In the flashback footage, the character played by Antonio Resines, a right-wing Cantabrian businessman named José María, had just died when the action of the movie ‘Eight Moroccan Surnames’ began. Those who were present at his funeral emphasize how much he contributed to the Spanish brand. They’re all racist, sexist, and downright homophobic, even though there’s no gay person they can sink their teeth into. They live in a small town called Pelayos on the Cantabrian coast. They display the Spanish flag on cell phone cases, wristwatch chains, trouser belts and keychains.
real voters Voxand some PPthey would not be out of place in this community, especially when one of the characters, Guillermo López de Castro (Julián López), is asked if he is Basque after saying he comes from northern Spain. “No, from the good North,” shouts Guillermo, whose mission in life is to train wealthy people in golf and win back his ex-girlfriend Begoña (Michelle Jenner), the daughter of the deceased businessman who left his family in their hands. The family’s cannery is in critical condition.
So begins ‘Eight Moroccan Surnames’, the third milestone in the successful Spanish comedy series, which started with ‘Eight Basque Surnames’ in 2014 and continued with ‘Eight Catalan Surnames’ a year later.. But in reality the title is nothing more than a commercial claim, as this third film has little to no relationship to the previous two films, apart from the production companies Telecinco, Mogambo and La Zonafilms.
The first two were directed by Emilio Martínez-Lázaro, with scripts by Borja Cobeaga and Diego San José; The same characters were played by Dani Rovira, Clara Lago, Carmen Machi and Karra Elejalde in both films, and by Berto Romero in the second film. , the Catalan boyfriend who gives meaning to the title.
None of these names appear The third film directed by Álvaro Fernández Armero (“Shame”, “If I Were Rich”) and written by Daniel Castro (“The Best Summer of My Life”, “Vota Juan”).Except for the series ‘Vergüenza’, which, although bearing Castro’s signature, was distilled by the Cobeaga-San José tandem (“Pagafantas”, “Fe de etarras”), practitioners of a different style of comedy with less bad grapes, created by San José himself, the aforementioned ‘ Scripts of the TV series ‘Vota Juan’.
new fronts
There is also no one from the original cast because the story, setting and situations are very different. Rather than regional conflicts, racial and social class conflicts emerge. The family of the deceased is an institution in Díaz Aguirre Pelayos. Daughter Begoña mixes up the names of the cannery workers, Soledad instead of Sonsoles and Paula instead of Paca; It’s a sign of how little they mean to him because his goal is to live and work in Chicago, while his mother, Carmen (Elena Irureta), asks the ticket seller to put her in the Christian row when she has to board a plane to Morocco to avoid mixing with the Muslim passengers. . This is the humor of the movie, which laughs at the Spaniards without shedding too much blood, everything has to be said.
Conflict arises when Begoña, Carmen and the tiresome Guillermo (a ridiculous character rescued from clichés by the deadpan comedy of Cobeaga-San José’s fantastic actor Julián López) are forced to travel to Essaouira, Morocco. Rescue El Sardinete, the first boat owned by the late José María. There they discover the double life of the head of the family, as he has another daughter with a Moroccan woman, Hamida (María Ramos, a Seville actress of Arab origin).
From this moment on, film It lightly tackles topics like racism, immigration, and cultural identity at a pace of predictable, clumsy, and sometimes inspired jokes. The wedding scene is the funniest scene in the series because Guillermo’s character is a character who does not hesitate to wear a djellaba with a ‘face vest’ on it and asks whether they will go to a mosque or a kebab to get married. “I don’t know how you do it here.” Cultural shock with the gentle rescue of ultra-conservative characters who find light in communicating with friendly MoroccansAmong them, in the role of one of Hamida’s cousins - he is 30 years old and the Spaniards begin to laugh at such a number – is the 26-year-old ‘influential’ Hamza Zaidi, born in Tetouan and founded in Madrid, the famous author of the viral ‘kitipasa’ phrase.