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DONNA, OR THE POWER OF CONSTANT THOUGHT - Hermoso Equipo, 1951

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Savage, M. (2019). DONNA, OR THE POWER OF CONSTANT THOUGHT - Hermoso Equipo, 1951. In Savage, M. Fictional Film Club. Deep Overstock, pp. 131-142

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[...] There he found a group already churning out copies of Hollywood thrillers, and with them he'd make over five hundred films between 1948 and 1956. They were filmed in a mixture of English and Spanish, and starred American nobodies, European never-weres, and young Hispanic talent. These pictures were largely shot with Mexico City standing in for LA, Chicago, or New York, and with their pulpy concentration of crime and lust became known as Sexy Mexys or Sexiguns. The group made several films simultaneously, with as many as thirty in production at once. Sometimes the cast and crew did not know which film they were working on, and some films are clearly a collage of several others, causing their plots to be a hash of tangled clichés and narrative non sequiturs. No matter who acted as director (and as many as twenty might serve the role on any one film) the films are attributed to a fictional director, Hermoso Equipo (inverted Spanish for beautiful team). The group found strength in this approach, with Jensen even believing that the more different films we get in one film, the more authors involved, the more plots we refer to... the closer to the centre of fiction and humanity we get. These quotes were originally attributed to Hermoso Equipo, as if he were a real person, in an interview with the LA Times in 1961.

god why is this so funny

—p.135 by Mark Savage 1 year, 10 months ago

[...] There he found a group already churning out copies of Hollywood thrillers, and with them he'd make over five hundred films between 1948 and 1956. They were filmed in a mixture of English and Spanish, and starred American nobodies, European never-weres, and young Hispanic talent. These pictures were largely shot with Mexico City standing in for LA, Chicago, or New York, and with their pulpy concentration of crime and lust became known as Sexy Mexys or Sexiguns. The group made several films simultaneously, with as many as thirty in production at once. Sometimes the cast and crew did not know which film they were working on, and some films are clearly a collage of several others, causing their plots to be a hash of tangled clichés and narrative non sequiturs. No matter who acted as director (and as many as twenty might serve the role on any one film) the films are attributed to a fictional director, Hermoso Equipo (inverted Spanish for beautiful team). The group found strength in this approach, with Jensen even believing that the more different films we get in one film, the more authors involved, the more plots we refer to... the closer to the centre of fiction and humanity we get. These quotes were originally attributed to Hermoso Equipo, as if he were a real person, in an interview with the LA Times in 1961.

god why is this so funny

—p.135 by Mark Savage 1 year, 10 months ago