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

1. The scene in issue.Ask any Brazilian film enthusiast regarding the most powerful scene in José Padilha’s 2007 thriller Elite Squad (Tropa de Elite). They will probably point out the midnight raid on Morro da Babilônia. In this scene, Captain Nascimento's BOPE commandos storm by way of a maze of shacks as bullets fly like hail. Stanislav Kond