frankr@inmet.UUCP (07/14/84)
#N:inmet:6500050:000:522 inmet!frankr Jul 12 18:28:00 1984 I saw Erendira last night. While it wasn't a total loss I have to admit that I didn't like it very much. The story just wasn't very satisfying. I think I expected more, particularly considering the source material, "100 Years of Solitude". Considerable liberties were taken in the process of making a film from the book. The story , such as it is , rambles along sadly lacking anything resembling a plot. Characters drift in and out of the story, their significance unknown . Phooey. Franklin Reynolds ima!inmet!frankr
reza@ihuxb.UUCP (H. Reza Taheri) (07/16/84)
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Let me first say that I have not seen the film (it is not shown in
the suburbs and Chicago is 35 miles away). In the ads for the film, they
claim something like it is based on some parts of the "100 years of
Solitude." Then I read Gene Siskel's review of the film in the Chicago
Sun-Times. He gave a short account of the plot that sounded familiar.
I realized that I had read the story, but it wasn't 100 Years of
Solitude. It was another book by the same author called "Erendira and
her Cruel Grandmother." (It could have been some other word rather
than Cruel). If so, it is a rip-off to use a famous book to attract
people to a movie that has nothing to do with that book.
H. Reza Taheri
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(312)-979-1040riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (07/18/84)
I haven't seen "Erendira" either, nor have I read "Erendira and Her
Cruel Grandmother," but I do remember that the same character --
perhaps with a different name and a slightly different background story
-- appeared in passing in "One Hundred Years of Solitude." Like many
authors, Garcia Marquez frequently lets things spill over from one book
to another. Since "Solitude" is the one book by Garcia Marquez that
most people are familiar with, it's not surprising that ads and
reviewers have tended to emphasize its connection with the movie over
that of his other book.
I'm sorry to hear that some have found the movie a disappointment. I
hope to see it soon. It's about time that some of the fruits of Latin
American literature start showing up as movies -- there's so much
potential there.
--- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.")
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