Creating additional stories from real events is common in the world of film and television, this is done in order to keep audiences entertained.
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Telenovelas such as “Pablo Escobar: el patron del mal”, “El Joe, la legend” and “Diomedes, el Cacique de la Junta” are some examples of biographical Colombian productions that, despite being based on the lives of some public figures, tell with some characters that are fictional that help create tensions in the narrative thread. “Rigo”, the soap opera that tells the life of the cyclist Rigoberto Urán, uses this formula.
Telenovelas such as “Pablo Escobar: el patron del mal”, “El Joe, la legend” and “Diomedes, el Cacique de la Junta” are some examples of biographical Colombian productions that, despite being based on the lives of some public figures, tell with some characters that are fictional that help create tensions in the narrative thread. “Rigo”, the soap opera that tells the life of the cyclist Rigoberto Urán, uses this formula.
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This was confessed by its librettist César Augusto Betancur in an interview with Vea Magazine. According to him, although it was based on a book of the same name by the writer Andrés López, part of the story is fictitious. “I couldn’t give you a percentage on this because what is fictionalized is a lot, because one’s interest as a librettist is to gain people’s loyalty, to attach them to the story, so, to put it in a way, it is necessary to poison many things, in the good sense of the word, to make them attractive because we need the viewer to turn to see us.”
Keeping the audience interested night after night is not an easy task, writers have to exaggerate some events or create new ones so that the audience can feel inside the character’s life without getting fed up. He also spoke about the recreation of Urrao, Urán’s home municipality.
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What the screenwriter of ‘Rigo’ said
“The initial installment of this story is a book called Rigo, which was written by Andrés López, who is a very good friend, very close to Rigo. It captures very well a universe that matters a lot to me within the history that is Urrao, I am very seduced by village life. Rigo’s experiences there give a color, a special tone to the series, that is well told and explained in the book and it helped me a lot to build.” One of the aspects for which the athlete personally congratulated the production was the work they did in recreating the small alley in which he grew up next to his house before it was remodeled. Structure that has not seen the same for years.
In addition to keeping people attentive to the story, adding additional plots improves the pace and tone of the soap opera, characteristics that streamline the production and increase the moments of comedy, love and tension, making it much more digestible for the public. . “Yes, there are many invented characters. I would think that in real life there are 6 or 7 characters, the others are invented to give color, rhythm and dynamics. And we have to invent for a simple reason and that is that they pay Rigo for the series,” he added.
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