Saturday, August 17, 2013
Qué Bonito Amor #89 (Mex 127) Friday 8/16/13 A Blow Out Of A Birthday Party!
Labels: QBA
Interesting too was the look on Ruben's face like he was aligned with a snake. It also told him for the first time that Maria had lost the baby.
Fernando does indeed seem to have given up on Ana and on trying to help JAntos. Love all the lady folk getting in Dumbs way while the cops all go together to search. Apparently splitting up never occurs to them.
I can't help but wonder how Dumb was leading the whole group. Cops are notoriously territorial and to have American cops ordering around the Mexicans would never happen — oops Novelaland.
Laughed my head off during the Michael - Whiney scene. There on the wall is a big sign that says no guns and weapons permitted. For the love of God it IS a prison. I guess people do come armed to the teeth when visiting the prison dentist. LOL
How old is OJ? In the previews he and Ruben are having the predicted fall out. Rub tells him you will pay for what you did to Maria and OJ warns him you'll go like Santos Boom. I guess he is about 5.
Decie--when are you going to start recapping for us (you'd make a terrific guest recapper).
Thanks, Jar, for the perfect title to go with a perfect recap.
Loved--He’ll be ba-a-ah-ck.
And--Vi sneers a birthday cheer to Maria.
And--The guests take turns at obstructing justice…er… slowing down the police to exclaim in fear and ask questions.
This was a Keystone Cops + Piedra Clave PoPo (and I didn't make up the piedra clave part). What was up with all the Swat Team repelling up to the 2d floor, but they still couldn't find Santos. Of course they weren't supposed to. I guess they knew that ahead of time.
Decie--I saw the sign in the prison, too. It was there the last time they were together, when Wendy was telling Mike she only quered him for her child's sake. Now she amors him? When did that happen?
If Pinchi and Homerito can ID the two thugs they can be connected to Giuliano who can be connected to Ruben. But who else would think of that except Santos?
I recorded this episode because of the slap down shown in the previews. I was very satisfied with the slaps and the punch Maria gave Elvira. I only wish there had been more of a tongue lashing from everyone to go along with it before the Keystone/Benny Hill Cops interrupted with their nonsense.
Does this mean that Maria won't get on Santos' case about "violence" anymore?
Their have been several conversations about JNTR with both sets of cops. Also all of them had been in the bar when JAntos first began singing there although the LA set arrived too late to see his face. The Mexicans have seen him and placed him in JNTR. They called the dumb set in LA and told them where he could be found hence the dual country guns metaphorically blazing raid to catch a white collar criminal. They had enough firepower to take out the head of the Zetas. Ridiculous but what the heck it is entertaining.
Considering how Curtis' wedding to Derecho depends on them catching Santos I'm surprised she wasn't running all over the place and thinking of the dressing rooms in an effort to be sure he got caught.
Which doesn't make sense because we have never heard him speak of having any family or friends left there. Since he was a headliner at JNTR he could have gotten a job at any mariachi bar in D.F.
Which gave me the answer to a very important question...
The whole Coloso not being at the party is odd even though we fans know why. Also they have been trying to get in touch with him to tell him Gloria is dead and his son is all alone but have had no luck.
It was really satisfying watching Maria knock Elvirus on her @ss! I wish she given her some more.
The whole SWAT team operation was really laughable considering that the Commandante is easily being bamboozled and delayed by the old ladies.
BTW do we actually know which - th Bday was this of Maria??
ViviDC: I guess Maria will say there's a time and a season or some such, right? LOL
Here is an article on telenovelas that some of you might enjoy:
http://chronicle.com/article/Teaching-Telenovelas/140017/
It appeared last month in The Chronicle of Higher Education and was written by scholar of Latino Culture, Ilan Stavans. Prof. Stavans happens to be the son of 50-year veteran novela actor, Abraham Stavans, so he knows a thing or two about the soft white underbelly of the genre.
I was intrigued to see the same Ilan Stavans quoted in a piece in the New York Times a few days ago in a discussion of law, religious freedom, personal names and culture.
http://tinyurl.com/lpfzzgn
[You may, perhaps, have been following the saga of the Tennessee judge who changed a baby's name from "Messiah" to "Martin" and is now being challenged by the ACLU. It turns out, by the way, that there were 762 babies named "Messiah" in this country last year, putting it between "Scott" and "Jay" in popularity.
Anyway, Prof. Stavans weighs in on all the boys named "Jesús," for example, in the Latino world.
And in the same article, I learned that in the Anglo world, it was considered sacrilegious to name your baby girl "Mary" up until the 12th century.]
Although I think it's best of the actors actually learn their lines and characters (to be able to ad lib if needed), with the grueling filming schedules of these tns, I can understand if an actor needs a line reminder every now and then.
NovelaMaven, thanks for those articles.
Having been a drama student I can't conceive of being able to memorize a full new script every day. I've been under the impression that most of the time the actors are reading off teleprompters and the earpieces would be used for outdoor scenes when reading teleprompters would be difficult or impossible.
When the legendary Dark Shadows was in production, the actors would get the next day's script at the end of shooting and would read through it at the table before calling it a day. The following day there would be a walk-through and line rehearsal before getting dressed and made up to do the actual taping. They used teleprompters and this was occasionally obvious, but we regarded it as equivalent to the stage convention of addressing a line or a speech toward the audience to be heard.
More conventional soaps probably contained a lot of ad libbing by actors who have played the same character for most of their careers. I understand that Susan Lucci had a lot of input into her character if a new writer wrote something that didn't seem right. She could say "Erica would never do that" and it would be changed.
I do think that novelas should be used as teaching tools for learning Spanish. Think about how much we learn from them!
Back in 2007 there was a mini novela that was shown in the afternoon called Amor Sin Maquillaje. It was a tribute to 50 years of Televisa novelas and was the story of a girl who wanted to be a novela writer and whose family had worked behind the scenes on novelas. It had an all star cast with Sergio Goyri and Cesar Evora as TN actors. It showed a lot of the type of backstage action involving putting on a novela and in it both of them were constantly trying to learn new lines. It was a lot of fun and throughout it they showed clips of some of the all times greats from the days of black and whites like the original Cuna de Lobos.
When I went to Televisa several years ago with my class at college they showed us the taping of a scene from Duelo de Pasiones. The actors were given the script minutes before shooting because they were behind schedule so they had to use the "chicharo". The scene included two newbie actors (a woman and a man) and Ludwika Paleta. The two newbies were having a difficult time with their lines and the actress was very nerveous and messed up her lines a few times. Ludwika Paleta however seemed to have no troubles at all with her lines and took it off by the third take so they could work with the timing of the other actress's responses instead of the cue given by the people at the production cabin ( although I don't know if that's normal for the more seasoned actors to do, because the actress had to grab violently Paleta's face every take so she was probably getting tired of that).
Jarocha
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