Friday, July 13, 2012
Weekend Discussion: Telenovela Villains -- More Parental Toxicity
Dirty
Dozen #2: Toxic and Controlling Fathers
The
other side of toxic parenting is the Controlling Father. While his
female counterpart typically controls through guilt or other forms of
emotional blackmail, he typically controls through the purse strings, sometimes also with keys and locks; insults and emotional blackmail are often
his last resort. Most are wealthy and powerful, some are insecure
and merely selfish, and some still are perverse. Not as common as the Controlling Mother and usually less deadly, but perversion can compensate for that. Some of these are candidates for redemption, although most usually pay the ultimate price.
It is rather surprising also, that this is the province of specialists and there are fewer actors cast in these series-length roles than for controlling mothers. Why do you think this is? I think it must be the deep voices.
Who
is the most evil of them all?
Labels: abismo, Alborada, duelo, Fuerza, Karmageddon, pecado, salvaje, Talisman, telenovelas, weekend
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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