Friday, June 29, 2012
Weekend Discussion: A Study of Novela Villains, Part One
Villains. Where would melodramatic telenovelas
be without them? As in grand opera, they are colorful and over-the-top
evil, with grand gestures and outrageous fashions on the women and
basso-profundo voices on the men. They come in distinct
(stereo)types and for our purposes we will discuss them by
classification. Therefore we will examine a series of Dirty Dozens
to determine who is the most evil within each. Controlling parent
villains will also include their usual surrogates (steps, uncles, aunts, grands), peers
will include same-sex siblings, and there is a third category yet to
be named. This week's Dirty Dozen – in this author's mind – is
perhaps the most lethal of them all:
Labels: abismo, amor, barrera, Cuando, Fuego, Karmageddon, no-podia, pecado, telenovelas, triunfo, weekend
Friday, June 22, 2007
The badder you are, the worse you die: terrible deaths of telenovela villains
A couple people asked me to publish the link to the two posts I did on terrible deaths of telenovela villains.
Sadly, I can't find the first one, but here is the second one: Satisfying Reprisals.
And here is the third one, with suggestions from readers: There is a rule in telenovelas: the more dastardly the villain, the more extraordinary the demise. Why isn't life like this?
Why don't you come back here after you read those and, if you have a favorite death from the novelas, leave it in the comments here.
I think there may be a move away from these ghastly but ever-so-enjoyable rightings of the cosmic scale, do you agree?
Sadly, I can't find the first one, but here is the second one: Satisfying Reprisals.
And here is the third one, with suggestions from readers: There is a rule in telenovelas: the more dastardly the villain, the more extraordinary the demise. Why isn't life like this?
Why don't you come back here after you read those and, if you have a favorite death from the novelas, leave it in the comments here.
I think there may be a move away from these ghastly but ever-so-enjoyable rightings of the cosmic scale, do you agree?
Labels: Karmageddon, telenovelas
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