Chicago Bulls and San Fermín

Chicago Bulls, founded in 1966,  is the NBA´s professional basketball team based in Chicago, Illinois. This week they have unveiled their new 'spot' for the new NBA season, which has just begun. This promotional video that evokes the San Fermin festival, will be projected just the game and is aimed to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the United Center Court.

In it, the bulls herd silhouette dominates the famous city in the northern of United States, where the shadows become reality with the roar of a herd that conquest its streets. The pitch black Bulls, 'assault' the different avenues to finally reach the United Center, home of the Chicago Bulls.

Creating a video for the games is a tradition for the Chicago Club, in fact this is their sixth project directed by Michelle Harris. It´s worth commenting that the previous one, was directed by the Wachowski Brothers Studio in 2006, very known for being the authors of The Matrix trilogy. 

I wish that this year the Spanish player Pau Gasol will help the team to be successful and decides to visit Pamplona and see a “real” running of the bulls from the Dead Man Corner (Estafeta & Mercaderes St). 

To watch the video, clik below: 

http://www.diariodenavarra.es/noticias/deportes/baloncesto/2014/11/04/la_promocion_sanferminera_los_chicago_bulls_por_aniversario_182257_1052.html

The Guard: bucket list

In 2012 the film “The Guard” was released in Spain.  Sergeant Gerry Boyle is a man who carries out his work in a very peculiar way: away from all conceivable rules, but keeping a strange line of consistency that always end up agreeing with him. One day a man happened to be killed and he discovered that a drug gang is about to introduce in the country a huge amount of drugs. Together with an FBI agent, he will try to unmask those responsible.

In one of main the moments of the film, one of the bad guys points with his gun to Sergeant Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson), and after an intense conversation, the sergeant shoots the baddy. In his very last breath he talks about his unfulfilled dreams and one the them was participate in the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona.  This particular moment reflects the Anglo American tradition of making a list of things to do before dying known as the "Bucket list" in Spanish List of life.

Knigth and Day

In the movie "Knight and Day," Tom Cruise escapes from a Running with the Bulls together with Cameron Diaz, commanding a powerful motorcycle and among young runners and bulls. This is a scene from the film Knight & Day in 2019 and that it was filmed in Pamplona but in between Seville and Cadiz.

The scenes were shot in Andalusia, with tame bulls. For anyone who has seen the running of the bulls in Pamplona is impossible to imagine such a scene. But again, this is the Film Industry and the show must go on!

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THE ENCIERRO 3D

Each year, thousands of people participate in one of the most dangerous events in the world: The Running with the Bulls in Pamplona. It is the exciting story of the all the runners who comes yearly from over the world to feel alive. THE RUNNING OF THE BULLS, is a documentary film in 3D, on these runners, on why they run with the bulls where there isn´t any price or award for running and cause hundreds of injuries each year. An action movie where the excitement and tension is continuous, full of violence but also of beauty, offers drama and heroism in a cocktail of emotions transporting the audience to the streets of Pamplona, in front of a stampede of bulls 600 kg and its deadly horns.

IF YOU LIKE THE RUNNING OF THE BULLS YOU MUST SEE THIS DOCUMENTARY

http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/cultura-en-rtvees/encierro-espectacular-pelicula-3d-san-fermines/1613219/

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Bulls and Bisons

The spectacular images and rush of the Running of the Bulls through the streets of Pamplona, ​​was also used by the advertising industry by taking pictures "in situ" on Estafeta St. Spike Lee filmed a jeans advertising imitating and adapting the local livestock and having a bunch of men pretending to run with the bulls through the streets of New York. The only thing is that instead of bulls where bisons!

New York

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The Sun Also Rises

Apart from all kinds of advertising and journalist reports, the San Fermin Festival theme has been used to set about all kind of stories. 

These are some of the most famous ones: the novel The Sun also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (Fiesta, Henry King, 1956, in which none of their main actors: Tyrone Power, Ava Gardner and Errol Flynn Pamplona set foot in Pamplona, and an eponymous tv film directed by James Goldstone 1984,You and I are Three (Rafael Gil, 1962), Carnival of Thieves (Russell Rouse, 1967), a curious action film where they assaulted the National Bank right in the city center of Pamplona by taking advantage of the chaos that runs in Pamplona during the Running of the Bulls.

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Zindagi na milegi dobara: Congratulations!!!

The Indian film "You don´t get life a second time" which the journey of three friends in Spain includes their bull run during the San Fermin Festival experience and has been given seven awards at the "Bollywood Oscars".

"Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara" -ZNMD, original Hindiname- received the best picture award for their management, best scripture, best supporting actor, best movie critics, best cinematography and best choreography all of them given in the Filmfare Gala Party. Filmfare Awards are considered the Indian equivalent of the Oscar Awards in the States. Assisting to this ceremony, are the most prominent figures of the Indian´s Film Industry in Bombay (west), and one of the most prolific in the world.

On this occasion, this event took place during last Sunday´s night and it was the first time were they had spanish film member assisting to it as the cinematographer Carlos Catalan was awarded with the Best Cinematography Award, whose work in ZNMD had received critical acclaim in India.

"Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara" released in 2011, has had financial support from the Spanish Tourism Office and became a big hit in India, where stood among the highest grossing films of the year.

The film describes the adventures of three friends in different places in Spain known by their popular parties such as the Running of the Bulls during San Fermin Festival in Pamplona.

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Bull Runnig and Ads

An ad shot and produced by Visa Brazil was produced last week end in the Pamplona. The Mayor St in Puente la Reina was the scenario instead of the Estafeta  St. in Pamplona. It wasn’t 7th July either 8 am. However they seemed. This ad is filmed also in Madrid and Los Angeles. The main characters, an American boy and girl "feel safe thanks to their VISA" and they are fear free during the Running of the Bulls and in Los  Angeles when a bear appears while they were fishing.

The scenes of the encierro (closure) will take 10 seconds from a total of 45. The filming took place in Puente la Reina, a beautiful Navarre village 25 km from Pamplona. Filming in Pamplona would have been very complicated and very expensive.

 Have been used the encierro (closure) have been Levi's501 with Speek Lee and Samsonite, in this case the bulls passed over the suitcases but they were intact. The only real one was the Levi´s add.

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