It looks like real life violence is causing Mexican love for drug lord films to wane, we get the story from the caves of yahoo:
Once popular B-movies idolizing violent drug lords are dying out in Mexico as the horror of a real-life cartel war strips the genre of its glamour.
Mexican actor and director Rumaldo Bucio, famed for portraying trigger-happy villains in home-grown films such as “Narcos of Death” said growing disgust at increasingly violent traffickers had forced him to stop making films about them. “Drug traffickers were seen as gods; they were idolized,” said Bucio, better known by his stage name Agustin Bernal. “Not any more, people are shunning all this in movies and real life.”
I can see how this could happen. If I lived in a war torn country there is a pretty good chance I would not want to watch war drama for recreation…because I can go outside for that. Timing is everything, and if you release something that is too raw or real for people it stops becoming entertainment and starts becoming a painful reminder.
Most people watch films for recreation, and that means you want to enjoy yourself. If your entertainment causes you misery you certainly do not feel like you got your money’s worth. Films on occasion are meant to push our buttons and cause us to think about the issues, but when the issues are already around you – It may be too much of the same, it may be too much to bear.
