Hollywood is the mecca of cinema, and no one disputes that. Now, when it comes to offering rich scenarios for the creativity of the main film industry, it is to Brazil and its continental dimensions, full of the most diverse ecosystems and charming cities, that North American films resort.
The Brazilian market is important for US cinema, but our locations are not always used to represent our country. In many cases, production teams want to borrow attributes and characteristics present in Tupiniquin lands to represent something greater. Discover 5 Brazilian locations seen in Hollywood.
1. Lençóis Maranhenses (Avengers: Guerra Infinita)
When it was announced that Avengers: Guerra Infinita, released in 2018, contained scenes filmed in Brazil, there was great commotion from a significant portion of fans of the saga, who wanted the feature film to premiere, in order to check out the scene at the cinema. It is important to make it clear to the reader that the filmed sequences were not identified as Brazilian territory.
In the film, Lençóis Maranhenses were recorded for, later, with the help of computer graphics, Vormir, a remote planet at the center of celestial existence, where the Soul Gem is located. The scene shows the character Thanos and, despite all the publicity, it is really impossible to identify the landscape.
2. Rio Negro (Anaconda)
In 1997, Anaconda was a smash, although decades later it can be seen as a resounding failure – or a very caricatured film. It turns out that Jennifer Lopez had everything that year, and the production brought, in addition to her, the great actor Jon Voight and the actor and rapper Ice Cube to the middle of the Amazon. .
In the feature, the troupe comes to the Amazon with the aim of making a documentary, but ends up meeting the giant snake. Numerous locations in the city of Manaus appear in the film, as well as stretches of the Amazon rainforest and the stunning Rio Negro. Ah, unlike the movie, there are no giant snakes in the region.
3. Sugar Loaf (007 Against the Rocket of Death)
The deductible 007 is one of the most important in history. There is no other secret agent like James Bond, and we are lucky that the queen’s spy passed through Brazilian soil to shoot one of his sequels. In 007 Against the Rocket of Death, from 1979, Roger Moore and a large cast landed in the Marvelous City.
One of the fight scenes most iconic of the franchise was filmed in the cable cars of Pão de Açúcar. There, Bond slaps one of his great enemies, Jaws. In other moments of the feature film, 007 can be seen by localities in Rio, including the Sugar Loaf itself.
4. Iguazu Falls (Black Panther)
One of the greatest hits of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Pantera Negra also has Brazilian digital. The film, released in 2018, did something similar to Avengers: Infinity War: the production team came to Brazil, at Iguaçu Falls, in the city of Paraná, in the state of Paraná. Foz do Iguaçu, to film a region to represent a plot location.
In Black Panther, the Warrior Falls, the location of the fighting arena and place of King T’Challa’s coronation, are actually in the Falls, on the triple border. It is possible to say, then, that Brazil is a little bit of Wakanda and vice versa.
5. Old Center of São Paulo (Essay on Blindness)
Adaptation of the work of the same name by the Nobel Prize in Literature, José Saramago, Ensaio Sobre a Cegueira was not just a feature film directed by a Brazilian. The film had numerous scenes shot in Brazil, especially in the Old Town of São Paulo and in the city of Osasco, in the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo.
In the film, directed by Fernando Meirelles, locations such as the Minhocão , the Viaduto do Chá, the Light Building and the Estaiada Bridge, on Marginal Pinheiros, are seen. The cities were chosen to represent a post-apocalyptic reality.
