I’m starting to think that some of you aren’t communists, you’re contrarians. Pan’s Labyrinth is magical realism, go sit in a corner.
wat no really what gave you that idea
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A massive ammount of Latin-American story telling especially Mexican story telling is magical realism, so this kinda pings my “goddamn mayos again”
Captain Vidal scares the shit out of me to this day. It’s an amazing movie but I don’t really want to watch it, solely bc of Vidal.
I like del Toro’s taste in media and fiction, we share some of the same favorite creators, I absolutely despise his works. I think he’s one of the biggest hacks running around Hollywood. I’d rather watch a Zack Snyder movie, or a Ruben Fleischer movie, or an Uwe Boll movie. Uwe Boll’s Postal > anything Del Toro. Every single time I try to keep an open mind, and every single time I end up bored and disappointed. He’s like mexican Kevin Smith, just worse. I thought his best movie was Pacific Rim, and only because it was so dumb.
I thought magical realism was when you’re a not-white author wanting to talk about how banally intrusive Capitalism is in everyday life, but you don’t want your book to be review bombed by :lmayo: for being “tOo pOliTiCaL” so you turn it into a metaphor that your characters just have to deal with, because that’s how it is in real life?
I dunno my woke SJW Postmodern Neo-Marxists College Professors forced me to read Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” and now the force-ghost of Jordan Peterson is haunting me.
when a mexican writer sees a fairy, that’s magical realism
You’re talking about something very broad. It spans from Pans Labyrinth and Hundred Years of Solitude to a good chunk of Urban Fantasy via things like Over the Garden Wall and Ian Bank’s non-SF novels.
Heck, you could say Disco Elysium is Magical Realism. You could say The Secret Garden is Magical Realism. What are you complaining about specifically?
It’s big in south american lit. Like 100 days years of Solitude uses it a lot - honestly worth a read even if you hate magical realism, it’s one of the world greats up there with War and Peace and shit. Maybe you don’t like the more modern magical realism like What We Do In The Shadows (or fucking harry potter lol)? Where there’s a masquerade keeping everything secret?
Not to nitpick but it’s 100 years of solitude, 100 años de Soledad, not days. The book takes place over about a hundred years and follows seven generations of a family in a fictional rural town in Colombia. It’s one of my all time favorite books and I’m even really excited for the Netflix adaptation (mini series, hopefully they’re still making it as I haven’t heard anything in years and I hope it doesn’t suck when it does finally come out).
Understandable sentiment, and not sure if Gabo ever would have gone for it himself, but his wife/son who manage his estate did and gave their reasoning.
Basically, they say the reason Garcia Marquez never granted movie rights to his works was two-fold: one, the stories are too long to be squeezed into a feature length film and done justice and two: every time Warner Bros or whoever would come knocking they wanted to make a movie in English.
Netflix was able to show that they could do extended storytelling in Spanish for a global audience with shows like Narcos etc, so the estate agreed. Gabo’s son will be involved with the production, I’m cautiously optimistic that it could be a good adaptation.
100 Years of Solitude
Hell yeah. Seriously loved this book. It’s the only one I can remember finishing and being completely blown away by. I’ve gifted it several times even though I don’t think anyone I’ve gifted it to has actually read it.
It was the first full length book I read in Spanish after learning it as a second language (years into learning Spanish after already being fluent in speaking, I decided to start reading novels to continue improving), and yeah it is absolutely incredible. Definitely can be a bit confusing at parts with how many characters have similar or the same names etc but it’s a hundred percent worth it.
Yeah magical realism has the element where supernatural shit happens and it never gets acknowledged as something crazy. Like in 100 years where a ghost shows up and it’s played as a major annoyance and not horror.
a ghost shows up and it’s played as a major annoyance and not horror.
I feel like treating random ass ghosts as a horror thing is very :lmayo:
