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Os Trapalhões e o Mágico de Oróz

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Os Trapalhões e o Mágico de Oróz
Theatrical release poster
Directed byDedé Santana
Vitor Lustosa
Written byArnaud Rodrigues
Renato Aragão
Vitor Lustosa
Gilvan Pereira
Produced byRenato Aragão
StarringRenato Aragão
Dedé Santana
Mussum
Zacarias
CinematographyAntônio Gonçalves
Edited byDenise Fontana
Jayme Justo
Music byArnaud Rodrigues
Production
company
Renato Aragão Produções Artísticas
Distributed byEmbrafilme
Release date
  • June 21, 1984 (1984-06-21)[1]
Running time
93 minutes
CountryBrazil
LanguagePortuguese

Os Trapalhões e o Mágico de Oróz (English: The Bumbling and the Wizard of Oróz) is the 1984 entry in the Brazilian comedy film series Os Trapalhões. This is a parody of The Wizard of Oz (1939). It was directed by Dedé Santana and Vitor Lustosa. It injects elements and actors of Cinema Novo into family film to direct attention to the ongoing drought in the Northeast, an issue that remains unresolved. It was shot in the city of Orós, in the state of Ceará.[2]

Overview

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In addition to the regular members of Os Trapalhões—Renato Aragão, Dedé Santana, Mussum, and Zacarias—, Xuxa Meneghel, José Dumont, Joffre Soares, and Arnaud Rodrigues, who wrote the songs, also appeared. Santana played the Cowardly Lion, a sheriff, Zacarias played the Scarecrow, and Mussum played Vat, a cachaça-filled variation on the Tin Woodman. Xuxa plays Sheriff Lion's girlfriend, Aninha. Aragão plays his regular protagonist, Didi Mocó. Soares, best known for his work in Cinema Novo, plays a judge who sentences Didi's fellow tramps Soró (Rodrigues) and Tatu (Dumont) to jail for stealing bread, while the Sheriff keeps Didi, the Scarecrow, and Vat in his charge to find water for the town. It is said that certain unusual sertanejos will come to the town and save them, and the travellers fit the bill, at least as an excuse to get rid of them and the cowardly sheriff. All of the town's water is on the lush estate of Colonel Ferreira, who rations it, and tries to seduce Aninha with no success. The Wizard of Oróz (Dary Reis) sends them to retrieve a water-spitting monster, in fact a giant faucet, that washerwomen in Rio de Janeiro utilize.

The film is also noted for its parody of the opening scene of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, and for the cameo appearance of Tony Tornado as the leader of the vultures (deliberately replacing crows in the drought context) that terrorize the Scarecrow until they are eaten by the Tramps. Also, it shows Aragão's Christian side—in the film, he kisses the feet of the statue of Jesus Christ in Rio de Janeiro, though he wanted to kiss the hand, and the film also depicts scenes of the Virgin Mary, played by Bia Seidl, riding upon a donkey to Bethlehem.

Reception

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Rodrigo de Oliveira in his criticism for the Website Papo de Cinema wrote: "The year 1983 was problematic for the Trapalhões. (...) Six months after the fight, the quartet was again together, coproducing his new movie (... ) The split seems to have helped Directed by Dedé Santana and Victor Lustosa, the musical is one of the high moments of the movie troupe.[3]

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ "Os Trapalhões e o Mágico de Oróz" (in Portuguese). Cinemateca Brasileira. Retrieved May 17, 2014.
  2. ^ Assis, Mariana. "Biblioteca Pública promove sessões de cinema na próxima semana" (in Portuguese). Secretaria Municipal de Educação de Itajaí. Archived from the original on May 18, 2014. Retrieved May 17, 2014.
  3. ^ Rodrigo de Oliveira (29 March 2016). "Os Trapalhões e o Mágico de Oróz". www.papodecinema.com.br. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
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