True Story?
Does anyone know if this is a true story, based on many stories or is it just from the mind of a very creative person??
:D
Does anyone know if this is a true story, based on many stories or is it just from the mind of a very creative person??
:D
Yes, as far as I know, it was a true story.
Yes, there was a Xica da Silva, but my understanding is that the movie is only based on myths about her.
HIstorically, she in fact had a long, lasting 15 year relationship with Joao Fernandez and had several children with him. The couldn't get married officially because of laws of the time.
The impression I got from reading historical data on Xica was that she was a pioneer and fought for the rights of slaves and specially black women. It would have been a lot better if the movie went that route. Instead it only shows her running around naked a lot. Not at all a fair portrait of the real woman as far as I know. Maybe someone will do a remake one day.
Not so accurate, Chica (the spelling of real Francisca "Chica" Da Silva)
wasn't the kind of "Activist", she's just trying to get a better life for her
she had slaves at difference with the novela, in real life, she just freed 1 slave
she was trying to be a "White Court Lady" to get respect and show
her power, but you can say she gave a way for blacks in Brazil
how they could leave behind their slavery past, her legacy is:
"whitening your life to be part of mainstream-society" it not sounds so great
and it's not my interpretation, it's the reality.
Many things people watched in this telenovela was similar to reality
but the "A Fiction Based On Real Events" fits here.
By the way, you people know who are Malcom X, Black Panthers, M. Luther King, etc,
and what they did for their community, right?
Well, in Brazil, situation is totally different
they act in an individual way like Chica. Obviously, this happens for the past
in USA and Brazil, USA was a segregated country and Brazil was and is a mixed country.