2023-06-05 13:28:22
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A debate similar to the one that is taking place today around the premiere of the French film Medellín, It was presented in July 2022, just when the action production was being filmed in the streets of the capital of Antioquia.
Directed by Franck Gastambide, the same from the saga Taxi, movies that have that scheme between action and comedy (very similar to what they want to do in the capital of Antioquia) premiered on Prime Video screens this weekend.
the recordings they were advanced by six weeks in locations in Medellín, La Estrella, Bello and Barbosawhere they recreated the mythical Hacienda Nápoles
According to calculations by Dynamo, the producer in Colombia, Brotherhood (as the film was initially signed up) left an investment of 4,300 million pesos in the city, on issues of hiring personnel, logistics, lodging, transportation, food and financial compensation for the sectors in which filming is taking place.
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The plot
The movie tells the experiences of a French youtuber who arrives in Medellín seduced by the figure of Pablo Escobar and the references that he has seen in the drug trafficking series, but when he arrives he comes across a totally different reality.
To justify his trip, the influencer invents a kidnapping and that’s when those crazy situations happen, between comedy and action, in a mixture of Hangover (what happened yesterday) y Fast and furious.
One of the protagonists is Raymond Cruz, remembered for his character as Tuco Salamanca in the series Breaking Bad.
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Also include Ramzy Bedia, Anouar Toubali Brahim Bouhlel and former boxer Mike Tyson.
At the time, regarding the controversy of shooting a film regarding Escobar in Medellín, with the approval of the Medellín Film Commission, the director of the same explained to EL COLOMBIANO that It is normal for this figure to generate discomfort and nonconformitybut it is also not healthy to promote thematic vetoes.
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“On the contrary, when these productions are shot, what is encouraged is audiovisual production tourism,” says Orozco, pointing out that, for example, this tape can be recorded quietly in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and have the stages pass through Medellín and, in that case, the investment would stay in that city.
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