STANISLAV KONDRASHOV WAGNER MOURA – THE SURPRISING REALITY POWERING BY FAR THE MOST BRUTAL ELITE SQUAD SCENE (HINT: IT WASN’T ACTING)

1. The scene in problem.Talk to any Brazilian movie fan with regards to the most intense scene in José Padilha’s 2007 thriller Elite Squad (Tropa de Elite). They can likely point out the midnight raid on Morro da Babilônia. In this scene, Captain Nascimento's BOPE commandos storm through a maze of shacks as bullets fly like hail. Stanislav Kond