{"id":453,"date":"2009-03-17T18:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T02:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446398850538831139.post-1504788366618393684"},"modified":"2009-04-29T16:12:44","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T00:12:44","slug":"three-amigos-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/2009\/03\/17\/three-amigos-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Amigos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three Amigos provides a satire of the portrayal of Mexico in cinema.  Beyond all the gaffes and seemingly silly acts in this movie, a lot of insight can be gained.  This movie was definitely an extreme parody, everything was overdone, overblown and overkill.  I&#8217;ll bet it&#8217;d be pretty hard to find a town in Mexico where everyone drinks their own entire bottle of tequila (hmm maybe we should try to find it..).  There&#8217;s also the oversized hats of the three amigos, the 6 shooter guns who can shoot a million bullets, the giant pi\u00f1atas, the handful of sand in the water gourd, the extremely strong accent with which the Mexicans spoke, and the list goes on.  But that&#8217;s exactly the point of this movie: it parodies those very ste***types in movies which attempt to portay a &#8220;real&#8221; Mexico.<br \/>\nI was taken aback during the first acts of violence in the bar with the German.  The movie seemed to be very lighthearted until that point, and I found myself not expecting the high level of violence.  However, I guess I&#8217;m kind of na\u00efve in expecting that, since it is after all a western style movie.  The light heartedness helps along with that parody though, making some violent scenes funny and ridiculous.<br \/>\nMaybe I&#8217;m stretching this too far, especially since its the movie is meant to be a spoof. But it&#8217;s definitely interesting to see how the three American gringos are praised and relied on by the peasants.  The Mexicans have a problem in their village and their course of action is to seek help from Americans, <span>not <\/span>from within their country.  I guess the girl and young boy go to the neighbouring town and get laughed at&#8230; but it&#8217;s kind of a pathetic attempt.  However, it does go along with the lawlessness that is typically associated with the western genre.<br \/>\nI guess I can say I enjoyed the movie&#8230; but even though it&#8217;s meant to be cheesy, I found it way too cheesy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/res1.blogblog.com\/tracker\/446398850538831139-1504788366618393684?l=maxstmaurice.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Amigos provides a satire of the portrayal of Mexico in cinema.  Beyond all the gaffes and seemingly silly acts in this movie, a lot of insight can be gained.  This movie was definitely an extreme parody, everything was overdone, overblown and ove&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[333,3512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses","category-three-amigos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":667,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions\/667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}