NEW STAR PLUS EPIC SHOWS
PANCHO VILLA
Beside Santa Evita which I already wrote about, there are two other period set shows that Disney's Star Plus South American streamer has 
presented at Conecta Fiction and Entertainment festival in Toledo this week. While Santa Evita will bow on Star Plus in South America, Hulu in United 
States and Disney's Star around the the world from July 26th, another historical series that has already been shot for Star Plus is PANCHO VILLA: 
THE CENTAUR OF THE NORTH (Pancho Villa. El Centauro del Norte)! As Variety reports, the series about legendary Mexican revolutionary leader 
Doroteo Arango, aka Pancho Villa, was filmed on location in the state of Jalisco, Mexico. The story of the new series traces his evolution, from his time 
as a bandit to his transformation into the leader of the Mexican Revolution. The cast is led by Jorge A. Jiménez (Pancho Villa), Juan Luis Medina (Carlos Jáuregui) and Armando Hernández (Tomás Urbina).
presented at Conecta Fiction and Entertainment festival in Toledo this week. While Santa Evita will bow on Star Plus in South America, Hulu in United 
States and Disney's Star around the the world from July 26th, another historical series that has already been shot for Star Plus is PANCHO VILLA: 
THE CENTAUR OF THE NORTH (Pancho Villa. El Centauro del Norte)! As Variety reports, the series about legendary Mexican revolutionary leader 
Doroteo Arango, aka Pancho Villa, was filmed on location in the state of Jalisco, Mexico. The story of the new series traces his evolution, from his time 
as a bandit to his transformation into the leader of the Mexican Revolution. The cast is led by Jorge A. Jiménez (Pancho Villa), Juan Luis Medina (Carlos Jáuregui) and Armando Hernández (Tomás Urbina).
THE CRY OF THE BUTTERFLIES
Another
of the upcoming period set series produced for Star Plus is THE CRY OF
THE BUTTERFLIES (El Grito de las Mariposas)! As the official synopsis
says, it will be a period drama based on the true story of the
Dominican
Republic’s Mirabal sisters and one of the most shocking cases of gender
violence in Latin American history. As Variety states, you can expect a
plush period drama, laced by current gender sensibilities.
Dominican
Republic’s Mirabal sisters and one of the most shocking cases of gender
violence in Latin American history. As Variety states, you can expect a
plush period drama, laced by current gender sensibilities.
The cry of the butterflies sounds rather interesting. The one in the middle looks like a trans.
ReplyDeleteLOL methinks the third one looks even more trans.
DeleteIt’s funny how Hollywood has manufactured this idea of Pancho Villa as a Mexican Robin Hood. They never get him right. There is a lot to admire in him, but he was more of a bandit than a guerrilla leader. A man full of contradictions. He took to banditry after killing a rich man that had raped his sister, but he led a gang of rapists, and was a rapist himself. Few people outside Mexico knows he had an incomprehensible hatred of Asian people. Whenever he run into Chinese people (there was an all community in northern Mexico) he would have them shot. Hardly a woke hero.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I saw Salma Hayek playing Minerva Mirabal in In Time of the Butterflies, I wouldn’t mind watching another version of the Mirabal tragedy, but I wonder which Latino country will be behind the project. Are those actresses Domincan? After the horror of Rubirosa I dread anything made in the Dominican Republic (and yet Rubirosa was made with Colombian-Mexican money and cast)
Things left from previous discussions. That is the difference between old Hollywood dynasties and the current brat wannabees. This gang has no talent whatsoever.
Thanks for helping me decide. No Apple subscription, no need to waste money for woke garbage.
I failed to see the thespian merits of Jack Lowden and the Robbie woman in mary, Queen of Scots. I can’t stop thinking of the Australian as the gaping mouthed flight attendant of “Pan Am.”
Thanks for clarifying who he was as I was never really sure if he was a good or a bad guy. I am not sure about Che Guevarra either. The Mariposas will be produced with Argentina’s Pablo Bossi.
DeleteI’d never travel to Dominican Republic. It’s gotten way too violent there. However, I hadn’t heard of the Mirabal sisters before and found their story rather interesting. Their dictator sounded like a real piece of work. Ruining the lives of an entire family because one refused to sleep with him? Just wow.
ReplyDeleteToo violent as opposed to Minneapolis and such woke cities? LOL
DeleteIndeed it is. It used to be a great place to vacation. Sadly, I’d go to the south side of Chicago or Baltimore before going to to The Dominican Republic now.
DeleteThat is sad indeed.
DeleteGatocito, Che Guevara was a pig, while Pancho Villa was just a product of his time and place. He was born a peasant, a social class of oppressed people, had no education. His one way out of this space was to turn criminal. If he was cruel and ruthless was because he was fighting a ruthless ad cruel system.
ReplyDeleteChe Guevara came from a fine white middle class family. Was an educated man, a professional, who let ideology obscure his humanity? As a head of the Notorious Cabana Prison, he conducted a sort of Stalinist purge. Among the victim, were not only dissidents but poor peasants whose only crime was being catholic. Moreover, Che was a staunch homophobe, he established the first Gulag like labor camps in Cuba where gay people were tortured and killed. In fact, after Che’s death those same camps imprisoned (in the 80s) HIV positive patients
I will have to investigate Che more when I find time, although I must admit the history of Americas does not intrigue me much outside Aztecs and Incas. He does sound terrible beyond words. Da eff? They had camps for HIV patients??? It seems South Americans might be even crazier than us here at the Balkans.
DeleteThe Cry of the Butterflies sounds interesting.
ReplyDeleteCould be indeed.
DeleteThe cry of the butterflies sound 8nteresting. Disney+ has started its films since the June 14 here. I am not sure but this film could be in it.
ReplyDeleteYes, they have arrived to Europe, this one is not on it.
DeleteSad to say, but Latin American history is a continuum of ill-taken decisions, bad governments, and violence. Fidel Castro’s government combined the abuses of the dictatorship he had just toppled with the worst excesses of Marxist Stalinism, including the rejection of homosexuality which they viewed as a bourgeois crime that no Hombre Nuevo (New Man, Che’s idea of a perfect communist) could tolerate.
ReplyDeleteWhen HIV began in Cuba in the Eighties, the government took immediate measures to isolate and literally imprison patients. They used the camps system imposed by Che, but also created ‘sanatoriums” to quarantine people with Aids. Today such measure is applauded but n fact it turned the patients into criminals that had to be kept away from the population, pretty much like in the leper colony Che Guevara visited in his Motorcycle Diaries.
I left you a couple of articles on the subject in Messenger
I did not know all of those things, thanks for unveiling those atrocities to me as I do admit that sometimes I have tolerant view of Cuba, but not anymore.
DeleteThe problem with Cuba (and Cubans are lovely people) is that throughout her history the island has never known a good government. This dictatorship was bound to happen. The problem with the Castroist revolution was that it set a precedent for other countries to follow (e.g Nicaragua and Venezuela).
ReplyDeleteI've always had love for them as they oppose US terrorism around the world and stand proudly against US colonialism. I am aware that life there isn't nice to the people.
DeleteThe Cry of the Butterflies is something that I want to watch, mostly because it's based on a true story. I just hope it's not too gruesome to see.
ReplyDeleteWe do love true stories.
DeleteThe Cuban people are really lovely people, indeed. The government sucks, but the Cuban people generally like America and we like them as well.
ReplyDeleteLike America? What illusion is this, deary LOL I know they hate their own government like we all hate ours, but they hate yours even more like we all do LOL
DeleteFlorida and many other southern states are full of Cubans who have fled their country in favor of USA. They run from oppression and communism and like that we are not a socialist country. Many republicans will welcome them with open arms over citizens of Mexico because they tend to vote more republican than democrat because they don't want to live in a country with a government that is like the one they left.
ReplyDeleteDahlink, their country is in the shite it is exactly because the oppression of USA which has isolated them like poor rats, it is exactly that kind of outside aggression that creates totalitarian regimes like in Cuba or my own country. ISIS and talibans for example did not appear out of nowhere but out of hatred for your country that kept them brutally oprressed and invaded for decades if not centuries. The same is with Cuba. We also rush to Western Europe to find work there, but that does not mean we love them, we are just trying to survive just like poor Cubans.
DeleteAnd please stop mixing communism with socialism, that is not the same thing, very opposite indeed. You first would benefit from socialism as your family would have equal health insurance which you don't have in your capitalistic system which earns from the sick and dying. Communism is entirely different thing.
Believe me, we are well aware of what our shitty government has done to the Cubans and across the globe. I'm speaking first hand from the Cubans I have interacted with that have come here and like living here. I was baffled at first too on why they would be so happy to be living in a country that screwed them over they way we did. They could certainly keep going north to Canada if they don't like the government or our way of life, but they choose to stay here.
DeleteThere's a fine line between communism and socialism. While I can see some of the benefits of socialism as we do enjoy it via our public school system, roadways, emergency services, etc, it is not something I will every fully support in this country. You speak of healthcare for all, and while great in theory, I do not want the government making decisions about my health care, period. I have Canadians and Europeans on my IBD support groups that since the government was paying for their care, they decided to switch the patients off their current medications to a cheaper biosimilar and many of them ended up getting sick. They were all fine on their meds and living a healthy life, but the government wanted to save a few dollars and fucked them over. Once you stop taking a biologic, you cannot restart it down the line as your body will build antibodies against it. I've been in remission for 5 years and I'll be damned if I let the government throw me back to wanting to die because I'm so sick just so they can save on my meds. And while I know you don't support abortion, this week proved more than ever that the government does not need to be making decisions for us where our healthcare is concerned. As for the public school system, if my girls were still in school, I'd rip them out so fast and home school them now. Many parents have done so already in my city alone, to the point that the schools here are only at 50% capacity, so next year they will be shutting down the high school Allison attended and 2 of the elementary schools and will redistrict all of the kids to get the remainder at capacity. Many are speaking loud and clear we don't want socialism and we don't want the government running our lives. While it may work for smaller countries with like minded citizens, it does not work in a large country like the US with melting pot of cultures. And don't even get me started on the defund the police idiots or the people who want the borders open to all. As you have stated, so many people hate the US, why in God's name should we invite them in with open arms? There's my rant for today LOL. Think I need to go eat some chocolate, drink some tea, then take a nap.