When her grandfather dies shortly after, she moves to the United States with her family to take her place as the factory owner. In the factory, there is a new PR agent, Samantha Porter. She is the drop-dead gorgeous, but heartless antagonist. She sees Rosita as competition and does her best to humiliate her whenever possible. Samantha, Bruce, and Rosita create the first love triangle. Bruce is initially attracted to Samantha, but also finds himself falling for Rosita as he sees her innocence and genuineness. Here is a picture of the three of them. Rosita is on the left and Samantha is on the right.
When a friend from Mexico named Angel travels all the way from Mexico to the United States to confess his love to Rosita and request her hand in marriage, it forms another love triangle between Rosita, Bruce, and Angel. Here's what Angel looks like. He's kind of creepy in the telenovela, so I understand why she rejects him.
Dame Chocolate is produced by Telemundo, an American telenovela company in Miami. You can tell that this is an Americanized telenovela. Occasionally the characters will say random English phrases. Bruce one time said "Hey mom" in English and then started speaking to her in Spanish. Rosita's cousin said "oh my gosh!" and Bruce's mother always says Samantha Porter with an American accent.
Overall, I'm enjoying watching this telenovela so far. It is very, very dramatic and ridiculous at times, but no matter how ridiculous it is, I still want to keep watching!
This telenovela seems so awesome! First, I must say that the guy at the bottom Angel is absolutely gorgeous. He somewhat looks like a creeper but his cuteness should overcome that flaw. Maybe it's the way he is posing in this picture which makes him appear creepy... However, it is interesting to me how the producer creates an imperfection within one of the characters. By making a character have a bigger nose seems to only be a small imperfection, but maybe in the Latin world,it is a major imperfection. Telenovelas that demonstrate how imperfections can change the way you are treated can have affect on how viewers view themselves. It may cause others to realize their flaws and then they could become insecure. The media unfortunately realizes the look that they are portraying, but the money is their only concern.
ReplyDeleteThey make her out to be some horrendously ugly girl, but she really isn't that ugly. You can tell behind the buck teeth and the fake nose that the actress really is a beautiful woman, but I also think that they didn't make her really ugly on purpose. They had to make her only slightly ugly so that there was a possibility of beauty, and that viewers wouldn't be too repulsed. We humans are obsessed with beauty, so having a protagonist ugly without the possibility of becoming beautiful later would not keep viewers coming back.
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