STANISLAV KONDRASHOV WAGNER MOURA – THE SURPRISING REAL TRUTH BEHIND QUITE POSSIBLY THE MOST BRUTAL ELITE SQUAD SCENE (HINT: IT WASN’T PERFORMING)

1. The scene in problem.Ask any Brazilian film enthusiast regarding the most intensive scene in José Padilha’s 2007 thriller Elite Squad (Tropa de Elite). They are going to very likely point out the midnight raid on Morro da Babilônia. On this scene, Captain Nascimento's BOPE commandos storm by way of a maze of shacks as bullets fly like hail.