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Película sobre narcos se llamará 'Cartagena'/Top 5 de películas contra Colombia

Mayo 9 de 2009 - Polémica

Película sobre narcos se llamará 'Cartagena'

Es la nueva cinta del director Michael Ross y su protagonista será Keanu Reeves

El gobierno colombiano ha manifestado su malestar por la próxima película de Michael Ross que trata sobre un agente encubierto que se infiltra en el oscuro mundo de los despachadores de droga y que tiene como nombre 'Cartagena'.

Esta cinta protaganizada por Keanu Reeves, no solo entraría en la lista de producciones de Hollywood que han estigmatizado a Colombia, sino que dañaría la imagen de la 'La Heróica'.

El embajador de Colombia en Italia, Sabas Pretelt, originario de la ciudad caribeña que le da título al filme, afirmó que, aunque es muy aburrido que sigan estigmatizando al país con el mismo tema, esta puede ser una oportunidad para mostrar una mejor Cartagena y los avances en la lucha contra el delito.

"En muchos lugares aún no se ha entendido que en Colombia no queremos la droga ni vivimos de ella. Aprovechando que esta película aún no ha sido producida, estamos buscando una estrategia conjunta para poder sacar algo positivo de ella. Ya hablé con el vicepresidente Francisco Santos y estamos trabajando en el tema. Si es necesario, nos vamos hasta la casa de los productores y los convencemos para que muestren una mejor imagen de Cartagena y el país", afirmó.

Aun cuando otras cintas han usado el argumento del narcotráfico en Colombia, lo que más molesta esta vez es que quieran usar el nombre de Cartagena, joya internacional del turismo colombiano.

La alcaldesa de esta ciduad, Judith Pinedo, dijo que están dispuestos para emplear todas las herramientas jurídicas para que Cartagena no pierda su buen nombre. ESCUCHAR AUDIO

Según algunos medios especializados, como Movie Player, de Italia, el título se escogió para hacerle un homenaje a una ciudad que se caracteriza por su actividad económica y su turismo. No obstante, a renglón seguido se afirma que "Colombia se ha convertido en un terreno fértil para Hollywood, ya que conjuga historias basadas en intrigas políticas y la violencia de la guerra de la droga".

La 'doble moral' de Hollywood
Tonino Pinto, editor de Cine de la RAI y quien vivió en Cartagena en los 80, afirmó desde Cannes (Francia) que es indignante que la industria cinematográfica de Hollywood insista en acabar con la imagen de un país y, ahora, de una ciudad con tanta cultura. "Colombia es tan rica que produce hasta hoja de coca, pero esa es una planta y no hace daño.

Cuando se convierte en cocaína el problema se agranda, pero ya sabemos quiénes la consumen. Ahí hay una doble moral. Por qué no hacen una película que hable de la historia y el arte colombianos en vez de hacer siempre las mismas tramas. A ellos solo les importa la taquilla", puntualizó el periodista italiano.

Top 5 de películas contra Colombia

Estas son algunas producciones que se han basado en el conflicto armado colombiano. Por lo general su mirada del país falla en cuanto a cultura y raza. Por ejemplo, muestran a Bogotá, Medellín o Cali, como ciudades selváticas o costeras donde predomina la violencia.

1. Daño Colateral

2. Blow

3. El Sr. y la Sra. Smith

4. Peligro Inminente

5. Prueba de vida

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By Simon on May 9, 2009, 17:38 in Friendly Talkzone.

Simon says on May 9, 2009, 17:39:

Let's hope that they change this movie's title! This is the last thing Cartagena needs right now.

"Just an honest, decent Colombian trying to do the right thing."--Simon

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ferran says on May 9, 2009, 18:16:

Remember when the French conection came out? Marseilles became famous, what about all the Sicilian mafia movies that have come out, have they damage Sicily? I would say NO, you know why? because its entertainment!! thats all it is. The people that speak out against a movie are only fueling the fire, the vatican against The Davinci Code only drew more audiences to the theaters, so lets not be naive and think.....Oh poor Cartagena, it was doing so well until this movie came out, Hello....Wake Up! what was Cartagena built upon? Importing slavery and benefiting from the loot of the continent, thats how it became La Heroica!

The hipocrisy of the Colombian institutions, one hand in front taking money to stop the cocaine trafficking and behind the other hand taking all the money they can get from the cocaine cartels, this is about money, power and business as usual, Colombias economy is good now not because coffee and flower exports, No... its all the Coca my friends and the whole country gets the trickle down effect, some pay the price but all benefit from the trade, remember any publicity is better then no publicity.

All truth goes through three phases. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self evident.

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ferran says on May 9, 2009, 18:56:

Very good observation Sapo, like I said......Its all about the money, we here make this comments not because we dont like Colombia in the contrary I'am a big lover of Colombia, but lets not be naive and think that its all honey and roses, its easy for the exile Colombians to think that everything is great and that Uribe is a saint and a martyr, he is a politician who loves money and power, remember a wolf may shed his coat but never its habits.

All truth goes through three phases. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self evident.

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Simon says on May 9, 2009, 19:06:

"its easy for the exile Colombians to think that everything is great and that Uribe is a saint and a martyr, he is a politician who loves money and power, remember a wolf may shed his coat but never its habits."

Yeah, now it turns out Uribe is the problem. Have you ever heard of this group called....the FARC?

"Just an honest, decent Colombian trying to do the right thing."--Simon

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Simon says on May 9, 2009, 19:10:

No, the FARC are the real problem in Colombia in general, the real problem in Cartagena is the povery and neglect the poor people have been subjected for centuries. And it was not Uribe who caused their poverty!

"Just an honest, decent Colombian trying to do the right thing."--Simon

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Byron_Kostner says on May 9, 2009, 19:29:

And it doesn't sound like it was the FARC who caused their poverty either, it is the government, made up of, dare I say it, diry rotten greedy Colombians.

Actions speak louder than words, but the self-righteous crusaders want to live by their own rules.

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ferran says on May 9, 2009, 19:53:

Its easy to blame the Farc for the current problems that exist now in Colombia and is also easy to blame Uribe for those existing problems today, but the problem lies inbbeded in the structure of the country from its founding days, its no mistery at all just do the math, averyone tha counts numbers is not a mathematician or someone that pounds letters onto a keyboard a writer. Its alot more complex then that, if we were to make a movie about the true Colombia, it woundt be a disney like movie or a bambi story, it would be about wealth, corruption, assasinations, power and greed, just like USA was founded on Masonic principles so was Colombia and the rest of the countries that Simon Bolivar (a 33% free mason) so called liberated, and thats were the problems that exist today started.

All truth goes through three phases. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self evident.

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