Why Was an Entire Spanish Town Painted Blue?
- Posted on June 17, 2011 at 9:35pm by
Billy Hallowell
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Next month, “Smurfs 3D” will hit movie theaters worldwide. To coincide with the release, Sony has come up with a pretty nifty and large-scale plan. Rather than doing a basic world premiere in a typical Hollywood venue, the company has decided to turn an entire Spanish village blue — literally.
According to the Telegraph, Juzcar, a tiny village in the Genel Valley in Andalucía, will be the site for the movie’s world premiere. While being chosen is certainly an honor, it comes with some strings attached:
…becoming the blue-eyed boy of the valley has come at a price. To satisfy the forthcoming invasion of tiny smurfs, known as pitufos in Spanish, the dazzling white village of Juzcar, including its historic church has had to turn-literally- blue.
…twelve local painters using 4000 litres of blue paint have been needed to transform Juzcar’s quaint houses and historic buildings so that they resemble those in the film’s smurf village. There have been no objections to the idea with both the local bishopric and regional government of Andalucía, giving their joint blessing.
Though Sony has pledged to restore the village to its former color (white) after the festivities, locals are actually considering keeping the town blue. After all, it could end up becoming a tourist destination, right? Below, watch a video that showcases the town’s transformation (the video is in Spanish):
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nelan72
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 2:43pmSmurf law. Everyone is in one uniform. Every one lives one size of house. One child per villiage. One song can be sung “Mm, mmm, mm! Barack Hussein Obama”
Report Post »junkmaninohio
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 10:40amBecause they ran out of red paint?
Report Post »g.prunty
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 3:01pmkids in the picture look like little blue klansman
Report Post »Eyeball
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 4:27amIn the book “One Hundred Years of Solitude” the liberal government in Latin America wanted people to paint their entire town blue. Is there some underlying connection here?
Report Post »piper60
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 8:39pmRemember Truth or Consequences, New Mexico?
Report Post »shamrockduo
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 1:30pmAt first, I thought those kids were wearing KKK hats LOL
Report Post »selenesteets
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 12:07pmGeez Louise! Entertainment culture is a bizarre thing, and a powerful thing. A whole historic town ok with the idea of being redefined as having been graced by Hollywood? (ps I am from Hollywood the place and I love my home). It’s scary and concerning.
Entertainment is not Art! Entertainment is something that happens to you while you are doing something productive.
Report Post »Messenger4God
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 2:02amBaby-blue Socialists at work. This is a backdoor tactic to inject more Socialist propaganda.
Report Post »Rafael
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 7:36amThis is a tactic by Sony Pictures to have free propaganda for their movie. They spend a small fraction painting a village blue, and the media talk about it for free. No pay ads. Só, no politics here, just capitalism at work
Report Post »nomercy63
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 1:52amguess they misunderstood the Rolling Stones song paint it black!!!!
Report Post »tyler_durden
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 12:59amWell when your little socialist utopia economy goes down the toilet I guess the peolpe over there figure ” anything for a buck.”
Report Post »Rafael
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 7:27amThe economy of this little socialist utopia is already down the toilet, and everything for a buck yes, like painting their houses blue.
Report Post »Rafael
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 10:50pmDEALER@678 That’s because this is spanish people in spain, south of europe. Not Mexico
Report Post »Steev
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 10:37pmHmmm, i keep looking but i just don’t seem to be able to find any importance to this story. I realize you try to cover more than just politics and that is a good thing, but is the editor off today ? Sorry if my review makes you BLUE !
Report Post »threecats407
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 10:34pmSmurfette is hawt!
Report Post »richard bensen
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 10:33pmCool, at least they didn’t paint it red.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 10:27pmI can’t believe they finally ran out of Purple!!!!
Report Post »RationalMan
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 10:25pmReminds me of the U.N. (United Nation) color….
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 9:46pmhmm, neat.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 9:42pmWhat about towns in Greece ?
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yvn_WrHiMM
tower7femacamp
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 9:53pmBilderberg Bilderberg Bilderberg
CFR CFR CFR
do your own research
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 9:54pmagenda 21 and Sodium Fluoride
Report Post »chips1
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 10:31pmPaint doesn’t stick to Greece.
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 9:41pmWhy they didn’t go Green ?
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 9:58pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ9GDiYU0-I
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 10:09pmWhat surprised me on this video is that none of those mexicans were knocked up. Must not be illegal mexicans from Texas
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 10:13pmI like little blue people with The Phrygian caps.
They like shrooms too. They’re psychedelic.
From Wiki: The Phrygian cap is a soft conical cap with the top pulled forward, associated in antiquity with the inhabitants of Phrygia, a region of central Anatolia. In the western provinces of the Roman Empire it came to signify freedom and the pursuit of liberty, perhaps through a confusion with the pileus, the manumitted slave’s felt cap of ancient Rome. Accordingly, the Phrygian cap is sometimes called a liberty cap; in artistic representations it signifies freedom and the pursuit of liberty.
In Ancient Rome, a slave was freed by a master in a ceremony that included placing the pileus on the former slave’s shaved head. This was a form of extra-legal manumission (the manumissio minus justa) considered less legally sound than manumission in a court of law.
Among the Romans the cap of felt was the emblem of liberty. When a slave obtained his freedom he had his head shaved, and wore instead of his hair an undyed pileus. Hence the phrase servos ad pileum vocare is a summons to liberty, by which slaves were frequently called upon to take up arms with a promise of liberty. The Phrygian cap has been used to symbolize liberty in numerous countries of the Americas. For example, starting in 1793 United States of America coinage frequently showed liberty wearing the cap or, on many 19th Century pieces, holding it on a Liberty Pole.
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 10:14pmThe Smurfs effective symbolize We The People, Gargamel is Big Brother Government, and Azrael is the TSA/Police State Thugs.
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 11:49pmI went through that blue stage once when the DUCKY kitchen stuff was popular.. I painted everything to match and my kids told me to stop they were starting to feel like the smurfs.. wonder how they would feel with their whole town painted blue..LOL..
Report Post »fastfacts
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 12:16amThis is capitalism at its best, the city sees a chance to make an income and if the city agrees, go for it.
It’s like that city that made a buck with a name change… DISH, TEXAS.
One of the greatest ways for Texas’ boom in jobs is the oil industry. Capitalism is the only way to create lasting jobs and a robust economy during a recession. The CEO of Chevron spoke today about jobs, he said they would create thousands of jobs if only they were allowed to drill: http://tiny.cc/dawlz
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 12:50amHeck go to Houston…all the Mexican houses are painted green with red trin…
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 6:13am@ dealer@678 – did you bother to read or did you just fail geography? Spanish Village means village in Spain…..
Report Post »Truth Wins Every Time
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 7:48am@dealer@678
Maybe because they are not in Mexico? Check your map…………
Report Post »imreddog
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 1:21pmWhat are those white things on their heads? Looks like a meeting of the Junior KKK to me.
Report Post »Live_Free_orDie
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 5:33pmKKK Smurfs???
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 5:18pmThey’re called Phrygian Caps.
Perhaps you would do good to actually try reading other’s posts. You can gain a great deal of insight.
Report Post »imreddog
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 12:03pmHey Sinista Mace, could you add some pictures to your post? It would make it easier for me to read. (smile)
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