Zorro—imprisoned and taken to his mines, and personally guns down a civilian who tries to fight back, right in front of the civilian's family, as a warning. Lusting after Maria, the wife of a recently deceased governor, Huerta tries forcing himself upon her, and then has her imprisoned when she rejects him and paraded in a cage to force Zorro out of hiding. When the local priest Brother Francisco tries to take a stand, Huerta declares himself as "a new god" and shoots Brother Francisco in front of a church full of protestors, an act even his own soldiers and guards are visibly shocked at.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Due to this movie being one of very few foreign films to be released in China post-Cultural Revolution, for many Chinese people born in the late 60s / early 70s this is their first exposure to Western swashbucklers. Back during its release in mainland China in 1978, 70 million Chinese audiences watched in awe at Alain Delon kicking ass as Zorro in their local theaters. In fact, the Chinese-dubbed version of this movie on YouTube had tons of comments from older Chinese netizens on how Delon's Zorro is their childhood hero and reminiscing their fond memories watching Zorro while growing up in the 1970s.

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