To begin with, what we call 'flamenco' in the movie (and in real life as well) is itself a recent construct.
The rhythm guitar plays a flamenco-like rhythm, simultaneously referencing the mock high seriousness and the drumming feet of the flamenco dancer.
In this poetic expression the magic, supposed to be intrinsic to flamenco, is mentioned.
This is followed by a biographical section divided into three - flamenco singing, dancing and flamenco playing.
Other forms of functional staging might include, for example, the way that canto chico flamenco tracks were mixed in the 1970s and 80s.
The movement's robust aura is buttressed at times by rasguado and golpe sounds,32 character features of the flamenco guitar.
Yet flamenco musicians rarely if ever use the word ' duende' themselves.
There is no doubt of his attraction to the power of flamenco, whose representations oijouissance his camera continually abets with dramatic angles and dancing movements.
