"Gata salvaje" (2002) TV series 2002-2003

Directors:

Yaky Ortega
Freddy Trujillo

Writers:

Alberto Gómez (writer)
Rosa V. Perez (scripts)

Release Date:

28 May 2002 (USA)

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Marlene Favela	...	Rosaura Ríos
Mario Cimarro	...	Luis Mario Arismendi
Carolina Tejera	...	Eva Granados (2002)
Osvaldo Ríos	...	Silvano Santana Castro (2002)
Aura Cristina Geithner	...	Maribella Tovar
Viviana Gibelli	...	Jacqueline Tovar (2002)
Ariel López Padilla	...	Patricio Rivera (2002)
Marjorie De Sousa	...	Camelia Valente (2002)
Sergio Catalán	...	Gabriel Valencia (2002)
Adamari López	...	Karina Rios (2002)
Rodrigo Vidal	...	Guillermo Valencia (2002)
Ana Karina Casanova	...	Luisana Montero (2002)
Frances Ondiviela	...	Maria Julia Rodriguez (2002)
Mara Croatto	...	Eduarda Arismendi (2002)
Liliana Rodriguez	...	Panchita Lopez (2002)

Runtime:

45 min (252 episodes)

Country:

Venezuela | USA

Language:

Spanish

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

Miami, Florida, USA

Company:

Fono Video Productions

Quotes:

Patricio Rivera: You don't know how it pains me to see you ill like this.
Dona Cruz Olivares: Thank you Patricio. But the doctor said that in a few days I'll be able to get out of this bed.
Patricio Rivera: That's good!
[thinking]
Patricio Rivera: The crone has more lives than a cat. Or does she just plan to not die?

Soundtrack:

GATA SALVAJE

An insult to mankind

To those who never heard of this before La Gata salvaje is a South American Telenovela. I usually don't watch these things but I saw it a couple of times and I decided to write about his trash and bash it.

Everybody knows that Telenovelas usually suck but this one sucks extremely hard. No seriously, the first time I saw this, I thought it was a spoof of something (it's that stupid).

One thing that annoys me is that these telenovelas last so long, because the (very very very very bad writers) can turn this two hours `story' into a series with a duration of months. And the only way to do this, is for example with unnecessary, laughable and repetitive dialogue. It reminds me of Dragonball where a fight could go on for 10 or 15 episodes and 70 % of the duration was dialogue.

But we didn't come to the worst part yet; everybody knows that Telenovelas are known for there atrocious acting. But I wasn't expecting this! In a scale from 1 to then 10, 1 being atrocity and going downhill from there, La Gata salvaje is an 11. There is this character Panchita (What the f*ck were smoking the writers when they came up with this name) who is by far the worst character ever created by a living organism in all History of existence. She gives the word over the top a new definition. And she is also extremely unrealistic; if she existed in real life, she would get shot every time a normal person spended more than five seconds with her together. Now, I don't know if the actress is like that, or the director wanted her to play her part in that way. In both cases the responsible person deserves to be fusilladed.

Another thing that annoys me is the music, they have a few scores for the whole duration and as mentioned above it lasts a few months! Now if the scores were good that wouldn't be a problem but that's not the case. Like the acting, the music is so over the top that it turns every attempt at seriousness into a laugh orgy.

So to sum up, if you are a masochist, want a good laugh and are prepared to affront the consequences (psychological therapy) La Gata salvaje is something for you.