I love telenovelas (soap operas in Spanish) and I'm going to blog about them. I started watching them at a young age with my parents (who are from Mexico) and was immediatly captivated.
Spanish was my first language as a baby, but when my brother and I entered school, my parents started to speak to us only in English, fearing we would have trouble in school if they continued to speak to us in Spanish. So little by little, I forgot most of my Spanish.
I was about 11 when I started to sit and watch a full episode of a telenovela. It was called Alondra. At first I didn't understand most of the words. But the overall production was so well done, that anyone from anywhere could understand whats going on. Before I knew it, I started to enjoy and understand more and more, and I was hooked.
Telenovelas are stories about love, revenge, humility, cheating, money, pain, hope, triumph of good over evil, karma, struggle, freedoom, chance, and fate. And most importantley: LOVE! It sounds cheesy, and it is. They can even sometimes be predictable. But there is the difference between a good one and a bad one.
What makes them so captivating is that they are usually one hour episodes, monday to friday, for anywhere from 3 months to a year. So the story has a begining, middle, end, and then a new one begins all over again.
The whole world has caught on to this format and are now hundreds of telenovelas are produced all over in many different countries. It's established style involves such crazy and over-the-top storylines and characters that it is hard not to watch.
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Have you checked out any of the American Telenovelas on MyNetworkTV?
Do telenovelas ever have spin offs? I would be pissed if I like a character a lot and in 3 months they're gone.
Do you see alot of type casting? Like a certain actor always plays a bad guy?
My Spanish teacher used to show us telenovelas to improve our word recognition in class. Considering I remember about three words, I don't think it worked. I do remember being very, very entertained, however.
I really enjoy the fact that they have a beginning/middle/end. I'm starting to become really tired with the American "milk it 'til it's dry and horrible" way of dragging series on.
Damn Americans!!! If you want to see a "milk it" approach to entertainment take a look at Lucha Libre. Masks let these wrestling personas live on and on through multiple wrestlers. But if you ask me, that's a good thing. Viva La Parka!
You know people always be asking if I'm the bitch that plays La Madrasta.
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