Amarte así
| Amarte Asi Frijolito |
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|---|---|
| Genre | Drama, Romance, Comedy |
| Created by | Enrique Torres |
| Developed by | Telemundo Studios, Miami |
| Directed by | Heriberto Lopez de Anda Cristina Palacios Hugo A. Moser |
| Starring | see below |
| Theme music composer | Jorge Avedaño |
| Opening theme | Amarte así performed by Litzy |
| Country of origin |
United States Argentina |
| Original language(s) | Spanish |
| No. of episodes | 119 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Cristina Palacios |
| Location(s) | Argentina |
| Editor(s) | Daniel Farias |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 42-45 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | Telemundo |
| Picture format | SDTV 480i |
| Audio format | Stereophonic sound |
| Original release | April 4 – September 16, 2005 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | ¡Anita, no te rajes! |
| Followed by | La Tormenta |
| External links | |
| www |
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Amarte así (To love you so), also known as Frijolito, is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the American-based television network Telemundo. It stars Litzy, Mauricio Ochmann, Roberto Mateos, Alejandro Felipe, and Carla Peterson. It was written by Enrique Torres, directed by Heriberto Lopez de Anda, Cristina Palacios, Hugo A. Moser; with Cristina Palacios as General Producer. The network debuted it on April 5, 2005, at the 7 pm (6 pm central) timeslot. Telemundo provided both Spanish and English captions on CC1 and CC 3. This telenovela was aired in 20 countries around the world.
In Haiti, the telenovela was a big success in January 2010 and was shown at 5PM. With typical Haitian humour, some say that Frijolito killed many people as the earthquake that shattered the island nation on January 12, 2010 occurred right before 5PM.
Amarte así is a sentimental comedy or melodrama. As a teenager in Mexico, Nacho (Mauricio Ochmann) discovered that he could seduce girls by giving them gold rings. With his buddy Lucho, Nacho fornicated with many, many girls, and then never went out with them again. Sometimes Lucho "helped" Nacho by putting a date rape drug in the girl's drink, though Nacho was not aware of this. Being from a rich family, when Nacho finished high school, he went to Los Angeles to study medicine, not knowing that on his last night in Mexico he had impregnated Margarita (Litzy). Lucho had actually drugged both Nacho and Margarita, leading to lack of inhibition and fornication. In the morning Margarita woke up naked and abandoned. She could not find Nacho.
Margarita had been permanently enamored by Nacho the night that she met him, but she also hated him for having impregnated her and abandoned her. She thought that he had drugged her, but actually neither she nor Nacho remembered the fornication, though she had constructed mental images of herself being raped.
Through Lucho, Nacho's brother Francisco (Roberto Mateos) offered money to Margarita to pay for killing Margarita's unborn baby. But Margarita refused. Thus while Nacho was spending six years in LA, Margarita at the age of 15 gave birth to Frijolito.
All the above is shown by flashbacks, and what happened in the past is only revealed in bits and pieces here and there during the telenovela. The telenovela begins with Nacho returning to Esperanza, Mexico, not remembering Margarita nor knowing that he has a son. Since Margarita lies like Pinocchio (nickname Doña Mentiras), the truth comes out only slowly. Generally Nacho is the last to know, which adds to the comedy.
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