"Cien Años de Soledad" is going to be filmed in Colombia in Spanish according to Netflix. While I sympathize with those that feel the movie will not do justice to the book, I think we have to wait until we see the final product. I have read this book in Spanish many times since it is my favorite, and each time I find something new that I either missed or simply forgot. It is a true classic. I hope the screen adaptation can do the book justice, but it doesn't matter to me since I still have the option to re-read it. I do wish the filmmakers luck since I can only imagine how difficult is going to be to translate the magic of Gabriel García Márquez to the screen.
I don’t see the point in trying this at all and, if it isn’t shot in Spanish there goes the project. It is something that for all the people who read the book is totally unnecessary; the experience of reading it is as important as the text. I stick to “my bond” with Gabo.
On other subject, what’s with the word Latinx? Does it include French, Italian, Portuguese an Roumanian cultures too? Shouldn’t it be Hispanic?
@Sergio
It's a gender-neutral or nonbinary alternative to Latino or Latina.
@M.M. I know it pretends to be that, but all the cultures I mention are Latin, so using it only for Spanish speaking people is not only wrong, it’s narrow minded.
Don’t. Do. It. I’ve read it several times, in the original Spanish, I can’t even imagine getting the right feel in an English translation, much less a movie. The story exists in print, supported by one’s imagination.
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Really? You don't know yet that books and the movies made from them are different? They really have nothing to do with each other. Fortunately, movies do not change books.
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There's nothing to worry about. It will be great or good or not so good, but 100 Years is permanent.
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Having seen two movies based on his novels (El amor en el tiempo de colera and La cronica de la muerte anunciada), I am a bit worried. But then there were movies made based on Bible which this epic work by Marquez in many ways resembles. Lets hope for the best.
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If nothing else, it will cause me to re read the book before I watch the series, or possibly afterwards. I suspect that many will do so.
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Let's hope for the best. The film adaption of "Love in the Time of Cholera" showed a completely different world from the one I experienced while reading the book. Despite being based on real times and real places, Gabriel Garcia Marquez has written fairy tales that can only become real in his readers' own, infinitely varied, imaginations.
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