{"id":484,"date":"2009-03-18T20:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T04:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273457879237255689.post-5087219212630058378"},"modified":"2009-04-29T16:11:45","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T00:11:45","slug":"%c2%a1three-amigos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/2009\/03\/18\/%c2%a1three-amigos\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a1Three Amigos!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Racking my brain again&#8230;<br \/>\nRecalling all of these movies i&#8217;ve watched up to now (including <em>Traffic<\/em>) concerning Mexican culture, tradition, and custom, i have a vague feeling of the existence of a significant margin b\/w the first 7 (<em>Que Viva Mexico<\/em> is counted) and the last 4. Obviously, Hollywood films present more sophisticatedly artistic, cinematic, and dramatic technics and devices, but once there is heterogeneous perspectives upon a specific object, it always comes controversy. North americans have different viewpoints with those of latinos, and even within the group of hollywood, directors always attempt to dig different aspects of a same object, or i should say it&#8217;s just because they have their own outlooks on it based on their personal experience. Although the first group of films have a sort of same tendency, but in general, they all incorporate both &#8220;good and bad&#8221; for a particular race (latinos), but hollywood apparently has an inclination of going to extremes &#8211; either barbaric folks or progressive outsiders, either uneducated mexican women or brave US women, and either tactful mexican cop or crafty US officer&#8230;I wonder which one is more onto the verge of the true representation of mexico? Of course i know that there is a cinematic device called &#8220;dramatization&#8221;, but as an audience who has no background knowledge about mexico, i always have a tendency to classify those properties either humanistic or ethical shown in the moive, so i guess if i only have a chance to watch only one of them, i might get biased idea.<\/p>\n<p>Back to <em>Three Amigos<\/em>&#8230;<br \/>\nI like it simply because it&#8217;s funny. Wowww finally i&#8217;ve got to watch a movie without burning my brain cells or straining my heart. I like the light atmosphere it creats, and i&#8217;m not picky on comedies as long as it makes me laugh. Once again, characters have distinctive personalities that &#8220;didactically&#8221; presents me which group is evil and which one is angel; in this way, this seems unsophisticated, and i expect more complex traits of roles, which would be more attractive.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/res1.blogblog.com\/tracker\/4273457879237255689-5087219212630058378?l=angell0127.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Racking my brain again&#8230;Recalling all of these movies i&#8217;ve watched up to now (including Traffic) concerning Mexican culture, tradition, and custom, i have a vague feeling of the existence of a significant margin b\/w the first 7 (Que Viva Mexico is cou&#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-484","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\/484","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=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}