Rojo: Chilean musicals are where it's at
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dangermousieIn my neverending quest to watch cheesy movies from as many countries as humanly possible, I watched the flick Rojo: La Musica or Nada, a musical made for Chilean TV.
Apparently, Chile has a reality program called Rojo - a cross between American Idol and Britain Got Talent - dancers and singers compete. It became a ridiculously huge hit. Cue the movie, starring many of the contestants and detailing the contest and 'behind the scenes' hijinks.
I kinda loved it to bits.
1. Due a timewarp, every man has a mullet. If Chile was a monarchy, it would be nicknamed "Mullet Kingdom" if this movie is anything to go by.
2. The women look healthy and not malnourished. In fact, all the people are good-looking in a 'I can see a person like that on the street' and not the plastic-unreal American TV way.
3. Sweet, melodramatic Latin pop is a guilty pleasure of mine and there is so much of it.
4. The movie has 1:35 running time. Within it the flick manages to cram: (a) a poor girl with a useless, abandoning, non-working mother who exploits her; (b) factory girl who dreams big and whose father comes around; (c) a grocer's family whose singing-mad daughter harbors a crush on her badboy older cousin who realizes he feels the same after his breakup; (d) a male dancer who has fame go to his head while dealing with his impoverished gentleman grandfather; (e) a rich girl whose society mother would faint at her joining a contest so she constructs a false indentity with the help of her maid; (f) rich society girl falling for an impoverished tough-guy rapper/fighter and vice-versa; (g) two best friends falling out over a girl; (h) smalltown sweet boy making good and falling for a girl who initially sees him only as a friend but ends up liking him.
Yes. ALL THOSE. In an hour-and-a-half. Each one of them would have made a decent storyline on its own. Needless to say, not one of these gets resolved. It actually left me thinking this would have totally been a pilot to a show I'd watch :)
Samples of musical numbers
Rich girl and her slummin' rapper (I wanted to watch a movie about them :P)
Factory Girl does her sexy dance:
Boy-next-door and the girl who used to see him as a friend but is falling for him:
Cheesy and no masterpiece? Yes. Entertaining as hell? Yes. Yes. YES.
Apparently, Chile has a reality program called Rojo - a cross between American Idol and Britain Got Talent - dancers and singers compete. It became a ridiculously huge hit. Cue the movie, starring many of the contestants and detailing the contest and 'behind the scenes' hijinks.
I kinda loved it to bits.
1. Due a timewarp, every man has a mullet. If Chile was a monarchy, it would be nicknamed "Mullet Kingdom" if this movie is anything to go by.
2. The women look healthy and not malnourished. In fact, all the people are good-looking in a 'I can see a person like that on the street' and not the plastic-unreal American TV way.
3. Sweet, melodramatic Latin pop is a guilty pleasure of mine and there is so much of it.
4. The movie has 1:35 running time. Within it the flick manages to cram: (a) a poor girl with a useless, abandoning, non-working mother who exploits her; (b) factory girl who dreams big and whose father comes around; (c) a grocer's family whose singing-mad daughter harbors a crush on her badboy older cousin who realizes he feels the same after his breakup; (d) a male dancer who has fame go to his head while dealing with his impoverished gentleman grandfather; (e) a rich girl whose society mother would faint at her joining a contest so she constructs a false indentity with the help of her maid; (f) rich society girl falling for an impoverished tough-guy rapper/fighter and vice-versa; (g) two best friends falling out over a girl; (h) smalltown sweet boy making good and falling for a girl who initially sees him only as a friend but ends up liking him.
Yes. ALL THOSE. In an hour-and-a-half. Each one of them would have made a decent storyline on its own. Needless to say, not one of these gets resolved. It actually left me thinking this would have totally been a pilot to a show I'd watch :)
Samples of musical numbers
Rich girl and her slummin' rapper (I wanted to watch a movie about them :P)
Factory Girl does her sexy dance:
Boy-next-door and the girl who used to see him as a friend but is falling for him:
Cheesy and no masterpiece? Yes. Entertaining as hell? Yes. Yes. YES.
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Date: 2009-10-01 04:18 am (UTC)But the story is purely fictional, is not based on the true stories of the contestants.
But just so you know, most of the people who appear there actually have been under the knife. The one with most plastic surgeries is Yamna Lobos.
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Date: 2009-10-01 04:02 pm (UTC)Re: whoever did their plastic work isn't as good as the US plastic surgeons, I guess - it doesn't look as crazy perfect. IMO.
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Date: 2009-10-01 04:59 pm (UTC)Yeah