Cidade de Deus (Rio de Janeiro)
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
(Difference between revisions)
| Revision as of 22:35, 23 March 2009 Jahsonic (Talk | contribs) ← Previous diff |
Current revision Jahsonic (Talk | contribs) (Cidade de Deus moved to Cidade de Deus (Rio de Janeiro)) |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
| {{Template}} | {{Template}} | ||
| + | The neighbourhood of '''Cidade de Deus''' ("City of God" in [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]]) is part of the borough of [[Jacarepaguá]], in the Western Zone of the city of [[Rio de Janeiro|Rio de Janeiro]], [[Brazil]]. | ||
| - | '''''City of God''''' (''Cidade de Deus'') is a [[Brazilian films of the 2000s|2002]] [[Cinema of Brazil|Brazilian]] [[police procedural|crime drama]] [[film]] directed by [[Fernando Meirelles]] and [[Kátia Lund]], released in its home country in [[2002]] and worldwide in [[2003 in film|2003]]. It was adapted by Bráulio Mantovani from the [[City of God (novel)|1997 novel of the same name]] written by [[Paulo Lins]] which are both based on a true story; the war between [[Knockout Ned (Mané Galinha)|Knockout Ned]] and [[Zé Pequeno|Li'l Zé]] is based on their real life counterparts. It stars [[Alexandre Rodrigues]], [[Leandro Firmino da Hora]], Jonathan Haagensen, [[Douglas Silva]] and [[Seu Jorge]]. The tagline is "Fight and you'll never survive..... Run and you'll never escape." | + | The neighbourhood was founded in 1960, planned and executed by the state government of [[Guanabara]] as part of the policy to systematically remove [[favela]]s from the center of Rio de Janeiro and settling their inhabitants in the [[suburb]]s. |
| - | + | ||
| - | Most of the [[actor]]s were, in fact, residents of [[favela]]s such as Vidigal and the [[Cidade de Deus]] itself. | + | |
| - | + | ||
| - | The film received four [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] nominations in 2004: [[Academy Award for Best Cinematography|Best Cinematography]] ([[César Charlone (cinematographer)|César Charlone]]), [[Academy Award for Directing|Best Directing]] (Meirelles), [[Academy Award for Film Editing|Best Editing]] (Daniel Rezende) and [[Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay|Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)]] (Mantovani). Before that, in 2003 it had been chosen to be Brazil's runner for the [[Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film]], but it was not nominated to be one of the five finalists. | + | |
| - | + | ||
| - | Meirelles and Lund went on to create the [[City of Men|TV series]] and [[City of Men (film)|film]] ''City of Men'', which share some of the actors (notably leads [[Douglas Silva]] and [[Darlan Cunha]]) and their setting with ''City of God''. | + | |
| - | + | ||
| + | It is portrayed in the 2002 film ''[[City of God (film)|City of God]]''. | ||
| {{GFDL}} | {{GFDL}} | ||
Current revision
|
Related e |
|
Featured: |
The neighbourhood of Cidade de Deus ("City of God" in Portuguese) is part of the borough of Jacarepaguá, in the Western Zone of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The neighbourhood was founded in 1960, planned and executed by the state government of Guanabara as part of the policy to systematically remove favelas from the center of Rio de Janeiro and settling their inhabitants in the suburbs.
It is portrayed in the 2002 film City of God.
Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Cidade de Deus (Rio de Janeiro)" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.
