Netflix searches great stories to tell to build subscribers and win new, in a new philosophy that goes from series to cinema, partly the fault of Covid.
Y Literature is always a great source from which to script movies with grounds Beyond the easy argument of the special effects that on the big screen can work but that for the new viewing systems laps quite a bit as a final hook. I refer to the facts in the case of the brilliant Spanish feature film «The hole«, World top from the hand of this platform.
But strictly literary as a starting point for successful adaptations, it was first the case of Elisabet benavent, among others, and is now the case of Carlos Montero. And see that his novel brought to the screen already has its years. But I insist that the platforms are now looking for oil, round arguments, powerful stories to watch on TV or on the screen of a smartphone under the required subscription ...
Focusing on the author of yore, Don Carlos Montero, his has been a round trip from audiovisual to paper. His cinematographic and television vocation led him to the discovery that telling stories also has, in its novel version, a special charm for those who have the gift of knowing how to tell them. Now, in the middle of the trip back with his novels to celluloid (undoubtedly a synecdoche on the way to extinction in this digital world), he is already considered the off-road creator, capable of indistinctly developing in any field.
With only two published novels, Carlos montero already augurs that prosperous literary career. Because when someone as creative as this journalist and renowned screenwriter of series and films discovers a taste for storytelling (with the overwhelming support of readers of course), surely he continues to write novels as fascinating or more than their precedents.
The point is that seeing the progression of Montero, perhaps we are facing a new Andrew Martin, with that ability to combine creative facets and with a growing trend towards the noir genre or at least to dark and disturbing plots in which the dizzying pace of those who come from the world of the script, serves for the perfect cause of the intensity of the work .
Be that as it may, we will surely have to give an account in this space of everything new that is coming from this already highly valued writer.
Best novels by Carlos Montero
The mess you leave
The novelist's outburst. On his second occasion, denying that of the little fruitfulness of second chances, Carlos Montero wrote a novel that ended up winning the 2016 Spring Novel Prize. Not that his other novel is not good, but "The disorder you leave" is more elaborate and is already directed to an adult audience.
On this occasion, with the tightest wickers in the construction of the profession of writer, Montero pulled the direct voice of the protagonist to gain that point of intensity of the story told from word of mouth. The concept of suspense in this novel reaches unimaginable heights as we accompany Raquel in her new job as a literature teacher. Because before her there was Elvira, who ended up dramatically reaping her own life.
Still with the lump in her throat, Raquel discovers a macabre note that would make the most painted out of there. It is only a question but as disturbing as the very certainty of imminent death: And how long will it take you to kill yourself? From there we launched an investigation headed by Raquel herself. Because there are too many things that do not fit. The reality of the institute, the students not as problematic as they might appear ... Perhaps it all comes from her husband, because precisely her hometown is the place where, by chance, she found destiny as a teacher after constant unsuccessful attempts.
Suspicion turns into psychosis, into reasonable doubt, into psychological terror transmitted from Raquel to the reader with goose bumps. Until the final certainty, open like a twist that makes you dizzy and unhinged. The problem is that the reader can go a few steps ahead of Raquel, without being able to warn her, without being able to avoid the imminent disaster, as in the films in which we strive to shout, to drive away the potential victim of the murderer who is waiting for us. around the corner or in your own closet at home.
Tattoos are not laser erased
Montero's first novel had a lot of that cinematic traveling feel to its characters. Very lively rhythm and scene changes for fast-paced action. Changing focuses to compose the whole of the story, with that final confluence of plots that surprises with the power of the also cinematographic twist.
In addition to the unrivaled verve of the scriptwriter put into a novel, the plot has the solidity of good character novels, with its protagonists raised from an incredibly empathetic characterization to face exposure to mystery, fears and dangers, from that point of inflection that upsets everyone's life.
Because Pablo and Petra little can imagine that double aspect of their daughter Asia, the reasonably normal girl for her adolescence. And neither could Quique, the scriptwriter of the series that triumphs among young people, could ever suppose that his life is about to implode just when he crosses paths with Asia.
