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''Captain Pantoja and the Special Service'' (Spanish name: ''Pantaleón y las visitadoras'') is a short novel of [[Mario Vargas Llosa]] about an army captain send to the jungle with a mission: to form a professional team of “visitadoras” (that is, prostitutes) to alleviate the troops’ needs. Basically, a mobile [[Red Light District]]. Hilarity ensues.
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''Captain Pantoja and the Special Service'' (Spanish name: ''Pantaleón y las visitadoras'') is a short novel of [[Mario Vargas Llosa]] about an army captain send to the jungle with a mission: to form a professional team of “visitadoras” (that is, prostitutes) to alleviate the troops’ needs. Basically, a mobile [[Red Light District]]. Hilarity ensues, as the captain is both too efficient and way too principled for the thing to work as his superiors intended.


In other words, the same things he critiziced in [[The Time of the Hero]], this time [[Played for Laughs]].
In other words, the same things he criticized in ''[[The Time of the Hero]]'', this time [[Played for Laughs]].


It has had two flm adaptations, in 1976 and 1999.
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=== Tropes found in the book: ===


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* [[All Men Are Perverts]]: Constantly played with. It’s even more obvious at the end, when we see a lot of previous masculine characters with prostitutes.
* [[All Men Are Perverts]]: Constantly played with. It’s even more obvious at the end, when we see a lot of previous masculine characters with prostitutes.
* [[Band of Brothels]]
* [[Band of Brothels]]
* [[Easy Evangelism]]
* [[Easy Evangelism]]
* [[The Fundamentalist]]
* [[The Fundamentalist]]
* [[Hooker With a Heart of Gold]]: Not gold, per se, but almost all the "visitadoras" are in fact very likeable (as in personality).
* [[Hooker with a Heart of Gold]]: Not gold, per se, but almost all the "visitadoras" are in fact very likeable (as in personality).
* [[Hungry Jungle]]: The jungle engulfs everyone in it and drives them slowly insane, proven by the soldiers’ horniness and the Arc sect.
* [[Hungry Jungle]]: The jungle engulfs everyone in it and drives them slowly insane, proven by the soldiers’ horniness and the Arc sect.
* [[Japanese Ranguage]]: By a Chinese. Oh well.
* [[Japanese Ranguage]]: By a Chinese. Oh well.
* [[Lawful Stupid]]: Pantoja. He stands to his orders even if that’s bad for him.
* [[Lawful Stupid]]: Pantoja. He stands to his orders even if that’s bad for him.
* [[Only Known By Their Nickname]]: Most of the "visitadoras".
* [[Only Known by Their Nickname]]: Most of the "visitadoras".
* [[Reassigned to Antarctica]]: {{spoiler|Pantoja, at the end}}.
* [[Reassigned to Antarctica]]: {{spoiler|Pantoja, at the end}}.
* [[Red Light District]]
* [[Red Light District]]
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Latest revision as of 14:15, 15 August 2021

Captain Pantoja and the Special Service
Original Title: Pantaleón y las visitadoras
Written by: Mario Vargas Llosa
Central Theme: Moral hipocrisy, enhanced by the Army
Synopsis: An army captain is assigned to create a mobile red distruict to improve morale on jungle deployements.
First published: 1973
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Captain Pantoja and the Special Service (Spanish name: Pantaleón y las visitadoras) is a short novel of Mario Vargas Llosa about an army captain send to the jungle with a mission: to form a professional team of “visitadoras” (that is, prostitutes) to alleviate the troops’ needs. Basically, a mobile Red Light District. Hilarity ensues, as the captain is both too efficient and way too principled for the thing to work as his superiors intended.

In other words, the same things he criticized in The Time of the Hero, this time Played for Laughs.

It has had two flm adaptations, in 1976 and 1999.

Tropes used in Captain Pantoja and the Special Service include:
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