domingo, 6 de octubre de 2013

Los Angeles at last ( for English speaking people)

There was a great episode of the old television show I love Lucy,  in the fifties, where the couple and their neighbors were leaving New York to L.A.  Ricky Ricardo should participate in motion pictures to become a movie star. They arrived in a convertible, in the middle of a big highway, singing. Now the highways are also big, but there is more traffic.
Although in those years it seemed that there were many people, nothing could be compared to now days. And just trifles compared with the inhabitants of the future to be.
The arrival by plane at Tom Bradley airport has no glamour . The queues at the passport control and customs are considerable. They ask the typical questions, I guess everyone responds the same way.
It's amazing the number of races, costumes, hairstyles, which you can see over there. Probably one of those places where there are more mixes. And in the midst of these combinations, predominantly Hispanic people. It is the language, the Spanish, that arouses more sympathetic. If you ask something, and they can, they will answer you in Spanish with pleasure.
You will be surprised by the famous Hollywood sign, by Quixotes like  long palms, moist heat, long distances and of the beauty of some buildings combined with fierce pragmatism.
Meanwhile, it is still the city of dreams for those who want to enter the atmosphere of the motion pictures industry. Films are made ​​elsewhere in the world, no doubt, but here is different. Almost everything revolves around the world of film, and you can find any famous movie star anywhere. You might not recognize him/her, you might be surprised because he/she looks  with another hairstyle, dress very casual, wearing sunglasses and even seems normal.
Traces of Chaplin or Wells, of those young people who came to eat and devoured the world are present. There is always the hope that another genius appears in Sunset as Billy Wilder or has an eye patch as Ford seeing the most.
Something that can never be kept in a bottle, enclosed, is a genius and therefore can appear anytime and leave us a history to tell the world in a dark room. The magic of a picture.

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