The families who form this favela are made up of poor working class fishermen, fishmongers, small business owners. The picture below is an example of the housing the young men lived in:.
After watching the film I noticed a few aspects of their lives which reflected my youth. The roads in my community were paved because I lived in the city were as they lived in a rural community. My community was made up of low socio-economic families working in minimal jobs housekeepers, cocktail servers, etc.
In the film, the mode of travel for the boys was walking mostly. It was times when they used bicycles. There were a few cars, but none were driven by the cast except in one scene when the boys stole a car to get away after robbing guests at a motel. The trucks in the film drove through carrying supplies which they robbed and they rode on public transportation bus.
Growing up my mother did not drive me around, so like the boys, in the film, I either walked or took public transportation bus or Jitney. The only food shown in the film was chicken.
I believe I saw someone eat chicken one time in the film, however, the characters ordered chicken throughout the film. Other improvisational scenes include Rocket's speech about never taking a hot bath and young Buscape's laughing fit after his brother his slapped by his father.
Although City of God is full of intense violence and graphic carnage, Meirelles couldn't help but pay homage to one of the campiest TV shows of all time.
In the DVD audio commentary, Meirelles admits that the shot of Alicate, Cabeleria, and Marreco as seen through the rear of the gas truck is directly lifted from the Charlie's Angels TV series from the s.
The image features all three men standing with guns akimbo pointing in different directions. While the film failed to land a nomination in that category, Miramax arranged a wide enough release for the movie in the U.
Although the film did not win in any category, City of God was the first Brazilian film to earn more than two Oscar nominations. By Jake Dee Published Sep 25, Share Share Tweet Email 0. Related Topics Lists. In , Cidade de Deus became the second favela in Rio to be "pacified" as part of a government programme to improve safety by increasing the police presence. Cops moved into the favela and installed a special unit to try and drive out drug traffickers. The murder rate fell from 36 out of every , in , to five in ShortList is supported by you, our amazing readers.
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He steals every scene, producing some of the most bone-chilling moments in cinematic history, specifically his actions at a motel in the first act and the infamous choice he forces one of his young drug distributors to make when he finds a group of young kids stealing from a bakery.
While casting actual members of the favelas helped improve the authenticity of the film, these actors were not paid their fair share. Actors, even those playing main characters, received anywhere from five thousand to ten thousand reais for a film that made roughly million reais.
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