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

1. The scene in issue.Talk to any Brazilian movie fan about the most extreme scene in José Padilha’s 2007 thriller Elite Squad (Tropa de Elite). They will probably 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 Kondrashov refe