Amarte así
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Amarte así is a Spanish-language telenovela
produced by the American-based television
network Telemundo
. It stars Litzy, Mauricio Ochmann
, Roberto Mateos, and Carla Peterson
. It was written by Enrique Torres, directed by Heriberto Lopez de Anda, Cristina Palacios, Hugo A. Moser; with Cristina Palacios as General Producer.
The novela was set in the mythical town of Esperanza, Mexico, but was actually shot in Argentina. The network debuted it on April 5, 2005, at the 7 pm (6 pm central) timeslot. Telemundo provided both Spanish and English captions on CC1 and CC 3. It was rebroadcast in 2008 with some scenes cut. This telenovela was sold to 16 countries.
In Haiti, the telenovela was a big success in January 2010 and was shown at 5PM. With typical Haitian humour, some say that Frijolito killed many people as the earthquake that shattered the island nation on January 12, 2010 occurred right before 5PM.
Margarita had been permanently enamored by Nacho the night that she met him, but she also hates him for having impregnated her and abandoned her. She thinks that he drugged her, but actually neither she nor Nacho remember the fornication, though she has constructed mental images of herself being raped.
Through Lucho, Nacho's brother Francisco (Roberto Mateos) offered money to Margarita to pay for killing Margarita's unborn baby. But Margarita refused. Thus while Nacho was spending six years in LA, Margarita at the age of 15 gave birth to Frijolito.
All the above is shown by flashbacks and what happened in the past is only revealed in bits and pieces here and there during the telenovela. The telenovela begins with Nacho returning to Esperanza, Mexico, not remembering Margarita nor knowing that he has a son. Since Margarita lies like Pinocchio (nickname Doña Mentiras), the truth comes out only slowly. Generally Nacho is the last to know, which adds to the comedy.
The plot is cyclical. It follows this pattern: 1) Margarita is in a snit vs. Nacho, 2) Margarita melts, 3) love blazes between the two, 4) Margarita gets angry again vs. Nacho and goes back into a snit vs. him. There are about 9 cycles of this. All of this is shown with some extremely beautiful love music in the background.
There are a plethora of people with unknown or mistaken parentage in the story. It employs the well-worn plot device of two brothers after the same woman, and the hero (engaged to a blond villainess) who falls in love with a Cinderella. Margarita takes a job as a nanny and then as a servant in the Reyes mansion, where Nacho, Francisco, and Chantal (Carla Peterson) live, along with Chantal's wicked witch mother.
The two protagonists come close to marrying the wrong persons in a double wedding, which collapses as a farce when Margarita arrives drunk, and Nacho kisses her in the church during the ceremony, though both were supposed to marry others. The two brothers have duel over this.
The climax comes when Frijolito is kidnapped. Desperate for ransom money, Margarita confesses to Nacho that Frijolito is his son. She explains to him what he did to her when she was 15. After this climax, the two are united lovers for the rest of the telenovela, which does not end at that point. Attempts are made to kill both Nacho and Margarita by the wicked Chantal. At the end they marry and live happily ever after.
Telenovela
A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...
produced by the American-based television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
network Telemundo
Telemundo
Telemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision....
. It stars Litzy, Mauricio Ochmann
Mauricio Ochmann
Mauricio Ochmann Siordia is a Mexican actor best known for his roles in telenovelas. He also appeared in Kevin Costner's film Message in a Bottle, the TV series That's life and Latino Green. He appeared as Fabián Duque in Telemundo's Dame Chocolate...
, Roberto Mateos, and Carla Peterson
Carla Peterson
Carla L. Peterson is a Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her expertise includes nineteenth-century African American women writers and speakers in the northern US, African American novelists in the post-Reconstruction era, and gender and culture in historical...
. It was written by Enrique Torres, directed by Heriberto Lopez de Anda, Cristina Palacios, Hugo A. Moser; with Cristina Palacios as General Producer.
The novela was set in the mythical town of Esperanza, Mexico, but was actually shot in Argentina. The network debuted it on April 5, 2005, at the 7 pm (6 pm central) timeslot. Telemundo provided both Spanish and English captions on CC1 and CC 3. It was rebroadcast in 2008 with some scenes cut. This telenovela was sold to 16 countries.
In Haiti, the telenovela was a big success in January 2010 and was shown at 5PM. With typical Haitian humour, some say that Frijolito killed many people as the earthquake that shattered the island nation on January 12, 2010 occurred right before 5PM.
Plot
Amarte así is a sentimental comedy or melodrama. As a teenager in Mexico, Nacho (Mauricio Ochmann) discovered that he could seduce girls by giving them gold rings. With his buddy Lucho, Nacho fornicated with many, many girls, and then never went out with them again. Sometimes Lucho "helped" Nacho by putting a date-rape drug in the girl's drink, though Nacho was not aware of this. Being from a rich family, when Nacho finished high school, he went to Los Angeles to study medicine, not knowing that on his last night in Mexico he had impregnated Margarita (Litzy). Lucho had actually drugged both Nacho and Margarita, leading to lack of inhibition and fornication. In the morning Margarita woke up naked and abandoned. She could not find Nacho.Margarita had been permanently enamored by Nacho the night that she met him, but she also hates him for having impregnated her and abandoned her. She thinks that he drugged her, but actually neither she nor Nacho remember the fornication, though she has constructed mental images of herself being raped.
Through Lucho, Nacho's brother Francisco (Roberto Mateos) offered money to Margarita to pay for killing Margarita's unborn baby. But Margarita refused. Thus while Nacho was spending six years in LA, Margarita at the age of 15 gave birth to Frijolito.
All the above is shown by flashbacks and what happened in the past is only revealed in bits and pieces here and there during the telenovela. The telenovela begins with Nacho returning to Esperanza, Mexico, not remembering Margarita nor knowing that he has a son. Since Margarita lies like Pinocchio (nickname Doña Mentiras), the truth comes out only slowly. Generally Nacho is the last to know, which adds to the comedy.
The plot is cyclical. It follows this pattern: 1) Margarita is in a snit vs. Nacho, 2) Margarita melts, 3) love blazes between the two, 4) Margarita gets angry again vs. Nacho and goes back into a snit vs. him. There are about 9 cycles of this. All of this is shown with some extremely beautiful love music in the background.
There are a plethora of people with unknown or mistaken parentage in the story. It employs the well-worn plot device of two brothers after the same woman, and the hero (engaged to a blond villainess) who falls in love with a Cinderella. Margarita takes a job as a nanny and then as a servant in the Reyes mansion, where Nacho, Francisco, and Chantal (Carla Peterson) live, along with Chantal's wicked witch mother.
The two protagonists come close to marrying the wrong persons in a double wedding, which collapses as a farce when Margarita arrives drunk, and Nacho kisses her in the church during the ceremony, though both were supposed to marry others. The two brothers have duel over this.
The climax comes when Frijolito is kidnapped. Desperate for ransom money, Margarita confesses to Nacho that Frijolito is his son. She explains to him what he did to her when she was 15. After this climax, the two are united lovers for the rest of the telenovela, which does not end at that point. Attempts are made to kill both Nacho and Margarita by the wicked Chantal. At the end they marry and live happily ever after.
Cast
It should be noted that Litzy and Roberto Mateos apparently won their roles by winning Protagonistas de la Fama , a reality show in 2004 on Telemundo.- Litzy ...Margarita Lizárraga (Protagonist, mariachi, Dulce's nanny, Reyes' maid, loves/hates Nacho)
- Mauricio OchmannMauricio OchmannMauricio Ochmann Siordia is a Mexican actor best known for his roles in telenovelas. He also appeared in Kevin Costner's film Message in a Bottle, the TV series That's life and Latino Green. He appeared as Fabián Duque in Telemundo's Dame Chocolate...
...Nacho = Ignacio Reyes (Protagonist, doctor, unknown father of Frijolito) - Alejandro Felipe ...Frijolito = Ignacio Lizárraga (Protagonist, 6-year-old son of Margarita, Friend of Toño)
- Carla PetersonCarla Peterson (actress)Carla Constanza Peterson is an Argentine actress. She was born in Cordoba. She began her career in stage plays. Among others she appeared in Quien es Janet? with Claudia Fontan and Mariana Prömmel. She first appeared on television in 1992 telenovella "Dance Party"...
...Chantal (Nacho's blond fiancee, supposed daughter of Lucretia) - Roberto Mateos ...Francisco Reyes (brother of Nacho)
- Diego OliveraDiego OliveraDiego Olivera, born on February 7, 1968) is an Argentinian actor.-Family:He is the brother of the actor Federico Olivera. In the country most often been interpreted villains.He is married to actress Mónica Ayos, who has a daughter, Victoria.- Biography :...
...Gregorio Valbueno (villain, lover of Chantal, owner of El Frijol where Margarita sings) - Jorge SuárezJorge SuarezJorge "Calero" Suárez was a former Salvadoran footballer. He is considered to be one of the best goalkeepers El Salvador has ever produced....
...David (butler at Reyes mansion) - Édgar VivarEdgar VivarEdgar Vivar is a Mexican actor. He is best remembered as "Señor Barriga" and his son "Ñoño" from the El Chavo del Ocho television series, and as "El Botija" from the El Chapulín Colorado and Chespirito television series...
...Don Pedro (step-father of Gregorio; unknown father of Nacho) - Liliana Rodriguez ...Anunciación Reyes (sister of Nacho, starts show as nun)
- Leonardo Suárez ...Toño Valbueno, Gregorio's supposed son
- Isamar González ...Daniela Reyes (daughter of Francisco Reyes, older sister of Dulce)
- Mariana Beyer ...Dulce Reyes (youngest daughter of Francisco, girlfriend of Frijolito)
- Marita Ballesteros ...Lucrecia Gonzalez (Chantal's mother, witch)
- Irene Almus ...Adela (Reyes' cook, romantic interest of butler David)
- Enoc Leaño ...Juan Tenorio (unknown father of Rosita, mariachi, quasi-polygamist)
- Sergio Ochoa ...Vicente, mariachi (2nd fiance of Rosita)
- Cristina Mason ...Rosita (Margarita's supposed sister)
- Mercedes Scapola ...Olga (Margarita's "friend")
- Maxi Ghione ...Lucho (Olga's husband, quasi-private eye, erstwhile friend of Nacho)
- Vanesa Robbiano ...Carmen (Reyes' maid, prostitute)
- Pietro Gian ...Salvador (priest, family advisor of Los Reyes)
- Aldo Pastur ...Morales (henchman of Francisco)
- Guido Massri ...Temo (Rosita's 1st fiance, Lucho's nephew)
- Mauricio RodriguezMauricio RodríguezMauricio Rodríguez may refer to:*Mauricio Alonso Rodríguez, Salvadoran football player and manager*Mauricio Rodriguez Anza, Mexican architect and designer*Mauricio Rodriguez, vocalist and frontman of Mauricio & Palodeagua...
.... Patocho (neighbor of Margarita, romantic interest of Olga) - Tina RomeroTina RomeroTina Romero is a Mexican film, television and stage actress, made famous by starring the film Alucarda in 1978.-Early life:Tina Romero Alcazár was born on August 14, 1949, in New York City. She is a daughter of Mexican parents and her family relocated to Mexico in 1958 where she developed her...
.... Evangelina (Margarita's mother; husband of Evangelina) - Jorge Schubert … Ramirito, doctor friend of Nacho, husband of Anunciación