Saturday, April 19, 2008
Fuego en la Sangre - cast of characters
JUAN REYES - Eduardo Yáñez
He is virile, strong and hardened, brusque and irascible, but very tender. Juan is a whirlwind of passions who cannot subdue his emotions easily and always reacts viscerally, even though he is incapable of commiting an injustice or hitting someone weaker than himself. His life is marked by tragedy and he will make any sacrifice for his brothers. Sofia will transform his life and will bring him to a very difficult choice: to seek vengeance, or to love.
SOFÍA ELIZONDO ACEVEDO - Adela Noriega
The eldest daughter of Bernardo and Gabriela, she is beautiful, sensitive, delicate and very spiritual. She loves and protects her sisters. She is charitable, above all with the defenseless, and the people of her area have followed her example. She was happy before she was raped. Her mother forced her to marry Fernando without being in love, and she has not had sexual relations with him because of the trauma of her violation. Juan is the first man who has awaked love and passion in her.
FRANCO REYES - Pablo Montero -
He has a tempting body and the face of an angel. He is a sensitive and pure young man who loves to sing. He is obedient and respectful of Juan, whom he sees as a father. He is very innocent and lets his brother Oscar convince him to take older women to parties (where Oscar pays the women). He will have to decide whether he loves Rosario or Sarita, and his heart will suffer because he doesn't want to hurt either of them.
OSCAR REYES - Jorge Salinas
An attractive young man, very sympathetic, irreverent, a seducer. He has an unequalled tongue (!!) and is not very moral, but he is not a delinquent. He is a born business man, always looking for a way to make money, able to sell anything to anybody. For him, life is to be enjoyed and Jimena will be his ideal woman. Their relationship, full of sensuality and impudence, will change both of them. She will be freed from old hindrances and he will become more responsible.
GABRIELA ACEVEDO DE ELIZONDO - Diana Bracho
An elegant, beautiful, arrogant woman of strong and dominating characters. She is accustomed to getting her way and is tyrannical with her daughters, suppressing them and keeping them locked in the house. She always gets what she wants, for good or ill. She clings to religion in an unhealthy way. Her world has been reduced to her house, her husband, the hacienda, and God. Bernando's infidelity makes her even more of an egoist.
EVA RODRÍGUEZ - María Sorté
A noble and selfless woman, faithful and obliging. She is the hacienda's housekeeper. She nurses rancor against Gabriela for having forced her to give away the daughter she bore with Bernardo, with whom she has always been in love. She will take advantage of the Reyes brothers' hatred towards the Elizondo family to help them enter the hacienda and take vengeance on Gabriela and her daughters, even though later she will be sorry for having done so.
SARITA ELIZONDO ACEVEDO - Nora Salinas
She is the second daughter of Gabriela and Bernardo. When she was born, her parents wanted a son, and her attitude is a bit masculine from her having been educated as a man. Sarita is very attached to her mother and always obeys her. She has rigid morals and, although she reproves the rash and liberal behavior of her sister Jimena, will help or cover for her sisters, even though it may grieve her. Her love for Franco will make her more sweet and feminine (!!!!) little by little.
JIMENA ELIZONDO ACEVEDO - Elizabeth Álvarez
The youngest daughter of Bernardo and Gabriela. She is very beautiful and uninhibited: irreverent, thoughtless, lively and sensual. She wants to live life to the fullest and is frustrated by her mother's dictatorship. She is romantic and has always dreamed of love. She is Sofia's confidante, sharing the stories of her hopes. She has always fought with Sarita and her mother, who tries to subdue her by force. Oscar will disrupt her life and she will do crazythings that cause her mother to be even more severe with her.
FERNANDO ESCANDÓN - Guillermo Garcia Cantú
Fernando is perverse by nature. He has a superior intelligence he uses for his own ends. He is an enchanter and knows how to get what he wants, always finding the weak side of others. He is audatious, intrepid and fears nothing, even death [the end I already predict for him --Ed.] His love for Sofia has become an obsession, to the point of devising a scheme to marry her.
AGUSTÍN ACEVEDO - Joaquín Cordero
A jovial and easy-going old man, the original owner of the hacienda Bernardo now manages. Witty, impurdent and scathing, but honest and faithful to his beliefs. He is
He is a viejo rabo verde (see below) who hounds the young servant grils. He has a difficult relationshipo with his daughter Gabriela. He loves his grand-daughters and protects them from their mom when he can. Nobody knows that Agustin knows all the secrets of the people arround him.
Rabo verde - An older man who likes to court and date younger girls. Only used in extreme cases (a 45 man courting a 18 year old girl). No equivalent expression for women.
Labels: Fuego, synopsis-cast
I am excited about the Noriega/Yañez pairing, though, and it will be fun to see Elizbeth Alvarez again after "La Fea Mas Bella". Unfortunately, Pablo Montero & Jorge Salinas don't even register on my "galán-o-meter", so that's a disadvantage (my opinion only). Also, I'm curious why Televisa has changed the name of the telenovela, but the names of all the characters are EXACTLY as they were in “Pasión de Gavilanes”, when Telemundo did it 3 years ago. That leads me to suspect that FELS will also contain dialogue lifted directly from the source telenovela, as Televisa did on previous occasions, pulling dialogue verbatim from "Yo Soy Betty La Fea" & plugging it into "La Fea Mas Bella". Not necessarily a bad thing, but it does tend to make the newer novela suffer criticism for lack of creativity. Still, writer Julio Jiménez does nice work so if they're going to lift dialogue from anyone, they've made a good choice.
Thanks, melinama, for providing this great site, and to all the recappers for the outstanding service you do for everyone here. Here's to a new adventure!
Destilando and La Fea were very talky, and Pasion has been kind of steep... I'm hoping FelS will be much speedier to recap.
In other words, less talking, and more hugging and kissing, porfa!!
Melinama, thanks for the translations of the characters and synopsis. I wish I could volunteer to recap this one but I am already stretched with recapping JQ which goes into June (!) and has so much talking! Fuego sounds fun though, and I hope we get staffed up on recappers for it.
Dunno if I'll stick around for this one yet and both Tuesdays and Thursdays are bad for me, but I hope we get recapers for this one as it has potential.
The men in this one seem older than in PdG, and not as hawt as their predecessors IMHO. The women are equally good looking as the gals in PdG. The "elder" contingency are all very fine actors and I suspect they will do an excellent job.
"Remakes" usually change their titles, with very few exceptions (La Esclava Isaura, Corazon Salvaje, etc.) The character names sometimes change and sometimes don't, especially depending on how much the plot changes. Case in point - The characters in "Desperate Housewives" for the most part kept their names, but a few have changed. The plot lines are quite similar so far. "Sin Verguenza" (Shameless) had many similarities with "Sex and the City." However, the plot was very different, as were the character's professions. Their names were changed as well. It was less of a remake than a re-interpretation. That's my two cents.
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