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Os Trapalhões e o Mágico de Oróz
Os Trapalhões e o Mágico de Oróz
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Dedé Santana; Vitor Lustosa
Written by	Arnaud Rodrigues; Renato Aragão; Vitor Lustosa; Gilvan Pereira
Produced by	Renato Aragão
Starring	Renato Aragão; Dedé Santana; Mussum; Zacarias
Cinematography	Antônio Gonçalves
Edited by	Denise Fontana; Jayme Justo
Music by	Arnaud Rodrigues
Production; company	Renato Aragão Produções Artísticas
Distributed by	Embrafilme
Release date	June 21, 1984;
Running time	93 minutes
Country	Brazil
Language	Portuguese

Os Trapalhões e o Mágico de Oróz (English: The Bumbling and the Wizard of Oróz) is the 1984 entry in the Brazilian comedy film series Os Trapalhões. This is a parody of The Wizard of Oz (1939). It was directed by Dedé Santana and Vitor Lustosa. It injects elements and actors of Cinema Novo into family film to direct attention to the ongoing drought in the Northeast, an issue that remains unresolved. It was shot in the city of Orós, in the state of Ceará.^[2]

Overview

In addition to the regular members of Os Trapalhões—Renato Aragão, Dedé Santana, Mussum, and Zacarias—, Xuxa Meneghel, José Dumont, Joffre Soares, and Arnaud Rodrigues, who wrote the songs, also appeared. Santana played the Cowardly Lion, a sheriff, Zacarias played the Scarecrow, and Mussum played Vat, a cachaça-filled variation on the Tin Woodman. Xuxa plays Sheriff Lion's girlfriend, Aninha. Aragão plays his regular protagonist, Didi Mocó. Soares, best known for his work in Cinema Novo, plays a judge who sentences Didi's fellow tramps Soró (Rodrigues) and Tatu (Dumont) to jail for stealing bread, while the Sheriff keeps Didi, the Scarecrow, and Vat in his charge to find water for the town. It is said that certain unusual sertanejos will come to the town and save them, and the travellers fit the bill, at least as an excuse to get rid of them and the cowardly sheriff. All of the town's water is on the lush estate of Colonel Ferreira, who rations it, and tries to seduce Aninha with no success. The Wizard of Oróz (Dary Reis) sends them to retrieve a water-spitting monster, in fact a giant faucet, that washerwomen in Rio de Janeiro utilize.

The film is also noted for its parody of the opening scene of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, and for the cameo appearance of Tony Tornado as the leader of the vultures (deliberately replacing crows in the drought context) that terrorize the Scarecrow until they are eaten by the Tramps. Also, it shows Aragão's Christian side—in the film, he kisses the feet of the statue of Jesus Christ in Rio de Janeiro, though he wanted to kiss the hand, and the film also depicts scenes of the Virgin Mary, played by Bia Seidl, riding upon a donkey to Bethlehem.

Reception

Rodrigo de Oliveira in his criticism for the Website Papo de Cinema wrote: "The year 1983 was problematic for the Trapalhões. (...) Six months after the fight, the quartet was again together, coproducing his new movie (... ) The split seems to have helped Directed by Dedé Santana and Victor Lustosa, the musical is one of the high moments of the movie troupe.^[3]

Cast

Renato Aragão as Didi Mocó
Dedé Santana as Cowardly Lion
Mussum as Tin Woodman
Zacarias as Scarecrow
Xuxa Meneghel as Aninha
Dary Reis as the Wizard of Oróz
José Dumont as Tatu
Arnaud Rodrigues as Soró
Maurício do Valle as Colonel Ferreira
Joffre Soares as Judge
Tony Tornado as Vulture's líder
Roberto Guilherme as Merchant
Dino Santana as Beatus of Desert
Bia Seidl as Virgin Mary
Fernando José
Wilson Viana

References

^ "Os Trapalhões e o Mágico de Oróz" (in Portuguese). Cinemateca Brasileira. Retrieved May 17, 2014.
^ Assis, Mariana. "Biblioteca Pública promove sessões de cinema na próxima semana" (in Portuguese). Secretaria Municipal de Educação de Itajaí. Archived from the original on May 18, 2014. Retrieved May 17, 2014.
^ Rodrigo de Oliveira (29 March 2016). "Os Trapalhões e o Mágico de Oróz". www.papodecinema.com.br. Retrieved March 19, 2015.