I love watching a good movie, especially when it has a good story. We are taken into another world when we watch a film that moves us. These days I think of some of the movies I seen and see how the story would be if the main character was a salsero. Imagine, if the great movies of the present and past had a sound track from Hector Lavoe or Marc Anthony. If his name wasn’t Rocky but Rico Suave. Ok, let’s have a little salsa movie review.
“You can’t win Rico!”
He’s a boxer by day, fighting all the gym joints, pounding away at meat locker until his salsa career takes off. I like films, many times when I see one I’ll review it and think how it could have been made better. For example, Krammer vs Krammer. When a tired housewife decides to leave her son with her salsero husband, he must learn to balance his passion and share his life with his only child. It would be a good twist. Several scenes at the Copa. His boss firing him because he keeps missing his mambo lessons and his dance partner ditching him right before the big competition at the New York Salsa Congress.
Many scenarios to look at. Thinking about the movie Ghost, with the late Patrick Swayze, this could be made into a great dance flick. A salsero’s spirit returns when his wife becomes the salsa dance partner of the man who killed him. This could be great; we change the location to Miami to give it a twist. He was betrayed by his supposedly envious best friend. His friend Orlando would always come second place at salsa competitions and his twisted obsession over Rico’s wife Esmeralda was never satisfied. Ok, the main characters name would be Rico again… Rico Suave. The late Celia Cruz would have been great for the Whoopi Goldberg character. She not only rescues Esmeralda from Rico’s murderer but helps her to realize it was Rico’s dream to become the great salsero. Although she loved him and danced with him, she must pursue her own dreams and not live through Rico anymore.
How about this one.
My name is Rico… Rico Suave
What are some movies you can put your own salsa twist? A salsero spy sent out to infiltrate Dancing with the Stars because they have a beautiful salsero agent there. He must find her before she does the hit job on a guest political dancer. Will he stop her or will her cha cha cha be the end of him?
Tell us some of your favorite salsa movies. Who knows maybe they can be made into a film.