I don't know, But i think this movie has every cliché about southamerican countries, an airport full of chickens, cities in the middle of the jungle (Average temperature in bogotá is 15ºC), and cops with shiny uniforms, moustache and beards,Reality is very diferent, not too better, but so different. Anyway I think the movie is funny, but don't expect take the picture as a geography lesson
shareHow about recommending books and movies that do depict Colombia as it really is?
I think of this as more of a romantic fantasy. I can see getting a bit peeved if this were somewhat of a documentary, or claimed as 'factual' or based on a true story ... but a work of fiction? I don't see the need for angst.
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Such is the way with the portrayal of most locations in movies. I live in upstate NY, and if you believe most movies, we're all a bunch of extras from "Deliverance". Nothing worth worrying about.
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given all the problems with the filming etc, having to use mexico And so in, it seems like it would have been esier to just mAke up an imaginary south american country.
shareThe movie was made as entertainment, not a documentary about Colombia. The stereotypical South American cliches succeeded in being very funny. Fortunately, it was made before everyone was aggrieved about everything.
shareThe thing is, if you go down THIS road, it's an endless 'hollyweird doesn't know anything'-bash. It would probably end around the year 182771, but it would certainly feel endless.
I mean, movies make this kind of 'mistakes' all the time, because they don't care to research, they don't have the intention, budget or interest in depicting anything too realistically, and so on. Movies are meant to tell a story and be ESCAPISM, not to bring you into the most realistic thing that you might as well just watch out your window.
Movies are MEANT to be unrealistic, because they're supposed to take you into the world of entertainment, give you something fun, after which, you can return to the dreary realism that you wanted to escape from in the first place.
There's no such finnish name as 'Rava', and finnish accent is nothing like depicted in that Seinfeld episode. Yet no one cares, because it's just a funny comedy show.
Japanese spoken in a completely atrocious accent and no one in the movie seemingly notices? Complete gibberish lines used to depict chinese hanzi or japanese kanji? Heck, just watch 'Tokyo Breakfast' to see how messed-up cultural depictions can be (there's so much chinese stuff in a supposed japanese show, it's mind-boggling).
No one cares, because it's not the point of the movie/show/whatnot.
Colombia not being exactly like it is in real life, in a movie? HOLY COW, get FBI and CIA and ARREST THOSE FILMMAKERS IMMEDIATELY!! That palm tree leaf is the WRONG SHAPE and it's ruining my breakfast!
"I may have to live in a third-world toilet, but at least the movies DEPICTING this country should be accurate!"
It's like, really, if you live in a place that is so pleasant and good you can actually afford to nitpick about movie details, maybe your life is so good that your posts come off as first-world problems.
Why would ANYONE care if something is 'depicted wrong' in a movie? This together with 'cultural appropriation' means no one can soon make ANYTHING.
Everything south of the US is.
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