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[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Mexico paid $20 million for eight minutes in this movie. Then those eight minutes forced them to invent an entire cultural tradition.

Before Spectre, Mexico City had no Day of the Dead parade. The holiday was celebrated at home, at cemeteries, with family altars. Quiet, intimate, centuries old. Sam Mendes fabricated a massive street parade for the opening sequence, shot it with 1,500 extras in skeleton costumes across the Zócalo, and audiences worldwide assumed they were watching a real annual event.

Mexico's government had negotiated hard for the placement. Leaked Sony hack emails showed officials offered up to $20 million in tax incentives for four minutes of positive portrayal. Sony was drowning in a $300 million budget. The deal included script changes: the Bond girl had to be a Mexican actress, the villain could not be Mexican, and the city's modern skyline had to appear on screen.

Then the movie opened in 182 countries and tourists started booking flights to Mexico City for the parade.

The parade that did not exist.

Tourism authorities panicked. Visitors were arriving expecting the spectacle they saw in the film and finding nothing. So in October 2016, the government spent $500,000, hired 650 volunteers, built dozens of floats and giant skeleton marionettes, and staged the first real Día de los Muertos parade in Mexico City's history. 250,000 people showed up. They openly called it a "Spectre-style parade" in press materials.

Ten years later, the parade draws millions. Anthropologists call it the "pizza effect," where a cultural element gets exported, transformed abroad, and reimported as authentic. Mexico's most famous public celebration of its most sacred holiday was invented by a British director shooting a $300 million spy movie.

That tracking shot is doing more for Mexico City's economy every November than the $20 million they paid for it.

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Dime si tu quisieras andar conmigo-oh, oh oh oh 🎶💙 #33 @CruzAzul 🫶🏽

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@MakinaAzulMx Es una cama amigo? Suerte 🍀

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@Ju4njo08 @MakinaAzulMx

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@Mum_Rat Muchas felicidades madrina

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Estoy clavaaaado , estoy heriiiiiidooo 🎶🎶🎶
*se equivoca en el solo*

[Will @StrayingWill]

🎶en algúúúún luuugaaar deun graaan paaaííííís

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@headbangirl Pues así ‘legal’ es el plan familiar y se divide el pago entre 6

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Tomen clase con @StrayingWill 👌🏽🙌🏽

[Will @StrayingWill]

¿Qué características tiene una canción atemporal?

Son muchísimas, pero si una canción te pega sin importar cuántos años tengas, o en qué época la hayas escuchado, es probable que puedas guardar la historia en 3 cajitas.

Yo soy Will, bienvenidos a su #HiloMusical

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@LauraSanchezLey @threadreaderapp please unroll

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@StrayingWill Elton John 🫣

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@StrayingWill Se viene análisis vocal de Emily Armstrong en Linkin Park?

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@ElAzulFiel_ @SergioA_AG 🙌🏽

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@Maistroperrito 🫡🙌🏽

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@StrayingWill Feliz cumple!! 🥳

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Nunca dudé que la página web más horrible que existía era la del SAT, hasta que entré a la de Petco.

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@MakinaAzulMx @SergioA_AG vas!

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@headbangirl Na, ignóralo madrina. En 3 días desaparece.

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@eeluna13 @SergioA_AG 😂😂😂

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@MakinaAzulMx A mi 🥺

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¿Ustedes también se lavan las manos después de lavar los trastes? 😅