Rebelde Way

Rebelde Way
Written by	Patricia Maldonado (Rebelde Way)
Music by	Cris Morena
Country of origin	Argentina
Production
Producer	Cris Morena
Original release
Network	Telefe language = Spanish

Rebelde Way is an Argentine telenovela, which was produced by and broadcasted on Telefe in 2003.

Plot

The story takes place in the "Elite Way School" (Buenos Aires, Argentina), an exclusive, internationally recognized prep school where teenagers of the upper crust of society receive excellent schooling and can establish social connections that will ensure them a successful future. This school also offers a scholarship program for the underprivileged that show academic or athletic excellence; sadly, however, few of these ever manage to graduate. A secret society called "The Lodge" has made it their mission to maintain the "purity" of their breed by harassing the scholarship students and forcing them out. Among the fresh crop of students who arrive at the summer club that preps them for the new school term, we find Mia, Manuel, Marizza and Pablo, four eager teenagers who, in spite of their marked differences, will discover something that will bring them together in the face of all prejudice: their overwhelming love for music. "Rebel's Way" is the riveting story of teenagers who awaken to the harsh realities of life in a privileged school environment where power, tradition and material gain are everything, and where only the strongest in spirit will find the wellspring of courage to fight for their right to feel, to love, to break down social barriers, and to be themselves.

Characters

Rebelde Way features a very large number of plot lines, many of which are put on hold for several episodes before they are resumed. Also, many of the minor characters often play central roles for a single episode before returning to the background.

Students

The Girls

Mía Colucci

• Mía Colucci — Quintessential daddy's little girl. Many plotlines follow her love life, which mostly concerns her and Manuel's star-crossed love but also included a relationship with a prefect. She is the only daughter of Franco Colucci, a fashion design tycoon. Being an only child, she was overprotected by her father and acts like a spoiled brat most of the time. Represents the typical "ditzy bimbo", as some of her quotes seem childish and immature at times (she constantly tells people about the hardships of being herself). However, she is deeply loyal to her friends (mostly to Vico and Felicitas). Has a comic rivalry with Sol Rivarola. She is deeply in love with Manuel Aguirre, and is considered to be the love of her life, despite that both of them couldn't stand each other at the beginning of the series (even now, when Mia gets mad at Manuel, she calls him "azteca"). Mia often shows off her elite when she includes English words in her vocabulary.

Felicitas Mitre

• Felicitas Mitre — Overweight girl who has an eating disorder, and often wallows in self-pity because she never had a boyfriend. She is best friends with Vico and Mia. She even went as far as establishing a friendship with Sol, despite her being Mia's sworn rival, up until the point where she realized that Sol attempted to steal away Felicitas' love interest. Felicitas is often insecure, although noble at heart she is very kind and shy.

but she is cute.

Victoria "Vico" Paz

• Victoria "Vico" Paz — Mía's friend, with a reputation for being easy. Recently became Guido's girlfriend and found love. Her relationship with Guido did not last due to a misunderstanding on her part. Vico comes from a family with a twisted background: her mother left her and her father at a young age, which triggered her father's alcoholism. As a result, Vico was at the blunt end of her father's physical abuse and psychological torment. Thanks to Rocco and professor Miranda, they manage to put Vico's father in rehab, which puts Rocco under a new light in Vico's eyes (she couldn't stand Rocco's stalking ways before). Due to her vast experience with men, she likes to play with their feelings.

Roberta Pia Spiritto

• Roberta Pia Spiritto — Rebellious daughter of a famous vedette, Sonia Rey. One of the most often featured characters, and arguably the most 'Rebelde.' Went out with Diego but broke up and started dating an older man, a photographer, who turned out to have a child with an ex-girlfriend. After the season ended she was single and once again interested in her true love: Diego. Diego and her go on and off, mostly due to Roberta's stubbornness, pride, and short fuse. She is very loud-mouthed and won't hesitate in pulling off fast (and often, harsh) jokes on anyone. She will even go as far as to physically harm all the boys which cross her path (due to her patented "knee to the crotch"). Has tried to establish a relation with other boys (like Diego), but have all failed due to dishonesty from their part (Roberta often wonders why people lie to her so much), and also because of Roberta's feelings for Diego. Has recently discovered that her true father is not Spirito, but instead it was her own art teacher, Martin Andrade. She despises her mother Sonia Rey for keeping this secret from her, which has ironically brought her closer to her biological father, Martin.

Luján Linares

• Luján Linares — Quintessential female athlete, raised in foster care. Her tuition is paid by a mysterious anonymous benefactor. Had a relationship with Teo. She is Marriza best friend, as both share an explosive attitude and overall rudeness. Has been under the harassment of prefect Blas for quite a while, leading her to investigate on the reason why Blas' grudge towards her. However, due to her meddling in Blas's obscure past, she has triggered the rage of the prefect, who now desperately wants her out of the way. Lujan not only finds out that Blas is her benefactor, but also more like her personal guardian since she was just a little girl. Lujan comes to appreciate Blas' efforts, and even justifies Blas' harsh methods and constant abuse. However, their time together is cut short when Blas dies after enduring a severe car crash.

Lupe Fernández

• Lupe Fernández — Shy girl who is close friend of both Roberta, Mía and Lujan. Constantly tries to do the 'right thing' though most of her friends are rebellious. She is considered as the most responsible girl in school, studious, and often caring about her companions. She tends to overreact when she is worried (which is pretty often, considering her insecure demeanor and how much she cares for her close ones), which also leads her to stuter. She once had a very solid relationship with Nico. She has a little sister that is sick. Her relationship with Nico was in peril because she was Catholic and Nico was Jewish. She has the complete support from her aunt, Sandra who is close to being a mother. Lupe decides to Leave school with Nico so she can be close to her little sister.

Pilar Dunoff

• Pilar Dunoff — Daughter of the school´s principal, who is disliked by most of the other students for that reason. The students also dislike her because she is a "chismosa" ("gossiper"). At the beginning of the story she used to write – anonymously – a newspaper filled with gossip called Periodico Truchos ("anonymous"). At the beginning, she is cold and ruthless (especially towards Mia and her friends), causing her to pair up with the equally malicious Sol De La However, due to her parents' divorce and her relationship with Tomas, she has came to her senses and begins to socialize a bit more. She perfectly fits in the 'scorned woman' category, as she has a habit to get herself even in a drastic way when men cheat on her.

Sol Rivarola

• Sol Rivarola — A top model wannabe. She hates Mia, and wants her to feel inferior to her at all costs. Cynical and deceptive, Sol wants things to go her way no matter what, and could be considered the only student in the Elite Way School whose intentions are not noble no matter what the situation is. She is willing to ruin people's lives without regard of their personal feelings, and does so via a multitude of convincing lies (although most of the time her plans tend to backfire). She could be considered a wolf in sheep's clothing. She legitmately hates Mia, whom she considers to always be pushing her down. Her father is against her dreams of being a top model. Even though she has all of the model features because she is very beautiful.

Fernanda Byron

• Fernanda Byron — Marizza, Laura and Lujan's new roommate who is stuck-up and proud of her English family (by her step father's side). The girls make fun of her because she greatly extends her ties to English royalty and believes herself superior. She is very fashionable and caused Marcos to break-up with Lujan.

Laura Arregui

• Laura Arregui — New girl at the Elite Way School. Becomes Marizza's new roommate and soon very good friend. She has blond hair and is little miss perfect because she is very smart. Laura is supposively a role model to her little sister Lola. She loves her little sister but hates it when Lola treats her like garbage. She falls in love with Francisco but when she realized Lola was in love with him too she decided to disappear those feelings. She ends up falling in love with Guido.

Lola Arregui

• Lola Arregui — The younger sister of Laura. All her life her parents pressured her to be like Laura, which made her dislike her sister. Lola does not lose the opportunity to insult and scorn her sister at any given chance, and blames Laura for most of her problems. She often uses her friend Bianca to do her dirty work. She had a short affair with Pablo, which was brought down due to Lola's immaturity. Lola considers herself to be all alone in this world and that no one could ever love her. It has recently been revealed that Lola is an adopted child, and therefore, not biologically related to Laura or her parents, which gives Lola a new perspective on her life.

Bianca

• Bianca — A shy girl that studies with Lola, is her best friend, and always does whatever Lola says. But, she has been changing and becoming more independent. She also had a crush on Rocco.

The Guys

Miguel Aguirre

• Miguel Aguirre — His sister and mother live in Mexico whom he can never afford to visit because he is on a scholarship to the Elite Way in Argentina. Also for this reason he was harassed by a secret society of alumni known as "La Logia". He is in Elite Way to avenge for what the Colucci family did to his family, but later forgets his vengeful plans. Miguel developed a huge love for Mía Colucci (despite the fact that he found her to be extremely annoying at the beginning of the series) and they are an on-again, off-again relationship. They are still and always have been madly in love with each other. Miguel has a strong sense of pride and dignity that often gets in the way of common sense. He finds himself in huge trouble with Mia after allegedly cheating on her with Sabrina Guzmán after a heavy drinking session (although this presumably never happened, but is furthered due to Sabrina's intention of binding Manuel to her side and the fact that Miguel was drunk when the "cheat" occurred), and now tries desperately to win her back.

Pablo Bustamante

• Pablo Bustamante — Has problems standing up to his chauvinistic, domineering father, who disapproves of his musical ambitions. His love interest is Marizza, although he denies it for quite some time, instead dating random young ladies to prove that he does not have a fixation on Marizza. Far from acting like a spoiled kid, Pablo wants to break free from his father's iron grasp and come out on his own. During some time, he was denied any privileges from his father, which forced Pablo to work with Guido's parents at their butcher shop to gain his means to subsist. His best friends are Guido and Tomas. Has recently given in for his feelings towards Marizza, although he now faces opposition in the shape of his cynical future stepbrother, Javier Alanis.

Guido Lassen

• Guido Lassen — hides his low-class parentage and tries not to act like "new money". Coming from a rather poor family, Guido always shoots for a chance at easy money. He is also a hopeless womanizer, unable to remain faithful to just one woman (which mostly explains why his relationship with Vico ended in failure). His best friends are Pablo and Tomas. He is the character who engages in the most comical situations, due to his crazy ideas for his own personal amusement. He gets into a relationship with Agustina, a rich girl who gives Guido expensive gifts at the drop of a dime, wooing Guido to her feet. His friends consider him a sellout, which splits Guido between his devotion to one woman and his fixation for expensive gifts.

Rocco Fuentes

• Rocco Fuentes — A somewhat geeky and highly obnoxious student who passes his time by filming other students on his hand-held camera, which makes them mad. Rocco helped Marizza in many cases, making Marizza want to understand the cryptic boy. Rocco starts to make moves on Vico, stemming from Vico's reputation of being "easy", but later on, he falls for her for real. He tries his best to help out Vico in her troubled times, despite Vico's refusal and constant rejects. It seems his attempts pay off during a school trip Vico finally opens her heart to Rocco. Rocco also has great singing potential, as he sings a couple of songs throughout the series.

Nico Provenza

• Nico Provenza — A Jewish teen who is pressured by his family to dump his Catholic girlfriend (Luna) in favor of his childhood sweetheart. Introverted, hates outdoor activities. Nico decides to leave with Luna to San Luis so they can be together always.

Francisco Blanco

• Francisco Blanco — This is Tomas cousin. He's from a small town, a fighter, and from the get-go, Pablo, does not like him. He has a crush on Luna, but Lola thinks he likes her.

Diego

• Diego — Diego is a student in the class he helps Pablo spy on Marizza while they were doing their campaign. He then after lies to Marizza

Roger

• Roger — He is passionately in love with Marizza. He fakes an illness to gain her interest.

Adults

Franco Colucci

• Franco Colucci —He is a high-end fashion designer & Father of Mia. Manuel works for him, which made Franco grow affection for him and treat him like the son he never had. Franco is known as "Daddy" by most of the Elite Way School (since that is how Mia calls him all the time). Franco feels some remorse for overprotecting Mia and spoiling her in the process. Franco and Sonia Rey often engage in heated discussions, since Franco despises the kind of ladies that Sonia seems to represent (Sonia often calls Franco "cement face" when she gets angry at him), but as is usual in these cases, they end up falling in love. Franco also shares a similar trait with Sonia: he has not told her daughter Mia that her mother is still alive (Mia is under the impression that her mother died when she was very young), while Sonia has kept the real identity of Marizza's father also under wraps.

Sonia Rey

• Sonia Rey — A famous model and singer who is very sexy and gets the attention of the students easily. That makes Marizza, her daughter, somewhat jealous, because her mother gets more attention than her. She is a single mother, even though she used the last name of one of her lovers to give her daughter Marizza a true family name. She overprotects her Marizza, or (Marizzita) although unlike Mia, Marizza is not very fond of her mom always getting cuddly around her and tends to shun her off. Sonia has hidden the true identity of her real father all this time (which is Martin Andrade), and once Marizza discovers the truth, she gets terribly mad with Sonia, and decides not to speak with her, which breaks Sonia's heart. She is supported by her current love interest and fiancee, Franco Colucci, which brings her another dilemma, since Franco is Mia's father (who is very fond of Sonia but jealous of the women who dates her father).

Sergio Bustamante

• Sergio Bustamante — Pablo's father and a well known politican. Strict man, who always wants to win at all costs. He always gets what he wants, he even pays a prostitute to sleep with his son, so he could lose his virginity, but in the end this resulted on Pablo falling in love with her. The relationship did not last much after he found out why she met him. He is recently dating a woman who has a son named Javier, who becomes Pablo's rival.

Director Marcel Dunoff

• Director Marcel Dunoff — Power-hungry head of the school who often takes pleasure in the misfortune of the students. Has poor knowledge of English. Even though he tries to be an imposing authority figure, he comes out more as a dim-witted principal who is easily manipulated not only by his superiors but also by the same students he wants to control. Sometimes, his antics and raging outbursts come out as comical rather than menacing (especially his silly evil laugh). Also tends to act clumsy when in the presence of a gorgeous woman. Is going through a divorce with his wife, since she considers him to be 'weak' and 'easily manipulated' by Pablo's father (the legal owner of the Elite Way School). Despite his clumsy attitude, he still loves his daughter Pilar very much and only wishes for her well being.

Blas Heredia

• Blas Heredia — The new prefect, who is as unpleasant as the first prefect. He has a huge crush on Mía, and they finally began a relationship to the disapproval of Mía's father. Mía went out with Blas to get Manuel (her true love) jealous. His past could also be as obscure as Blas', as indicated by further investigations made by Lujan, whom Blas likes to donwgrade and humilliate at any given chance. Lujan stole his laptop, and finds information that leads her to believe that Blas is her secret benefactor, but Blas repeatedly denies it. After a while, Blas gets annoyed by Lujan's meddling with his past affairs, and decides to get her out of the way once and for all. In reality, Blas' father (Ricardo Sisniega) took care of Lujan when she was a dirty street orphan because she had saved his life (although how she did so is still unknown). Blas' father had always compared Lujan's strength of will to Blas' weak spirit, which fueled Blas' anger. When his father died in prison, Blas was forced to look after Lujan and see to her tuition as per his father's last wish. Although Blas tried to blame Lujan for his miserable existence, he really did love Lujan like a sister, as he admitted to in his final breath. He died after being involved in a heavy car accident.

Sandra Fernandez

• Sandra Fernandez — Luna's Aunt and works in the cafeteria of the Elite Way School. Luna's mother doesn't like this because she thinks Sandra is a bad example for Luna, because she used to be a prostitute when she was young.

Santiago Mansilla

• Santiago Mansilla — bohemian ethics professor who is always trying to solve everyone's problems.

Cast

• Luisana Lopilato as Mia Colucci
• Benjamin Rojas as Pablo Bustamante
• Camila Bordonaba as Marizza Pia Spiritto
• Felipe Colombo as Manuel Aguirre
• Catherine Fulop as Sonia Rey
• Fernan Miras as Santiago Mansilla
• Arturo Bonin as Marcel Dunoff
• Martin Seefeld as Franco Colucci
• Boy Olmi as Sergio Bustamante
• Maria Roji as Gloria
• Hilda Bernard as Hilda Acosta
• Diego Mesaglio as Guido Lassen
• Micaela Vazquez as Pilar Dunoff
• Jorge Maggio as Tomas Ezcurra
• Georgina Mollo as Luna Fernandez
• Guillermo Santa Cruz as Nicolas Provenza
• Angeles Balbiani as Felicitas Mitre
• Jazmin Beccar Varela as Lujan
• Victoria Maurette as Victoria Paz
• Diego Garcia as Marcos Aguilar
• Agustin Sierra as Nacho
• Fabian Mazzei as Andres
• Federico D`Elia
• Gaston Grande as Joaquin Arias Parrondo
• Marcelo Melingo as Carlos Velasquez
• Gustavo Moro
• Carolina Ardohain
• Diego Child as Diego de los Santos
• Mariana Seligmann as Laura Arregui
• Nadia Di Cello as Flor Fernandez
• Paola Sallustro as Agustina
• Nicolas Maiques as Maxi
• Christian Sancho as Professor
• Hector Malamud as Cosme Lassen
• Hugo Cosiansi
• Paula Pourtale as Mora Bustamante
• Jorge Sabate
• Floria Bloise
• Monica Santibanez
• Irene Almus as Ayerza
• Mirta Wons
• Patricia Rozas
• Ines Palombo as Sol Rivarola
• Piru Saenz as Rocco Fuentes Echagüe
• Patricia Viggiano as Marina
• Fabio Aste
• Mariano Bertolini as Javier Alanis
• Antonio Caride as Tomas' father
• Esteban Perez as Simon
• Sabrina Garciarena as Luz
• Belen Scalella as Belen Menendez Pacheco
• Francisco Bass as Francisco Blanco
• María Fernanda Neil as Fernanda Peralta Ramos

External links

• Ukraine website
• Spain's Website about Rebelde Way
• Rebelde Way Official site (in Spanish)
• Greek fan club
• Rebelde Way at The Internet Movie Database
• The first anti-Rebelde Way site (in Spanish)