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1960's, 1968, Cantinflas, Cine, Culture, Mexico, Movie Night, Movies, Noche de Cine, Por Mis Pistolas, Recuerdos DYC, Style, TBT, Throwback Thursdays, Vintage, Vintage Style
Striping away the 3rd person speak here and getting down to little ol’me, I, Julieta, write this post on #TBT to roll it back to 1960’s border towns and Mexico. Today I was inspired by Fortino Mario Alfonso Moreno Reyes (AKA Cantinflas). I watched my first Cantinflas film, Por Mis Pistolas, recently and was so amused by his masterful double entendres and quick witted advancements with the ladies. The Spanglish film itself makes light of border issues, land rights and misunderstandings between cultures that were very real during this era. My entertainment turned into intrigue on what it would have been like to actually see this as a new release in a theater in Matamoros (the city where my parents met and dated for the first time) or any other border city for that matter. The US/Mexico border was and remains a crossing of cultures. Here is my take on things one would have seen in these parts while strolling the streets before catching a flick for a DYC date night in 1968.