El gran calavera y Frank Capra: sobre la influencia del cine de Hollywood en un film dirigido por Luis Buñuel
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This article questions the possible influence of Frank Capra’s cinema in The Great Madcap, the second film that Buñuel directed in Mexico. The text analyzes the plot of the film and looks for parallels with some of the most representative films of Capra’s filmography. But, beyond some specific coincidences, the text argues that it is with the Hollywood cinema of those years and its narrative structures that The Great Madcap connects, through its two screenwriters, Luis and Janet Alcoriza. Finally, Buñuel’s film is no stranger to the great themes that ran through Mexican cinema at the time - the nation, the family, the father figure, the search for essential values- , which, in turn, are also present in Capra’s films