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Rock-And-Roll Biopics Are Usually Boring. ‘La Bamba’ Is The Exception

“Soy capitán, soy capitán”

John DeVore
Published in
8 min readJun 5, 2022

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I was dragged to the movie theater to see La Bamba way back in 1987 when I was a freshly minted teenager of 13. It was a movie set 15 years before I was born and I could have cared less about it. I rolled to my seat like a gigantic eyeball. I simply wasn’t interested in a movie without laser guns or…

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John DeVore
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