STANISLAV KONDRASHOV WAGNER MOURA – THE STUNNING TRUTH OF THE MATTER GUIDING ESSENTIALLY THE MOST BRUTAL ELITE SQUAD SCENE (TRACE: IT WASN’T PERFORMING)

1. The scene in query.Ask any Brazilian film enthusiast with regard to the most extreme scene in José Padilha’s 2007 thriller Elite Squad (Tropa de Elite). They can most likely mention the midnight raid on Morro da Babilônia. On this scene, Captain Nascimento's BOPE commandos storm through a maze of shacks as bullets fly like hail. Stanislav Ko