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| Directed by | Gustavo Cova |
| Written by | José Luis Masa |
| Distributed by | Illusion Studios |
| Release date(s) | October 22, 2009 |
| Country | Argentina |
| Language | Spanish |
| Budget | $2.5 million |
Boogie is a 2009 animated film from Argentina, based in the Argentine character Boogie, the oily by Roberto Fontanarrosa, and directed by Gustavo Cova. The voices of main characters Boogie and Marcia were performed by Pablo Echarri and Nancy Dupláa. It was the first 3D animated movie made in Argentina.[1]
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Gustavo Cova was contacted by José Luis Masa, owner of Illusion studios, who were working in a project of the film. Roberto Fontanarrosa, creator of the character in comic strips, had read and edited a provisional script.[2] Fontanarrosa died shortly after, but it was decided to go on with the project. Cova considered later that they could manage to make the transition from comic strips to movie being loyal to the character style and the style of Fontanarrosa himself.[1] He considered that the movie would have been grotesque if it had been done with actors, but being humoristic it worked better.[1]
The film had a cost of two and a half million of dollars.[2]
Unlike the comic strips, which are made with short jokes, the movie is not made with a series of short shots but with a big storyline. However, many of the comic strips created by Fontanarrosa were included as part of the storyline. Boogie also lacks in the comic strips a female sidekick: although Marcia does exist in such media, she's just one more of many others secondary characters abused or insulted by Boogie. The Marcia character in the film collects into a single character situations of many others.[3] She was also designed as a femme fatale, despite the lack of such characters in the work of Fontanarrosa.[3]
Boogie finds Marcia at a bar, the girlfriend of the mafia Boss Sonny Calabria, who starts to ask him if she's nice. Boogie points that she is fat in a highly rude manner, and leaves. Some time later Calabria is sent to trial, being in danger by the existence of a mysterious witness who could incriminate him. Calabria's people try to hire Boogie to kill that witness, but as he requests too much money they decide to hire Blackburn instead, a competitor killer. Angered by the situation, Boogie decides to kidnap the witness to force Calabria to pay him. The witness was Marcia, who had changed into a thin figure after Boogie's critics, but with the result of Calabria leaving her and getting another fat woman, as he preferred fat women. Marcia falls in love with his seeming hero, despite his constant violence and lack of feelings, until she finds out his true plans. She tries to escape from him, but Boogie captures her back and negotiate dealing her to Calabria.
However, after leaving her, Boogie starts feeling guilty, and decides to go back and rescue Marcia. He decides to bring her to the trial, that was expecting his appearance, and cross the country at high speed. During the trial, Calabria's lawyer tries to kill Marcia but is killed just before by Boogie. Sonny summons massive numbers of hitmen infiltrated in the scene, but boogie starts to kill them all. Marcia, who had so far been reluctant to Boogie's violence, takes 2 of his guns and starts killing as well, and finish killing Calabria for leaving her. Boogie sees Marcia, armed with guns and all covered with blood, and falls in love with her.
Writing credits for the film Boogie the Oily One are currently under dispute. Mario O. Moreno is challenging his ex-writing partner, Marcelo Paez-Cubells, for taking sole writing credit for the Boogie script, which Moreno claims they co-wrote. Lawyers are involved, and both the production company, Illusion Studios, and American distributors, Vision Films, have been notified about the dispute. After making marginal progress by quietly contacting the production company and distributors, Moreno started his own Facebook Fan page, Boycott Boogie the Oily One, on Saturday, November 6, 2010 where he is posting proof of his co-authorship. Moreno intends to keep posting evidence as time permits.