Baiano --- amazing!

i made a little trailer with some of the best lines from the movie. Including, what i think to be Baiano's best scene ("cops are the enemy, they're German!") and some amazing slapping from the main character...


http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Lyv1ItRXgQg

In fact, "Alemão" have TWO meanings...and yeah...I´m brazilian:

1- a blonde person (does not apply...calling the cops "blonde" would make the Baiano´s lines senseless)
2 - the enemy - the meaning that suits what Baiano was saying

I just don know the origins of nº2 meaning...WWII or whatever

In Rio there is a huge "favela" named "morro do alemão" (literally translates as "german`s hill"). There is a big rivalry among "favelas" controlled by different criminal organizations. Someone who lives in a "favela" controlled by one of the organizations may be killed by visiting another "favela" controlled by a rival. I`m not talking about criminals dying, its regular honest people, when identified as inhabitant of an "enemy favela".

Just to give an example, a few years ago, the army was sent to patrol a "favela", helping the police to curb the power of a criminal organization. Two young guys who lived there (students) engaged in an argument with a group of soldiers. They were arrested and, instead being taken to the headquarters, they were driven to an "enemy favela" controlled by a rival group. Remember, the guys were not criminals, they were only students who had felt harassed by the soldiers. As they were left in there, were quickly caught by the local criminals and tortured to death. This story made a great damage to the image of the army at that time.

But back to the movie... Baiano was the ruler of "morro dos prazeres", as I understand, a "german" (alemão) was someone who came from "morro do alemão", a favela that was probably controlled by a rival organization, therefore, an enemy.