Wednesday, October 01, 2008
Doña Bárbara - Tues., Sept. 30 - Luisana goes to her wedding in a wheelchair but at least they unhooked the iv
Melesio figures out that Gervasia is pregnant. He is ok with that provided she loves the guy. He plays a guessing game with to identify the father starting with all the ranch hands at Altamira but Gervasia says that none of them are the father.
Federica arranges to come and teach the children their catechism while Antonio hovers in the background. When Federica leaves, Toño runs over and says, "Everything that woman told you is a lie. What did she tell you?"
Cecilia decides that Federica has gotten over her passion for Antonio and he wishes that were so.
This is the guy who will be the miracle from the sky to prevent the wedding that Mauricio tells Marisela about. When he gets Mauricio's telegram, he decides to fly to San Fernando right away.
DB holds Luisana at knife point and insults her. She tells Luisana that Santos is too much of a man for her ["ése es mucho hombre para tan poca mujer," literally, "this is a lot of man for such a little woman"] DB calls Luisana a leech ["sanguijuela"] . DB forces Luisana to get out of bed and is going to take her to the train station so she can go back to the capital and find a loser ["mequetrefe"] to marry and live in Paris. Not surprisingly, she gets caught and has to run out of the hospital with the guards in pursuit and knocking Santos down in the process.
Genoveva tells Melesio that she isn't a tattletale ["soplona"] and she and her sisters/cousins give Melesio the locked lips sign and won't tell him who the father of Gervasia's baby is. 
Luisana accuses Santos of making love with DB while she was dying the night before they left for SF. Luisana says everything that has happened to her has been Santos' fault. Mauricio hopes that Luisana will decide not to marry Santos but no such luck. 
DB sends Leon out to bribe the Sargeant to let her into the hospital on the day of the wedding. The Sargeant recognizes Leon as wanted for cattle rustling. The Sergeant gets overconfident and Leon stabs him to death. This means that when DB shows up at the hospital the next morning, they won't let her in. 
Santos finally notices JB's ring on Marisela but he gets distracted when DB appears all gussied up. 
Luisana gets ready for the wedding. That is Mauricio's wig.
As Mauricio wheels Luisana to the chapel, he says, "this is a mistake," ["es un error"] over and over .
Santos waits at the altar trying to convince himself that he loves Luisana. 
Melquíades is concealed in the hospital chapel with his blowgun waiting for DB's orders.
After talking to Antonio about his relationship with Cecilia, Lorenzo tries to kill himself by drinking kerosene.
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ful eyes) is interested in Luisana..she must have a little something of a brain besides being
an object woman. She actually figures out Santos each time he has courted DB...making Marisela aware & closer to the truth on Santos- important fact. It would be funny if this businessman somehow showed some interest in Marisela, twisting the cards on Luisana & Santos, each realizing that in fact they are really not matched.Of course, the quick wedding would have not happened somehow, and DB would be busy elsewhere.. We could benefit from
some light scenes where Marisela would shine & be the trigger to Santos`eye opener on her. Also for Luisana realizing her tastes & expensive life-style is with the rich businessman. Of course, Mauricio would add his usual comic & clever humour. Fashion, boat-ride, elegant dinner/dance/fiesta, male(s)- attention to Marisela, swimming pool/dancing -would release some of the audience`s pressure. Let`s get some colour, fun & elegant city-life !
: Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 11:55:00 AM EDT
: Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 12:05:00 PM EDT
Like DB, Luisana also wants to take what she believes is hers but her methods for success are very different. The only way she has gotten anywhere with Santos is to make him feel sorry for her. Of the two of them, DB is the most interesting of course.
Santos was taken by his mother to the Capitol to be educated away from the ways of los llaneros after his father and brother's tragic deaths. In the book the boy flounders for several years, desperately homesick, longing for the sight of the horizon that you can't see in the city, for the bird calls, for the life of being the best jinete (rider) in the region. The descriptions of his pain, while only taking up one or two paragraphs, are wonderfully written. But in his 18th year he has an epiphany that he's wasting his life, snaps to, and studies like mad, eventually earning his law degree. There is no mention of Luisana in the book, and I'm not far enough along to know whether there ever is such a character.
So, Santos is meant to represent civilization. There is a long interior monologue early in the book where he directly addresses his conflicting emotions about los llanos. Remember, he had a potential buyer for Altamira, and part of him wants to sell and go to Paris and part of him wants to bring education, better nutrition, and fair laws to the people of los llanos.
And, well we know what Doña Bárbara represents. She actually talks about it in the television version, ecstatic when she brings out the savage side of Santos. And think about her name! Their two names are very clever.
Another long disquisition, but you asked for it!
: Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 2:55:00 PM EDT
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