Tin Tan y Oscarito: humor y política en el cine de México y Brasil

Abstract

Abstract: Most Latin American cinema between the 1930s and the 1960s tried to imitate the Hollywood paradigm, but there were other films that mocked it in parodies. This paper is about a Hollywood film, Samson and Delilah (1949), directed by Cecil B. DeMille, and two parodies of it, produced in Latin America: Nem Sansão Nem Dalila (1954) was starred by the Brazilian comedian Oscarito, and Lo que le pasó a Sansón (1955) was starred by the Mexican comedian Tin Tan. Both these comedies, with a political twist to them, offer an opportunity to start a new trend of research, that comparative studies in Latin American cinema, as well as that of a comparison between Latin American cinema and classical Hollywood.