Friday, September 25, 2015
Weekend Discussion: Your Favorite Movies
What movies do you love? Classics? Trendy new? Epics? Horror? Film Noir? Enquiring minds want to know!
Labels: weekend
Friday, September 18, 2015
Weekend Discussion: Unlikely Couples
Saturday, September 12, 2015
Weekend Discussion: Your Favorite Classic Novelas
Friday, August 07, 2015
Weekend Discussion: First Annual Televisa Perversity Pageant (Men's Division)
We're
getting into some seriously poisonous stuff with our latest round of Televisa villains. Lately it seems that the growing influence of male writers
is resulting in more perverse male villains than we used to know 10
years ago. Therefore we are now in the finals of our first-annual
Perversity Pageant (Men's Division). Who should get the Crown of Fire?
Labels: que-te, robo, siempre, sombra, weekend
Thursday, July 30, 2015
Weekend Discussion: Karmageddon Comes to Santa Lucia (La Sombra del Pasado)
We're
coming close to the end and the crap is flying so here is the
all-important discussion of the Karmageddons awaiting the evil ones
in our story. As usual we will ask the following two questions:
What
do you think the writers will do to them?
What
do you think they really deserve?
Contrary to my usual practice I am posting my thoughts in this article because of my current computer issues.
Labels: Karmageddon, sombra, weekend
Friday, July 10, 2015
Weekend Discussion: Novela Stars in English!
Before we knew them as novela characters -- stereotyped or otherwise -- some were in English-language movies and TV. Just to mention two here:
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Friday, July 03, 2015
Weekend Discussion: Life Imitates Art Imitates Life? Revisited
Note: This is a re-publishing of an August 2013 discussion that I think is relevant because I wonder to what degree the outdated attitudes get revived in remake after remake. Inspired by a line of dialogue in last night's episode of LSdP.
Do you think that telenovelas reflect or influence human behavior? A good friend of long standing is under the bizarre impression that in order to have a massively passionate relationship one must also have insane conflict. I had so many conversations with him during fights and estrangements with various girlfriends from college until his marriage and after his divorce that sounded like novela fights and reconciliations (and he not only isn't Hispanic, he doesn't even watch them).
Last weekend I watched The Godfather, Part III and found an article by a British journalist that discussed the difficulties the studio had with the real mob during production of the original film. Once they settled their issues and the film debuted something interesting allegedly happened: Real mobsters began addressing their leaders as "Don" and "Dons" became "Godfathers." The characters on HBO's hit series The Sopranos regarded these films as the bible of Mafia etiquette.
BTW, as an aside, I know that the original Godfather film was a hit in Mexico; in a 2001 novela it was named by a series protagonist as his favorite film. And El Padrino of QBA looks like he has something of a Vito Corleone complex.
Added: Do you think outdated attitudes are revived or reviled? Do you think that the PSA tendencies of novela writers can influence future behavior?
Have it it, amigos.
Labels: telenovelas, weekend
Saturday, June 13, 2015
Weekend Discussion: Love -- Reality or Poetic Delusion?
I actually know a few people who don't think love exists at all. Some of them had highly toxic parents and a couple of them have had disappointing love lives (one I suspect never had one). A few other people I know are so confounded by differences between men and women they refuse to believe it is possible to understand the other at all. It's possible that they are too lazy to try.
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Labels: weekend
Friday, May 29, 2015
Weekend Discussion: Have the Writers Declared a Competition on Perversity?
I had to post this right after this
evening's episode of La Sombra del Pasado because I was
ready to explode at Severiano slobbering all over Aldonza. I was
actually screaming at the screen and I never do that. I've seen a
lot of nasty horror movies and was beginning to become immune to some
of the evil and gore in them. However, rape trauma is still
something that makes my blood boil.
Labels: telenovelas, weekend
Friday, May 08, 2015
Weekend Discussion: Do Humans Need Love?
Poets,
dramatists, composers, and artists have all made careers of
glorifying Love. We glue ourselves to our screens night after night
watching novela characters trying to make sense of this emotion that
other characters either know less about than they do or....
intentionally attempt to deceive them about. However while writers,
composers, singers, and actors do their best to promote Love – in
all its forms – as the grandest thing in life nobody ever
seriously addresses the big fundamental question: Do humans need
love to live and be happy?
Friday, April 24, 2015
Weekend Discussion: Misogyny and Sexism Need an Executioner
I'm in step with those who are watching Amores Con Trampa but still catching up to La Sombra del Pasado (cap 25) and Que Te Perdone Dios (cap 34), but the sexism is getting to me. I totally get that rural environments are often more sexist than urban ones and what's going on in ACT makes a certain amount of sense. However in the 21st century are the other two even close to reality anymore?
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Labels: que-te, sombra, telenovelas, weekend
Saturday, April 11, 2015
Weekend Discussion Your Favorite Actors' Best Performances
This was suggested two weeks ago. Pick your favorite actor and his best performance. All character types are fair game; you can choose one of each. I'll start. I might add photos later from your entries in between catching up on the two big dramas currently airing.
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Labels: no-podia, stars, weekend
Saturday, March 21, 2015
Weekend Discussion and Writing Assignment for the Brave; to be continued next week
Since
most of us are tired of remakes but the networks keep doing them,
let's give our networks something to really think
about. Continued from last week.
Labels: weekend
Friday, March 06, 2015
Weekend Discussion: Karmageddon Awaits on Mi Corazón es Tuyo
OK,
amigos, the finale will air on 3/27 and we have work to do! Our
moral and mortal minds need to decide what is going to happen to the
villains of our modern fairy tale. Since this is not standard
(melo)drama, part of this will be a challenge. Rap sheets are updated as of Capitulo 161.
As usual, we have two
decisions to make:
- What would you want to see happen to these villains and
- What do you think the writers will do to them?
Labels: Karmageddon, mcet, weekend
Sunday, March 01, 2015
Weekend Discussion: Premios TVyNovelas 2015
I have to admit due to my tech issues I haven't seen most of these and there were two I bailed on during the first week, one of which has me scratching my head. What are your picks this year?
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Labels: telenovelas, weekend
Thursday, February 19, 2015
Weekend Discussion: Music
What music do you love? Are you into classical, jazz, Latin, World, etc? Do you go to live performances or do you just listen online or to recordings?
Enquiring minds want to know.
Labels: weekend
Friday, January 30, 2015
Weekend Discussion: Videos for those who aren't into football
If you aren't into football and don't care who wins the Super Bowl, here are some excellent items to choose from for weekend viewing. Open a bottle of your favorite wine, get some nice cheese, crusty bread, and fresh fruit and enjoy the finest drama -- or comedy -- to be found online.
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Labels: weekend
Friday, January 23, 2015
Weekend Discussion: Cross-Cultural Infusions and the Future
Still working on the photo gallery, but a new topic emerged yesterday in the midst of discussing the Christmas episodes of Mi Corazon es Tuyo. It's been going on since the age of cinema and picked up speed after the emergence of television. How much faster is this happening now?
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Saturday, January 17, 2015
Weekend Discussion: Food for the "Big Game"
It's off-topic, but I've been a little too busy lately to compile the photos I want for the next gallery.
Who is hosting or contributing to a Super Bowl party? I'm attending one for the first time and hope that my pasta and veggie and my bean salads will go over well. They were always a hit on St Patrick's Day.
What will you all be up to on Feb 1?
Labels: weekend
Thursday, December 18, 2014
Weekend Discussion: Photo Gallery; Family Album, Volume 1
Don't you just love it when casting directors get it right? I love how novela producers often match up actors who look like they could share DNA as family members. This can't pretend to be a whole archive, but merely a first installment.
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Labels: Fuego, malquerida, robo, telemundo, telenovelas, triunfo, weekend
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