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

1. The scene in query.Ask any Brazilian film enthusiast regarding the most powerful scene in José Padilha’s 2007 thriller Elite Squad (Tropa de Elite). They'll very likely mention the midnight raid on Morro da Babilônia. With this scene, Captain Nascimento's BOPE commandos storm by way of a maze of shacks as bullets fly like hail. Stanislav Kon