There are naturally differences between the series adaptations of Gabriel García Márquez’s ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’.And text. Apart from the beginning of the series with the tornado, carnivorous ants, and the blood-soaked pregnant woman at the end of the novel, Melquiades (Moreno Borja) draws an Ouroboros (a snake eating its own tail) that does not appear in the novel. . Novel.
Ouroboros symbolizes eternity and the cyclical nature of things. The producers could have used them as a shorthand for the triumphs and tragedies of the ill-fated Buendia family. Most of the tragedies are brought by Buendia himself, it is a cross he must bear.
Marquez refused to sell the rights to his novel because he believed a film would not do justice to its scope. Coincidentally, the novel uses only 422 pages to tell a story that changed world literature forever, whereas Robert Galbraith/JK Rowling used 1,024 to tell a nonfiction story in ‘The Ink Black Heart’. Pages were used!
This series adaptation is made with the blessing of the Marquez family, and is filmed in Colombia and Spanish in accordance with their wishes. The famous opening lines of ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’, starting with the novel’s silent endingShout, “Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia remembered that distant afternoon when his father had taken him ice scouting.”
We go, at the beginning, to the wedding of cousins, José Arcadio Buendía (Marco Antonio González Ospina) and Ursula Iguarán (Susana Morales Cañas). The marriage is not consummated until he dies in a duel with Prudencio Aguilar (Helber Sepulveda Escobar), due to his mother’s disapproval and stories of their children being born with pig’s tails.
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Spanish)
Director: Alex Garcia Lopez, Laura Mora
Mould: Claudio Caetano, Diego Vasquez, Marleda Soto, Vina Machado, Loren Sofia
Episode: 8
Runtime: 59-68 minutes
Story: A story spanning generations of a family and a nation that is equally blessed and cursed
Buendia and Ursula leave their village with their friends in search of a place where they can live as they wish. After much wandering in swamps and forests they find a utopia and Buendia calls the place Macondo after a dream. For some time Macondo has been isolated from world events as the annual journey of the gypsies, including Melquiades, is their only contact with the outside world.
As Macondo prospers, the world comes calling for Apolinar Moscote (Jairo Camargo) and his seven daughters as a magistrate and later elections, soldiers, death and revolution. Buendia and Ursula have three children (none born with a pig’s tail), Arcadio (Zanor Villarreal), Aureliano (Claudio Caetano), who was born with eyes open and goes on to lead the revolution and Have a daughter, Amaranta (Lorraine Sophia).
Ursula also has a second cousin, the beautiful Rebecca (Akima), who comes to live with the Buendia family as a child, carrying her parents’ bones in a bag. Amaranta and Rebecca are rivals for the love of Italian musician Pietro Crespi (Ruggero Pasquarelli), who comes to install a pianola in the Buendia household and teach the girls to dance.
One Hundred Years of Solitude That doesn’t shy away from the unsavory parts of the novel, including incest, self-harm, and the fact that the only original characters are Visitación and her brother Cataure, of the Wayuu people, who work as domestic servants in the Buendía household.
The series is beautifully presented, lit and scored. Whether it’s Remedios (Crystal Aparicio) looking like a Pre-Raphaelite painting in the bath outside, José Arcadio on a boat looking like he’s walking on water, Aureliano and Moncada (Salvador del Solar) playing chess on the beach, or The long shot encompassing the blue house, Aureliano, the dead dog and the beaten woman, the frame brings Marquez into mercurial prose and the unexpected. And survive in comfortable ways.
The sets are furnished with beautiful ceramics and lavish furniture. The costumes are amazing, from the long skirts, ruffled wide necks, wide shirt sleeves and fitted trousers to Pilar Turnera’s (Vina Machado) stunning neckpieces and rings. Percussion instruments form a large part of musical scores ranging from intense and serene to sultry or military.
Diego Vasquez as old Jose Arcadio Buendia, tied to a gray chestnut tree, having lost his mind, and Marleida Soto as matriarch Ursula, keeping things together, shine in the acting department, where Everyone gives an excellent description of themselves. first part of One Hundred Years of Solitude Ending with Aureliano and his rebel army preparing to capture Macondo. The second part, also consisting of eight episodes, is expected to tell the rest of the story including the arrival of the railroad, the massacre of banana workers and the wealthy Belgian aviator Gaston with his velocipede.
Although Netflix has not announced the date for Part 2, the episodes have already been shot. While we wait, we can take a cue from Ouroboros to revisit Part 1 or read the book and see “The first part of the line is tied to a tree and the last one is being eaten by ants”, how does this work.
One Hundred Years of Solitude is currently streaming on Netflix
published – December 21, 2024 03:35 PM IST
