00:07We went behind the scenes of the second season of the series One Hundred Years of Solitude, which will arrive
00:12Coming to Netflix on August 5th. We pick up the story after the amnesty of the 32 uprisings.
00:18by Colonel Aureliano Buendía. It is a new era for Macondo. Its paradise-like splendor
00:22The newborn has faded away and the passage of time is becoming increasingly evident.
00:28The idea was that this Macondo would be seen to age, that we would see it before our eyes, how it was going
00:34As we age, even though great technologies arrive and change over time, it also
00:39It falls into decline, like a town itself. One Hundred Years of Solitude is a story that begins
00:45with a people that is born and ends with a people that destroys itself, that destroys itself in the most
00:50rotten, that is, and that's the process, just like you see for example Rebecca's house, this town
00:57It has to rot; it's part of the story of One Hundred Years of Solitude. So, of course,
01:02The town it's going to be in the end, I don't know if it's a town that, well, anyway,
01:09In other words, it doesn't mean it can't be recovered, but that's the logical process.
01:13of history, which leads us to history.
01:15For the second season, the production team opened 18 new spaces on the set that
01:20had built in Alvarado, Tolima. In addition, two streets were opened, the house of the
01:25Buendía and the train station was built through which the company will arrive in Macondo
01:30banana plantation. This is the result of an arduous research process, both of the work and
01:35of Colombia at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. Every detail was verified.
01:40from the largest buildings to the final stitches of each dress.
01:45Well, the process of making the costumes for the series is also a bit of an ethnography.
01:50from the Colombian Caribbean. So, understanding where they come from, where the influences come from.
01:56of certain things that were put in place. I have two design assistants who handle that,
02:02One of the extras and one of the cast, and they're constantly on the edge of their seats, like they're on the line.
02:07Because what needs to arrive on set has to be exact. Let's just say that in my view, things can get lost.
02:17Things because, well, the actors don't, or let's say, it's too hot for the actress, so...
02:24That's where you negotiate. Of course, it's not like, no, you just wrap yourself in your wool ball because you're going to die.
02:29No, there is a negotiation, then, but the team does, I mean, they have a lot of knowledge of the work.
02:37I think sometimes it's even obsessive.
02:40It is thanks to this work that in the next seven chapters, as well as in the grand finale
02:44which will arrive on the platform on August 26, where we will see the flooding of Macondo, the parties
02:50derailments of Aureliano II and, of course, the banana massacre.
02:54But with so much technology available to create entire universes using a computer,
02:59Why bother building this whole set? From the first season, that's been the question.
03:03One of the project's strengths was that it aimed to create a place where everyone could...
03:08the characters would really feel like they were in Macondo.
03:10So, less and less physical construction is happening now, right? I mean, what they were asking earlier about
03:14Why not do it in Volume, for example? Why not create a virtual village? Right?
03:18Because human interaction in a place, right? In a physical place, it's extremely important.
03:24Right? It makes things much richer and much easier to get around. If you saw the first one
03:28This season you will have noticed that there are some very long tracking shots that go in and out through doors
03:32And so on. Doing it digitally is very, very, very difficult, if not impossible yet, right?
03:39In other words, it's a much more controlled way of filming.
03:41This television adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez's novel required a set
03:45of 560,000 square meters, around 1,200 people working 24 hours a day on production
03:51and more than 13,000 professional or non-professional actors who participated in the two seasons.
03:57All to do justice to one of the masterpieces of Latin American literature and
04:02to become one of the most ambitious audiovisual productions on the continent.
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