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* HistoricalBeautyUpgrade: The main protagonist. Most portraits in real life depicted him as a [[RatedMForManly hardy, rugged, bearded man]], but in the movie he is an outright PrettyBoy courtesy of being played by Selton Mello.
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* HistoricalBeautyUpgrade: The main protagonist. Most portraits in real life depicted him as a [[RatedMForManly [[ManlyMan hardy, rugged, bearded man]], but in the movie he is an outright PrettyBoy courtesy of being played by Selton Mello.
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* HistoricalBeautyUpgrade: The main protagonist. Most portraits in real life depicted him as a [[RatedMForManly hardy, rugged, bearded man]], but in the movie he is an ouright {{Bishounen}} courtesy of being played by Selton Mello.
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* HistoricalBeautyUpgrade: The main protagonist. Most portraits in real life depicted him as a [[RatedMForManly hardy, rugged, bearded man]], but in the movie he is an ouright {{Bishounen}} outright PrettyBoy courtesy of being played by Selton Mello.
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* BigBadDuumvirate: Captain Vasco de Athayde and Lady Isabelle work together to set the movie's plot in motion; the former forces the main protagonist out of his vocation leading him to become a cartographer instead and conspires with the latter to steal a map so he can beat Pedro Alvarez Cabral to his expedition to India. This incidentally leads to Diogo being seduced into handing her over the map and him getting shipped off as an ''degradado'' which leads to him ending in Brazil.
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* BigBadDuumvirate: Captain Vasco de Athayde and Lady Isabelle work together to set as the movie's main antagonists to Diego and set the plot in motion; motion. [[spoiler:By the former forces the main protagonist out end, Dom Vasco pulls sort of his vocation leading him to become a cartographer instead HeelFaceTurn and conspires Isabelle is backstabbed by him]].
* CannibalTribe: A surprisingly ''friendly'' version withthe latter to steal a map so he can beat Pedro Alvarez Cabral to his expedition to India. This incidentally leads to Diogo Paraguaçu's tribe who initially plans on eating Diego despite being seduced into handing her over the map and him getting shipped off as an ''degradado'' which leads at this point sympathetic to him ending in Brazil.him, though they give up on it later. TruthInTelevision since that particular tribe (the Tupinambás) were ''indeed'' cannibals.
* CannibalTribe: A surprisingly ''friendly'' version with
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* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Paraguaçu in a huge contrast to Isabelle.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The two main protagonists, Diogo Alvares Correia aka Caramuru and his wife Catarina Paraguaçu, who are considered to have formed the first Brazilian Christian family.
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* MeaningfulName: Caramuru, Diogo's name among the natives, has two meanings: first it means [[PunnyName "moray"]], a type of electric eel and the second is [[RedBaron "Son of Thunder"]], because of the the handgun he fire to startle attacking natives which sounded like the sound of thunder.
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** Caramuru, Diogo's name among the natives, has two meanings: first it means [[PunnyName "moray"]], a type of electric eel and the second is [[RedBaron "Son of Thunder"]], because of the the handgun he fire to startle attacking natives which sounded like the sound ofthunder. thunder.
** Paraguaçu's Christian name Catarina means "pure" which may seem like a IronicName at first for a EthicalSlut like her, but she is "pure" in the sense she is in a AFishOutOfWater environment and ultimately a good person... Unlike Isabelle.
** Caramuru, Diogo's name among the natives, has two meanings: first it means [[PunnyName "moray"]], a type of electric eel and the second is [[RedBaron "Son of Thunder"]], because of the the handgun he fire to startle attacking natives which sounded like the sound of
** Paraguaçu's Christian name Catarina means "pure" which may seem like a IronicName at first for a EthicalSlut like her, but she is "pure" in the sense she is in a AFishOutOfWater environment and ultimately a good person... Unlike Isabelle.
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* SexyDiscretionShot: Diogo and Paraguaçu in the first time they have sex together, they walk into the wild while the camera turns away into the beautiful scenery and he
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* BigBadDuumvirate: Captain Vasco de Athayde and Lady Isabelle work together to set the movie's plot in motion; the former forces the main protagonist out of his vocation leading him to become a cartographer instead and conspires with the latter to steal a map so he can beat Pedro Alvarez Cabral to his expedition to India. This incidentally leads to Diogo being seduced into handing her over the map and him getting shipped off as an exile which leads to him ending in Brazil.
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* BigBadDuumvirate: Captain Vasco de Athayde and Lady Isabelle work together to set the movie's plot in motion; the former forces the main protagonist out of his vocation leading him to become a cartographer instead and conspires with the latter to steal a map so he can beat Pedro Alvarez Cabral to his expedition to India. This incidentally leads to Diogo being seduced into handing her over the map and him getting shipped off as an exile ''degradado'' which leads to him ending in Brazil.Brazil.
* DisguisedInDrag: In an attempt to return to Portugal while still in course to India, Diego disguises himself as a woman because they are forbidden to sail with the men and they are returned home during the first stop in the Canary Islands. He pulls it off so well with his PrettyBoy appearance that Captain Vasco becomes attracted to "her" and attempts to seduce her.
* DisguisedInDrag: In an attempt to return to Portugal while still in course to India, Diego disguises himself as a woman because they are forbidden to sail with the men and they are returned home during the first stop in the Canary Islands. He pulls it off so well with his PrettyBoy appearance that Captain Vasco becomes attracted to "her" and attempts to seduce her.
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* TheExile: Diogo is shipped off to India after loosing one of the secret royal maps. He is allowed to return home after being discovered by European explorers.
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* TheExile: Diogo is shipped off to India after loosing one of the secret royal maps. He is allowed This was a common practice in Portugal known as ''degradamento'' where criminals and the "New Christians" (Jewish and Muslim converts to return home after Roman Catholicism) being discovered by European explorers.sent to the colonies.
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* StarvingArtist: Diogo, literally at the start of the movie after being forced by Dom Vasco out of the art, he looks for a job in cartography and pleads to his boss that he was forced out of his house and didn't have a meal in two days.
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* StarvingArtist: Diogo, literally at the start of the movie after being forced by Dom Vasco out of the art, he looks for a job in cartography and pleads to his boss that he was forced out of his house and didn't have a meal in two days.days.
* ThrillSeeker: One of Diogo's shipmates Heitor got himself purposefully arrested by locking someone inside their house just so that he could be ''degredado'' and travel all around the world. He is such adrenaline seeker he becomes ''ecstatic'' when they run into a storm.
* VomitDiscretionShot: While on the ship, Diogo becomes sick after hearing about Heitor's previous ship travels where they were left to eat rotten food under a scorching weather and hurls it in a window outside of the audience's view.
* UnsettlingGenderReveal: Vasco after Diogo blows away his female disguise, making immediately furious and disgusted at having tried to seduce him.
* ThrillSeeker: One of Diogo's shipmates Heitor got himself purposefully arrested by locking someone inside their house just so that he could be ''degredado'' and travel all around the world. He is such adrenaline seeker he becomes ''ecstatic'' when they run into a storm.
* VomitDiscretionShot: While on the ship, Diogo becomes sick after hearing about Heitor's previous ship travels where they were left to eat rotten food under a scorching weather and hurls it in a window outside of the audience's view.
* UnsettlingGenderReveal: Vasco after Diogo blows away his female disguise, making immediately furious and disgusted at having tried to seduce him.
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* FemmeFatale: Isabelle, the Marquise de Sevigné
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* TheExile: Diogo is shipped off to India after loosing one of the secret royal maps. He is allowed to return home after being discovered by European explorers.
* FemmeFatale: Isabelle, the Marquise deSevignéSevigné conspires with Vasco to steal one of the maps of the royal Portuguese cartography to have a secret voyage to India, and does it by seducing Diogo into drawing a naked picture of her in them and leaves him to be a scapegoat.
* ItsNotPornItsArt: Diogo's downfall to be precise; his tendency to draw beautiful ladies gets him into trouble the most like making a beautiful portrait that leads to him getting into Vasco's bad side, and being tricked by Lady Isabelle into drawing a image of her in an ''important secret map'' which she steals and leads him to being exiled from Portugal.
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* ItsNotPornItsArt: Diogo's downfall to be precise; his tendency to draw beautiful ladies gets him into trouble the most like making a beautiful portrait that leads to him getting into Vasco's bad side, and being tricked by Lady Isabelle into drawing a image of her in an ''important secret map'' which she steals and leads him to being exiled from Portugal.
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* MsFanservice: The two most prominent female characters: Isabelle (who poses naked for Diogo at the start of the movie) and Paraguaçu (who wears a dress that leaves one of her breasts exposed).
* RightRedHand: Not that the [[TakeOurWordForIt audience ever sees it]] but according to some characters, Vasco's fiance is a hunchback, has a mustache and lacks her two ears.
* RightRedHand: Not that the [[TakeOurWordForIt audience ever sees it]] but according to some characters, Vasco's fiance is a hunchback, has a mustache and lacks her two ears.
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''Caramuru: A Invenção do Brasil'' was a 2001 Brazilian love comedy based on the poem ''Caramuru'' which was inspired in the real-life figure Diogo Alvares Correia. The story portrays Diogo as a young artist who turns to cartography after getting on some nobleman's bad side. When he gets involved with a [[TheVamp French courtesan named Isabelle]] who steals one of his maps, he is arrested and sent as an exile in one of the Portuguese expeditions to India. However, his ship gets wrecked and he ends up on the coast of the lands that would later be known as Brazil and ends up meeting with [[JunglePrincess Tupinambá princess]] [[NubileSavage Paraguaçu]], whom he falls in love with and later on has other adventures when the European explorers arrive to settle.
It was originally aired as an TV documentary in 2000 interlaced with several historical tidbits presented by actor Marco Nanini to mark the 500th anniversary of Brazil's discovery by the Portuguese before being released on theaters the year later.
* BettyAndVeronica: Diogo becomes infatuated with two different ladies over the course of the movie in this order: first, the seductive, but backstabbing Lady Isabelle and later on, the native princess Paraguaçu. It's easy to figure out who is the Betty and who is the Veronica.
It was originally aired as an TV documentary in 2000 interlaced with several historical tidbits presented by actor Marco Nanini to mark the 500th anniversary of Brazil's discovery by the Portuguese before being released on theaters the year later.
* BettyAndVeronica: Diogo becomes infatuated with two different ladies over the course of the movie in this order: first, the seductive, but backstabbing Lady Isabelle and later on, the native princess Paraguaçu. It's easy to figure out who is the Betty and who is the Veronica.
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''Caramuru: A Invenção do Brasil'' was a 2001 Brazilian love comedy based on the poem ''Caramuru'' which was inspired in the real-life figure Diogo Alvares Correia. The story portrays Diogo as [[StarvingArtist a young artist artist]] who turns to cartography after getting on some nobleman's bad side. When he gets involved with a [[TheVamp French courtesan named Isabelle]] who steals one of his maps, he is arrested and sent as an exile in one of the Portuguese expeditions to India. However, his ship gets wrecked and he ends up on the coast of the lands that would later be known as Brazil and ends up meeting with [[JunglePrincess Tupinambá princess]] [[NubileSavage Paraguaçu]], whom he falls in love with and later on has other adventures when the European explorers arrive to settle.
It was originally aired as an TV documentary in 2000 interlaced with several historical tidbits presented by actor Marco Nanini as the narrator to mark the 500th anniversary of Brazil's discovery by the Portuguese before being released on theaters the yearlater.
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* BettyAndVeronica: Diogo becomes infatuated with two different ladies over the course of the movie in this order: first, the seductive, but backstabbing LadyIsabelle Isabelle, Marquise de Sevigné and later on, the native princess Paraguaçu. It's easy to figure out who is the Betty and who is the Veronica.Veronica.
* BigBadDuumvirate: Captain Vasco de Athayde and Lady Isabelle work together to set the movie's plot in motion; the former forces the main protagonist out of his vocation leading him to become a cartographer instead and conspires with the latter to steal a map so he can beat Pedro Alvarez Cabral to his expedition to India. This incidentally leads to Diogo being seduced into handing her over the map and him getting shipped off as an exile which leads to him ending in Brazil.
It was originally aired as an TV documentary in 2000 interlaced with several historical tidbits presented by actor Marco Nanini as the narrator to mark the 500th anniversary of Brazil's discovery by the Portuguese before being released on theaters the year
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* BettyAndVeronica: Diogo becomes infatuated with two different ladies over the course of the movie in this order: first, the seductive, but backstabbing Lady
* BigBadDuumvirate: Captain Vasco de Athayde and Lady Isabelle work together to set the movie's plot in motion; the former forces the main protagonist out of his vocation leading him to become a cartographer instead and conspires with the latter to steal a map so he can beat Pedro Alvarez Cabral to his expedition to India. This incidentally leads to Diogo being seduced into handing her over the map and him getting shipped off as an exile which leads to him ending in Brazil.
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* HistoricalBeautyUpgrade: The main protagonist. Most portraits in real life depicted him as an hardy, bearded man, but in the movie he is an ouright {{Bishounen}} courtesy of being played by Selton Mello.
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* FemmeFatale: Isabelle, the Marquise de Sevigné
* HistoricalBeautyUpgrade: The main protagonist. Most portraits in real life depicted him asan a [[RatedMForManly hardy, rugged, bearded man, man]], but in the movie he is an ouright {{Bishounen}} courtesy of being played by Selton Mello.
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* ObviouslyEvil: Dom Vasco de Athayde is dressed in all black, has a sinister mustache, introduces himself to Diogo as an [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil slave merchant]]. As if he didn't have enough "villain" signs written all over him, [[spoiler:he gains a ''hookhand'', but surprisingly, he pulls a HeelFaceTurn and becomes nicer to Diogo]].
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* ObviouslyEvil: Dom Vasco de Athayde is dressed in all black, has a sinister mustache, introduces himself to Diogo as an [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil slave merchant]]. As if he didn't have enough "villain" signs written all over him, [[spoiler:he gains a ''hookhand'', but surprisingly, he pulls a HeelFaceTurn and becomes nicer to Diogo]].Diogo]].
* MeaningfulName: Caramuru, Diogo's name among the natives, has two meanings: first it means [[PunnyName "moray"]], a type of electric eel and the second is [[RedBaron "Son of Thunder"]], because of the the handgun he fire to startle attacking natives which sounded like the sound of thunder.
* StarvingArtist: Diogo, literally at the start of the movie after being forced by Dom Vasco out of the art, he looks for a job in cartography and pleads to his boss that he was forced out of his house and didn't have a meal in two days.
* MeaningfulName: Caramuru, Diogo's name among the natives, has two meanings: first it means [[PunnyName "moray"]], a type of electric eel and the second is [[RedBaron "Son of Thunder"]], because of the the handgun he fire to startle attacking natives which sounded like the sound of thunder.
* StarvingArtist: Diogo, literally at the start of the movie after being forced by Dom Vasco out of the art, he looks for a job in cartography and pleads to his boss that he was forced out of his house and didn't have a meal in two days.
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''Caramuru: A Invenção do Brasil'' was a 2001 Brazilian love comedy based on the poem ''Caramuru'' which was inspired in the real-life figure Diogo Alvares Correia. The story portrays Diogo as a young artist who turns to cartography after getting on some nobleman's bad side. When he gets involved with a [[TheVamp French courtesan named Isabelle]] who steals one of his maps, he is arrested and sent as an exile in one of the Portuguese expeditions to India. However, his ship gets wrecked and he ends up on the coast of the lands that would later be known as Brazil and ends up meeting with [[JunglePrincess Tupinambá princess]] [[NubileSavage Paraguaçu]], whom he falls in love with and later on has other adventures when the European explorers arrive to settle.
It was originally aired as an TV documentary in 2000 interlaced with several historical tidbits presented by actor Marco Nanini to mark the 500th anniversary of Brazil's discovery by the Portuguese before being released on theaters the year later.
* BettyAndVeronica: Diogo becomes infatuated with two different ladies over the course of the movie in this order: first, the seductive, but backstabbing Lady Isabelle and later on, the native princess Paraguaçu. It's easy to figure out who is the Betty and who is the Veronica.
* DisproportionateRetribution: What sets in motion the events of the story, actually: Vasco de Athayde forces Diogo to end his promising career as an artist, destroy all of his paintings and forbids him from ever drawing him again. Why? Because Diogo made a beautiful painting of a noblewoman that made Vasco fall madly in love with her and ask her hand in marriage, only to discover that his fiancee was very, ''very ugly''.
* HistoricalBeautyUpgrade: The main protagonist. Most portraits in real life depicted him as an hardy, bearded man, but in the movie he is an ouright {{Bishounen}} courtesy of being played by Selton Mello.
* HookHand: [[spoiler:Dom Vasco]] ends up with one after having his hand severed by arrow.
* PointyHairedBoss: Diogo's cartography employer Dom Jaime - ''right after'' employing the main protagonist, he chides him for not having began working immediately.
* PrettyBoy: Diogo, who manages to disguise himself as a woman quite successfully. Impressively, he [[BeautyIsNeverTarnished retains his good-looks]] while spending quite some time among natives without even growing a beard.
* ObviouslyEvil: Dom Vasco de Athayde is dressed in all black, has a sinister mustache, introduces himself to Diogo as an [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil slave merchant]]. As if he didn't have enough "villain" signs written all over him, [[spoiler:he gains a ''hookhand'', but surprisingly, he pulls a HeelFaceTurn and becomes nicer to Diogo]].
It was originally aired as an TV documentary in 2000 interlaced with several historical tidbits presented by actor Marco Nanini to mark the 500th anniversary of Brazil's discovery by the Portuguese before being released on theaters the year later.
* BettyAndVeronica: Diogo becomes infatuated with two different ladies over the course of the movie in this order: first, the seductive, but backstabbing Lady Isabelle and later on, the native princess Paraguaçu. It's easy to figure out who is the Betty and who is the Veronica.
* DisproportionateRetribution: What sets in motion the events of the story, actually: Vasco de Athayde forces Diogo to end his promising career as an artist, destroy all of his paintings and forbids him from ever drawing him again. Why? Because Diogo made a beautiful painting of a noblewoman that made Vasco fall madly in love with her and ask her hand in marriage, only to discover that his fiancee was very, ''very ugly''.
* HistoricalBeautyUpgrade: The main protagonist. Most portraits in real life depicted him as an hardy, bearded man, but in the movie he is an ouright {{Bishounen}} courtesy of being played by Selton Mello.
* HookHand: [[spoiler:Dom Vasco]] ends up with one after having his hand severed by arrow.
* PointyHairedBoss: Diogo's cartography employer Dom Jaime - ''right after'' employing the main protagonist, he chides him for not having began working immediately.
* PrettyBoy: Diogo, who manages to disguise himself as a woman quite successfully. Impressively, he [[BeautyIsNeverTarnished retains his good-looks]] while spending quite some time among natives without even growing a beard.
* ObviouslyEvil: Dom Vasco de Athayde is dressed in all black, has a sinister mustache, introduces himself to Diogo as an [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil slave merchant]]. As if he didn't have enough "villain" signs written all over him, [[spoiler:he gains a ''hookhand'', but surprisingly, he pulls a HeelFaceTurn and becomes nicer to Diogo]].
