The story in Rosario Tijeras revolved around violence, revenge, power, drugs, and love. The audience can see Rosario’s character development and her tendency to use violence grow. When she first started killing she showed remorse and cried but that remorse slowly goes away and her job turns into killing professionally. Rosario is constantly getting revenge for the people that have wronged her and her family. The audience gets hooked on the show because they want the conflict to be resolved.
Like most telenovelas, the two lovers face a lot of obstacles to come together. This is the same for Antonio and Rosario. Every time Antonio comes to the neighborhood to look for her, he ends up kidnapped, robbed, or caught in the middle of a gunfight. There are so many obstacles for Antonio to find Rosario that eventually, he gives up. I think that having so many obstacles between their relationship and a slow build-up towards them meeting again keeps the audience entertained. I believe this way the audience will root for them even more once they do get together. There are even more obstacles to their love story when it turns into a love triangle involving Antonio’s best friend, Emilio.
The music element of the telenovela adds a lot more to the plot and influences the viewers’ emotions. After Rosario does something badass in the telenovela, the song “Candela” would play. You can always tell something bad is about to happen when the music sounds suspenseful and sad. When this happens, one of the main characters in Rosario Tijeras usually gets injured. Another catchy song that is used throughout the telenovela is “Maldita Mujer.” Whenever this song is played, there is usually an encounter or a kiss between Rosario and Antonio or Rosario and Emilio. Even the introduction song in the telenovela contains a message directly related to the plot in Rosario Tijeras. The introduction song is called “Ojo or ojo, diente por diente” which basically translates to an eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth. As I mentioned earlier, the plot of Rosario Tijeras is heavily surrounded by revenge and violence. The lyrics in the song reflect how Rosario believes that revenge should be taken and the concept of an eye for an eye. For example, when Gringo shoots her brother, she later goes back and does the same to Gringo. Overall, I think music is also a universal language where you don’t really have to understand the lyrics or what the characters are saying to feel the emotions that are taking place in a specific thing. The music makes the plot more predictable where I was able to predict a character’s death when the sad and suspenseful music started playing. Music plays a significant role on how we perceive the telenovela and what the director of the telenovela is trying to convey and without music I don’t think telenovelas would be as successful.
Also after class today, I understood more about telenovelas and its remakes. I did some research and the version of Rosario Tijeras that I'm watching now is the Mexican telenovela remade from the Colombian telenovela in 2010.
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