Toros Y Flamenco: Difference between revisions

 

In [[Real Life]] Spain this trope is known as ''Españolada''.

{{examples}}

== Advertising ==

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z2_kKAe9y0 This commercial] for EDS, with the running of the squirrels. Compare with [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aM_3-00qX4 the real thing]. In [[Real Life]], Pamplona is a moderately large sized city in the comparatively humid North of the country.

* [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]] by this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD8-h9Mgr2E Spanish beer ad] that moves the running to the [[Big Applesauce]] and replaces the bulls with bisons.

 

* Surprisingly averted by Antonio aka Spain in ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]''; while there is official art with him in a matador costume, the traditional stereotypes about the country are barely touched (he is still depicted as a ''siesta'' lover, though) and his personality is less of a [[Latin Lover]] and more of a [[Nice Guy]].

** However, in his drama CD released on December 8, 2010, the first verse mentions bullfighting and flamenco almost immediately.

* Spain team in ''Medabots''; the medafighters are dressed as bullfighters and the Medabots are bulls!

 

* ''[[Asterix]] in Spain'' plays with the trope. There are "aurochs" (bulls), and Asterix acts like a matador when he fights with one, but most of the setting is traditional roman cities, no much different than the ones in other comics. There is a band of gypsies and Obelix dances flamenco, however. Partly [[Justified Trope|justified]] because Asterix is set in 50 B.C. (so it's not like making 21st century cities look like 18th century ones).

** Doesn't excuse the fact there are <s>gypsies</s> "nomads" and flamenco [[Anachronism Stew|hundreds of years before]] any of them arrived in Spain (but then again, [[Present Day Past|this is Asterix]] we are talking about).

*** Strabo and Roman sources like Juvenal or Pliny actually talk about the ''puellae gaditanae'', women from Gades (today's Cádiz) or otherwise in the Baetica who were famous for their dances two centuries BC, even using metal castanets (''crusmata baetica''). I kid you not.

** Daredevil also fought a villain called the Matador very early in his career. This culminated in a battle DD won by butting the Matador with his horns.

 

* There is a sequence taking place in this kind of Spain near the beginning of ''[[Mission: Impossible]] 2'', where they managed to mix the running of the bulls with Seville's Easter with the Fallas with about any other Spanish cliché.

** It may have been shot in Cádiz, but the movie claimed it was Seville.

* Parodied in the classic Spanish film ''¡Bienvenido, Mr. Marshall!'', in which the people of a small Castilian village decide to give themselves an Andalusian makeover in order to impress the Americans in charge of distributing Marshall Plan funds.

* The surreal 1959 movie ''Thunder in the Sun'' has 19th century French Basques killing Indians in California with [[wikipedia:Basque pelota|Cesta Punta]] and dancing Flamenco each night. It gets worse.

* The 1956 adaptation of ''Around the World in 80 Days'' has a stop in a stereotypical Spanish town where Passepartout (played by Cantinflas) is forced to do precisely Toros Y Flamenco.

* The 2001 ''[[Masterpiece Theatre]]'' version of ''[[The Merchant of Venice]]'', and, likely, the Trevor Nunn stage production it was based on, has the Prince of Aragon show off with a flamenco dance step with fitting music to boot. Given that [[Did Not Do the Research|Aragon is in Northern Spain and has zero flamenco tradition]], this was about as accurate as portraying someone from Alaska as a ten gallon hat-wearing cowboy.

 

== Literature ==

* Turns up, complete with running of the bulls, in the [[Discworld]] novel ''Witches Abroad''. Unfortunately the whole thing is misunderstood by the witches, and after the sight of a small blonde woman walking right through the crowd of bulls as though being trampled to death is something that happens to other people and taking the wreath off the lead bull, the townsfolk decide just to have a flower festival instead.

 

* There is a hilariously wrong episode of ''[[MacGyver]]'' set in the Basque Country (Spanish dub of the beginning [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjbbfK87JWc here]).

* There is an episode of ''[[Full House]]'' where the oldest daughter tries to sell her father a trip to Spain, mariachi hat included.

* An episode of ''[[Relic Hunter]]'' has Sydney and Nigel in a rush to meet a professor in a Spanish university because according to them, siesta time will begin in 20 minutes and then everything will stop working.

* The Running of the Bulls is parodied in the ''[[Brass Eye]]'' episode "Animals" with the "Running of the Wasp", complete with footage of a crowd of people ostensibly running away from a wasp.

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* The ''[[James Bond]] 007'' role-playing game module ''Goldfinger II - The Man With Midas Touch'' takes the heroes to Pamplona during the Running of the Bulls, where they are doused with pheremones that make them an irresistible target to the bulls and then dumped into the Running of the Bulls as part of a [[Death Trap]].

 

== Video Games ==

* Then there's ''Running Against the Bull'' in ''[[Psychonauts]]'' which, in typical [[Tim Schafer]] absurdist style, combines this with tacky black velvet paintings, neon &... ''highschool gym class?'' Capped off with a [[Bullfight Boss]] battle, of course. The level is, however, not an actual place, but rather a representation of the mind of a Latin American former wrestler with a combination of OCD, chronic depression and deep-seated insecurity issues relating to an incident in high-school.

* The Spanish team in ''[[Backyard Sports|Backyard Soccer]]'' is called Los Toritos.

 

== Western Animation ==

 

{{reflist}}

[[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]