{"id":12870,"date":"2010-10-14T10:08:41","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T17:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=12870"},"modified":"2020-12-31T10:45:26","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T17:45:26","slug":"mixed-blood-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=12870","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Blood (1984)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;You must always do what your mother tells you, you hear? Always.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/mixed-blood-poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/mixed-blood-poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"287\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12871\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nThe leader (Marilia Pera) of a Brazilian drug gang is disturbed when her dim-witted son (Richard Ulacia) falls for the girlfriend (Linda Kerridge) of her supplier (Ulrich Berr); meanwhile, tensions with a rival Latino gang continue to escalate.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Drug Dealers<\/li>\n<li>Gangs<\/li>\n<li>Grown Children<\/li>\n<li>New York City<\/li>\n<li>Paul Morrissey Films<\/li>\n<li>Rivalry<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nIn his review of this darkly satirical gangland drama by writer\/director Paul Morrissey &#8212; which he refers to as &#8220;unusual, to say the least&#8221; &#8212; Peary analyzes it as a &#8220;weird variation on <em>The Godfather<\/em>,&#8221; and conducts a point-by-point comparison of the two films. He notes, for instance, that &#8220;again we have a territorial war between crime &#8216;families&#8217;; again the warriors sleep on mattresses on the floor&#8221;, etc. It&#8217;s an interesting set of associations &#8212; but the obvious difference between the two films is that <em>The Godfather<\/em> endures as an iconic classic of cinema, while <em>Mixed Blood<\/em> will likely only be of interest to fans of Morrissey&#8217;s eclectic oeuvre &#8212; or those curious to see Marilia Pera (so effective as a prostitute in <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=1124\">1981&#8217;s <em>Pixote<\/em><\/a>) in a truly unique lead performance. Playing a &#8220;middle-aged, eccentric gypsy&#8230; who sings Carmen Miranda songs&#8221;, her presence is never anything other than intriguing; listen to her strange line delivery, for instance, as she talks about how many funerals she&#8217;s had to endure over the years. <\/p>\n<p>As Peary notes, while the &#8220;extreme violence&#8221; of the film can be off-putting, the &#8220;exaggerated gore and bizarre situations&#8221; help to mediate this somewhat. Indeed, <em>Mixed Blood<\/em> is an odd mixture of time-capsule realism &#8212; one scene actually takes place in a store dedicated exclusively to Menudo memorabilia! &#8212; and satire (note the drug-dealing scene, which shows purchases being made at a the equivalent of a lemonade stand). Peary argues that while the film &#8220;doesn&#8217;t always work&#8221;, it&#8217;s &#8220;exciting and funny, in unusual ways&#8221; &#8212; a sentiment I can&#8217;t quite agree with, though I&#8217;ll agree it&#8217;s worth a one-time look for Pera alone. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Marilia Pera as Rita La Puenta<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/mixed-blood-pera-smith.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/mixed-blood-pera-smith.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12875\" \/><\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>Effectively seedy location shooting throughout &#8220;Alphabet City&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/mixed-blood-seedy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/mixed-blood-seedy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12876\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>An interesting time-capsule glimpse of 1980s New York<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/mixed-blood-menudo-store.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/mixed-blood-menudo-store.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12874\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo, though it&#8217;s worth a look simply for Pera&#8217;s performance. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0089607\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/movie\/review?_r=1&#038;res=940CE0D91E39F93BA25753C1A963948260\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You must always do what your mother tells you, you hear? Always.&#8221; Synopsis: The leader (Marilia Pera) of a Brazilian drug gang is disturbed when her dim-witted son (Richard Ulacia) falls for the girlfriend (Linda Kerridge) of her supplier (Ulrich Berr); meanwhile, tensions with a rival Latino gang continue to escalate. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Drug Dealers Gangs Grown Children New York City Paul Morrissey Films Rivalry Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: In his review of this darkly satirical gangland&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=12870\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12870"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60652,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12870\/revisions\/60652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}