Bananas opens with a very satirical tone. The first scene gives a perfect example of satire with the American reporter who introduces the movie by reporting from San Marco’s, “a Latin American country” as he says. He is reporting a political broadcast for “wide public sports” which I thought to be rather comical. His descriptions …
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I’m not entirely sure how I feel about the film Fun in Acapulco, moments of the film definitely had me laughing while watching it due to the ridiculousness of it. In the end I was just left confused as to what the whole purpose of the film was. The film opens with credits and we …
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre like the films we have previously watched in class set in a latin american country, specifically, in the City of Mexico. The camera makes it very clear in presenting this with a zommed in shot at the beggining of the film that focuses on what looks like a newspaper …
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The first character we see as an audience in the film Down Argentine Way, is a singer who I believe is singing in Portuguese. The only thing I can make up from what she is singing is when she says, “In South American way” which still would be rather hard for someone to understand if …
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The 1920 film The Mark of Zorro is actually the first silent film and also beleive it or not the first Zorro film out of the many I have ever watched. In all honesty this film was super hard for me to watch due the fact that it was a black and white silent film. …
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While watching the film The Man from Acapulco (or Le Magnifique) directed by Philippe de Broca my first impression was that it was very comical. I found Bob Saint-Clar’s character hilarious with a very goofy childish personality. I was confused while watching the film when it transitioned from Bob Saint-Clair’s character to the real François …
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Following last weeks readings, this weeks dealt with some of the effects the dirty wars had on the ordinary Latin American people. One of the issues in focus was the “Madres of the Plaza de Mayo” who were mothers of some of the victims killed unnecessarily under violent government oppression. The mothers started an … Continue reading “12 – Speaking Truth to Power”
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This weeks readings discussed the events between 1960s-90s, where Latin America was in chaos due to widespread guerrilla warfare fighting known as the “dirty wars”. During this period hundreds and thousands of Latin Americans died in one of the most divided times in its history. Newly formed socialist groups fought against the state and governments. … Continue reading “11- The Terror”
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This weeks reading was quite interesting as I have not heard of most of theses events and injustices that took place in Latin America. I had heard previously of the disappearances in Argentina, but learning that this took place within a dictatorship that killed between 9000- 30 000 people was just insane. Learning of the … Continue reading Week 12: Speaking Truth to Power
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This chapters was about the different stories of how each country in Latin America got its independence. For me, the documents of Bolivar and Marti are the ones I found most interesting in this chapter. Bolivar had big dreams and wanted a great future for Latin America. In his letter, he writes about what he … Continue reading →
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