Monday, December 01, 2008
Tontas Cap 1 - Debut
The actress who was the middle sister on Heridas de Amor is Paulina, who is on the phone in her home. There is a diploma and a bunch of photos in frames on a table. Santiago (Jaime Camil, your ‘tan divino’) is her husband (I think they are married) Santiago, he sneaks up on her and she shushes him because she’s on the phone. He’s dressed in hospital scrubs, I guess so we can know right away that he’s a doctor. The house looks nice and expensive, so that makes sense. She scolds him when she gets off the phone for interrupting her. He starts playing around with a pair of baby shoes, then tells her that she’s pregnant!
3 months before the wedding – Patricio and Candy leave a soccer game, dressed in opposing soccer jerseys. They argue about something, but playfully. Patricio kisses her to shut her up.
Santiago picks out baby clothes for a boy, she says what if it’s a girl? Surprise, he has a skirt too! He is very very excited to be a daddy. Kiss kiss.
Less than a month before the wedding – Patricio and Candy are still lovey dovey. She asks him for a favor. She wants for her and her parents to stay in a hotel during the wedding, etc, not in Patricio’s parents’ house. He says sure, but on one condition – the wedding night, she and Patricio go to a DIFFERENT hotel, so her family doesn’t listen at the door while they make crazy noise knocking boots all night. I think that’s a good plan.
Santiago reproaches Paulina for working so hard while being so pregnant. He wants her to rest. She says she was thinking about it and she doesn’t want to go to Acapulco with him. He wants to go have fun, not go by himself. She’s busy with some work, he’s tired of it. Wow, and he’s a doctor! She says she’s tired. He says yeah from working so hard. She promises him to take good care of the baby, to placate him.
Patricio and Candy talk about having kids. Kissy kissy.
Acapulco, 2 days before the wedding. Patricio and Candy make out on the beach, shop for wedding cake decorations, etc. She wants to return to Acapulco every year on their anniversary, Patricio says that sounds like a good idea, let’s make it official!
One day before the wedding – bachelor party. Patricio is enjoying strippers dancing to Oops I did it again by Britney Spears. He’s getting mighty drunk. These strippers are more like dancers, there isn’t any stripping going on. They are somewhat scantily clad though, which is ok.
Bachelorette party in the hotel pool – Candy opens presents. A friend reminds her of the deal they all made to tell each other the details of the wedding night. Lots of group ‘whoooaaa!’ sounds, I guess that’s the Mexican version of the American ‘Wooo!!’ girl chant.
Patricio continues to get drunk, one guy ducks out to meet some hoochie in the lobby. He stops talking to her when he sees Alicia (Thelma from Duelo), who is Candy’s sister. Ah – the guy who ducked out of the party here was Saimon from La Fea. So he’s trying to pick up Alicia, she says no to the one night stand. After the wedding she’s headed back to Tijuana. It sounds like these two had some kind of history in the past and she just gives him a nice goodbye rather than relive it with him.
The girls have moved on to proper American “woooo!!!” noises as the gifts get more and more sexy. Garter belt this time.
Alicia gets herself all gussied up in her hotel room. Nice. She takes the elevator down.
Patricio’s buddies give him a keycard to a room, telling him that it’s all his for a good time! Jeez who thinks giving their buddy a hooker the night before his wedding is a good idea. I guess Saimon (whatever his name is here) was trying to get that other girl up to that room, but it looks like Alicia copied the girl’s style and will be there instead. I think. Sorry this is so disjointed, first episodes are so hard sometimes.
Some girl at the girl party teases Candy about Patricio being with some hoochie, she says no way, he loves me! So of course right now Patricio is being led up to the hooker’s room.
Yes, there he is. Blindfolded, being fed many more drinks by his buddies. He’s trashed. He wants his buddies to hang out with him, they say no way, you’re on your own here, and they throw him into a hotel room. He starts talking to whoever might be there. Turns out to be Alicia, in a cat mask and black gloves. She is ready to give him a good time. She looks good, but he’s blindfolded so he doesn’t see this. I guess if he had the blindfold off he’d recognize her. He starts making excuses about getting married, etc, but she throws him on the bed. He finally pulls off the blindfold, so he can check out how sexy she looks. She still has the mask on, so I guess he doesn’t recognize her. She starts kissing him, he goes for it. Tool. She gives him some more booze, champagne this time, it spills and she licks it off his body.
The girls party some more, Candy thanks all her friends for such a great time and talks up how great Patricio is. I really wish I was watching this on TV instead of youtube with all these bathing suit beauties walking around. Damn. Candy misses someone named Veronica, but at least her beloved sister Alicia is here with her. Candy is so excited to see her, she has been gone for three years. A friend asks why she left, Candy doesn’t know why, Alicia never said.
Patricio wakes up with Alicia’s bunny ears on his head. He hears Alicia make a noise and panics. She asks if all his fantasies were realized or are there more? He says no, I’m good! She takes off her mask and says ok, just promise her that he’ll be happy with Candy. He looks at her and finally recognizes her, “Alicia!” She says what, you’re a man, I’m a woman, we were enjoying your last night as a single man! Patricio seems to realize his big mistake and puts his face in his hands. Um, too late dude. He makes her promise to never tell Candy what they just did. His phone rings, it’s Candy. He tries to talk normally, but of course hottie Alicia is right there wearing his shirt, being all sexy. He sweet talks Candy but it pains him to lie to her by acting normal. Alicia leaves to go get dressed.
Wedding day – Candy greets an older couple, her parents. The guy is named Clemente, I didn’t catch the mom’s name. They make small talk, then mom tells her to remember what she told her about the wedding night, something about Clemente. Clemente says please woman, Patricio doesn’t want to spend his wedding night thinking about his father-in-law. Mom calls for some Pina Coladas, Clemente says what about breakfast? I guess mom wants to get drinking early. She yells back “without alcohol!” Mom is excited about the huge wedding, Candy says she just likes Patricio because he’s a millionaire. Clemente says yeah. Mom says if she was after money, she wouldn’t have married him! Candy swears to never give up her loyalty to Chivas futbol club, not even for Patricio.
Saimon shows up to greet Patricio, Patricio’s father is there too. Patricio thanks him for coming. I guess dad doesn’t like him marrying Candy. The waves of the ocean drown out the conversation, but basically dad is an asshole and really lays the heavy “don’t do it” on Patricio. I think it’s the fact that Candy is not from a rich family or something. Patricio thanks him for coming anyway.
The wedding begins, in a beautiful outdoor location. Patricio walks in with his mom, walking to the front of the crowd. On the way by, he nods at Santiago – I guess they know each other. I don’t see Paulina, but now we know why Santiago had to go to Acapulco, he was invited to the wedding. I wonder what the connection is. As Candy walks down the aisle, she shares a looong look with Santiago – who looks like he got hit with the thunderbolt, like in the Godfather when Michael Corleone first sees his Sicilian future bride.
Candy’s gay uncle is there too, he waves at Candy’s mom (I think that’s who it was), who seems to be ashamed of him and turns away quickly.
Candy reaches Patricio, there is a lot smiling, etc. They finish the walk to the altar together, walking by Alicia who is wearing an awesomely low cut red dress. Yowza. The music changes from the wedding march to “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.” Is that wedding music? The ceremony goes on, Alicia bends over a railing to give us major cleavage, other faces in the crowd much less interesting than that. The couple say their vows.
At the reception, the bride is very happy, sharing her joy with her sister Alicia. She thanks Alicia for coming, she was worried she wouldn’t. She is going to re-introduce her to Patricio, wait right here! As soon as Candy walks away Alicia runs away. When Candy tells Patricio that Alicia is here, he tries to play it cool and is relieved when she isn’t there.
Gay uncle catches Candy’s eye, she says “Tio Meño!” Ah so that’s his name. Gregoria appears to be Candy’s mother’s name, she comes over to ask Meño what he’s doing here. She tries to run him off, nobody likes him! He says Candy invited him. He plays up his gayness, she is scandalized. I guess he has been shunned by the family. He says whatever, though, he doesn’t care. She insists that he leave, he finally says gives in, leaving an envelope for Candy with Clemente, who came to assist Gregoria in running him away.
Santiago’s buddies hang around with him, all wearing pure douchebag style sunglasses, huge bugeyed things.
Candy talks to Alicia, I guess in the past Alicia wanted to be a dancer and somehow Candy interfered with that, but Alicia says whatever, now she lives in Tijuana and everything is cool. Another mention of Veronica, sad music, Candy wishes she was here. Who is Veronica? Some conversation about one day Alicia thought she’d be with Patricio, but now here he is married to Candy.
Patricio’s mother comes to talk to him – First, to dog Candy a bit, then something else I didn’t understand. Candy shows up, Patricio’s mom can’t get away fast enough. Patricio tries to hint at getting away for some sex right away, she laughs but shuts him down for the moment. Again, some background noise drowns out half the conversation. Some of Candy’s friends arrive and steal Candy away ‘just for a minute!’ Patrico runs over to see his father, who is still frowning at him. He insults Candy’s family. Candy’s father comes up to chat with Patricio’s dad, calling him amigo, Patricio’s father rudely says he will never call Clemente amigo, only employee. Does Clemente work for him?
Candy’s mother chews out Candy for inviting Meño, Candy tells her to stuff it, but nicely. Gregoria goes on and on and on. Finally Candy tells her to just drop it already. Gregoria says he left this envelope, it has money in it. Candy can’t believe she opened it! I can believe it, metiche. She makes to give her the envelope, then says “no I’ll hold on it for you.” I have a feeling that this will be significant later. Candy heads off to change clothes.
Some other guy is trying to pick up on Alicia, with no luck. For some reason Patricio goes after Alicia. He catches up to her in the bathroom. He wants her to swear again that she won’t say anything. She says she isn’t going to say anything. He wants to know why she did it. I didn’t quite understand her whole speech, but basically she wanted some action so she took it. She tells him how handsome and sexy he is in his tux.
Santiago is charming some ladies at the reception, an excuse to pass out his business cards. He’s talking with Patricio’s mother (I think), who introduces him to Candy. Patricio’s mother says Santiago is responsible for her youthful good looks! Santiago says pleased to meet you Candy, and holds out his hand. Candy refuses, saying “you’re a plastic surgeon? Sorry, but I hate everything about plastic surgery” and stomps off. Santiago looks mighty confused. Patricio’s mother explains that one of Candy’s sisters (ah HAH that’s who Veronica is/was) died from a liposuction mishap. Ah that explains it. She changes the subject to whether or not she should get a boob job, Santiago says absolutely, lift and augment!
I guess Alicia wants some more, she grabs Patricio and kisses him, just in time for Candy to walk in. Of course the first thing he says is “I can explain” – yeah, the explanation is that you’re a dog. Candy slaps Patricio and runs off. Candy runs into her father, who stupidly defends Patricio, “he’s your husband now!” Patricio tries to talk to her too, she wants none of it. Now that they are in front of a crowd, Candy calms down for show, while Patricio tries to talk her out of dumping his ass right here and now. He begs and begs. She doesn’t agree. She completely melts down and freaks out, screaming at him in front of everyone. Patricio blubbers at her, going on about the guests, her dress, the location, the cake…..finally she says she doesn’t want any of it, she takes off her ring and throws it on the ground, then her shoes, then her veil, then her dress. Niiiice. In her bra and panties, which is way too short of a scene by the way (and damn that horrible youtube video quality), she throws over the wedding cake, then runs off down the beach.
So that’s the first episode – the stage is set, I expect tomorrow night’s show to be a Candy ugly crying tour de force – remember that Jackie Bracamontes is responsible for the ugly crying scale being created in the first place. Alina in Duelo kept it going, but it was Miranda “No Estoy SoooLLLAAA” from Heridas that got it going first. I hope you all enjoyed it, Jaime Camil didn’t get much screen time but he is so obviously head and shoulders above everyone else in sheer acting talent it isn’t even funny. He just morphs into his roles. I’m a fan.
Labels: Tontas
Thank you for swapping recap nights with me. My hand is doing much better. No longer looks like hamburger. My captions weren't working tonight, for some reason. I would've been in sheer panic, starting off on that wrong foot.
My favorite scene tonight? When Santiago tried to cover Candy with his jacket. Everyone else was either begging her to return, reproaching her, murmurring in shock, or gawking at the striptease. Santiago was the only one at the whole wedding who showed consideration for Candy. However she rejected his kindness.
Being a gringo I need my captions. They worked for the first minute and a half then the captions cut to some news feed about drug violence and decapitations in Tijuana. The captions returned eight minutes later.
Did anyone get a recording with good captions? (Would love to get a copy). :)
Here's a capture of captions around the news flub:
>>yo te aviso.
>>okay.
[¶]
¶ quisiera ser un súper héroe ¶
¶ y protegerte contra el mal ¶
¶ regalarte la vía láctea ¶
¶ en un plato de cereal ¶
¶ llevarte al espacio sideral ¶
¶ y volar como lo hace
superman ¶
¶ me tienes tan debilitada ¶
¶ todas
----the news captions cut in here
tijuana nueve son
decapitados.
por vemos
>>
la incontenible ola de
violencia en méxico en
tijuana, este fin de
semana 46 personas
fueron asesinadas, 150
elementos de la marina
arribaron a baja
california para sumarse
a la lucha contra el
crimen y verónica de
castillo tiene las
imágenes.
----the news captions continue til tontas captions return 8 minutes later
>>claro.
>>te amo.
>>bienvenido a tu última noche
de libertad, hermano.
[algarabía]
[¶]
[algarabía]
>>a ver, si adivinas qué es,
te lo puedes quedar.
>>pues tiene encaje.
[algarabía]
>>pero no tengo idea de lo
que es.
>>le va a encantar a tu marido.
>>sí, es para tu noche de bodas,
es lo último que vas a tirar al
piso. o mejor dicho, lo último
que tu marido te va a arrancar.
>>óyeme, esto no va a ser lo
último que me va a arrancar ¡eh!
>>bueno, bueno, pero no puedes
romper tu promesa. cada una
prometimos contar paso a paso
lo que pasa en la noche de
bodas.
por cierto, dale las gracias a
patricio por habernos pagado
a todas...
[¶]
>>vengan, no me tardo.
>>¡hola! perdona,
¿te hice esperar mucho o no?
bueno, ya conoces al pato,
viste las fotos, no te vas
a perder ¿verdad?
>>no.
>>quiero que lo trates bien,
que seas cariñosa.
dame un segundo.
¿alicia?
¡alicia!
¡pero qué bien te ves! te ves
guapísima, ¿qué te hiciste?
>>gracias.
>>estás diferente ¿qué haces
aquí en acapulco?
>>pues vine a la boda.
>>muy bien. por cierto, cuando
te fuiste no fuiste capaz de
darme un phone, no sé, decirme
rafa...
>>por favor, quedamos que sin
reclamos, quedamos que era un...
>>¿un qué?
>>¡ay! que era, libre, de
amigos.
>>ya, bueno, sí, nada de
reclamos.
>>¿patricio se está quedando
aquí?
>>sí, claro.
los amigos y yo le organizamos
una fiesta y la sorpresita
está allá. tú sabes como son
estas cosas de despedida, no
tengo que contarte más.
oye, por cierto, estoy soltero.
>>yo estoy viviendo en tijuana
y cuando termine la boda me
regreso a tijuana.
>>por cierto, alicia, me quedé
siempre con la duda. este,
cuando estuviste conmigo fue
por ¿por qué? ¿por darle picones
a pato?
---- tontas captions continue to end of show
Thank you Ferro for the write-up. Helps out for the missing captions!
Jorge el Curioso
I thought I’d give this one a try, and I thought this first episode was a lot of fun. My only gripe was that the actress playing Cande (whom I gather others saw in Duelo, but I didn’t see that one) needs to dial it down. Still, she looked fetching in her underlovlies.
Here's my question: Did Cande say how Alicia's leg was injured ?(axing her dancing career) I got the impression it was Cande's fault (an automobile accident?) but that was when the doorbell rang.
Anyway Alicia clearly has an axe to grind and she's already been very effective in ruining Cande's day, if not her life.
The gal playing Cande and Alicia's mother is the "aunt" from Amor Real. I loved her character in that one; not so much in this one. All the parents seem rather creepy.
I hated the groom's father! He told his son "No woman is worth marriage. Get her an apartment and visit her twice a week, but don't get married!" Lovely.
Thanks for a great performance under less than ideal conditions Ferro! Always appreciated.
I think this is going to be good.
I have a hard time in the beginning of each telenova. It takes me a while to figure out the characters and their relationships. The fact this first episode focused primarily on the main characters was very helpful to me.
I liked the Patricio and Candy characters and of course the obligatory villaness, Alicia also looks interesting. Cap'n Sylvia noted: "Our groom boinking his sis-in-law the night before the wedding, our betrayed heroine running away down the beach in her skivvies and garters...yes it was tawdry and contrived but very satisfying." Very true! As JudyB mentioned, "Anyway Alicia clearly has an axe to grind and she's already been very effective in ruining Cande's day, if not her life." Wow. All of that and it's only episode 1!! Kind of makes you wonder where she's going from here :) Diana in MA.
Mark
I watched on youtube just because I knew ahead of time I'd have a busy night last night, a few things had to be done and we had to take trip #759 to Babies r' Us, so I wanted to get a head start. Didn't work. When we got home, I used youtube anyway because my wife is watching a couple other novelas anyway and doesn't want to get caught up in this one, especially with a baby coming. Then she'll be weeks behind on three different shows coming home from the hospital, so I used the computer while she watched something else in our room. I did go fast forward through the show on the TV after I was done, to try and catch a couple names (and a couple glimpses of lovely ladies in proper video quality) before finishing the recap.
Paula, you are welcome for switching, now I get an almost two week break before my next recap, which is nice because I have two classes to finish up soon, I can spend some extra time studying.
I guess I didn't catch that it was Alicia breaking her leg or whatever that ruined her dancing career - I think the thundering surf drowned that out. It's the one bad thing about youtube - without the captions I don't know if I missed something important, or ten minutes of Patricio and Candy discussing which soccer team sucks.
Anyway, maybe it's just me, but the background sound effects in most of the novelas I've watched (just a few) seems to overtake the dialogue. Like it's more important to hear tires screeching or surf crashing than it is to hear the dialogue.
This is the first time I've seen Jaime Camil in anything - me encanta. But, I don't know yet if I'm willing to give up Jeopardy to watch this.
I'm pretty sure Patricio's father is Julio Aleman, who played Don Roberto on Destilando Amor, the tequila minister. He was a very nice and good character there, so he's probably having fun playing an evil rich guy here. His name in Tontas is Arturo Molina.
I think the conversation about Alicia and her dancing career didn't say about her leg, I suppose that will come up soon enough, but it was in the character description. So maybe I didn't miss anything from that conversation. Sylvia - I hadn't considered that Alicia was being sarcastic, I like it that way better!
I also missed the first time that at the end, when Candy sees them kissing and runs off, then Alicia says "well maybe you should go talk to her..." for some reason that cracked me up.
Speaking of names, for Tontas I can't be
Mad Polly Flint (Pasion), nor
Paula Polvorones (Fuego and QE).
So in honor of the soccer theme, I've found a new handle.
Good to see tan divino Jaime again. Didn't see Jacque in Heridas or whatever, did see her in Rubi and liked her ok. I'll hang with this one and see where it takes us.
La Paloma
As for Jaime Camil - I got into LFMB about half-way through. When I read all the oohs and aaahs over him I really didn't get it. But after a few weeks of watching him, I was a goner. Somehow he makes goofy really sexy.
It's too soon to tell how much I'm going to like any of the characters but I like the comedy aspect of this novela. Somehow from reading the synopsis I had the impression that Patricio's betrayal of Candy was going to be not really his fault. Not so much! Idiot. At the very least he needs better friends, although I was glad to see Vicente from Cuidado up and dressed and walking around.
I didn't see anybody slip anything, but I was only half-watching. I would guess that it was a boner pill to counteract the alcohol.
I doubt that he'll be "tan divino" as Don Fer, but Clark Gable never was Rhett Butler again, either.
LOL-Alcia's comment that everything was fine in her life, despite having to give up her dreams of dancing in London, and instead living in Tijuana and crossing the border. She didn't mention the fun of dodging narco shootouts.
I don't think I'll ever like that actress in even a sympathetic role after this and "Duelo".
Looking forward to tonight and Dr. Santiago. Oh yeah, los otros, too.
Sadly, I missed this one live and had to 'tube it as well. Thanks for that link above.
If this one holds up, I might have actually found another one I can stick with.
Kim P.
So many of our faves are in this from LFMB to Destilando Amor..
I like Valentino Lanus (Patricio)..He's the boyfriend of Jackie Bracamontes (Candi) in real life..Can't say any more--not allowed..
Hello to Jeanne,Sharkbait,JudyB,and all of you that I haven't met...
Perfect recap, Ferro..
I'll be doing the recap tonight but won't be able to write and post until tomorrow morning because my son is working on a BIG PAPER tonight.
However should have it up and posted by 7 or 8 am.
For the Qs asked:
Santiago went to the wedding because Pato's mom (Figure I can give the nickname they already gave him in the show) is one of his biggest clients.
Yes, Veronica was Candi and Alicia's sister who died from a botched liposuction surgery, causing Candi to hate all plastic surgeons.
Clemente (Candi's dad) works for Pato's dad and his company. Gregoria actually had the nerve to tell Candi that she should ask Pato to give her dad a promotion on their wedding night! Dad generously said she could wait until they got back from the honeymoon to ask. With parents like that...
They don't tell us how Alicia's career tanked on this episode. It is on episode 2, so I'll let folks who haven't seen it yet find out when they do (too early for spoilers I say!). However, we do know that she and Pato were never an item or even lovers, just friends. Instead, her discussion with Candi is that, back before Pato even knew Candi, he hunted down a team shirt that was worn and autographed by a player from the Chivas Rayadas (the stripped goats) of Gudalajara (Candi's team) even though he rooted for Las Aguilas (the eagles) del America (no clue what region they're from) as a favor to Alicia who wanted to give it as a present to Candi. Now here they were, married.
It never ceases to amaze me how guys who claim to love their friends like brothers find ways to embarrass them or lure them into situations they would have otherwise avoided. I realize this isn't the rule, but it is not as uncommon as it should be. I missed them giving Pato the pill, but wouldn't be surprised if they'd given him something like GhB thinking they were just showing him a good time. With friends like that...
It is the big, BIG rivalry in Mexico. El Classico between them every April is almost like a Mexican Superbowl. Almost. If many Mexicans in your town, look around; you'll probably see team emblems on cars, shirts, etc.
Candy is a big Chivas fan. Bracamontes is from Guad., and her father was coach of Chivas in the past. Pato is a fan of Club America.
Santiago is also an America fan. The baby soccer uniform he bought was America colors. Camil is from DF. In 7 Dias, his character was also an America fan.
WHOOOOOHOOOOO!!!!!!!!! :)
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