Do you think a English Corazon Savaje would be a brilliant remake, I'm really surprise it hasn't been done. Actually I would love to write it... lol. Have Guillermo Del Torro or Alejandro Gonzalez or Pedro Almodovar direct it... It would be better than the univision remake
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Back when I thought I was qualified to write romance novels I contemplated doing a US version of this story set during the American Revolution period. However, I don't think I have the patience to write novels anymore.
There were a few attempts at doing novelas in English a couple of years ago but they didn't work. The problems were as follows:
1. The Anglo public is unaccustomed to stripped programming in prime time; the two networks who tried this should have started doing so in Late Fringe instead.
2. The attitude toward sex is still very juvenile locker-room stuff in US television. It needs to change to the viewpoint that sex can -- and ought to --be something sublime. There was never a scene in any US TV program of any genre comparable to Juan and Monica's wedding night in this version.
HBO or Showtime should be the networks attempting such things, but I suspect that it would be expensive and difficult with the lack of advertising support.
Personally, I wish Televisa would remake Dark Shadows.
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Thank you for your intelligent post. I would love to write it. I think it would be amazing.
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I don't know ... somehow I just can't believe any actor could do as good a job as Eduardo Palomo in this role. It might be that I'm biased although I know there are a lot of British and American actors out there that are brilliant. I just don't see them pulling off this part ... (can you believe that he wasn't actually the first choice for this part. Rendon - the director and producer - wanted Cezar Evora - Marcelo Romero - as Juan but execs forced him to choose Eduardo. For once, the suits were right! Who would have thought?!? lol)
Also I can't see anyone being as believable in the Monica role as Edith Gonzalez. She managed to be sincere and strong in a genuinely "good girl" role without for a minute being boring or simple. It's a hard balance to pull off. She reminded me quite a lot of Olivia de Havilland who was one of the only actress', in my opinion, who understood "good characters" so well that she managed to make them compelling and interesting ...
So I really don't know ... I WOULD watch it but I just can't see it matching up to this version.
The only Novela adapted for the American Networks that I have seen was Betty La Fea - Ugly Betty and in that they felt the need to change ... well everything about the original even though there was nothing wrong with that and millions of people across the world loved that production. I just don't see the point of them adapting something if they're going to change everything but the name and a character's fugly sense of style... And I'm pretty sure they thought they were improving it even though the American version never managed to reach the depths of the original story (which might have been funny on the outside but had a dramatic, almost tragic core) and the performances by the leads didn't hold a cnadle to those of Jorge Enrique Abello and Ana Maria Orozco.
So, by that logic, rather than seeing this classic butchered I'd rather just watch it over and over again. :) I've had enough with the latest version of CS to last me a lifetime ...
sorry for going off on a tangent and for babbling on ...
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