Board Thread:Watercooler 2.0/@comment-6198648-20130228045108/@comment-6191693-20130627024003

Novel update: Since a large portion of it takes place in Colombia in the 1880s-1920s, I've been throwing myself into anything I can dig up (mostly movies, documentaries, and photography collections) relating to Colombia, Ecuador, or Venezuela, especially, but not limited to the turn of the last century. Well, I just finished watching Love in the Time of Cholera, which, conveniently, takes place over the course of 50 years from the 1870s to the 1920s in Colombia. Perfect movie for me to watch, right? Well, you would think, but most of it takes place inside of rich people's houses and villas (unlike my novel, which takes place mostly in the country), so little was relevant, plus the movie SUCKED. It was two hours and fifteen minutes of agony. It was gorgeously directed and very well-acted, but the story was complete shit.

BTW, if anyone else has any suggestions I might find useful, please, by all means, tell me. I'm a very visual writer -- anything where I can see or read or otherwise visualize the villages, countryside, people, animals, or anything could be helpful. Especially if it's relating to or near to southwestern Colombia, near the border with Ecuador.