Without any explicit reference to the television that is currently being made, without making any comparison with the drift of the current TVE, Julia Otero has invited Javier Gurruchaga in ‘Días de tele’, he has taken images of that ‘Journey with us’ from 1988, and the comparison between the TVE of 30 years ago, with that of today, has emerged in an unstoppable, stupendous, and terrible way.
When the file is used with intelligence and accuracy, it is as devastating as it is magnificent. Viewing now, in 2023, those ‘sketchs’ of ‘Journey with us’, for the audience has been a ‘shot’. For the old, a memory that we had asleep, for the young, a surprisingly lucid discovery. that moment of Santiago Carrillo with a wig That Philip Gonzalez dwarf, and gurruchagadisguised as Victoria Prego, saying to him when he saw him so reduced: «President, it is obvious that power wears a lot!». That sequence of Els Joglars’ by Boadellataking out a pujol with pockets full of bills under the blessing of La Moreneta montserratina, which turns out to be the Virgin speaking and was the voice of the bold ‘Mammy’, Scarlet O’Hara’s maid in ‘Gone with the Wind’. ..
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Ooh! Seeing it now all overturned again on the current TVE has been superlative. they asked gurruchaga How could such groundbreaking television be made, so iconoclastic, so irreverent? She answered: «For the luck of having in TVE a general director who was called Pilar Miró». Indeed, the name of pilar miro is flying over a lot in this first season of ‘Days of TV’. That director was crushed for her efforts to make TVE an open and free television. But while she was in office, she did. she remembered gurruchaga that there was a compromise: “He only told me: do not mess with the King or with the Armed Forces”. Everything else, open bar. And above all with that layer of histrionic buffoon that Gurruchaga knew how to interpret so wisely to fluidify the stage audacity that he achieved.
“A good television director protects the subordinates below and resists the pressures of those above”, He said Julia Otero remembering with admiration the I look. This ‘Days of TV’, showing us what TVE dared to do in the 80s, must have been uncomfortable for those who direct it today. The contrast is terrifying. And sad.