''Boogie'' ( es, Boogie, el aceitoso) is a
2009
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3D Argentinian
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adult-animated action
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* Action (narrative), a literary mode
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Film
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thriller black comedy
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film, based on the Argentine character
Boogie, the oily by
Roberto Fontanarrosa
Roberto Alfredo Fontanarrosa, known popularly as ''El Negro'' Fontanarrosa (November 26, 1944 in Rosario – July 19, 2007), was an Argentine cartoonist, comics artist and writer. During his extended career, Fontanarrosa became one of the most ...
, and directed by Gustavo Cova. The voices of main characters Boogie and Marcia were performed by
Pablo Echarri
Pablo Daniel Echarri (born September 21, 1969) is a leading Argentine actor.
Biography
He was born in Sarandí, Avellaneda, Buenos Aires
Career
Pablo Echarri began his career on Argentine television in 1993. He was given his first sig ...
and
Nancy Dupláa
Nancy Verónica Dupláa (born 3 December 1969) is an Argentine actress.
Biography
Nancy Verónica Dupláa was born on December 3, 1969 in Olivos, Buenos Aires Province, and was raised in San Martín, a suburb to the west. She is the sister ...
. It was the first 3D animated movie made in Argentina and Latin America.
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Plot
Boogie meets Marcia at a bar, the girlfriend of the mafia Boss Sonny Calabria, who asks him if he finds her attractive. Boogie points that she is fat in a very rude manner, and leaves. Some time later Calabria is sent to trial, threatened 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 criticism, causing Calabria to leave her and get together with another fat woman, as he preferred fat women. Marcia falls in love with this 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 negotiates giving her up to Calabria.
However, after trading her in, Boogie starts feeling guilty, and decides to go back and rescue Marcia. He decides to bring her to the trial, that was waiting for her testimony, and crosses the country at high speed. During the trial, Calabria's lawyer tries to kill Marcia but Boogie shoots him instead. Sonny summons massive numbers of hit-men who have infiltrated in the scene, but Boogie starts to kill them all. Marcia, who had so far been reluctant to Boogie's violence, takes two of his guns and starts killing as well, and ends with killing Calabria for leaving her. Boogie sees Marcia, armed with guns and all covered with blood, and falls in love with her.
Three months after the event, Marcia declares in a journal that she knows nothing from Boogie ever since, and has made out her mind that probably that was for the best, and starts thinking that Boogie might be in a war zone doing what he does best. Later on, we can see Boogie in a battlefield site as a mercenary, just to watch him pointing his M16 Service Rifle right at the camera to say "There's some for you too".
Cast
* Pablo Echarri
Pablo Daniel Echarri (born September 21, 1969) is a leading Argentine actor.
Biography
He was born in Sarandí, Avellaneda, Buenos Aires
Career
Pablo Echarri began his career on Argentine television in 1993. He was given his first sig ...
as Boogie
* Nancy Dupláa
Nancy Verónica Dupláa (born 3 December 1969) is an Argentine actress.
Biography
Nancy Verónica Dupláa was born on December 3, 1969 in Olivos, Buenos Aires Province, and was raised in San Martín, a suburb to the west. She is the sister ...
as Marcia
* Nicolás Frías as Blackburn
* Marcelo Armand as Jones
* Rufino Gallo as Sony Calabria
Production
Gustavo Cova was contacted by José Luis Masa, owner of Illusion Studios
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, who were working in a project of the film. Roberto Fontanarrosa
Roberto Alfredo Fontanarrosa, known popularly as ''El Negro'' Fontanarrosa (November 26, 1944 in Rosario – July 19, 2007), was an Argentine cartoonist, comics artist and writer. During his extended career, Fontanarrosa became one of the most ...
, creator of the character in comic strips, had read and edited a provisional script.["Boogie, el aceitoso" desembarca en la pantalla grande](_blank)
/ref> 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. He considered that the movie would have been grotesque if it had been done with actors, but being humoristic it worked better.
The film had a cost of two and a half million of dollars.
Unlike the comic strip
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s, 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.["Boogie, el aceitoso" salta de las viñetas al cine 3D](_blank)
/ref> She was also designed as a femme fatale
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, despite the lack of such characters in the work of Fontanarrosa.
Box office
In Argentina, this film opened at #3 behind ''Surrogates
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'' and ''El secreto de sus ojos
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'', earning $661,954 pesos
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($125,370 USD
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).Argentina Box Office (October 22–25, 2009)
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References
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2009 3D films
2009 films
2009 animated films
Adult animated films
2000s Spanish-language films
Argentine animated films
Mafia films
Gangster films
Flash animated films
Animated films based on comics
Films based on Argentine comics
2000s Argentine films