I have just a few minutes before running off to catch the world premiere of Yoshihiro Nishimura's Vampire Girl Versus Frankenstein Girl so I must be brief but this is far too good to hold off on any longer than absolutely necessary,
If there is one thing that global martial arts fans have been practically gagging for over the past several years it is a film built around Brazilian martial art capoeira. We've seen the acrobatic discipline featured in a few recent titles - Tom Yum Goong and Mirage Man both feature fights against capoeira trained opponents - but there has yet to be a high profile film dedicated to the art. Until now. It's titled Besouro, it hits Brazilian screens in October, and the trailer looks absolutely spectacular. You'll find it below the break.
Hell yes.
Looks cool :)
Actually, there was a movie about capoeira: Only the Strong with Mark Dacascos was a movie about capoeira released in 1993.
Capoeira+wuxia/latin folk: SOLD!
hey look, I can fly over things. WEEEEEEEE
The first half of the trailer made me soil my pants and go "HOLY. CRAP." Then we get to the second half with the guy flying around and I crashed down to earth faster than an American Idol contestant's ego. I like my martial arts real and raw. None of the wire-fu stuff, unless it is kept to an absolute minimum. Of course, I don't speak Portuguese at all so I have no idea what the story is about.
Hello, there.
I speak Portuguese.
The second half, they use "wire-fu" re-enforce that the main character Besouro (BEETLE)and other characters that fight Capoeira are legend like fighters, and mix Brazilian mysticism.
I was surprised to see them flying around but the trailer does a nice job to justify that, with relating that to Brazilian mysticism, and the way the other characters persive them.
The movie is looking very good.
looks decent
I am working on the post-production of this movie and it is going to be awesome!
i speak portuguese too and "learning to fight with the forces of nature" doesn't make this any better for me: i can accept super strenght, super jumps and so on but airwalking/flying?!! it ruined crouching tiger and it looks terrible here. i can accept good wire-fu like in "fist of legend" or "once upon a time in china"...
i'll rent it on dvd
like fad3r mentioned there's already one good film about capoeira "only the strong"