Isn't sad that El Salvador's first "big" budget film ($80,000)that as been screen at Toronto's Hispano-American Film Festival, is missing here in the Internet Movie Database?
The movie is crap. Everybody has said it. But it's interesting. It should have a chance to be discussed in these forums. I've seen youtube videos here in IMBD! What requirements must a movie have to be in the Database?
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Wow, a whopping $80,000 movie? I'm Salvadoran but if our country can only produce and afford a crappy $80,000 "movie" about our greatest historial point of interest (the civil war) then I am glad the movie is not in the IMDB database and we don't deserve it being here.
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Well Alien Latino. There are a few things that should be considered about the budget of this film. The first thing is that this is the very first atempt to make a good looking movie in the country. The director has no experience making a full length movie. As you watch it, you can tell. Yet he was the best choice to make it (probably). The director got the budget from companies like Pollo Campero and others. Not from a production company. 80,000 bucks is all he got and the military force gave him some soldiers and helicopters for free. The second thing is that the movie is not history. It's a fictional story inside a real context... like Titanic and Pearl Harbor kind of movie. So no extra effort was made. Plus! I don't know if you're living here in ES or how long you've been outside, but nobody is about to make a real movie about the civil war. The government would censor you if you tell the naked truth. Hahaha! And the media would say things like "The movie will open wounds! We recomend you not to watch it". And they would get church leaders and important people saying the same thing. Hahaha!
However, the movie has lots of problems. You're right that it kind of sucks and all, but come on! Even some youtube videos make it here on IMDB! The Blair Witch Project didn't cost more than $40,000! And it would've been less if they hadn't destroyed an expensive camera by accident! LOL!
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Did "One Bridge Too Far" open wounds in Germany? Or "Letters From Iwo Jima" opened wound in Japan?
There are about half a dozen movies out there about the Salvadoran war, the only one that was half-truthful was "Voces Inocentes". I liked the movie "Salvador" with James Woods but it was lost in comedy, a hilarious movie trying to be serious. Anyways Bubba, good night.
Of course One Bridg Too Far or Letters From Iwo Jima didn't open wounds! These are first world countries you're talking about! Would such a movie open wounds in El Salvador? Not the people. But the corupted government would say so, because it may have a truth that they don't want people to start believeing.
And I agree with you. Voces Inocentes is the best El Salvador based movie out there. =]
I wouldn't make fun of the quantity of money spent. It's a third world country, very poor, your family was probably starving and that's why they left, right? So, it's kind of ironic that you would come back and make fun of the 80k spent on a movie.
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