RE: Is the TV Series of 100 Years of Solitude Worth a Watch?
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Thank you for this review of a great TV show, spectacularly well done, and well acted by unknowns (to us in America anyway). I love seeing new, young actors get a chance at starring roles. You make a most excellent point about some of the over-used Hollywood familiars, one in particular:
I was really pleased it was subtitled and with Latin American actors - it would have been a travesty to have white, mainstream, Hollywood actors play the parts, just as it was awful that Nicholas Cage played the lead in the TV series of Berniere's Captain Corelli's Mandolin and Penelope Cruz, a Latin American actor, played the greek Pelagia.
Cage was also horribly miscast in the movie version of JC Oates "Rape: A Love Story," retitle "Vengeance." Cage was wrong for the role in every way possible. The movie totally missed the point of the book and the title.
Incredibly, I still have not read Hundred Years of Solitude, but I did read "Love in the Time of Cholera."
YOu'll have to get around to the novel of 100 years. I've read all his books. YEah Cage can be miscast a lot! When he isn't he's a legend though. You can't be made at Nick.