Captain Falcon. The regime of the irony of a superanti Hero
Come this Wednesday at rooms and is IndieLisboa’s opening film, which runs until May 3 at Cinema São Jorge
Be afraid of Captain Falcon, very afraid. The first Portuguese superhero, as the film suggests, is not exactly what we think. Or perhaps, in colloquial voice that commands respect to rivals, in fact bimbo and lack of awareness also. However, it is assumed – that no one would think that the first Portuguese superhero was fascist. Unless João Leitão. Director which along with the protagonist of the tape, Gonçalo Waddington, did not care to be one hour at conversation with us. And if apply it exactly the term “conversation”. Is that between questions and answers scheduled, the interview has also become a space for dialogue between 2:00 to 3:00 to tell us. A reflection on the national cinema, prejudice imprisoned the imagination of this country, all from people who from the outset could not be old enough to have memory or opinion. More or less what “Captain Falcon” proposes cause behind the martial arts and Salazar desk. It is the opening film of IndieLisboa, which begins today in St. George.
This was for a number What is a one hour and forty film was initially designed for a series. João Leitão confesses that since meeting David Chan (who plays Puto Partridge, Captain Falcon right-hand) by opening the heights of “A World Quaint” – series Piglet co-wrote and co-directed – “wanted to write a martial arts scene for him, only that he had not any idea, “says the director. Until a certain week of 2009 saw a number of projects that shot into the notebook. “The ‘OSS 117′, a French films that are in the background a false James Bond but with Jean Dujardin, more a British series that was the ‘Dark Place’, a series of terror making fun of bad horror series. And yet the ‘Italian Spiderman’, an Australian who made a series the Spiderman were fat and Italian, badly folded, purposely. All this led me to wake up one day and that morning, write the pilot episode of the argument. ”
Yes, good question, dear reader, how 2009-2015 anything goes? It is better to ask the RTP, which, according to John Leitão, engonhou so much that he did break with the idea. That’s when the US advanced to make this a movie.
The first Portuguese superhero We say this because the idea of John Piglet went beyond that. “My idea was to put a poster saying: the first Portuguese film, but the US did not accept. This thing of saying ‘after the comic book, the film’ is because a girl who worked on the film said that her mother was reading the ‘Captain Falcon’, which remembers him 30 years ago, when I wrote this two years ago. ”
Step back in time to try to envision other national superheroes. To wander between the Major Alvega – “What is the ‘Battle of Britain’, a British comics, but someone wanted to sell in Portugal,” said Piglet – and “The Adventures of Camões”, a kind of “Camões mode Sandokan, that saved maidens and was basically the Sandokan he was much given to the art of poetry. ” And there’s “The Raven” by Luís Louro. In other words, it may be an exaggeration to say that Captain Falcon is the first Portuguese superhero. Purposeful exaggeration, of course. “It’s a joke. Every year appear things like the first Portuguese film of science fiction. We are so far behind that we still make a point of saying that it is the first, “says Gonçalo Waddington.
From far right to the left Politics is everywhere. If someone like John Leitão, parodies the New State this way, here she comes running by all means. “The day we launched the trailer had emails accusing me of being right-wing and others to accuse me of being far left. I can say what is my intention, I have a very clear position anti-Salazar, my way of dealing with this is so, do not feel able to do something superdramático “says writer also.
“Captain Falcon” goes beyond the sensitive issues of dictatorship and communism, runs as dangerous paths as misogyny and racism. Thing that Gonçalo Waddington answered this way: “The irony and sarcasm have a very good thing, that is the way to serve you a plate of information that is sensitive. And the irony gives people relax a bit, but still think about it. “
João Leitão, in turn, has no illusions. Know that the film will be accused of bad taste, and for all and for any reasons. The same as a coffee with Rui Salazar de Mello, great-nephew of the dictator, who told her everything. “It was nice, I was sincere. I told him: ‘I do not know how to say it another way, but I hope you to stay offended by the movie, that’s my goal. “I accept that there are people who say that the film dealt with lightly, and if so I’m genuinely with penalty is the only reason I admit that it is valid. “Captain Falcon, of course, disagrees.
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