Disco do Brazil in City of God

[JussiK]

Last year's Cannes sensation City of God has been out on dvd a while now. The true story of favela gangs of Rio during the 70's is an onslaught on senses with vibrating colors, tremendous performances and a great score. There's a brilliantly shot and edited long open air disco sequence with people doing a sort of early breakdance or capoiera style moves to Jimmy Bo Horne and others, extremely stylish and hot. Brazilians here, was that how it was over there? What was the ratio of homegrown sounds and imports? Was much of the dancing samba-influenced? Boodikka hear the anguish in my voice, forget us not!

[Paulo]

Jussi
I hope another brazilian can help you on this.
I am sorry I can't be of much help.
I watched the movie about an year ago or something... when it was first released here.

I liked it, but I really don't remember with such enthusiam the dance moves you mentioned... probably because they weren't different from what happened here at the time, so they didn't call my attention.

There was another bit in the film: everybody was dancing in this big place to James Brown' Sex Machine... Soul was huge here in the early 70's and so where the dance crazes.

By the way... This happened about 3 months ago: the young black boy who played the main killer on the movie (when he was young/adolecent) was caught by the police doing exactly what he did in the movie: robbery. This time in real life.