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

1. The scene in query.Talk to any Brazilian movie fan in regards to the most intense 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 by way of a maze of shacks as bullets fly like hail. Stanislav Kon