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* 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.
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* 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.
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* 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 "The Man" until the very end.
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* 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.
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* 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.
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* 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 innocent civilians for getting what they want.
* InspectorJavert: 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.
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* 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.
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* PsychopaticManchild: Bereco, the perpetually grinning and joking trigger happy cop.
* PunchClockVillain: To a extent, Maragato, almost bordering in TheJavert territory.
* PunchClockVillain: To a extent, Maragato, almost bordering in TheJavert territory.
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* PunchClockVillain: To a extent, Maragato, almost bordering inTheJavert InspectorJavert territory.
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* 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.
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefullness: YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: 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.
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* 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.
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* 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.
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* 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.
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* 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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* RuleOfCool: Tenório did really did 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 drew 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.
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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.
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* AHerotoHisHometown: The persona that Tenório promotes to the public.
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* 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.
* 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.
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* 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'''' ''caudillo'' and political boss, his character development and the evolution of Brazil makes things a little more complex than in the start.
*BlackandGrayMorality: 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.
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* Expy: Of various politicians and personalities in Brazil. In Silas case, can board the NoCelebritiesWereHarmed territory.
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* 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.
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* JumpingTheShark: In 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.
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* Punchclockvillain: To a extent, Maragato, almost bordering in TheJavert territory.
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* 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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* 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.
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefullness: How Tenório is treated by his conservative allies after leaving them away. They succeed in killing him.
** YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefullness: The politicians for which Tenório workedare seem seen plotting with Silas and a unnammed CEO against him and other left-wing politicians.
** YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefullness: The politicians for which Tenório worked
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''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.
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''O Homem da Capa Preta'', or better known in English as ''The Man in the Black Cape'' is a {{Brazil}}ian 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.
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''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.
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''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 politician turned left-wing from Duque de Caxias, a municipality of the Rio de Janeiro state.
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* 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.
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* AmbiguoslyJewish: The Journalist is portrayed by real life Jew Jonas Bloch, and could be based a Jew or a jew-descendant himself.
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* 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.
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* AFatherToHisMen: Almost literally, as in real life, many of Tenório´s bodyguards and supporters were in fact family relations relatives or aquaintances acquaintances from his state in the Brazilian Northeast and around Caxias favelas.
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''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.
* 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.
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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.
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* 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.
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* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
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* TheCape: Tenório promote this image of himself, wearing a cape as if he was defender of justice. In truth, the titular cape served the purpose of concealing his MG-34 at indoor environments, like in the famous ''I just shoot at men'' scene.
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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.
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* TheConspiracy: The Getulist, and later, the conservative politicians who are always scheming to bring Tenório down.
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* 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.
* TheCoup: At the end.
* DoomedMoralVictor: Tenório stood with the masses and his new allies to the end.
* 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.
* 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.
* Expy: Of various politicians and personalities in Brazil. In Silas case, can board the NoCelebritiesWereHarmed territory.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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
* AmbiguoslyJewish: The Journalist is portrayed by real life Jew Jonas Bloch, and could be based a Jew or a jew-descendant himself.
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* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* Leitmotif: The unnamed Accordion Music.
* PoliceAreUseless: Sadly averted. Army and police spend most of their time being after Tenório or beating civilian thought to be associated to him.
* PolicyBrutality: And how.
* PsychopaticManchild: Bereco, the perpetually grinning and joking trigger happy cop.
* Punchclockvillain: To a extent, Maragato, almost bordering in TheJavert territory.
* 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'' (i.e. Americans) against his country interests. What is basically what Silas becomes in the end, as he becomes a civilian leader of the Ditadura, conspiring with an unnamed executive of an American company to topple Tenório and other local populist politicians.
* 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.
* 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.
* Leitmotif: The unnamed Accordion Music.
* PoliceAreUseless: Sadly averted. Army and police spend most of their time being after Tenório or beating civilian thought to be associated to him.
* PolicyBrutality: And how.
* PsychopaticManchild: Bereco, the perpetually grinning and joking trigger happy cop.
* Punchclockvillain: To a extent, Maragato, almost bordering in TheJavert territory.
* 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'' (i.e. Americans) against his country interests. What is basically what Silas becomes in the end, as he becomes a civilian leader of the Ditadura, conspiring with an unnamed executive of an American company to topple Tenório and other local populist politicians.
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* 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.
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* 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
* 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
* TheGreatPoliticsMessUp: Brazilian politics from the time messed up all concepts of left and right. In the first half of
* 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
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* TheConspiracy: The Getulist, and later,
* FaceHeelTurn: Somewhat of. After
* 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
* Blatant Lies: Silas, through an NonAnswer: ''All we want is to wage combat against banditry.'' Not so much of a lie,
* ActionPolitician: And how. It´s implied, although not fully shown, that the Tenório himself mowed
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* 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.
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* 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.
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* DoomedMoralVictor: Tenório stood
* 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.
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* 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.
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* 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
* WitchHunt: Tenório is named in a list for this by the TheConspiracy.
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*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.
* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: The villains gloat this about Tenório right before they are knifed or shot. In the end, however, Silas says to Tenório, through a NewEraSpeech, that Tenório political power shall be taken by the Ditadura, presumably making Silas the new boss of the turf.
* AHerotoHisHometown: The persona that Tenório promotes to the public.
* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: The villains gloat this about Tenório right before they are knifed or shot. In the end, however, Silas says to Tenório, through a NewEraSpeech, that Tenório political power shall be taken by the Ditadura, presumably making Silas the new boss of the turf.
* AHerotoHisHometown: The persona that Tenório promotes to the public.
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* RenaissanceMan: Politician, turf boss, self-made hero, journalist, lawyer, and also, not stated in the movie, entrepeneur.
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* 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.''
* 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.''
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* AFatherToHisMen: Almost literally, as in real life, many of Tenório´s bodyguards and supporters were in fact familiar family relations or aquaintances from his state in the Brazilian Northeast and around Caxias favelas.
*Badassboast: BadassBoast: Quoted from the real life Tenório: Tenório:
''I´m not a communist, i´m not a fascist, i´m not a coward. I am Tenório. And i´m a macho.''
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''I´m not a communist, i´m not a fascist, i´m not a coward. I am Tenório. And i´m a macho.''
*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.
*BornInTheWrongCentury: If he had lived in any other era than Cold War Brazil, Tenório maybe could have been sidelined but not blacklisted by the new government, surviving in the backstage as did many defeated politicians in Brazilian history.
*BornInTheWrongCentury: If he had lived in any other era than Cold War Brazil, Tenório maybe could have been sidelined but not blacklisted by the new government, surviving in the backstage as did many defeated politicians in Brazilian history.
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* 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.
* 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.
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* 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 foil 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 Still exists 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 of the hoods and hide stash 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, andmostly 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.
* 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 inseticidebased on himself, with his own name, through his own newspapers. His enemies 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 his their private army against him, and then became collaborators in the military dictatorship which supressed democracy.
democracy.
* AmbiguoslyJewish: The Journalist is portrayed by real life Jew Jonas Bloch, and could be based a Jew or a jew-descendant himself.
* CoolBase: Tenório´s personal mansion/stronghold inside the favela, which includes even a secret compartiment/coffer for hiding his escaped friends.
* CoolGun: Tenório had a MP-34 in real life, although he mostly used it in his own hood, and
* 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
* AmbiguoslyJewish: The Journalist is portrayed by real life Jew Jonas Bloch, and could be based a Jew or a jew-descendant himself.
*IDidwhatIHadToDo: How Tenório tries to explain to Zina his more extreme actions.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
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* 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.
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* TheQuisling: Somewhat of. Even before becoming pro-leftist, JumpingTheShark: In a bid to reattain lost popularity, Tenório calls Silas an ''entreguista'' or sellout, which is a Brazilian political term for someone who sides with the ''gringos'' against accepts to be shaved from his country interests. What trademark BadassBeard in live television, something to what his wife 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.visibly embarrassed of.
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* 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.
* 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.
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* EndOfAnEra: The sucessive electoral defeats,
* 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
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* PoliceAreUseless: Averted. Army and police spend most of their time being after Tenório or beating civilian thought to be associated to him.
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* PoliceAreUseless: Averted.Sadly averted. Army and police spend most of their time being after Tenório or beating civilian thought to be associated to him.
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* 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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* 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.
* 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 hopelessfight.fight.
*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.
* 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.
* 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
*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.
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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.
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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 building style were later imitated by drug lords in Rio de Janeiro and elsewere in Brazil.
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.
*IdiotBall: Cabral, who kills one of Tenório´s men and goes calmly see his lover at home, where the man which he didn´t kill butchered them both. And in real life, some adversaries of Tenório that supported the Ditadura, only for getting themselves persercuted by it, and some of them were allegedly assassinated by it´s agents.
* 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.
*IdiotBall: Cabral, who kills one of Tenório´s men and goes calmly see his lover at home, where the man which he didn´t kill butchered them both. And in real life, some adversaries of Tenório that supported the Ditadura, only for getting themselves persercuted by it, and some of them were allegedly assassinated by it´s agents.
* 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.
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* AmbiguoslyJewish: The Journalist is portrayed by real life Jew Jonas Bloch.
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* AmbiguoslyJewish: The Journalist is portrayed by real life Jew Jonas Bloch.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Tenório, who really existed, and some of the directly named Brazilian personalities in the movie.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Tenório, who really existed, and some of the directly named Brazilian personalities in the movie.movie.
*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.
*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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* 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.
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* 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 briefly hinted at a scene.
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.
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* 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.''
*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.''
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* 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.
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*ChewingTheScenery: Tenório, even when he is in good mood.
* TheLastDJ: Despite being an
* 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.
*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.
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* 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.
* 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.
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* 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 professionals, emotionless like Silas.
* HonorBeforeReason: Tenório could probably keep all that he got if he did notbecome pro-democracy aligned with the neo-Getulists before the Coup. But he couldn´t stop trying to fight against TheMan until the very end.
* HonorBeforeReason: Tenório could probably keep all that he got if he did not
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* 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.
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* FaceHeelTurn: Somewhat of. After his former enemies become the agressed weak side in the political radicalization ongoing in Brazil at the time, Tenório supports the political heir of one his most bitter enemies.
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* 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.
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* 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.
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* 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.
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* ActionPolitican: 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.
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* PolicyBrutality: And how.
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* 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.
* 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.
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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.
* 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.
* 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.
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* CoolBase: Tenório´s personal mansion/stronghold inside Punchclockvillain: To a extent, Maragato, almost bordering in TheJavert territory.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Tenório, who really existed, and some of thefavela, 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 thedirectly named Brazilian Northeast and around Caxias favelas.
personalities in the movie.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Tenório, who really existed, and some of the
* 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
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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.
*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.
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* Expy: Of various politicians and personalities in Brazil.
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* Expy: Of various politicians and personalities in Brazil. In Silas case, can board the NoCelebritiesWereHarmed territory.
* 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.
* 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.
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* 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.
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* 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.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.
* 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.
* 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 agressed 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, 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.
* PoliceAreUseless: 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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 agressed 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, 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.
* PoliceAreUseless: 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
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* 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.
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* 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.Magalhães.
* 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.
* 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.
* AmbiguoslyJewish: The Journalist is portrayed by real life Jew Jonas Bloch.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* AmbiguoslyJewish: The Journalist is portrayed by real life Jew Jonas Bloch.
* 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.
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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:
*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.
*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.
*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.
This work has examples of:
*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.
*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.
*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.