Alma Indomable, from Venevision international, was a basic telenovela with the usual telenovela plot twists. The story was actually pretty good, but they could have made it better if they just considered and corrected some of the plot elements and improved on the setting.
The story takes place in an unnamed town(something designed to make the story appeal to the international audience) in a sort of countryside hacienda setting where the main protagonist, Alma (Scarlet Ortiz), comes to the hacienda Las Brisas where her true origins are revealed. But there are villains in this place who do not want to see her happy with the ranch foreman, Juan Pablo (Jose Angel Llamas).
I think that the producers should have tried to use more exterior shots of Southern Florida where many ranches are situated. The story was supposedly taking place in a ranch setting, but you never get to see the actual horses, cows etc or the plush countryside with the fruit trees where Alma went to steal fruits. Thus, the setting itself makes the story unrealistic. Venevision- Miami should have considered filming this in Venezuela, where there are actual haciendas where they could utilize the plush countryside setting. But here, no hacienda business took place (although they attempted to pull it off with a horse everyone used, a few trees, a river,a cow and a cave).
Also, the shots were always done in the same place, in the same position. For example, the mansions where the rich people lived were not fully utilized.Then, some of the plot elements could have been modified to make the story make more sense, such as the fact that Alma never went to school. They could have even added more extras so that the story actually looks like it is taking place in a countryside town with the colonial buildings, the local town canteena, like Mexican novelas such as Mi Pecado, Soy tu Duena and Abismo de Pasion.
Some plot elements that could have improved the story include an actual ranch setting where you could see workers in the farms or the characters walking around and exploring the ranch as the story moves on.
Scarlet Ortiz her acted well, but she always has the same look in her novelas. She could have at least dyed her hair to another color and styled her hair to make it have more curls. Lilibeth Morillo played an excellent villain here.
If some of the plot elements (like making Alma a farm worker instead of some savage girl, her grandmother being a voodoo spiritualist instead of some wacky nut-job, removing the whole modeling agency bit) could be changed and some of the settings improved on, especially making it look more like a South American hacienda, then this novela would have been really good and even more entertaining.
The story takes place in an unnamed town(something designed to make the story appeal to the international audience) in a sort of countryside hacienda setting where the main protagonist, Alma (Scarlet Ortiz), comes to the hacienda Las Brisas where her true origins are revealed. But there are villains in this place who do not want to see her happy with the ranch foreman, Juan Pablo (Jose Angel Llamas).
I think that the producers should have tried to use more exterior shots of Southern Florida where many ranches are situated. The story was supposedly taking place in a ranch setting, but you never get to see the actual horses, cows etc or the plush countryside with the fruit trees where Alma went to steal fruits. Thus, the setting itself makes the story unrealistic. Venevision- Miami should have considered filming this in Venezuela, where there are actual haciendas where they could utilize the plush countryside setting. But here, no hacienda business took place (although they attempted to pull it off with a horse everyone used, a few trees, a river,a cow and a cave).
Also, the shots were always done in the same place, in the same position. For example, the mansions where the rich people lived were not fully utilized.Then, some of the plot elements could have been modified to make the story make more sense, such as the fact that Alma never went to school. They could have even added more extras so that the story actually looks like it is taking place in a countryside town with the colonial buildings, the local town canteena, like Mexican novelas such as Mi Pecado, Soy tu Duena and Abismo de Pasion.
Some plot elements that could have improved the story include an actual ranch setting where you could see workers in the farms or the characters walking around and exploring the ranch as the story moves on.
Scarlet Ortiz her acted well, but she always has the same look in her novelas. She could have at least dyed her hair to another color and styled her hair to make it have more curls. Lilibeth Morillo played an excellent villain here.
If some of the plot elements (like making Alma a farm worker instead of some savage girl, her grandmother being a voodoo spiritualist instead of some wacky nut-job, removing the whole modeling agency bit) could be changed and some of the settings improved on, especially making it look more like a South American hacienda, then this novela would have been really good and even more entertaining.
