Celia cruz novela personajes: Sinopsis y personajes de “Celia”, la serie de la vida de Celia Cruz de Telemundo

La serie ‘Celia’ cae en imprecisiones y errores históricos

La voz de Jeimy Osorio fue doblada en los pasajes cantados por la de la cantante colombiana Patricia Padilla, que imitó a la Guarachera en un reality.

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La serie Celia, inspirada en la vida de Celia Cruz (1925-2003), sigue acaparando la atención de la teleaudiencia desde que salió al aire por Telemundo.

Y no es para menos, el hecho de que aborde la trayectoria de una figura sobre la cual se conoce poco de su historia personal, salvo su larga relación matrimonial con el trompetista de la Sonora Matancera Pedro Kight, siempre despierta curiosidad.

La coproducción de Fox Telecolombia y RCN cuenta la lucha de una mujer que, a contrapelo de los prejuicios de la época, se abrió paso en el difícil mundo de la música bailable y con el tiempo llegó a convertirse en Reina de la Salsa.

Aunque no se trata de una biografía de la artista cubana la serie recrea, bajo un halo romántico, los avatares de aquella maestra negra, de origen humilde, que a golpe de talento, perseverancia y suerte logró realizar sus sueños.

Vale recordar que esta no es la primera vez que la Guarachera de Cuba da pie a una obra de ficción.

En el 2007, el musical Celia: la vida y la música de Celia Cruz, estrenado Off-Broadway, recibió la aprobación del público dentro y fuera de Nueva York. Sin contar que, en vida de la cantante, la periodista Cristina Saralegui, el productor Marcos Avila y la actriz Whoopi Goldberg intentaron plasmar su trayectoria en una película de Hollywood, con Goldberg como protagonista.

Según recordó Avila a el Nuevo Herald, el proyecto no prosperó porque varios estudios alegaron que como la vida de Celia era “demasiado limpia”, no despertaría interés entre el público.

“Ni Cristina ni yo íbamos a prestarnos para inventar cosas sobre Celia que nunca existieron”, expresó Avila, desde su casa de Miami.

Pero si a Hollywood no le pareció suficiente material dramático el hecho de que Celia no pudiera tener hijos, tuviera que abandorar su país, donde la vetaron, y empezar de nuevo en suelo extranjero, y nunca más volviera a ver a su madre, parece que a los productores de la serie colombiana tampoco les pareció tan atractivo como para llenar los 80 capítulos de la serie.

De ahí que los guionistas, tal vez con el fin de sazonar la trama, le inventaran a la cantante una hermana “villana”, de la raza blanca, un padre desquiciado, una amiga abusada por el padrastro y presentaran una imagen desfachatada de Pedro Knight, muy ajena a la del caballero que muchos conocieron.

“Celia es una serie de ficción inspirada en la vida de la cantante, en ningún momento pretende ser un recuento histórico o documental. Por esta razón, al iniciar cada capítulo, aparece este aviso que advierte al televidente que se tomaron licencias creativas para poder consolidar una historia más atractiva en el ámbito del entretenimiento”, expresó desde Bogotá Nelson David Martínez, director de producción para Argumentales, de Fox Telecolombia.

Errores históricos

En una pausa de la gira promocional por Chile, donde la serie se comenzó a transmitir, Omer Pardillo Cid, albacea de Celia Cruz, destacó que la producción “lleva a una nueva generación la historia de una exitosa cantante que cruzó barreras sociales de todo tipo”.

Al margen de las licencias creativas, el momento histórico en que se enmarca la acción es erróneo.

Si la trama transcurre en 1950, año en que Celia Cruz ingresa a la Sonora Matancera, el dictador Fulgencio Batista aún no había ocupado la presidencia de Cuba, tal como refleja el argumento. Por lo tanto, sobra la inclusión de los jóvenes “barbudos” y el campamento de la guerrilla, pues faltaban años para que Fidel Castro se internara en la Sierra Maestra y se intensificara la lucha clandestina en las ciudades.

Otro comentario merece la escena del tren, en la que los personajes de Celia y Pedro ocupan un área destinada a los negros.

“Había espacios públicos en Cuba antes del 1959 que estaban segregados en la práctica”, recordó Alejandro de la Fuente, director del Instituto de Investigaciones Afro-Latinoamericanas de la Universidad de Harvard, al referirse a “algunos parques de la zona central del país, que tenían áreas por las que transitaban los blancos y los negros sin mezclarse. Pero ninguno tenía zonas ‘designadas’ expresamente para ese propósito, lo cual hubiera sido ilegal”.

El académico agregó que nunca ha leído “ninguna denuncia sobre prácticas de ese tipo en las redes de transporte público, aunque no es imposible que arreglos informales (similares a los de los parques) se hayan desarrollado en las mismas”.

“Precisamente porque era difícil segregar explícitamente los espacios públicos, el racismo cubano se parapetó en espacios definidos como ‘privados’ [clubes, asociaciones] que eran frecuentemente segregados”, amplió De la Fuente.

Las imprecisiones históricas confunden a los televidentes avezados y desinforman a quienes desconocen la historia de Cuba. Y ya se sabe que buena parte de la teleaudiencia acuña como verdades los errores por el hecho de que aparecen en pantalla.

Si la serie hubiera tenido factura anglosajona la farsa reflejara, una vez más, el desconocimiento sobre el mundo cubano, tal como se mostró en las películas The Pérez Family (1995) o The Mambo Kings (1992), en las cuales, por cierto, Celia participa. Pero no es el caso.

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Por encima de todas las libertades que pudieron tomarse los realizadores, Celia Cruz, fue un personaje real que vivió en un contexto específico. Y la advertencia de que la serie no es un documental, no exonera a los creadores de la responsabilidad de haber investigado el período en que se desarrolla, cuando la información está al alcance de todos.

“Creo que la serie sobre Celia Cruz tiene una excelente producción técnica y actoral, por tanto, resulta lamentable que el deseo de obtener un alto rating y el desconocimiento de lo realmente ‘cubano’ haya hecho caer [a los productores] en ciertos errores”, comentó en Facebook la escritora de telenovelas Delia Fiallo, quien también criticó que “las escenas están inconexas, saltan de una cosa a la otra sin que haya secuencias de los hechos entre sí”, además de la inclusión de los ‘barbudos’ en La Habana, que cataloga como “un disparate en todo sentido, pues a ningún alzado de la Sierra se le hubiera ocurrido aparecerse en la capital luciendo sus barbas”.

Al respecto, Mauricio Navas, vicepresidente de Contenidos de Fox Telecolombia, afirmó que Celia “no es fiel a la exactitud histórica”, y que lo que podría denominarse un error histórico “que seguramente lo es, se debe a un desfase de tiempos premeditado para blindar a la historia de coincidencias cronológicas que pudieran herir susceptibilidades”.

“Nuestro propósito es hacer un homenaje a Celia Cruz como personaje artístico y humano singular, y no pretende documentar su circunstancia histórica”, precisó Navas, tras revelar el interés de la producción en que el personaje de “Pedro Knight fuera [interpretado por un] cubano, pero Tommy Cao, el actor que invitamos, no logró su permiso para salir de Cuba”.

“Claro que existe una ley en Colombia que protege el talento nacional. Pero no fue un impedimento para que el reparto fuera tan cubano como se requiriera [ya que] Colombia es hoy en día el hogar de una nutrida colonia cubana que se dedica a la representación dramática”, dijo el ejecutivo.

Entre el elenco cubano se destacan Alberto Pujol, Mijail Mulkay, Abel Rodríguez, Félix Antequera, Bárbaro Marín, Ariel Díaz, Lourdes González, Glenmy Rodríguez, Yasit Sánchez, Jorge Puig, Michelle Grillo, Juan Carlos Rodríguez, Olga Thomas, Ariel Hernández y la cantante Aymeé Nuviola, que comparte el personaje protagónico con la puertorriqueña Jeimy Osorio.

Celia careció de asesoría adecuada, y no solo en la escritura del guion.

Descuidos en el lenguaje y el vestuario

La ausencia de una investigación a fondo sobre una época en que hasta los sectores más humildes cuidaban los modales y el buen decir conlleva a que los personajes se refieran a la mujer como la “jeva”, al amigo como “asere” o al padre como el “puro”, por solo mencionar algunos vocablos que no se empleaban en aquella época.

¿No hubo un consultor que aclarara las dudas sobre cómo era la Cuba del ayer y evitara, entre otros descuidos, los detalles extemporáneos en el vestuario y la ambientación?

Contraria a la opinión de algunos televidentes que han manifestado su descontento en las redes sociales, los diseñadores Jorge Noa y Pedro Balmaseda, de la firma Nobarte, con sede en Miami, piensan que “la dirección de arte de esta producción es uno de los aciertos a destacar. La impecable ambientación y el cuidadoso diseño de vestuario recrean con excelencia la época donde transcurre la historia. El estilismo, entiéndase maquillaje y peluquería, son sin dudas, de un alto nivel profesional”.

El director cubano Lilo Vilaplana no ha visto la serie. Pero confiere méritos a la productora colombiana.

“Aplaudo el hecho de que Fox Telecolombia se haya interesado en un tema cubano, como es la vida de Celia Cruz, que ni en Cuba ni el exilio lo han hecho”, comentó Vilaplana, con créditos en las producciones colombianas El Capo y La mariposa, entre otros trabajos.

A su favor, Celia cuenta con actores carismáticos, buena fotografía, montaje eficaz y una banda sonora que revive “el sabor” de los años dorados de la música cubana. Esos que cimentaron el reinado de la legendaria cantante.

Tanto la voz de Nuviola como la de Osorio fue doblada en los pasajes cantados por la de la cantante colombiana Patricia Padilla, que imitó a la guarachera en el reality colombiano Yo me llamo.

“La verdad es que la música que han escogido para ambientar las escenas es muy apropiada y evocativa de la época que vivió la inolvidable Guarachera de Cuba”, dijo desde Nueva Jersey el saxofonista Paquito D’Rivera.

Hace varios años Celia Cruz recibió la ovación de su pueblo cuando su imagen apareció en el documental Yo soy del son a la salsa (1996), exhibido en el XVIII Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano de La Habana.

Ahora, más allá de los aciertos y disparates de la serie, la artista regresa a los hogares cubanos –que siguen la transmisión mediante las memorias flash–, y se convierte en comidilla del barrio. De paso, ingresa en el imaginario de quienes no la conocían. Celia sigue viva.

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Esta historia fue publicada originalmente el 3 de noviembre de 2015 2:38 pm.

Albacea de Celia Cruz decepcionado con serie trasmitida por Telemundo

Celia Cruz con su esposo Pedro Knight en el estreno del filme ‘The Perez Family’ en 1995. Atrás, Omer Pardillo, que trabajaba entonces en la compañía RMM Records.

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Apoyado en la lealtad que le debo a Celia de la Caridad Cruz, me veo en el deber de aclarar ciertos puntos sobre la serie de televisión producida por RCN y FoxTelecolombia inspirada en la vida de Celia Cruz.

En el verano del 2012, me contactó una oficina de abogados del canal RCN Colombia, y me propuso hacer un serial de TV basado en la vida de Celia Cruz. Desde un principio fui muy claro y les dije que la vida de Celia era una larga carrera llena de triunfos, pero también de mucho sacrificio y esfuerzo; mi primera inquietud, y se los hice saber, fue cómo sería posible mantener al televidente asido, noche tras noche, cuando su vida, a pesar de las vicisitudes, nunca se caracterizó por escándalos, como ya es tan común por estos días.

Ellos me explicaron que se inventarían personajes antagónicos para proveer a la serie de cierto drama y me dijeron que contaban con excelentes escritores para hacer este trabajo. Mi entrevista con uno de los escritores, Andrés Salgado, fue de varias horas y al término de la misma, me dijo que yo no le había contado nada “jugoso” de la vida de Celia Cruz que sirviera como material para desarrollar algún personaje conflictivo. Entregué entonces una lista de personas para ser entrevistadas que sí se relacionaron directamente con Celia. De esa, muchas no fueron contactadas, como es el caso de Linda Becquer, Francisco Hernández, Gladys Rodríguez Dod, Elia Pérez de Alejo, la mejor amiga de Celia, la familia de Pete “El Conde” Rodríguez, la señora Olga Chorens y Rolando y Gilda Columbié, por nombrar algunos.

La produccción dispuso entrevistar a personas que ellos consideraron, a libre arbitrio, que habían estado más involucradas con Celia y al ver ahora toda la serie, me percato que la mayoría de los entrevistados formaron una fantasía malintencionada sobre la vida de Celia, acción que justifican al inicio cuando anuncian que la serie es un “producto de ficción”.

La producción, por propia decisión, determinó excluirme desde noviembre del 2012 hasta octubre del 2014 de todo lo concerniente a la realización de la serie. Me enteré por terceras personas que estaban haciendo castings, y que finalmente había comenzado la filmación. En octubre del 2014, Paulo Simeon, representante de la cantante cubana Aymeé Nuviola, quien interpreta a Celia adulta, visitó FoxTelecolombia y una de sus preguntas fue: “¿Cúal es la participación de Omer Pardillo-Cid, albacea universal de Celia Cruz?” Fue en ese momento cuando la producción decidió involucrarme y hacerme saber qué estaba pasando con la serie.

Viajé a Bogotá en noviembre del 2014 y me entrevisté con los productores, que me dieron acceso a ver algunos extractos de los primeros capítulos. Después de aclarar algunos puntos, tuve conocimiento de que el Luis M. Falcón [ex albacea de Celia Cruz, a quien, por decisión de un tribunal federal de Nueva Jersey, se le ordenó pagar $2.5 millones a la hermana e hijastra de la cantante] había sido entrevistado, sabiendo, porque es de conocimiento público, que con él, ni la familia de Celia, ni la de Pedro Knight, ni yo, tenemos relación desde hace muchos años. Yo, como ejecutor del Patrimonio de Celia Cruz nunca hubiese dado la autorización a ningún proyecto donde estuviese involucrado ese señor.

En un contrato firmado el 11 de octubre del 2012 con RCN Television S. A autorizando el nombre de Celia Cruz para esta serie, se específica en el Artículo 8.1, y cito: “Se obliga a conservar el buen nombre de Celia Cruz en la obra audiovisual”, lo cual respetaron hasta cierto punto. Porque dentro de su familia incorporaron a un personaje rival llamado Noris, que representa a la hermana de Celia Cruz, un personaje de ficción, pero con datos reales de una de las hermanas de Celia Cruz como son: la muerte de un hijo y la convivencia en México con una gran cantante cubana. Esto implica una traslación de la persona “real” al personaje “ficticio”.

Celia Cruz mantuvo su vida personal y la de su familia al margen de escándalos y de los medios. Recuerdo que en conversaciones con Amparo López, productora ejecutiva de la serie, ambos aclaramos que el personaje antagónico en la familia recaería sobre una supuesta prima, pero en el transcurso de la serie hay una implicación directa con su hermana, lo cual, a mi entender es irrespetar la vida privada y el buen nombre de Celia, algo que mantuvo incólume a lo largo de su carrera artística.

Uno de los grandes errores de la novela es crear un personaje llamado Lola Calvo, basado en la vida de la cantante La Lupe, y aclaro: Celia nunca mantuvo relación personal con La Lupe. Coincidieron en contadas ocasiones, pero nunca tuvieron puntos de similitud. La vida de la Lupe, por su significado en la historia de la música, debe respetarse. Hay un momento, que al personaje de Lola se le otorga más protagonismo que a la propia Celia, y esto ha sido manifestado por la teleaudiencia.

Otro elemento de ficción, que deviene en factor de carácter difamatorio, es el personaje de Olga Guillot, otra leyenda de la música cubana, denominada en la telenovela “María, La Bolerista”. Con ella sí Celia tuvo una larga relación personal, una estrecha amistad que respetó desde el inicio de la carrera de ambas. La serie no refleja esos puntos con autenticidad.

No puedo dejar de mencionar, desde mi perspectiva, algunos aspectos positivos del serial:

▪  Ha revitalizado la vida y el legado de Celia para las nuevas generaciones.

▪  Estoy seguro de que si de algo Celia puede sentir orgullo, es la forma que se plasmó la parte de “los barbudos”. Tuvieron la valentía de denunciar las atrocidades de la Revolución.

▪  Desde el capítulo uno hasta el 60, la serie mantuvo una excelente producción, y un magnífico trabajo actoral.

▪  La esencia de Celia fue magistralmente captada por la actriz Jeimy Osorio, la época dorada de la Sonora Matancera, la elegancia de nuestra Cuba de los años 1950 y la importancia de México en la vida de Celia.

▪  Quiero agradecer a Tony Martínez, por su trabajo de estilista en la segunda parte de la novela. Supo copiar su estética y ayudó tremendamente a la percepción visual de la producción.

Del capítulo 60 en adelante, se sufre el desatino cronológico; la inclusión de actores sin un bien logrado elemento de continuidad, tan importante en las novelas de naturaleza dramática; la incongruencia absoluta de hechos que sucedieron en la vida real con escenas de la serie; las imprecisiones de personajes, y el vacuo nivel de producción que dista mucho de la calidad del inicio.

El tratamiento del personaje de Celia Cruz, en general, va en detrimento de ella, donde muchas veces se percibe muy ingenua. Para todos los que la conocimos fue engorroso verla en ese papel que no tenía nada que ver con la persona. Fue una mujer humilde, de buen corazón, que ayudaba a todo el que podía, pero en ningún momento se dejaba vejar por otros y mucho menos proyectarse en comportamientos que solamente pueden describirse como necios y fatuos.

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Esta historia fue publicada originalmente el 9 de febrero de 2016 1:08 pm.

Maniacs and Sociopaths: 7 Unsettling and Dark Characters in David Fincher’s Films There are many ways to adequately congratulate the hero of the day, one of them is to turn to the outstanding characters of the films. We recall seven gloomy movie characters from the full-length projects of the master of mysterious and gloomy stories.

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Still from the film Fight Club, dir. David Fincher
nine0002 David Fincher has established himself as a recognized master of detective stories and the creator of creepy thrillers about the nature of evil. “Fight Club”, “Seven”, “Zodiac”, “The Social Network”, “Gone Girl” became classics of the genre and made the American author one of the best directors of our time. He exploits gloomy themes and demonstrates the dark side of human nature. Among his characters were real and fictional serial killers, classic sociopaths, perverted maniacs and asocial informals. nine0009

John Doe

The main antagonist of the detective thriller Seven was, and still is, one of the greatest villains in film history. Obsessed with biblical motives, John Doe considered himself an instrument of God and did real evil under the guise of virtue. His ideology was based on the seven deadly sins, and sinners or people whom he considered as such became victims of sophisticated torture. He killed a fat man swollen with fat for gluttony, an actress obsessed with appearance for pride, and a famous lawyer for greed. For each victim, the maniac carefully planned the appropriate punishment and sincerely believed in the correctness of the case. After the fifth murder, he turned himself in to the police, but only to complete his masterpiece. He controlled the situation to the last, even when he was in handcuffs. John Doe was convinced that with his performance he would leave a mark on history and inspire an army of followers. He considered envy, which made him a winner, his sin. In the end, the killer was able to complete what he started and won, and this is a rare event among movie villains. nine0009

David Fincher kept the intrigue of the maniac’s identity right up to the scene in the precinct. The first meeting of the detectives with the killer is shown in the general plan, so it is impossible to make out the face of the criminal. The director, as it were, hints that the maniac cannot only be caught, but also seen – this adds to the character of sinisterness. Fincher conceived John Doe as an inconspicuous man who looked like a postman. As a result, he managed to get Kevin Spacey for this role, who brilliantly coped with the task. The actor refused to participate in the promo for the film and even asked to remove his name from the opening credits so that the viewer would not know who the killer was until the very end. As compensation, Spacey’s name was placed first in the end credits. nine0009

Zodiac

Formally, Fincher shows the image of one of the most famous serial killers in American history through the prism of a sluggish investigation. As in the thriller “Seven”, the director pays attention not to the maniac and his deeds, but to the people who are looking for the killer. The film is based on real police reports and a book by crime writer Robert Graysmith, played by Jake Gyllenhaal. With the help of carefully recreated details of the investigation, Fincher paints a collective image of a psychopath who enjoys torturing people. Someone under the pseudonym Zodiac actually operated in Northern California at 1960–1970s. He guarded his victims in parking lots and on deserted beaches, brutally cracked down on them, and then sent letters to local newspapers with mocking puzzles and threats of more murders.

By the end credits, the identity of the maniac remains a mystery, because the real Zodiac has not been caught. In the crime scenes, the killer was played by three different actors, and the main suspect was played by a fourth. The portrait of the murderer is formed thanks to the letters and ciphers with which the maniac blackmailed the media for several years. Even without showing the face of the main antagonist, the director managed to create a chilling portrait of a serial killer that inspires fear and anxiety. nine0009

Martin Wanger

In Fincher’s film adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s best-selling detective novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, there are several maniacs at once. One of them is a pervert guardian who raped the main character, for which he later suffered punishment from her hand. Journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig) and his hacker assistant Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara) are looking for another. Together they search for a serial killer of women at the request of retired businessman Henrik Wanger (Christopher Plummer), who wants to know the secret of his niece’s disappearance. nine0009

Independently of each other, the partners figure out the killer, it turns out to be one of the members of the Vanger family clan. Martin Wanger (Stellan Skarsgard) killed immigrant girls right under the noses of relatives who either turned a blind eye to the crimes, or didn’t really notice anything. In the basement of the house, he equipped a whole torture room, where he satisfied his desires and mocked the victims. The maniac took over the passion for murder from his father, but, unlike his parent, he preferred to throw corpses into the sea, rather than scatter bodies like trophies. Martin criticized his father for negligence and after his death brought the “family business” to perfection. The violence against his own sister makes Martin really terrible – he also adopted this sick fantasy from his father. nine0009

Lisbeth Salander

Despite the fact that the girl with the dragon tattoo is a positive character, there is something dark and gloomy about her. She dyes her hair black, wears piercings and has several tattoos. She has a high level of intelligence and a photographic memory, and is also withdrawn and asocial. In Fincher’s film, hacker Lisbeth Salander works from home, barely makes eye contact, and wears a T-shirt that says Fuck You, You Fucking Fuck. A complex female image on the screen was embodied at that time by a little-known actress Rooney Mara, who was even nominated for an Oscar for this role. nine0009

The author of the Millennium trilogy describes Lisbeth Salander as a short and thin girl who, with all her vulnerability, can stand up for herself and attack offenders. In Fincher’s film adaptation, after getting revenge on her rapist guardian, Lisbeth has the villain write eloquent monthly reports about her supposedly becoming friendly and outgoing. It is not difficult to guess that these character traits are not observed in the behavior of the girl. Which, in general, is not surprising, given how difficult her life was. At a young age, Lisbeth ended up in a mental hospital because of an attempt to burn her father alive. She showed aggression and could not get along with four foster families, was arrested for drunkenness, drugs and fighting. Communication with people is given to a girl with great difficulty, and from the outside she may seem really crazy. Stieg Larsson does not deny that Salander can be perceived as an unusual sociopath, because her life was filled with traumas, which is why she looks at society differently and cannot adapt in society. nine0009

Tyler Durden

Do you know Tyler Durden? Of course, you know, this is one of the most famous characters in the history of cinema. It was invented by the American writer Chuck Palahniuk, and the audience associates it with Brad Pitt, who embodied the image of Tyler in Fincher’s film adaptation of Fight Club. The director explores the dark side of the personality of an ordinary office clerk, who slowly plunges into the abyss of madness. Fincher demonstrates the difference between the hero and his alter ego with maniacal attention to detail: the classic Narrator dress code versus Tyler’s red leather jacket and sunglasses, the perfect IKEA-furnished apartment versus a perpetually flooded suburban home. nine0009

Tyler Durden is the Narrator’s unconscious alter ego, which emerges from the Narrator’s insomnia and internal dissatisfaction with his life. He breaks into the quiet and measured reality of the hero in order to demonstrate all the artificiality of his environment and undermine his ideals. In fact, Tyler embodies all the secret desires of the Narrator and does what the hero would not have the courage to do. He spits in the face of the consumer society and proclaims self-destruction as his religion. He is neither a maniac nor a sociopath, but his nihilistic ideas can be attributed to antisocial behavior. Tyler founded a fight club, which later became a terrorist organization. But at its core, Fight Club is not a movie about fighting or masculinity, but a story about insanity and mental illness. After all, Tyler Durden does not really exist, he is only a figment of the diseased imagination of the protagonist. And the fact that Tyler isn’t even real makes this character really dark. nine0009

Mark Zuckerberg

It would seem that the founder of Facebook * does in the list of creepy and gloomy characters? He didn’t kill anyone or do anything terrible. On the contrary, he created a social network so that people communicate online and are always in touch with loved ones – well, why not a hero of our time? But working with code does not inspire viewers and filmmakers. Therefore, Fincher decided to show the worst side of Mark Zuckerberg and focus on the psychological portrait of a prodigy programmer. At the center of Fincher’s “The Social Network” are anti-social heroes obsessed with success and power. Fincher draws a portrait of the hero in his characteristic manner through the prism of litigation. nine0009

A genius, a sociopath and a complete moron – this is how Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, played by Jesse Eisenberg, appeared before the audience. Movie Mark is emotionally distant from people and incapable of becoming a part of society – very ironic, considering that he creates a social network for communication. He does not believe in friendship and does not know how to communicate with girls. After creating the site, the hero betrays his only friend for his own benefit, and throughout the film he is shown as a prudent and heartless manipulator. The real Mark Zuckerberg was dissatisfied with this interpretation and claims that the authors of the biopic have distorted the story. The artistic image of the hero is indeed far from reality, but this did not stop The Social Network from becoming the film of the year according to the Golden Globe and receiving an Oscar for best adapted screenplay. nine0009

*Meta Platforms Inc., which owns Facebook, is banned in the Russian Federation due to extremist activities.

Amy Dunn

Rosamund Pike’s Amy Dunn is one of the most powerful and memorable female characters not only in Fincher, but in all of modern cinema. The main character of Gone Girl is a natural psychopath who faked her death and framed her husband. It never occurred to anyone that a friendly blonde is capable of committing a number of dubious acts and manipulating public opinion. Amy deceived everyone, including the viewer, who sincerely believes for the first half of the film that the unlucky husband is to blame for everything. In order to convincingly disappear, Amy Dunn came up with the perfect story and laid out a clear plan of action, from befriending a pregnant neighbor to a meticulously staged crime scene. She even wanted to drown herself in the Gulf of Mexico, just to punish her husband for having an intimate relationship with a student. nine0009

Amy is a real virtuoso of revenge. She seems to have it all. A diary with a fake story is written and safely hidden where the cops will definitely find it. In the hospital card there is a note about an imaginary pregnancy. The barn is filled to the brim with pointless purchases, because her unsuspecting husband must have financial problems and some kind of motive for murder. After the disappearance of Amy, she became a national treasure, and her klutzy husband became an enemy of the people. And all this time, Dunn only pretended to be a cool girl: first – to get married and meet the standards of her parents, and then – to reliably play the role of a wife. A top notch liar and sociopath, she emerged victorious from the game even when things didn’t go according to plan. America’s Sweetheart gets away with a real-life murder, and her fake innocence makes her one of the most disturbing and creepy female characters in film history. nine0009

Text: Julia Salikhova

Ana de Armas biography, photo, height, weight, personal life, boyfriend, nationality 2022

Ana de Armas biography

Ana de Armas is a talented Hollywood actress with Cuban roots, a star of Hispanic melodramas. Gained fame thanks to the series “Black Lagoon” and “Roman Spain. Legend”. Gained particular popularity after filming in the films “God’s Daughter”, “Guys with Trunks”, “Blade Runner”, “Knives Out”. In 2022, the premiere of the film “Blonde!” took place, in which Ana played Marilyn Monroe.

nine0002 Pictured: Ana de Armas

Childhood

Ana Celia de Armas Caso (full name of the actress) was born in the small Cuban town of Santa Cruz del Norte in April 1988.

Ana de Armas as a child

Recalling the past, the actress said that her childhood was very contact and fun. He and his friends never played video games or watched DVDs, but the days were filled with simple human interaction and interesting undertakings.

nine0076 I grew up in nature, on the beaches, on the streets, where I played with friends. I felt free. We freaked out outside and then went back home to have dinner and watch cartoons. I was allowed to watch them for 20 minutes a day. She constantly fell, all her knees were bruised. Such a normal childhood.

And today, when she comes to Cuba to visit her parents, she turns off the phone, does not go online and just enjoys communicating with loved ones, going to the beach and walking.

Ana de Armas’ parents are Ana Caso and Ramon de Armas. My father, who at one time studied philosophy at one of the universities of the USSR, changed many professions: he was a teacher, a bank manager and vice-mayor of the city. Mom worked in the personnel department of the Ministry of Education.

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Ana de Armas with parents

Ana also has an older brother Javier, he is a photographer and lives in New York.

Ana and her older brother Javier

Love for the stage manifested itself in a girl from a young age. Already at 13, she realized that she wanted to be an actress. Parents fully supported their daughter and sent her to the National Theater School of Cuba, where Ana studied for four years.

Career

For the first time on the screens, Ana de Armas appeared quite early: the 18-year-old girl made her debut in the Spanish film Rose of France (2006). She played a cameo role, but the start was made. In the credits, she appeared under her full name – Ana Celia de Armas Caso.

nine0002 Ana de Armas in The Rose of France

Further, de Armas was noted for small but memorable images in the films Madrigal (2007) and Paradise Lost (2007). Having gained experience, the Cuban went to conquer Madrid. There, a young and bright actress successfully overcame the casting to participate in the filming of the mystical melodrama Black Lagoon (2007 – 2010), where she played Carolina Leal Solis.

Black Lagoon: Ana de Armas as Caroline Leal

The plot of the series will be well known to the audience of its domestic remake – “Closed School” with Pavel Priluchny. The action takes place on the territory of an elite Internet school, where the “golden youth” of Spain is educated. Terrible things are happening in the Black Lagoon, and for seven seasons of the series, students are trying to unravel the mystical tangle of secrets. The heroine of Ana de Armas, Carolina Leal, was one of the central characters of the plot. A proud, brave, curious girl and laid the foundation for a chain of tragic events.

nine0002 “Black Lagoon” became the favorite series of Spanish teenagers

At the end of the filming of the sixth season, Ana de Armas decided to go to America to relax and improve her English, so the writers had to beat her departure from the series.

Ana de Armas in a swimsuit

The real fame for the actress was brought by the full-length project that followed in 2009 with the loud title “Sex, Parties and Lies”. The young actress starred with the main heartthrob of Spain, Mario Casas. Undoubtedly, this duet looked more than impressive. In 2010, the film was ranked as the highest grossing film in the country.

nine0002 Still from the movie Sex, Parties and Lies

In 2011, Ana played the lead role in the thriller Dead End. According to the plot, her heroine found herself in a terrible trap prepared for her by a serial killer.

Ana de Armas in Dead End

The series “Roman Spain. Legend “(2010 – 2012). Ana starred in two seasons, but then, despite the popularity of the project and its heroine in Spanish-speaking countries, she decided to leave the project for filming in Hollywood.

nine0002 Ana de Armas in the movie “Roman Spain”

It should be noted that before moving to Los Angeles, Ana de Armas did not know English, with the exception of some common phrases. And this fact surprises many of her colleagues, because her English is flawless, without an accent. After the move, she went to a full-time language school for four months and studied, studied, studied…

I tried very hard to learn grammar so that I could write correctly and understand what I just said. But I made so many mistakes! For example, at auditions they ask me something, and I have no idea what they want from me. Language is the most important component of any culture, and learning it takes years and years. nine0077

The first American project of the Cuban was the film “Stone Fists” (2015), where Ana starred with Robert De Niro. The girl was amazed by the experience of playing together with the legendary actor, and she herself was on top. True, the biographical tape about the great boxer remained almost unnoticed by the audience.

On the set of Fists of Stone

Another film with the participation of Ana de Armas, released during this period, is the thriller “Who’s There” with Keanu Reeves. The tape was remembered by the audience for its unusual approach to the old plot: in the place of cold-blooded sadistic maniacs, there were two girls (Ana de Armas and Lorenza Izzo), mocking the head of the family that sheltered them with cold cruelty.

nine0002 On the set of the film “Who’s There?”

In 2015, Ana de Armas was again on the same platform with Keanu Reeves. This time the actors had to play in the action movie “God’s Daughter”. Her heroine, young Isabelle, was involved in a mysterious crime. The film premiered in 2016.

Ana de Armas cut her hair short for the filming of “God’s Daughter”

In the same year, Todd Phillips’ comedy “Guys with Trunks” saw the light of day. The audience got the opportunity to see the real story of two young and risky guys from Miami, who were able to conclude a 300-million-dollar arms contract with the Pentagon. The main characters were brilliantly played by Jonah Hill and Miles Teller, but a lot of attention was paid to the characters of Ana de Armas and Bradley Cooper.

nine0002 Shot from the film “Guys with Guns”

In 2017, the continuation of the cult cyberpunk drama Blade Runner was released. Anya got the role of Joy, an artificial intelligence that accompanies the main character (Ryan Gosling). And although her character is, in fact, a hologram, the audience unanimously called this work a breakthrough in Ana’s career.

Ana de Armas on Blade Runner

The next big project in the filmography of Armas was the black comedy based on Agatha Christie’s “Knives Out” with Daniel Craig. Here her heroine is the nurse of a famous writer who dies under mysterious circumstances. Each member of the family had a motive, and this case is taken to unravel the brilliant detective Benoit Blanc, who quickly finds out that the heroine Ana has a pathological dislike of lies.

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Soon she met again with Daniel Craig, this time on the set of the next part of the Bond movie. In No Time To Die, she played Paloma, a CIA agent who helps Bond. After the premiere of the film, the audience complained that Ana, who presented the parody image of a “typical 007 girl”, had an insultingly little screen time.

Ana de Armas in No Time to Die

Personal life of Ana de Armas

Little is known about Ana de Armas’ personal life. For some time, the actress met with her colleague Mark Clotet, in 2011 the couple decided to legalize their relationship.

Ana de Armas and Mark Clotet

The wedding was organized on the colorful island of Costa Brava. But soon reports of quarrels between spouses began to appear in the press. In 2013, journalists were able to get an honest answer from Mark. At the Goya Prize in Madrid, he announced the final break with Ana.

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In 2016, GQ magazine placed Ana de Armas at number 7 on their editorial list of the most beautiful women. The Latin American beauty was in close proximity to Kim Kardashian, Selena Gomez, Priyanka Chopra and Alessandra Ambrosia. It is not surprising that the bright Cuban has a whole army of fans, but the actress is in no hurry to give her heart to someone in particular.

“Who’s there?”. Fragment

In March 2020, on the set of Deep Waters, de Armas met Ben Affleck. A month later, they went to Cuba, and a little later they announced their relationship publicly. Throughout the year, Affleck and de Armas were considered one of the most adorable couples in Hollywood. But in 2021, the relationship came to an end.