Talk:Burn!

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[edit] Criticism

Like one of the links, "Ecology of Destruction" show, the original script refered to a spanish colony in the Caribean. This was changed to a portuguese colony allegedely not to offend the spanish audiences. The film shows many stereotypes about portuguese and spanish being more or less the same. Except for the title, that is really portuguese, most carachters have spanish names and not portuguese. That´s why the film is often criticized for his stereotypes about portuguese and spanish as being relatively the same. It´s odd to see an anti-colonialist film showing so much ethnic and language stereotipes. The only portuguese name in the film is "Queimada", the rest is all spanish. User:Mistico14:00, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

The criticism doesn't makes sense. It was the Spanish government who enforced successfull to change the script. Because of that they had to change the Spanish colony simply to a colony of Portugal. That's why the names are still Spanish. It hasn't anything to do with "stereotypes", they did let the Spanish names in so that the viewers see it is about about a Spanish colony. 28 Sept 2007 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.176.191.229 (talk) 19:15, 28 September 2007 (UTC)


So, you simply, proved my point. I´m thankefull. I usually don´t argue with anonimous users, but you just proved my point. Nobody can imagine in a film a portuguese colony being changed to a spanish one, and the names remaining the same. User:Mistico 23:16, 14 October 2007 (UTC)