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communities that make props and backdrops for the series
Story
In the timeless town of Macondo, seven generations of the Buendía family deal with love, oblivion and the need for their past and destiny. This is Netflix’s most expensive project to date in Latin America with Colombian groups and indigenous peoples.
Sometimes this fusion is so intense that separating the two seems impossible
Adapting One Hundred Years of Solitude into a film seems to be an extremely difficult task for two main reasons. This novel belongs to a specific literary movement pioneered by South American writers, especially Gabriel García Márquez, in which the story is told by mixing reality and fantasy.
The second reason is the intrinsic complexity of the novel
Of course, translating such scenes into cinema risks appearing absurd and not achieving a satisfactory cinematic form. However, watching the first episode of One Hundred Years of Solitude, it was revealed that the creators managed to convey this magical and surreal feeling to the audience without making it seem ridiculous.
These elements can exhaust the reader
One Hundred Years of Solitude is difficult to read due to the repeated use of the same names for different characters, as well as the non-linear narrative and frequent breaks in the timeline. Fortunately, these issues are absent from the series, successfully transforming a non-linear story into a linear one, allowing it to establish a strong connection with the audience.
