I was always intrigued by that group of secretaries and how they gazed at the other women with a certain fascination, and even with ferociousness.? The other is more conventional and ordinary?the world of secretaries and messengers. ?The station consists of two different worlds the first is the home of the stars, of divas, beautiful actresses, presenters, models and the most handsome men,? he says.
?We had no reason to believe this would be a hit, rather, we wondered whether it would work at all,? says Gait?n.Īs Gait?n explains, he got the idea for Betty while he was working at RCN. In addition, contrary to traditional novelas, the first kiss took place only midway through the novela, and not at the beginning, and the male lead was wicked and immoral. ?We made Betty with trepidation and without great ambitions, because it contained a number of unconventional elements for a novela.? In fact, this was the first telenovela in which the female lead was not a beautiful woman. ?No one ever thought that Betty would be such a hit, because from the beginning we thought of it as an experiment,? says Gait?n. He created Yo soy Betty, la fea for the Colombian broadcaster RCN. No one has been more surprised by the success Betty has enjoyed around the world than the creator of the original telenovela, Fernando Gait?n. The daily interactions of the characters involve all the little indignities of social, economic, racial, and educational and gender inequalities. Along comes Yo Soy Betty La Fea, with a female lead who definitely must be said to look ugly.Īpart from the look of the female lead character, Yo Soy Betty La Fea is also peppered with other doses of realism. They are diverting, but less than totally satisfying. In the end, these other telenovelas are just fantasies. That is nice, except not many people in real life looks like Thalia. For one thing, people are used to seeing telenovela characters played by stars such as Thalia. Outside of Colombia, the popularity of Yo Soy Betty La Fea has been speculated to due to a number of reasons. In this context, Betty comes through as a symbol of the uncorrupted innocence of Colombia. Violence is perpetrated by various armed groups against each other and, quite often, against the citizenry. Corruption is endemic among elected officials. Colombia is a country in which cocaine has played and still plays a major role in national development. Yo Soy Betty La Fea was produced by the new Colombian network RCN.
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