El Cantante (coming soon)

[happyfilmluvguy]

http://www.elcantantemovie.com/

 

[cookie]

Que es eso

Is that Jenny from the Block's esposo? Tell me more.

 

[Adelaidey]

Ay, quiero verla...

Of course he would do a biopic-- and after Lopez en Selena, I'll probably go see this one too... looks interesting. Plus I'm a sucker for good salsa music!

 

[Lady Day]

I hope its not a "Hey, we are a real couple, what movie can we do and PLAY a couple!?" movie. Those suck.


LD

 

[happyfilmluvguy]

This looks like it could be a fun movie. Picturehouse seems to know their way around the movie business. They're like another Miramax before Mirmax was bought by the Disney company.

 

[Rundquist]

Here’s what Willie Colon had to say about the movie:


[The Creators of El Cantante missed an opportunity to do something of relevance for our community. The real story was about Hector fighting the obstacles of a non-supportive industry that took advantage of entertainers with his charisma and talent. Instead they did another movie about two Puerto Rican junkies.

The impact of drugs in the entertainment industry is nothing new; look at Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and Whitney Houston today.

I think Hector deserves the recognition the movie pretended to give him. However, as someone who advised the producers, it's painfully obvious that they didn't understand what made him so important. It was the music. It was his talent. They didn't understand or respect the true importance of our music to people around the world.

It's difficult to comprehend how two individuals who are in the music business like Marc and Jennifer are not aware of the damage and the consequences of promoting only the negative side of our Latin music culture.

Willie Colón]


Below is a follow up:

[I was disappointed that there wasn't a minimal effort to correct what I felt were serious chronological and factual errors. Similarly, the wrong story was told in The Capeman with disastrous economic consequences.

After the premier of El Cantante in Puerto Rico there was several statements of protest by people who had supported and participated in the project until they saw it.

Their complaints were not about sour grapes or J-lo and Marc bashing but from a sense of betrayal and disappointment. We are all invested in the world that this movie represents. For many of us the hope of our story finally being told sank into the horizon with the final version of this film.]

Here’ What Milton Cardona had to say:

[I would like to add my 2 cents to this topic, by saying that the producers were offered information from myself, and others. They blatantly refused it. I had explained to Mr Ichaso, that I kept diaries of every gig I have ever done throughout my entire career. Everything that Hector ever went through personally and professionally has been documented to the date, time, and place in my diaries. Again it was refused. They didn't want the truth. They preferred to show the ugliest skeleton he had in his closet. I did spend at least 3/4 of my entire career with both Willie and Hector.

Milton Cardona]



Willie Colon’s music (and to a lesser degree, Hector’s solo records that followed his work with Willie), mean a lot to me personally. It’s a shame that people will now associate their music with this movie. Here are some clips of the real deal. Enjoy.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=-PPhIVdQHCA&mode=related&search=
http://youtube.com/watch?v=FSswpkA0K_s
http://youtube.com/watch?v=oPGvnhN9eEs&mode=related&search=
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-1li8oAiy64&mode=related&search=
http://youtube.com/watch?v=L38ugWYl_Lo
http://youtube.com/watch?v=SWYEgECDbqE&mode=related&search=
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mcsX8FPJJlY

 

[Marc Chevalier]

I hope its not a "Hey, we are a real couple, what movie can we do and PLAY a couple!?" movie. Those suck.

Really?

http://www.rinkworks.com/movies/m/adams.rib.1949.shtml

http://www.rinkworks.com/movies/m/guess.whos.coming.to.dinner.1967.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long,_Long_Trailer

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[happyfilmluvguy]

I was going to mention "The Long Long Trailer" too...

And there's also those Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall films, after "To Have and Have Not"?

I'm going to still see it, even if it portrays Hector Lavoe and his music wrongly.

 

[Feraud]

I hope its not a "Hey, we are a real couple, what movie can we do and PLAY a couple!?" movie. Those suck.


LD

Let us call it Gigli II.

 

[Lady Day]

lol

LD