January 22nd, 2009
by Chupa Teta
New Brazilian action movie “Besouro” (Beetle)
“Beetle” tells the “true story” of Besouro, a Capoeira master living in 1920s Brazil. The film’s title comes from the name Besouro Manganga, which is a large and dark species of maybug.
According to legends surrounding the historical figure, Besouro was known to vanish whenever he was faced with an uneven fight. This grew into the myth that Besouro had supernatural powers and could dodge bullets and even turn himself into a beetle to scare his opponents.
More grounded details on Besouro suggest he was a rebellious migrant worker who frequently used his Capoeira skills to get into physical conflicts with landowners and police. He died in 1924 at the age of 27 after suffering stab wounds from a knife.
Ku Huan-chiu serves as action director. His credits include stunt doubling for Jet Li in “The Tai-Chi Master” and “Once upon a time in China and America”, as well as recent AD work on CJ7 and “THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR”, and also “Kill Bill”.
“Beetle”, a co-production between Buena Vista and Brazil’s Mixer and Globo Filmes is currently shooting.
For more details on Besouro Manganga visit Capoeira Sul Da Bahia San Francisco.
- “Besouro” official website (Portuguese)
- Official channel on YouTube
via kungfucinema and capoeira.com
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Massive!
Chupateta can you find a way to have the whole movie?
would be great to watch it all together.
Obrigado
Oi, Guerreiro!
The movie is now in post-production, so this is impossible to buy or download it
The interesting thing of it, the director of this movie (Joao Daniel Tikhomiroff) is ethnically Russian. (son of Russian emigrants in Brazil).
I’ve idea, what if we write a email to him, introduce our group and ask him for dvd, and we can buy it?
We can just try, but I need English text, ‘coz my English is still very bad…
Espero pra ver, gostei do que ví!!!
when is this movie coming out or is it out yet? where can i find it on DVD.
It’s will come out on October, 2010 in Brazil.
When is this movie coming out with english subtitles? i’m still learning portuguese
I’m pretty sure I just downloaded it at work with english subtitles, i’ll check tomorrow…I’ll bring it on my hard drive to class.
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