{"id":473,"date":"2009-03-18T04:40:11","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T12:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alyssasatterwhite.wordpress.com\/?p=27"},"modified":"2009-04-29T16:07:59","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T00:07:59","slug":"three-amigos-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/2009\/03\/18\/three-amigos-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Amigos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"snap_preview\">\n<p>I am not a fan of Steve Martin.\u00a0 At all. Nor the other main actors (the other two amigos) in this movie, based on the types of movies I know them to usually be in.\u00a0 When we started the film and I saw the cast, I thought I was going to hate it.\u00a0 And at first, I didn\u2019t like it, all I could see was stereotypes of Mexico.\u00a0 A naive, uneducated, beautiful Mexican country girl, not having been exposed to film, we will assume, takes it to be reality, and writes to the Three Amigos for help.\u00a0 It poked fun at the communication disconnect between Americans and Mexicans, which was fine.\u00a0 But if you take it as representing actual people, Mexico, etc. it is quite offensive, or at least could be seen as such.<\/p>\n<p>However, once I realized that it was not trying to represent Mexico so much as make fun of Hollywood and the old Western movies, I had a greater appreciation for the movie.\u00a0 It alluded to the ignorance of so many big screen actors who represent people without knowing anything about them really.\u00a0 Like Dusty asks if there is some other food, they don\u2019t understand what the girl is asking of them, they through a fit at El Guapo when they realize it is real, and they keep saying the same lines over and over again, even when they realized it is not a show.\u00a0 It also had so many allusions to Westerns, such as the Mexican villain and the Gringos who come in and save the day.\u00a0 The unnecessary amount of shooting guns, drinking, mistreating women\u2026 etc.\u00a0 The correspondences to the Wild Bunch (and other westerns, I am sure, I just haven\u2019t seen many) were actually quite numerous once I stopped to think about them: the Germans being the most striking one.<\/p>\n<p>So, though I started out not liking the movie, when looking at it as a parady of films, and not of real people, it is much easier to appreciate.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/alyssasatterwhite.wordpress.com\/27\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/alyssasatterwhite.wordpress.com\/27\/\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/alyssasatterwhite.wordpress.com\/27\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/alyssasatterwhite.wordpress.com\/27\/\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/alyssasatterwhite.wordpress.com\/27\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/alyssasatterwhite.wordpress.com\/27\/\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/alyssasatterwhite.wordpress.com\/27\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/alyssasatterwhite.wordpress.com\/27\/\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/alyssasatterwhite.wordpress.com\/27\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/alyssasatterwhite.wordpress.com\/27\/\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=alyssasatterwhite.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6115592&amp;post=27&amp;subd=alyssasatterwhite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not a fan of Steve Martin.\u00a0 At all. Nor the other main actors (the other two amigos) in this movie, based on the types of movies I know them to usually be in.\u00a0 When we started the film and I saw the cast, I thought I was going to hate it.\u00a0 And at [&#8230;]<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=alyssasatterwhite.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6115592&amp;post=27&amp;subd=alyssasatterwhite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1\" \/><\/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-473","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\/473","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=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":646,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions\/646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}