History Film / OHomemDaCapaPreta

* CoolGun: Tenório had a MP-34 in real life, although he mostly used it in his own hood, and problably in single-fire mode, as would not be very wise to use a full auto high-power machine-gun in a place full of his political supporters.

* HonorBeforeReason: Tenório could probably keep all that he got if he did not aligned with the neo-Getulists before the Coup. But he couldn´t stop trying to fight against TheMan until the very end.

* TheGreatPoliticsMessUp: Brazilian politics from the time messed up all concepts of left and right. In the first half of the movie, the Getulists who plot to kill Tenório use an assassin which worked with them killing and probably torturing leftists when Getúlio where a pro-Nazi dictator, because Tenório is a populist who hinders them from getting valuable land taken away from the local slum-folk, after Getúlio returns to power through popular election. Then the former Getulists become right-wing militarists, and Tenório, losing popularity to both elitist right-wing and radical left-wing politicians, aligns himself with the neo-Getulists, who are populist leftists which want to assert Brazilian economic independence.

* CorruptPolitician: Despite acusing Silas of verily being this, Tenório receives more screentime doing vote buying than his adversaries, and his ambiguous position over gambling is briefly hinted at a scene. In real life, Tenório rised to politics after being a enforcer for local politicians and landowners, who secured popular support through classical caudilhismo and clientelism. His adversaries are shown to be worse because they kill and torture InnocentCivilians for getting what they want.

* TheJavert: Maragato claims that he wants to destroy Tenório´s power not because he is a political enemy of his employers, but because he really deems Tenório as a sort of criminal.

* PsychopaticManchild: Bereco, the perpetually grinning and joking trigger happy cop.
* PunchClockVillain: To a extent, Maragato, almost bordering in TheJavert territory.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefullness: How Tenório is treated by his conservative allies after leaving them away. They are seen plotting with Silas and a unnammed CEO against him and other left-wing politicians.

* ActionPolitician: And how. It´s implied, although not fully shown, that the Tenório himself mowed his enemy Maragato after he killed one of his bodyguards.

* JumpingTheShark: In-universe, in a bid to reattain lost popularity, Tenório accepts to be shaved from his trademark BadassBeard in live television, something to what his wife is visibly embarrassed of.

* PolicyBrutality: And how.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Tenório gives one to Silas.

* RuleOfCool: Tenório did really make another politician wet his pants with a gun. With a pistol, in fact, but the director simply thought it was cooler if he draw a machine gun in the House.

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''O Homem da Capa Preta'', or better known in English as ''The Man in the Black Cape'' is a UsefulNotes/{{Brazil}}ian movie of 1986, written and directed by famous Brazilian Director Sérgio Rezende. Its a semi-biographical account of real-life politician Tenório Cavalcanti, a right-wing populist turned left-wing from Duque de Caxias, a municipality of the Rio de Janeiro state.

!This work has examples of the following tropes:

* AHerotoHisHometown: The persona that Tenório promotes to the public.

* BananaRepublic: The movie takes place during the dictatorship years, when Brazil was ruled by a military junta. While Tenório at first has the outlook of a typical Brazilian caudillo'''' and political boss, his character development and the evolution of Brazil makes things a little more complex than in the start.
* BlackandGrayMorality: Tenório is a populist politician with a body count of dozens of political enemies killed through his life, who openly trades votes for political support, and, in real life, had ties to gambling and even used his ''matador'' image to promote a inseticide with his own name, through his own newspapers. His enemies, on the other side, had instigated most of the killers that he had to defend himself from or send other killers against, tried to evict poor people from their shacks personally leading corrupt policemen, used the same police as their private army against him, and then became collaborators in the military dictatorship which supressed democracy.

* Blatant Lies: Silas, through an NonAnswer: ''All we want is to wage combat against banditry.'' Not so much of a lie, as he genuinely considers Tenório to be nothing more than a ruffian chief.

* Expy: Of various politicians and personalities in Brazil. In Silas case, can board the NoCelebritiesWereHarmed territory.

* JumpingTheShark: In a bid to reattain lost popularity, Tenório accepts to be shaved from his trademark BadassBeard in live television, something to what his wife is visibly embarrassed of.

* Punchclockvillain: To a extent, Maragato, almost bordering in TheJavert territory.

* RuleofCool: Tenório did really make another politician wet his pants with a gun. With a pistol, in fact, but the director simply thought it was cooler if he draw a machine gun in the House.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefullness: How Tenório is treated by his conservative allies after leaving them away. They succeed in killing him.
** YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefullness: The politicians for which Tenório worked are seem plotting with Silas and a unnammed CEO against him and other left-wing politicians.

''O Homem da Capa Preta'', or better known in English as ''The Man in the Black Cape'' is a {{Brazil}}ian movie of 1986, written and directed by famous Brazilian Director Sérgio Rezende. Its a semi-biographical account of real-life politician Tenório Cavalcanti, a right-wing populist turned left-wing from Duque de Caxias, a municipality of the Rio de Janeiro state.

''O Homem da Capa Preta'', or better known in English as ''The Man in the Black Cape'' is a {{Brazil}}ian movie of 1986, written and directed by famous Brazilian Director Sérgio Rezende. Its a semi-biographical account of Tenório Cavalcanti, a right-wing populist politician turned left-wing from Duque de Caxias, a municipality of the Rio de Janeiro state.

* AdaptationDistillation: Inevitable in a 1 and 1/2 hour long film, but Tenório transition from adolescence to adulthood is skipped by the director because, according to WordOfGod, it would make another movie.

* AmbiguoslyJewish: The Journalist is portrayed by real life Jew Jonas Bloch, and could be based a Jew or a jew-descendant himself.

* AFatherToHisMen: Almost literally, as in real life, many of Tenório´s bodyguards and supporters were in fact family relations or aquaintances from his state in the Brazilian Northeast and around Caxias favelas.

''I´m not a communist, i´m not a fascist, i´m not a coward. I am Tenório. And i´m a macho.''
* BadassBookworm: Real life Tenório Cavalcanti earned a Law Degree for becoming a better politician. This is briefly showcased in the film in scenes showing his personal library and him brandishing the Constitution as a weapon for the people.
* BananaRepublic: Played with. While Tenório at first has the outlook of a typical Brazilian caudillo and political boss, his character development and the evolution of Brazil makes things a little more complex than in the start.

A Brazilian movie of 1986, writen and directed by famous Brazilian Director Sérgio Rezende. Is a semi-biographical account of the life of Brazilian right-wing(and later on his life, left-wing) populist politican Tenório Cavalcanti.

This work has examples of:

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* TheLastDJ: Despite being an ardent anti-getulist, and for extension, anti-leftist politician for most of his life, in the end of the movie(and also his life) he would be one of the last resisters against the Military Dictatorship, helping people flee from the country after his own political powers were taken by his enemies.

* BlackandGrayMorality: Tenório is a populist politician with a body count of dozens of political enemies killed through his life, who openly trades votes for political support, and, in real life, had ties to gambling and even used his ''matador'' image to promote a inseticide with his own name, through his own newspapers. His enemies, on the other side, had instigated most of the killers that he had to defend himself from or send other killers against, tried to evict poor people from their shacks personally leading corrupt policemen, used the same police as their private army against him, and then became collaborators in the military dictatorship which supressed democracy.


* AmbiguoslyJewish: The Journalist is portrayed by real life Jew Jonas Bloch, and could be based a Jew or a jew-descendant himself.

* EndOfAnEra: The sucessive electoral defeats, and later, the successfull military coup marked the end of an era for wildly populist politicians like Tenório and his former rivals, opening the way for cold professionals, emotionless like Silas.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefullness: How Tenório is treated by his conservative allies after leaving them away. They suceed in killing him for all practical political purposes.

* TheQuisling: Somewhat of. Even before becoming pro-leftist, Tenório calls Silas an ''entreguista'' or sellout, which is a Brazilian political term for someone who sides with the ''gringos'' against his country interests. What is basically with Silas do become in the end, as he becomes a civilian leader of the Ditadura, conspirating with an unnamend executive of an American company to topple Tenório and other local populist politicians.

* TheCape: Tenório presented himself this way for promoting his image. The titular cape also served the purpose of concealing his MG-34 at indoor environments, like in the famous ''I just shoot at men'' scene.

* TheGreatPoliticsMessUp: Brazilian politics from the time messed up all concepts of left and right. In the first half of the movie, the Getulists who plot to kill Tenório use an assassin which worked with them killing and probably torturing leftists when Getúlio where a pro-Nazi dictator, because Tenório is a populist who hinders them from getting valuable land taken away from the local slum-folk, after Getúlio returns to power through popular election. Then the former Getulists become right-wing militarists, and Tenório, losing popularity to both elitist right-wing and radical left-wing politicians, aligns himself with the neo-Getulists, who are populist leftists which want to assert Brazilian economic independence.

* JumpingTheShark: In a bid to reattain lost popularity, Tenório accepts to be shaved from his trademark BadassBeard in live television, something to what his wife is visibly embarrassed of.

* RuleofCool: Tenório did really make another politician wet his pants with a gun. With a pistol, in fact, but the director simply thought it was cooler if he draw a machine gun in the House.

* Desconstruction: Of the AntiHero, CowboyCop and Vigilante genres, and also of political biographies. Tenório is shown as a very virtuous and expedite human being, but also full of flaws and ambiguities.

* TheConspiracy: The Getulist, and later, the conservative politicians who are always scheming to bring Tenório down.

* FaceHeelTurn: Somewhat of. After his former enemies become the weak side in the political radicalization ongoing in Brazil at the time, Tenório supports the political heir of one his most bitter enemies.

* Leitmotif: The unnamed Accordion Music.

* GoodCopBadCop: Sort of. Berê is a throughly slick, psychopatic, trigger happy cop, while Maragato is more of a by the law, do what I to have to be done cop. This won´t stop him of acting as a direct enforcer of Tenório´s enemies, tough.

* PoliceAreUseless: Sadly averted. Army and police spend most of their time being after Tenório or beating civilian thought to be associated to him.

* CorruptCop: Maragato is purposely appointed for ridding of with Tenório. He is a pretty honest man for the time standards, but in place of proctecting the population, opresses places where Tenório electors live.

* Blatant Lies: Silas, through an NonAnswer: ''All we want is to wage combat against banditry.'' Not so much of a lie, as he genuinely considers Tenório to be nothing more than a ruffian chief.

* ActionPolitician: And how. It´s implied, although not fully shown, that the Tenório himself mowed his enemy Maragato after he killed one of his bodyguards.

* CorruptPolitician: Despite acusing Silas of verily being this, Tenório receives more screentime doing vote buying than his adversaries, and his ambiguous position over gambling is briefly hinted at a scene. In real life, Tenório rised to politics after being a enforcer for local politicians and landowners, who secured popular support through classical caudilhismo and clientelism. His adversaries are shown to be worse because they kill and torture InnocentCivilians for getting what they want.

* PolicyBrutality: And how.

* TheCoup: At the end.

* InvisiblePresident: Getúlio and Jango are cited, but won´t appear at all.

* Expy: Of various politicians and personalities in Brazil. In Silas case, can board the NoCelebritiesWereHarmed territory.

* BittersweetEnding: Tenório sucessfully takes the Journalist and the Sindicalist to safety, and lives in peace with his family after TheCoup, despite being having his polical career utterly ruined by his enemies.

* DoomedMoralVictor: Tenório stood with the masses and his new allies to the end.

* Punchclockvillain: To a extent, Maragato, almost bordering in TheJavert territory.

* RenaissanceMan: Politician, turf boss, self-made hero, journalist, lawyer, and also, not stated in the movie, entrepeneur.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Tenório, who really existed, and some of the directly named Brazilian personalities in the movie.

* TheJavert: Maragato claims that he wants to destroy Tenório´s power not because he is a political enemy of his employers, but because he really deems Tenório as a sort of criminal.

* SelfMadeMan: The movie don´t shows, but Tenório evolved from a poor peasant boy running away from the retribution of killing his father´s murderer, to a battle-hardened political boss, with a fortified mansion as his base.

* SmugSnake: Silas.

* PsychopaticManchild: Bereco, the perpetually grinning and joking trigger happy cop.

* VitriolicBestBuds: Tenório and The Journalist. Also, with the Syndicalist.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefullness: The politicians for which Tenório worked are seem plotting with Silas and a unnammed CEO against him and other left-wing politicians.

* WitchHunt: Tenório is named in a list for this by the TheConspiracy.

* AFatherToHisMen: Almost literally, as in real life, many of Tenório´s bodyguards and supporters were in fact familiar relations or aquaintances from his state in the Brazilian Northeast and around Caxias favelas.

* Badassboast: Quoted from the real life Tenório: ''I´m not a communist, i´m not a fascist, i´m not a coward. I am Tenório. And i´m a macho.''

* CompositeCharacter: The Sindicalist and the Journalist are probably mash-ups(and personifications) of several people that the real Tenório Cavalcanti interacted in his life. His foils Silas is, mostly strikingly, a mashup of real people like the reviled/venerated Bahian politician Antônio Carlos Magalhães.

* CoolBase: Tenório´s personal mansion/stronghold inside the favela, which includes even a secret compartiment/coffer for hiding his escaped friends. Existed in real life. Sadly, this building style were later imitated by drug lords in Rio de Janeiro and elsewere in Brazil, which they nowadays use to assert their control and hide drugs, munitions and goods that were smuggled, robbed, or traded in by drug addicts.

* CoolGun: Tenório had a MP-34 in real life, although he mostly used it in his own hood, and mostly in single-fire mode, as would not be very wise to use a full auto high-power machine-gun in a place full of his political supporters.

* BlackandGrayMorality: Tenório is a populist politician with a body count of dozens of political enemies killed through his life, who openly trades votes for political support, and, in real life, had ties to gambling and even used his ''matador'' image to promote a inseticide based on himself, through his own newspapers. His enemies instigated most of the killers that he had to defend himself from or send other killers against, tried to evict poor people from their shacks personally leading corrupt policemen, used the same police as his private army against him, and then became collaborators in the military dictatorship which supressed democracy.

* TheQuisling: Somewhat of. Even before becoming pro-leftist, Tenório calls Silas an ''entreguista'' or sellout, which is a Brazilian political term for someone who sides with the ''gringos'' against his country interests. What is basically with Silas do become in the end, as he becomes a civilian leader of the Ditadura, conspirating with an unnamend executive of an American company to topple Tenório and other local populist politicians.

* AmbiguoslyJewish: The Journalist is portrayed by real life Jew Jonas Bloch, and could be based in various Jewish-origin reporters.

* EndOfAnEra: The sucessive electoral defeats, and later, the successfull military coup marked the end of an era for wildly populist politicians like Tenório and his former rivals, opening the way for cold professionals, emotionless like Silas.

* HonorBeforeReason: Tenório could probably keep all that he got if he did not aligned with the neo-Getulists before the Coup. But he couldn´t stop trying to fight against TheMan until the very end.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Tenório gives one to Silas.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefullness: How Tenório is treated by his conservative allies after leaving them away. They suceed in killing him for all practical political purposes.

* PoliceAreUseless: Averted. Army and police spend most of their time being after Tenório or beating civilian thought to be associated to him.

* WindmillCrusader: Tenório is a genuine hero who gets to defend helpless people against real violence; but the persercution by his enemies causes distress in his family, kills a lot of his friends, and in the end he fights against the incoming Ditadura in what is day to day becoming a hopeless fight.

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* CoolBase: Tenório´s personal mansion/stronghold inside the favela, which includes even a secret compartiment/coffer for hiding his escaped friends. Existed in real life. Sadly, this construction style were later imitated by drug lords in Rio de Janeiro and elsewere in Brazil.

* AmbiguoslyJewish: The Journalist is portrayed by real life Jew Jonas Bloch.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Tenório, who really existed, and some of the directly named Brazilian personalities in the movie.

* CorruptPolitician: Despite acusing Silas of verily being this, Tenório receives more screentime doing vote buying than his adversaries, and his ambiguous position over gambling is brifly hinted at a scene.

* TheLastDJ: Despite being an anti-Getulist, and for extension, anti-leftist politician for most of his life, in the end of the movie(and also his life) he would be one of the last resisters against the Military Dictatorship, helping people flee from the country after his own political powers were taken by his enemies.

* EndOfAnEra: The sucessive electoral defeats, and later, the successfull military coup marked the end of an era for wildly populist politicians like Tenório and his former rivals, opening the way for cold professionals like Silas.

* HonorBeforeReason: Tenório could probably keep all that he got if he did not become pro-democracy before the Coup. But he couldn´t stop trying to fight against TheMan until the very end.

* FaceHeelTurn: Somewhat of. After his former enemies become the agressed side in the political radicalization ongoing in Brazil at the time, Tenório supports the political heir of one his most bitter enemies.

* GoodCopBadCop: Sort of. Berê is a throughly slick, trigger happy cop, while Maragato is more of a by the law, do what to have to be done cop. This won´t stop him of acting as a direct enforcer of Tenório´s enemies, tough.

* ActionPolitican: And how. It´s implied, although not fully shown, that the Tenório himself mowed his enemy Maragato after he killed one of his bodyguards.

* PolicyBrutality: And how.

* VoiceOfTheResistance: What Tenório tries to be in the end.

* BittersweetEnding: Tenório sucessfully takes the Journalist and the Sindicalist to safety, and lives in peace with his family after TheCoup, despite being having his polical career utterly ruined by his enemies.

* CoolBase: Tenório´s personal mansion/stronghold inside the favela, which includes even a secret compartiment/coffer for hiding his escaped friends. Existed in real life. Sadly, this construction style were later imitated by drug lords in Rio de Janeiro and elsewere in Brazil.

* AFatherToHisMen: Almost literally, as in real life, many of Tenório´s bodyguards and supporters were in fact familiar relations or aquaintances from his state in the Brazilian Northeast and around Caxias favelas.

* Expy: Of various politicians and personalities in Brazil.

* EndOfAnEra: The sucessive electoral defeats, and later, the successfull military coup marked the end of an era for wildly populist politicians like Tenório and his former rivals, opening the way for cold professionals like Silas.

* CompositeCharacter: The Sindicalist and the Journalist are probably mash-ups(and personifications) of several people that the real Tenório Cavalcanti interacted in his life. His foils Silas is, mostly strikingly, a mashup of real people like the reviled/venerated Bahian politician Antônio Carlos Magalhães.