Rubí
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| Directed by | Benjamin Cann |
| Written by | Yolanda Vargas Dulche (Original Story)-(Rubí-1968) |
| Script by | Ximena Suarez and Virginia Quintana |
| Cinematography by | Alejandro Frutos |
| Produced by | José Alerto Castro |
| Starring | Bárbara Mori, Eduardo Santamarína, Jacqueline Bracamontes, Sebastián Rulli |
| Music by | Álvaro Trespalacios and Rodolfo Pérez Briceño |
| Theme song | La Descarada |
| Performed by | Reyli |
| Country | Mexico |
| Language | Spanish |
| Network | Televisa |
| Broadcast | 2004 |
| No. of episodes | 188+ the Special Episode after Finale (see below) |
Rubí ("Ruby") is a Mexican telenovela that aired on Televisa in 2004. The plot is based on the story by Yolanda Vargas Dulche and the telenovela that aired in 1968 with Fanny Cano.
Rubí was a huge success in many countries. Apart from the United States and Latin America, the telenovela garnered high ratings in the Philippines, Malaysia, Israel, Eastern Europe, among many others, and made Bárbara Mori, the lead actress, and both Eduardo Santamarina and Sebastián Rulli major stars in Latin America.
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[edit] Plot
Rubí is a beautiful, charismatic young woman from a working-class background. She is studying at a university because of her sister's great efforts. Rubí is best friends with Maribel, a wealthy young woman with a small defect in her leg. Rubí eventually meets Maribel's boyfriend Hector and his best friend Alejandro. A much darker truth lies inside of Rubí. She is driven by a dark ambition that will stop at nothing to get what she wants, and what she wants is to escape from poverty and be wealthy.
Alejandro offers her true love but no luxuries due to his middle class. She rejects him despite the fact that she believes he is her true love. Rubí then seduces Héctor, because like Maribel he is very wealthy, and on the day of his wedding to Maribel, they run away leaving Maribel in the deepest and darkest hour of her life. Rubí finally has the lifestyle and money that she's always dreamed of, but she soon learns that money isn't everything.
She begins to miss Alejandro and decides to get him back at any cost even when Maribel and Alejandro have moved on, and even begin dating each other. Alejandro soon is torn between Rubí and Maribel; Rubí is torn between money and Alejandro. Rubí will do anything to get what she wants, even if its at the expense of others and even if it means hurting everyone in her path. At one point Rubí considers changing, but returns to being the bad girl. Even after a fortune teller tells her to change or she will be punished for her sins, Rubí doesn't give this much thought and goes on with her life.
Finally Alejandro pays her a visit one more time to tell her that its over. Its finished and that he has chosen Maribel. After all her schemes, lies, and backstabbing Rubí begs him to not go. At this point she sheds her dignity and any pride that she has left. She gets on her knees and wraps her hands around his leg and begs him to not go. He's her true love and she refuses to let him go. Alejandro is sick and tired of her evil ways. He leaves and walks down the stairs, and then Rubí follows him, she holds on to a balcony stair but then slips and falls several stories. Thankfully the scene isn't too gruesome. At the hospital they have to amputate her leg to save her life.
Rubí doesn't die and even at her most desperate point she doesn't repent. Her sister Christina tries to encourage her and tells her that she can lead a new life, just differently. Everything Rubí had is gone. Her wealthy, young husband Hector dies, and he loved her and wanted her until the very end. The corporation stocks that he left her with are gone, as well as any money that she had left. She is completely behind on her rent and she is hated in her community. Even her beauty is gone.
Rubí even alienates her best friend, who has always been by her side and stood by her, even towards the end when he discovered how evil she really was. She asks the fortune teller to visit her one more time, and he tells her that its the result of all her actions, and this is her punishment. She has a hard time accepting the truth. She wants to be like she was before, beautiful and alluring, but everything she ever had is gone. She doesn't repent and is without shame, she tries to make a desperate attempt to kill Alejandro at his wedding to Maribel, but she can't. He's her true love and she will always love him.
[edit] Special Episode after Final Episode
One reason that this soap was high rated was because it didn't fall on the usual soap cliches. Usually soaps or telenovelas are centered around the good girl, but Rubí isn't sweet or good. She's beautiful, smart, cunning, and sly. After the final episode, a special episode was run of Rubí's history and future. In this special, viewers learned that Rubí has suffered much from her poverty, and as a result will go to any lengths to be rich. Christina has complex feelings, she loves Rubí as a sister but is disappointed in her actions.
Her mother loves Rubí too but at one point disowns her because of Rubí's constant greed, and yet Rubí still needs a mother's love. Is that what pushes Rubí to be what she is? Rubí also has a secret relationship with her niece and teaches her all of Rubí's evil ways, and then sends the young girl back into the lives of Alejandro and Maribel to take her revenge. That's how the soap ends. Has the happy ending been guaranteed? That's up for the viewer to decide. The soap ends with the possibility of a sequel. There has been talk of a sequel but nothing has been decided for now and the actors have moved on to their individual projects.
[edit] Awards
This was one of the best Mexican show ever seen. I want to be Ruby In 2005, in the Latin American awards, "Premios: TV y Novelas 2005" Rubí took the major awards. The soap won the awards for best soap opera, best female protagonist (Barbara Mori), best male protagonist (Eduardo Santamarina), best overall actress (Ana Martin), best theme music (La Descarada by Reyli), and best scene direction. This awards show is the equivalent of the American Primetime Emmys.
[edit] Cast
- Bárbara Mori .... Rubí Pérez de Ferrer Garza)
- Eduardo Santamarina... Alejandro Cárdenas Ruíz
- Jacqueline Bracamontes... Maribel De La Fuente
- Sebastián Rulli... Héctor Ferrer Garza
- Ana Martín .... Refugio Ochoa viuda de Pérez
- Yadhira Carrillo .... Elena Navarro
- Marlene Favela .... Sonia Chavarría González
- Paty Díaz .... Cristina Pérez Ochoa
- Josefina Echánove .... Pancha Muñoz
- Antonio Medellín .... Ignacio Cárdenas
- Ana Bertha Espín .... Elisa de Duarte
- Olivia Bucio .... Carla de Cárdenas
- Luis Gatica .... Cayetano Martínez
- Leonorilda Ochoa .... Dolores Herrera Guzmán'Doña Lola'
- Roberto Vander .... Arturo De La Fuente
- Ofelia Cano .... Victoria Gallegos
- Miguel Pizarro .... Loreto Echagüe
- Arlette Pacheco .... Lilia López de Duarte
- Ingrid Martz .... Lorena Treviño
- Jan .... Marco Rivera
- José Elías Moreno .... Genaro Duarte
- Manuel Landeta .... Lucío Montemayor
- Sergio Goyri .... Yago Píetrasanta
- Dolores Salomón .... Mariquita (as Dolores Salomón 'Bodokito')
- Tania Vázquez .... Sofía Cárdenas Ruiz
- Sergio Argueta .... Fransisco 'Paco' Gómez Gallegos
- Eduardo Rodríguez .... Saúl Mendez
- Carlos Cámara .... Dr. José Luis Bermúdez
- Adriana Roel .... Hilda Mendez
- Lorena Velázquez .... Mary Chavarría
- Mariana Rountree .... Ingrid Mendoza
- José Antonio Ferral .... Garduño
- Gerardo Albarrán .... Gabriel Anzalma
- Marco Méndez .... Luis Duarte López
- Nicole Vale .... Natalia 'Naty' Duarte López
- Claudia Benedetti .... Lupe
- Lilia Aragón .... Nora Navarro
- María Fernanda García .... Valeria
- Roberto Sen .... David Treviño
- Sergio Zaldívar .... Gazcón
- Manuel Foyo .... Ernesto Bermúdez
- Raúl Valerio .... Doctor Mosques
- Sergio Jurado .... Lic. Millán
- Roger Cudney .... Howard Williams
- Amelia Zapata .... Celia Fuentes
- Karen Sandoval .... Naty Duarte López (II)
- Manuel 'Flaco' Ibáñez .... Onésimo Segundo
- Kristel Casteele .... Fernanda Martínez Pérez(child)
[edit] External links
- Rubí on Novelahitz
- Complete Rubí Summeries on Novelahitz
- Official site on Televisa.
- Rubí on IMDB.
- www.telenovelas.cjb.net
