La cocinera de Castamar is sort of Upstairs Downstairs meets Bridgerton in Bourbon Spain under Felipe V. Not as good as Versailles. Overall it is charming, but there are lots of little issues of plausibility or continuity that kept me from really enjoying it. The romance between the Duque de Castamar and his cocinera doesn't generate a lot of heat, in part because she mostly has to stay in the kitchen so we're not given a lot of interactions between the two to explain how he is so smitten with her that he is ready to renounce his wealth and titles. He's supposed to be the king's right-hand man but he spends a lot of time in his carriage going back and forth to court. When he finds out that his mayordomo has been spying on him for the queen, he just lets it slide. The grand estate is an easy walk to a tavern filled with ruffians so that the conniving maid Beatriz can skip out of work and conspire with El Zurdo without any consequences at work. When the evil marqués outs the gay characters, he does it with hand-drawn folletos that must have been printed somehow, but how so fast? How did various characters conceal pistols until the opportune moment? How did the kitchen prepare food for the staff as well as for the masters? People recover from their wounds in no time at all. Apparently a little soup with sherry is just the trick to stop a miscarriage. Any time we see a shot of the courtyard that same guy is feeding the chickens. The ending was hasty. In spite of these crabby complaints, I did enjoy the Spanish (the dub is horrific) and watched the whole thing. The series is based on a novel that was a bestseller, and has been a great success in Spain.
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Thursday, August 05, 2010
Three versions of "Spanish Buzz"
We went to see Toy Story 3 today, and cried at the end, along with the rest of the world.
*SPOILERS* Don't read this if you haven't seen the movie and don't want to know what happens.
One of our favorite parts is when the gang tries to undo the Buzz Lightyear reset and ends up switching him to "Spanish mode." This little special feature about "Spanish Buzz" shows how the animators did the Spanish dance sequence at the very end, using Cheryl Burke and Tony Dovolani's choreography of a ballroom paso doble (to a rhythm that actually in Spain would be called a "rumba," not to be confused with the Cuban rumba or ballroom rumba). The song is performed by the Gypsy Kings and is the already existing Spanish translation of "You'll Have a Friend in Me." They did a superb job of rendering the movement of the dancers, and the body language of Buzz when he is in "Spanish mode" is spot on.
My daughter had already seen the movie in Spain, where everything is dubbed. I asked her how Pixar handled the switch to Spanish mode if all the characters were already dubbed into Spanish? She said they made his sound like a typical Andalusian.
I found this great little video (by YouTuber "vagoperesozo" from Argentina) that shows all three versions of this scene. In the U.S. English version, Buzz is supposed to be acting like a Spaniard (flamenco style poses, etc,) and he is voiced as speaking in a perfectly Castillian Spanish, with the same intonation as as all the dubbers of Spanish movies in Spain ("rrrounnnd tooooones" as they say in "Singing in the Rain"). In the Latin American version, in which all the characters speak Latin American accented Spanish, Buzz switches to an exaggeratedly caricatured and inconsistent "Spanish" accent (what Spaniards sound like to Latin Americans), sort of like Dick Van Dyke trying to do a Cockney accent in Mary Poppins. Finally, in the dubbed version as shown in Spain, the one my daughter saw, all the characters speak in a Castillian Spanish accent and when Buzz is reset, he is voiced by a REAL Andalusian,
As one commenter quotes him: "Bitacora Espasiá... Me dehpertao del hiperzueño."
*SPOILERS* Don't read this if you haven't seen the movie and don't want to know what happens.
One of our favorite parts is when the gang tries to undo the Buzz Lightyear reset and ends up switching him to "Spanish mode." This little special feature about "Spanish Buzz" shows how the animators did the Spanish dance sequence at the very end, using Cheryl Burke and Tony Dovolani's choreography of a ballroom paso doble (to a rhythm that actually in Spain would be called a "rumba," not to be confused with the Cuban rumba or ballroom rumba). The song is performed by the Gypsy Kings and is the already existing Spanish translation of "You'll Have a Friend in Me." They did a superb job of rendering the movement of the dancers, and the body language of Buzz when he is in "Spanish mode" is spot on.
My daughter had already seen the movie in Spain, where everything is dubbed. I asked her how Pixar handled the switch to Spanish mode if all the characters were already dubbed into Spanish? She said they made his sound like a typical Andalusian.
I found this great little video (by YouTuber "vagoperesozo" from Argentina) that shows all three versions of this scene. In the U.S. English version, Buzz is supposed to be acting like a Spaniard (flamenco style poses, etc,) and he is voiced as speaking in a perfectly Castillian Spanish, with the same intonation as as all the dubbers of Spanish movies in Spain ("rrrounnnd tooooones" as they say in "Singing in the Rain"). In the Latin American version, in which all the characters speak Latin American accented Spanish, Buzz switches to an exaggeratedly caricatured and inconsistent "Spanish" accent (what Spaniards sound like to Latin Americans), sort of like Dick Van Dyke trying to do a Cockney accent in Mary Poppins. Finally, in the dubbed version as shown in Spain, the one my daughter saw, all the characters speak in a Castillian Spanish accent and when Buzz is reset, he is voiced by a REAL Andalusian,
As one commenter quotes him: "Bitacora Espasiá... Me dehpertao del hiperzueño."
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