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Behind the Script: Adios Vaya Con Dios (2015)
Urban life turns into urban art.
A behind the scenes look showing how the neighborhoods of Chicago came together to make Adios Vaya Con Dios. It is impressive that a neighborhood actually pulled this off. Churches began creating their own films, most notably Fireproof (2008), but I haven't heard of an urban neighborhood unifying to accomplish movie-making. This film in particular doesn't associate it self with any religious institution or film organization, rather Executive Producer Mónica Esmeralda León using her backyard as a social construct for storytelling the beauties and tragedies of where she is from.
The documentary labeled 'La Raza when we unite,' also shows the non-actors from the neighborhoods that joined in the effort working with the actual professional actors. Narrated by Zachary Laoutides, he takes you on a history lesson, behind the meaning of 'La Raza' as the film's directorial title was dedicated to the community in which it was filmed. You follow Zachary's voice through the gangland territories of where the film was shot reflecting the realism of the mean streets.
Most interestingly is the soundtrack of the film as musicians from the United Kingdom and rock bands from México joined in having the ability to give the film a very different vibe not typically found in the urban genre.
Adios Vaya Con Dios (2014)
A Spanish Gangster art house film
Adios vaya con dios gets into a tempo from the opening. It pieces together resembling a Spanish international art house film, with elongated musical mosaics, black and white instances, with two opening credit sequences. It's experimental art with a new coined style of filmmaking, the La Raza method (the experimentation of putting real people into a film and utilizing an urban neighborhood for involvement). Luckily, everyone showed up and everyone foresaw the movie to its completion. The merging of professional actors with real posses, real populaces from the streets, to collaborating the entire film with euro rock: Manchester artists Liam Williams, Joel Goldberg and Mexican artists Gaston Sanchez, Alex Villareal, Andres Kamorlinga and Mickey Synteklas, a gangster art house film is born!
The pinnacle of the movie's success is the musician's because the film has such a strong soundtrack. If not for the music that travels through the film we would be left with a very different result. With no uncertainty the musical commitment to the La Raza method brought the film onto a new level of appreciation.
Adios vaya con dios is an art film that transcends into the mainstream, it is an exploration of what happens when you put hoodlums, gangs and community into a film. You may suppose the film would be a cataclysm and unsafe, nonetheless the movie uses the danger to inescapably become its definitive force.