5/24/07- Interesting article about how Mexican druglord movies are on the wane. I remember growing up with those types of movies as a kid. Bad guys, good guys, throw in some guns, some kidnapping and all of a sudden it’s a movie, or at least a scene in a telenovela playing in the background at my grandma’s house.
The interview was with Rumaldo Bucio whose stage name is Agustin Bernal. He used to star in a lot of those drug cartel style Mexican movies. Bucio says reality is just hitting too close to home these days.
With the daily blood and gore, and real life kidnappings, and beheadings going on around Mexico, Mexicans just don’t even want to see that stuff dramatized. They get enough of it in reality. Bucio tells the AP: "We've beheaded two or three people in films, cut off a head, thrown it away or sent it to someone in a box," he said. "But these guys have gone too far." (referring to real life druglords).
I’m impressed. I thought that type of drama was a mainstay of Mexican film, but am glad to hear it is fading out.
When I know some of my real life friends have been kidnapped, threatened, and beaten in Latin America…it just isn’t funny watching a dramatization of something people I hold near and dear have been through.
-El Politico