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Stop making Brazilian movies about violence!


I'm Brazilian and I am very disapointed with the film-makers here, because the only thing they really want to show is the violence that they have in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. I live in the south of Brazil, here things are better, and we are all tired of seeing movies about violence in prisons or Rio's "favelas" and drug dealers. Brazilian film-makers should make more movies such as "O Homem Que Copiava" and "Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum", and stop making movies like "Carandiru" and "City of God" (althrough the last one is pretty famous). What will other people think of Brazil? That we live in a country where violence and drugs rules? These movies only help to spread the violence over the country, and even the world. People in Brazil want to see fantasy movies. Please, bring us some decent stories.

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There are plenty of movies released this year which does not have nay violence (Os Normais, Sexo, Amor e Traição, Casseta..., Abracadabra Xuxa, Didi o Cupido trapalhão, etc...), but they are horrible, low level script, boring, only entertainment for those who like popular brazilian Globo soap-operas.

I think there whould be movies for everybody, and I know (I am brazilian) that there are much more people that watch those type of movies than the violent ones.

So 1st: stop bullshitting, 2nd i hope all these Globofilmes go bakrupt, enough of horrible movies...

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Why noy the brazilians movie makers can do films based on violent plots?
I think they can do anything they want, i. e., with a certain power of liberty.
The right question here is: Where a work of fiction ends and where the reality begins? The people that had not experienced how the brazilian way of live is could take the country wrong, but, at the same time, it shows them the need of knowing the right place of Brazil in a map.

Don´t worry about the oscar cause business is business, at the end the money speaks ALOUD, this is the bitter truth of the academy.

And, by the way, The globo network s*cks a lot...

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There's nothing "undecent" about this story. The problem isn't the movie but the country we live in, as long the government and the society keep promoting social inequality, the things pictured in Carandiru, Cidade de Deus and other movies will be violent, sad - and real.

Be thankful that this sort of movies stand out instead of the narcotic feel-good romantic comedies with stupid scripts that plague contemporary cinema... I'd be ashamed to have something like Aquaria or Xuxa e os Duendes representing my country outside.

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No,i think that we should make fantasy movies and violence movies,the brazillian cinema is getting bigger,movies like City Of God and Carandiru are helping this great cinema to get greater

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Okay, I'm an American and I gotta admit most of the Brazilian films that get big play over here have been focused on the darker side of Brazil. I mean pictures like Pixote, City of God and Bus 174.(all of which are very good in my opinion)

For a while now I've been looking to find something different. Any suggestions?

P.S. I dont think you really have to worry about Brazil being sterotyped by the
negative films that have come out of your country. That's pretty much all I've ever seen, but I haven't jumped to any false conclusions or formed any harsh opinions of Brazil because of the movies I've seen. Only a fool would do that.

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Forgot to mention my favourite brazilian movie: Bossa Nova.

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I dont think you have to worry about the rest of the world thinking Brazil is only a place of violence and crime.
If that were the case then people all over the world would think americans are bad-ass cops who dont do what they are told by their superiors and destoys a whole city in the pursuit of 1 druglord and then is celibrated as heroes...

I dont think that happens a lot of times...


"The yelling will cease and the killing will commence!"

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well i know exactly how he feels, did you ever notice the DRUG DEALERS are never from USA? you are the "good guys", that is the whole point, movies are seen worldwide and carry the image of people that are supposed to on them, being from Mexico i can tell how he exactly feels, people always think Mexico is about big hats and tacos and tequila, thats bulls**t, thanks to films like TRAFFIC or even THE GAME that whenever they say they are in mexico they go to an obscure alley full of prostitues and alcoholics and never go to the real Mexico, and that is the image the world has about it , why? because USA hasthe money to send the movies worldwide and give the world the image they want, one good example is the movie "LA MEXICANA"they arrive to mexico in PLANE and suddenly they are in an alley full of donkeys and bars, Mexico city airport is one of the worlds biggst airports, but they arrive maybe to some airport on i dont know where, renting a car that is more like the ones "chicanos" use, totally out of scope, if they stop putting that in the movies maybe people will get a diff image, of course that ia a hollywood movie, but if you own country doesnt help at all to erase those stereotypes who will?

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If you think the U.S.A. is always shown as the good guys, then you are incredibly ignorant. People accuse Liberal artists(Most artists are liberal) of being anti-American or pretensious or something. Artists do a great job of laying the guilt on Americans. Have you not ever seen a Scorsese picture?

By the way, though Central Do Brasil(Central Station-Got nominated for
Best Actress[Fernanda Montenegro] and Best Foreign Language Film in 1998 and lost only to Life Is Beautiful) shows some of the poverty in the country, it is truly a story about a women who befriends a boy. It's quite touching and really really great.

Also, for whoever it was that said that the U.S.A. is always portrayed as good. Want a new film that shows oppositte? Watch 25th Hour.

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I agree Look at the ignorance in this person's post.

"well i know exactly how he feels, did you ever notice the DRUG DEALERS are never from USA? "

Just watch the movie "Blow" and see an American dealing drugs. The first one to deal Cocaine in the US. And Id have to say the bad outweighs the good in Hollywood's portrayal of America. YOU NEED TO GO SEE MORE MOVIES

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I always trust an Avengers fan! I wish THE AVENGERS had been successful in Brazil, but sadly no one remembers it!

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These movies are based on true stories, yes? Well, then making a film that's based upon a story about violence meanse making sure the history is accurate enough, or relevant enough, or both, so no-one starts posting about how the movies DON'T relate to the actual events. Movies like these aren't made every day. They're made because there's an interest. City of God was fantastic, artistic, and most of all, important, they spark intrest. If you look up "brazilian history" on any search engine, you won't get anything violent. You'll get tourist crap, that's it. So i say, the show must go on. Film is art, let them paint.

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What's the problem? Are you afraid that people will stop wanting to go to prison if they think it's a violent place? Or are you afraid people will think Brazil is violent and not want to go there on vacation? America is known as one of the most violent nations around because of its unending media hype of violence and Hollywood revenge films. It's true, it is one of the most violent developed nations, but people still come here for vacation. Some of our best films are prison and drug films, like American Me or Requiem for a Dream. Don't worry, people who are so shallow that they think they can learn everything from one film don't watch foreign films anyway.

Perhaps by showing what happens one can fix the problem, maybe not, but it won't get better by showing the happy side, not everyone can live on the rich side of town. Prison is an awful place, and even if some of the people there deserve the awful life, usually the ones that have it the hardest are the ones who did not commit violent crimes and can't defend themselves. The film can only make it better for them, even if the only thing it does is scare them away from committing crimes.

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