Bogotá.- The first images of the “Macondo” of the series “One Hundred Years of Solitude” of Netflix They were revealed this Friday, just the day that marks the 40th anniversary of the moment in which Gabriel García Márquez found out that he would receive the Nobel Prize for Literature a few weeks later.
“Today, 40 years later, we continue to celebrate the Nobel Prize in Literature for Gabriel Garcia Marquez! And for this reason, here I leave you the first images of the Macondo that will come to life in the series “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, “said Netflix Latin America when publishing the trailer for the series on its social networks.
The one-minute video is set in a jungle in which a group of people are seen building a model of Macondo and a narrator who reads one of the first fragments of the culminating work of the Colombian Nobel Prize for Literature.
“The world was so recent that many things lacked names and to mention them you had to point your finger at them. How much life had it cost them to find the paradise of shared solitude », reads part of the promotional fragment, in which the launch date has not yet been revealed.
A CARIBBEAN PRODUCTION
For the production of the series, those responsible visited different towns in northern Colombia to identify those who could represent the physical and psychological characteristics of the inhabitants of Macondo, including the more than 30 members of the 7 generations of the Buendía family.
Macondo is the imaginary town in the Colombian Caribbean where the story narrated in “One Hundred Years of Solitude” takes place.
For several weeks, the producers interviewed up to 70 people each day, most without any acting experience, but with the spirit of some of the characters in “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, in order to choose who best embodies them.
The objective of choosing people who in their daily lives have the same activity as the characters in the novel is to give the performance more realism, which is why they were in market places, parks in popular neighborhoods and houses of culture, among many others. other spaces in which García Márquez was inspired to create «magical realism»
