"... ending a long and futile task of historical research went to have drinks with my colleague and friend, Federico Ovalle, grandson of Communist activists and artist by profession, our conversations had taken shape different from a day that honored one of my shirts "the red rooster" logo of the PCV (Venezuelan Communist Party) and I liked very much that I never spoke blandishments of Bolivar and much less nonsense about the insane discussions Chavez was there where I dove into the world of Taita Boves, the antihero of the plains here so my Discovery in 2010 I want to share with readers of The Moviola
Oscar Romero
For Oscar Romero
Special to The Moviola
Sniffing history books, the first quarter of the nineteenth century, rummaging through the Strait of heroes past, delusional, self-conscious romantic English Creoles and yearning for freedom in a continent "new", the experiments, that of the collage systems, organizations and repressive slave in the endless dance of hidden capital books, as I sought in vain to write a script that could deal with people of flesh and bone of the foot and sandals that went through the majestic wilderness of Pisba, dying army that managed to upset the great battle known in books, manuals history as the Vargas Swamp.
Vargas, Bolívar, Santander, Paez, Barreiro, the ghosts seemed to me, old papyrus holograms, my dialogues lacked context, and paraphrased outdated proclamations, the script stopped liking and stay on file until the day when a colleague Federico Ovalle Caraqueño me was talking about a certain Boves and I shared a fabulous book which came off their leaves with each step avid pages, there was a myth of the bloody battles for independence, Boves had been a "bad" in Venezuelan history, but it was a bad uncomfortable, white and English, who had been revered by lancers of the plains, mestizos, mulattos, baboons and other genetic lineage of African seed incubator is well grounded and blindly followed him through the bloodbath that was immortalized in the plains. The Grouse
Boves (1972): title and his first foray into novel medical Francisco Herrera Luque psychiatrist where he explored in the spaces between the historical memory of the story, and from 60 ' Luque Herrera approached scientific explanations for a number of diseases and morbid crime on American soil left by the English conquerors, became obsessed with understanding the origins of the personalities of the people of Latin America, genetic inheritance and sifting through his pen down to conceive almost a genre of novel that managed to name two decades later as a fabled history.
The "daddy" as they called Boves their spears and protected, had been a smuggler, cattle dealer, grocer, to end leader, he hated white people especially the "aristocrats" of Caracas, mulatto lover beyond, mutilated in the name the king and runaway slaves danced to the sound of marching drums and smoke snuff. This figure ranged from the legend of the bloodthirsty warrior and the furious fighting against the powerful classes of the era that exploited peasant prairie.
The "daddy" who drew Herrera Luque in his book allowed me to see beyond the pin and pompous costumes (as you call them?) Was definitely a movie character, navigator, traveler, pirate, warrior of an almost unexplored and very epic our, a drunken Cid revenge and calved in the midst of racial hatred that found embattled supporters. The same that followed the battlefield where they fell the same die was transferred with a lance, humanity through the dreaded Boves. Luque
dug with his pen a series of contradictions that do not yet share certain circles in Venezuela, despite that a short time after the publication of the novel was adapted for a glitzy TV and 30 years after Luis Alberto Lamata and his production Films Jericho lead to the big screen its own version of the Grouse Boves. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXdWPCdxto4
A copy of 3 Bs bought in Caracas and Bogota brought to term bet on the DVD version of Lamata: Taita Boves ".. To the best of your revenge "(2010), made me contemplate soon see my script likely to become a film in a different context, of special interests, away from the decisions of military lawyers and idealized as Bolivar, Jose Tomas Boves transformed into cinematic fable is an open gap to excavate lost histories, relevant and can be reinterpreted, consumed by an audience, supported by the state and the Film universalized.
0 comments:
Post a Comment