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SYNOPSIS

On his thirtieth birthday Martín Martinez (JULIAN ARANGO) is confronted by his parents, to decide once and for all, what he wishes to do with his life and his answer is the same as always: “All I want to do is dance”, since Martin, ever since he was a child has only been interested in dancing: Porro, Merengue, Cumbia or Salsa. Dancing in front of an orchestra, embraced to a beautiful woman, elegant and passionate. His parents reply as always, that dancing is not a way of making a name or a living. After 30 years, 5 attempts of finishing a career, several businesses all failed, Martin is considered a good-for-nothing. Not only because of his incapacity to earn his own money but also because he is literally unable to do anything. Nothing except dancing embraced to a woman. This is the only thing he likes to do, since dancing was how he met Ruby (RUDY RODRIGUEZ) a teacher at the small town where his parents owned a ranch. She was ten years older and in her arms he found love. Suddenly one day, without any explanation, she left him. Martin is warned by his parents that from that moment on (his 30th birthday) he will have two months to leave the house and try to make a living just like any other person his age. He will have to leave empty handed since they will not give him a dime. To sort it out, Martin makes up a story about his weeding plans. But who will he marry? Martin replies he will introduce his fiancé to his parents during his birthday party. He really does not have a fiancé, however, after so may years of hopelessly longing for Ruby he is willing to marry the first woman that would make him feel the same way as she did, while dancing. He arranges a party, at the best Cinderella’s style, and invites all the single women he knows. Meantime, "Mirando Zapata" (VICTOR MALLARINO) a former golf caddy for Martin’s father, now owner of a prosperous shoe factory, has finally gathered the money to join the Club, not as a caddy any longer, but as a member instead, and he goes to Pacho Martinez, requesting him for a referral to the Club’s Board. Pacho denies Mirando any possibility to make his dream of joining the Club come true, and with a very contemptuous attitude recommends him to forget about such absurd ambition. Pacho Martinez will never allow for such a new rich like Mirando to sit next to him at the Club, nor to treat him on a first name basis. During this embarrassing meeting, Pacho’s secretary, mistakenly, writes down Mirando’s name in the guest list to Martín’s party and he shows up with Miranda, his oldest daughter, since his wife Rubiela is attending a shoe fair in Italy. During the party, and before Pacho notices Mirando’s presence in the Club, Martin finds Miranda and starts dancing with her . Miranda is everything Martín is not. She is totally the opposite. She attends dance school during the day and in the afternoon she helps out her father in the shoe factory. Miranda has experience and knowledge in accounting, marketing and design. Her dancing skill are very noticeable while dancing with Martin. The stay together all night long, dancing and the good-for–nothing remembers what dancing is good for. He kisses and hugs her. She is his arms and he falls in love again. Astonished he introduces her to his parents as his fiancé, the woman he wants to marry, but his parents are very busy kicking Mirando, the father of his newfound love, out of the Club. Miranda runs away and Martin feels like dying. Like in Cinderella, he will have to look for her desperately. And when he finds her and talks her into marrying him he will find out that her stepmother, who didn’t attend the party because she was out of town, is back and is no one else but Ruby, the same woman he had fallen in love with at 17 and who he still loves… What will happen deep down in his heart? The verdict is still in force. Within three months he will have to leave the house. The engagement takes place: He will marry Miranda. And, what will happen once everything is disclosed? When his father finds out Mirando will join the Club as his father in law ? What will happen when Mirando, who is an honest and working man, finds out that his son in law is in love with his wife? But, worst of all, what will happen once his condition of good-for –nothing comes out to the open making Mirando realize that he invested all his wealth in his daughter’s wedding with a disinherited good-for-nothing? Will Martin be able to get a job some day and make a living to provide for himself and for his wife? Will he make a living out dancing some day? Will his believe that women are willing to fall for a god-for–nothing- because what they really want is someone to dance with, come true? In the midst of these conflicts an in the best Colombian soap opera style, arises The Good-for–Nothing, a refreshing and fun story, full of music, color and good humor, filling the TV set with emotions and sweetness through very charismatic characters with whom the audience will definitely fall in love.

TECHNICAL FILE

DESIGN AND PRODUCTION: TELESET FOR RCN TELEVISION

PRODUCTION DATE: 2002

GENDER: TELENOVELA

DIRECTORS: ANDRÉS MARROQUÍN AND JUAN PABLO POSADA

ORIGINAL STORY AND PRODUCTION: JUAN URIBE

SCRIPTS: ANA MARÍA LONDOÑO, MASS CAMILA, JUAN FRANCISCO DOMÍNGUEZ

ART DIRECTOR: E. LIZARRALDE GUARNIZO

EDITION: CATALINA GARCIA

MUSICAL DIRECTION: NICOLAS URIBE

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: MANUEL PEÑALOZA

DURATION: 177 X 60"

CAST

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Víctor Mallarino is Mirando Zapata

The strength a man needs to carry golf bag for more than ten years, at above 40°C, coping with the most terrible practical jokes and humiliations is the strength Mirando Zapata gathered to become one the most important men in the shoe industry in town. During all those years following Fernan Fernandez and Gabo Gaviria through the golf course, he never stopped thinking that some day he would gather the money needed to start a shoe business (the only thing he knew about, while walking and staring at everyone’s shoes) and that he would make a fortune enough to allow him join the Club and make all these men, who had ignored him for so many years, treat him like an equal. This same strength and patience led him to meet the woman of his life, to cultivate her, to make her his partner in work and in life. Rarely a man loves with such dedication and generosity. He gives everything expecting nothing in return and is used to achieving things through work, time and dedication. He learned from the men he carried the golf bags, the good and the evil. He knows a secret from each one of them and will use it when the time comes and they refuse to help him join the Club, his life dream. He does everything with premeditation and patience since he expects to be treated as an equal by those men and that his wife will finally fall in love with him. Throughout this process he receives Martín Martinez, his future son in law in his house and in his family, as a son, without knowing that is precisely him ,Martin, who had captured his wife’s heart so many years ago. With a mix of sweetness, tenacity, grace and eccentricity, Victor Mallarino has managed to demonstrate why he is one of the best Colombian actors. He has established a way of speaking and behaving while showing that resentment can be used for building instead of destroying and that a person can sometimes be mistaken while trying to emulate those who don’t deserve it.

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Manuela González is Miranda Zapata

Born in an new rich family, she is aware of her father’s origins. She feels comfortable with her social status hence not letting no one fool her around. What she hates the most in life is those good-for-nothing beings. Since she was a child and with Ruby’s help, she discovered her taste for dancing. Nothing on earth she likes better than dancing. She made dancing her profession. She meets Martin by accident and falls in love with him, for his looks, personality and his way of dancing, along with his dreams and projects. He trusts him with her eyes closed and is totally convinced that he is the man of her life.

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Ruddy Rodríguez is Rubiela Salcedo

A rebel since she was a child, she ran away from her parents home to study and become a teacher in a small town far away from hers, where she makes a name in very rigid and tight social circle. Thanks to her position as a teacher, but also thanks to her stunning beauty and her dancing skills. She meets Martin and falls in love with him. She would have left everything, her job, the town, her career as a teacher, for him. But one day she receives a call from Martin’s mother. She threatened her with taking everything away from Martín, if they stayed together. Martin would loose the opportunity to study, to be someone in life. Ruby knew that with her, a humble small town teacher, the chances of becoming someone were very few, and decided to leave him. She leaves the town where everybody had turned their back on her for their love affair and on her way out she meets Mirando Zapata, a former golf caddy who has just earned some extra money to set up a his own business. Mirando and Ruby arrive in the big city and together they manage to build a big business. By leaving Martin , Ruby turns her back to love and after many attempts and proposals, Mirando finally convinces her to marry him. Although she admires him she feels no love. They need each other. Ruby, to leave her past, her town and Martin behind and Mirando because he loves and needs her to help him raise his two daughters. She is a hard working, overwhelming and stunningly beautiful woman. Once Martin returns to her life she will be devastated between her love for him or her life with Mirando, a caring and generous man, who has filled her passionless life with achievements and stability.

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Julián Arango is Martín Martínez

The world is full of Good-for Nothings. Some are born that way, while others like Martin, become that way. To begin with , once he was ready for his great first job, helping his mother give birth to himself in a natural way, his mother thought it was not a very elegant idea to give birth with all that breathing and yelling, and decide to undergo a Caesarean operation. But things went further. Martin never had to make an effort to sit or crawl. His nannies would lie him down, sit him up, or straighten him up. His precious little body never ever touched the floor and when the time for walking came, he had to go to a physical therapy to help him out strengthen his very weak little muscles. Then, always in a stroller, or holding his nanny Teresa’s hand – who became the most important person in his life- he found out that he owned everything around him. “You will never need to buy anything, since everything that you can see, and even what your eyes can’t see, is yours” she said, while pointing out the land, the facilities… “ the house, the car, everything is yours”. So he grew up while showered, cleaned-up, dressed–up, fed and driven to and from school by his nanny Teresa and Rafael, her husband. Later he managed to spend more time in the ranch alone with Teresa and Rafael. The latter introduced him to the world of music, orchestras and Ruby, the woman of his life. Together they were free, they danced, loved each other and he wanted to marry her. But one day she left him without a word, so that he could study a career, work and be someone. But Martin didn’t want to live without her. All he wanted was to find her and dance. Now, when his parents are demanding him to be someone, all he wants is to find someone like her to make it in life. He never lost his sense of humor, nor his ability to make fun of himself, nor to dream about big projects, big business. He has never stopped loving Ruby. There is nothing impossible for Martin. On each project he starts, he dreams of making a name for history. He believes in his charming and outgoing personality and he manages to convince people around him. However he has not succeeded, so far. After meeting Miranda he is convinced that things will change, that he may be able to achieve something. But then he finds Ruby as well and he will have to show now, more than ever, that love can make him become really someone in life.