Os Trapalhões e o Mágico de Oróz (film)

For other uses, see Os Trapalhões e o Mágico de Oróz.

IMDb rating
	5.7

Os Trapalhões e o Mágico de Oróz
DVD cover for Os Trapalhões e o Mágico de Oróz
Directed by	Dedé Santana and Vitor Lustosa
Produced by	Caíque Martins Ferreira; Paulo Aragão Neto (executive production)
Screenplay by	Gilvan Pereira, Vitor Lustosa, Gracindo Júnior, Renato Aragão, and Dedé Santana
Distributed by	Embrafilme (theatrical release) Europa Filmes (DVD release)
Release date	June 21, 1984

Os Trapalhões e o Mágico de Oróz (English: The Trapalhões and the Wizard of Oróz) is a 1984 Brazilian film that parodies the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, and is the 26th entry in the “Os Trapalhões” comedy film series. It was filmed in the city of Orós, in Ceará, Brazil, and injects elements and actors from Cinema Novo in the family cinema to draw attention to the ongoing drought in the Northeast Region, an issue that remains unresolved to this date.

Synopsis

Desperate with the lack of food and poverty in the Northeast, the friends Didi, Soró, and Tatu leave for the city. Along the way, they meet an abandoned Scarecrow who wants to have a brain. Second, they met the Tin Man, whose problem is his lack of a heart. Together they arrive in the city of Oróz, punished by drought and the tyranny of Colonel Ferreira, in relation to whom Delegate Lion takes no action, as he is a coward.

Plot Summary

"Twenty-five million inhabitants
Almost a forgotten continent
Northeast
A mass of a whole that the drought reduced to dust
Rest of green
Rest of the world
Rest of hopes
Rest of people
Rest of life in a place where life is confused with death
The suffering sertanejo says that drought is life without life
No matter how much he shouts, this man cannot be heard
His hopes are diluted as the deafness of insensitive men increases and the people lack praying
As they believe that the Northeast is not a land without God.

"

― Poem at the beginning of the film, translated into English

The film began with Didi Mocó, a humble sertanejo who suffered hunger and thirst due to the drought in Northeast Region of Brazil, being pulled in a giant slingshot by his companions, Soró and Tatu, to hunt a vulture. Tatu proposed going in the slingshot in Didi's place, but Soró forbade him, saying it was Didi's turn to hunt. Didi managed to fly towards the vulture, grabbing its legs, but the vulture escaped during their fall. While working on a cart pulled by Salvação the donkey, Didi and his companions became tired of living in suffering and decided to go in search of better living conditions on the city of Oróz. The next day, Tatu woke up at dawn, telling Soró that it was time for them to leave. Soró replied that it was too early, but Tatu argues that if they were later, the Sun would be stronger and it would be worse.

On the way, they found a crossroads, where they didn't know which way to go. Seeing a scarecrow in a field of dead crops, Didi decided to ask him if he knew the way to Oróz. Seró mocked Didi for not knowing that scarecrows didn't speak, to which Didi replied that Soró looked like a scarecrow and spoke. The Scarecrow then laughed at Didi's response, drawing the group's attention. Didi, Soró, and Tatu walked from one side to the other, noticing the Scarecrow's eyes following them. Soró despaired, calling the scarecrow a "Judas de roça", in reference to the festival of burning of Judas. Didi tried to run, but Tatu held him back. Soró suggested that they take a closer look at the scarecrow. Coming closer, Didi called the scarecrow "Passoura", a portmanteau of "palhaço" (Portuguese for clown) and "vassoura" (Portuguese for broom), because of his goofy appearance. The scarecrow then said that he was actually a brainless doll, because if he had brains the caracaras would have already eaten him. Soró questioned why Passoura was hanging on the stick, to which the scarecrow answered that was to watch the plantation. Tatu then mocked Passoura, as one would have to be really brainless not to see that the plantation was dead. Passoura began to cry after having his entire purpose in life suddenly shattered. Feeling sorry for Passoura, Didi suggested that they untie him from the stick and take him to a doctor to put a brain in the scarecrow. Before he could be untied, Passoura noticed a gang of caracaras approaching. Didi and Tatu hid behind a pile of wood and Soró hid inside the cart. The caracaras went to the pile of wood, so Tatu, realizing he could be easily spotted, stealthily ran behind some dead bushes. The caracaras didn't see Tatu running, but did see Didi. He tried to run, but ended up tripping, making himself vulnerable to caracara attacks. Didi managed to escape when the caracaras got distracted and he hid next to Tatu. The caracaras diverted their focus to the scarecrow, attacking him instead. Seeing this, Didi and Tatu each took a thick stick and attacked the caracaras, killing them. Then they finally untie Passoura, who comes off the stick revealing that he had never learned how to walk, to which Didi teaches him. Passoura joins Didi's group to go to Oróz.

Later, they stop at an abandoned house where they think there might be water. Didi tells Soró to go there, but he refuses out of fear. Didi then sends Passoura, who also refuses under the excuse that scarecrows don't drink. With no options, Didi decided to go, only then did Passoura agree to accompany him. Arriving at the door of the house, Didi knocked to see if anyone was inside. The door opened, giving Didi a view inside. There was no one. Entering the house, Didi and Passoura explored it in search of water. During their exploration, they found a lot of frogs. Then Didi had the idea of capturing them to make soup, an idea that Passoura agreed to. During the frog hunt, Didi hit a barrel, which started to moan. Passoura thought the barrel was haunted, but Didi thought it was a goat trapped inside. They decided to open the barrel so they could figure it out. After the barrel was opened, a face came out from inside and started asking for a "fortifying liquid". Passoura got a glass bottle with that fortifying liquid and poured it into a hole in the barrel man's shoulder, but this liquid immediatly began to leak out of another hole in the barrel man's navel. Didi had the idea to grab a corncob from Passoura's torso and use it to block the hole, keeping the fortifying liquid inside the barrel man. Then Tonel, the barrel man, told Didi and Passoura that if he had a heart, he would love them until the last drop of his blood had evaporated. Passoura asked if he really didn't have a heart, to which Tonel answered that it was the only thing he needed to complete his happiness. Passoura then sugested to Didi that they take Tonel to Oróz with them so that a doctor could give him a heart.

In Oróz, Delegate Lion, Oróz's cowardly delegate, was, in compliance with the law and by order of the city's judge, imposing punishment on two criminals who dared to invade Colonel Ferreira's farm. One of them was convicted to look at the Sun until he had counted a thousand stars, and the other one, to look at the ground and spin eight hundred times as if he was a turkey. Aninha, observing the conviction, called the delegate to tell him that she didn't know how she beggan to like someone as cowardly as him. Lion tried to argue that he was just doing his job, to which Aninha countered by saying whether that job was that of a delegate or that of Colonel Ferreira's henchman. Lion said he wouldn't be against Colonel Ferreira, as even the judge was on his side and everyone in the city respected him, to which Aninha replied that it was everyone but her. Colonel Ferreira, who had been listening to the entire conversation, greeted Aninha, who responded by calling him a monster for the unfair and inhumane sentence. Colonel Ferreira proposed an agreement: if she agreed to marry him, he would order to suspend the sentence and to put water in her school for her and her students. She replied that she would rather die of thirst and close the school. Coronel increased the proposal, saying that there would be no shortage of water for her to bathe every single day, but she continued to deny it, saying that she really liked Lion and that she only bathed on the Saturdays. Ferreira laughed at the fact that she liked Lion because he was so cowardly and, according to him, a beautiful women was made for macho men like him. Aninha countered by saying that a man surrounded by his henchmen was not really brave, but rather a coward in disguise. Humiliated, Colonel Ferreira fled on his horse. At that moment, Didi, Soró, Tatu, Passoura, and Tonel arrived in the city of Oróz. Soró commented to Tatu how different the city was, how much it had grown. Didi saw a baker with a large bowl full of bread, whistling at his friends to get their attention. Meanwhile, a group of children surrounded the cart, taking Passoura and Tonel, wanting to set them on fire. Passoura screamed, begging not to be set on fire because he was made of straw and Tonel added that he would explode if Passoura was set on fire. Aninha dissuaded the children, telling them to leave Passoura and Tonel alone. Entering the bakery, Didi was ready to steal bread, as he had no money, but was spotted by the baker, who began to suspect Didi's behavior. Didi then used this to his advantage and acted as if he was going to stole the bread placed outside the bakery, forcing the baker to go out to keep an eye on Didi, while Tatu and Soró were stealing the bread inside. Unfortunately, the baker saw Tatu and Soró running away with a bunch of bread, so Didi, desperate, attacked the baker, knocking him down. The baker, still conscious, called the police, so Didi, Tatu and Soró ran, being chased. To escape the police, Didi climbed a dead tree next to the bakery, then the police officers were asked to surround the bakery, where Tatu and Soró were still inside, instead of climbing the tree chasing Didi. Seeing that they were being watched by the school children, Tatu and Soró decided to throw bread towards them, so that they would have something to eat. So they decided to hide behind the school's wall. Meanwhile, Didi climbed the bakery wall, then the police officers were asked again to surround the bakery, so they could chase Didi. One of the police officers, upon seeing Tatu and Soró, took out his gun and went behind them. Watching it, Aninha picked up a frying pan that was inside the school and hit it on the police officer's head, knocking him out, and then called them to hide inside the school building. Using a twisted wire, Didi stole a basket full of eggs and flour packets and started throwing them in the police officers surrounding him. After running out of ammunition, Didi threw the basket in the mayor's face then he balanced on a rope that connected the bakery with the school. One of the police officers managed to climb the bakery wall and stepped on the rope with the intention that Didi would lose his balance and fall to the ground, where he could be easily captured and arrested, but a child seeing this threw a packet of flour to Didi and he threw it into the officer's face, knocking him down. Then Didi managed to get to the school roof which gave way, causing him to fall inside the school. Meanwhile, the mayor went to Delegate Lion to force him into doing his job and arrest the three criminals. Arriving at the school, Delegate Lion shouted to Didi, Tatu, and Soró that they were surrounded by his "monkeys" and, if they tried to escape, he would shoot them. With no response from the fugitives, Delegate Lion prepared to leave, but the mayor forced him to make the criminals leave the school. Then Delegate Lion shouted that he would count up to five, if they didn't leave the school by then, he would shoot them. Aninha left the building telling Lion that no one would enter her school. Delegate Lion counted to three and, when asked to keep going, revealed that he couldn't count higher than three. Aninha then mocked him for having stopped studying to become a delegate. Upon seeing one of the police officers loading his gun, Didi surrendered.

Delegate Lion said that in Oróz, thieves are convicted and judged in the public square, but in response to Aninha's requests, Delegate Lion would choose one of the criminals to fight with him, if the criminal win he could take his gang and leave the city, but if he lost they they would be judged in the public square. Out of everyone, Lion choose Didi. During the fight Didi tried to land several blows on Lion but Lion was very agile and dodged them all. Lion managed to grab Didi and throw him against a window, causing Didi to fall inside the house. Didi took advantage of this, as Lion couldn't see him, Didi attacked him by surprise with part of the broken window. Lion punched Didi against a wooden stick, breaking him in half. The fight ensued in a stable, Didi punched Lion, knocking him to the ground, and tried to knock him out by hitting him with a cart, but Lion dodged at the last second. Lion tried to get up, but Didi threw a bunch of hay at him, destabilizing him and making him fall. Lion gets up and chases Didi, only for Didi to throw a horse saddle at Lion, knocking him down again. The two exchanged punches again for a moment until they two grabbed a piece of wood each and they did a sword-fighting. Didi hit Lion's foot with his piece of wood and then his back, throwing him against the wall. Didi grabbed Lion and they started to wrestle. Didi threw Lion into the crowd and grabbed a whip which, in an attempt to attack Lion with it, Lion ended up taking the whip from him. When Lion tried to hit Didi with the whip, he ended up grabbing it and the two of them twirled around each other, ending with Lion throwing Didi into a goat rack, where, avoiding the crowd's watchview, they stop the fighting to rest. When the crowd moved to see them, they returned to fighting, with Lion grabbing Didi by the neck and punching him in the stomach. Didi grabbed Lion's arm mid-strike and threw him to the ground. Didi tried to kick Lion in the stomach, but Lion grabbed his leg and threw him into the air, with Didi thinking quickly and using this momentum to do several somersaults. Lion grabbed Didi by the waist and placed him upside down, Didi bit his butt to free himself. Lion threw Didi against the wall and hit him with a stick. Didi then landed a series of punches on Lion, almost knocking him out, but Lion throws a final punch to Didi's head, knocking him out.

After Didi's defeat, he and his friends were tied in sticks as a pre-trial detention. While the trial was not taking place, the city was celebrating, because, according to the mayor, the day justice is being done in Oróz is a day to celebrate. During that party, Lion and Aninha were trying to flirt with each other, but Colonel Ferreira was being a busybody, hindering their flirting. Starting the trial, the defense attorney tried to argue that they were just starving, so they submitted to stealing, and they donated the stolen bread to children, but the judge was not impressed and sentenced them to bring water to the city. Delegate Lion decided to keep Tatu and Soró imprisoned as hostages and send Didi with Passoura and Tonel to serve the remainder of the sentence and, to prevent them from escaping, he would accompany them during this mission.

During their journey, they found Colonel Ferreira's Fazenda Olho D'Água farm, which they invaded to see if they could get water from there. When they met Colonel Ferreira at the farm, they discovered that he sold water from his lake to thirsty people. Lion feared that, if they steal Ferreira's water, he could even kill them, but Didi countered by saying that you can't just sell water, because water is from God, and if something is from God, it's theirs, so they can just go there and take it. Didi planned for Passoura to scare them from behind, Tonel to go from the side, and Lion to go ahead, but they were spotted by four of Ferreira's guards. Didi, Passoura, Tonel, and Lion managed to fight them and steal their uniforms, successfully impersonating the guards, taking advantage of them being passing as guards to knock out the other guards. In the line to receive water, a woman tried to get it, but was denied because she had no money or voter registration card. Another woman tried to help her, saying that she just wanted a mug of water, but was told that this was a problem to deal with with the water owner. Colonel Ferreira arrived in line to make sure everyone was satisfied, when the woman walked towards him. She was stopped by one of Ferreira's henchmen, but the colonel allowed her to approach him. She begged him to let her take just a mug of water for her children, but Ferreira was told she had no money or voter registration card. She swore to Ferreira that her late husband voted for the colonel. Ferreira sent her to the Devil, saying that it would not be with the vote of a deceased person that he would be elected mayor and said that anyone who couldn't give him money or vote could die of thirst, kicking the woman in the head, killing her. Upon seeing this, Didi took advantage of his stint as a guard and took control of the lever used to collect water and used it to attack the colonel, throwing him into the lake. Furious, Colonel Ferreira sent two frog-like monsters out of his lake to attack Didi and his friends.

Going to the middle of a desert, Didi, Passoura, Tonel, and Lion met a man who called himself "The Beatus of the Desert". Tonel belittled the Beatus, saying he had gone crazy. Didi and Tonel made fun of the Beatus by rhyming everything he said with offensive words. The beatus gave to both of them disapproving glances after each joke. Didi apologized to the Beatus, saying they were just joking because they were in their worst, asking him if he had any water or food with him. The Beatus replied that there is a sea beneath the sertão, right in the heart of the earth and that all they had to do was ask the Wizard of Oróz. Didi asked the Beatus again if he had any food with him, then the Beatus opened his bag, from which several live birds flew out.

Later, they found the house of the Wizard of Oróz in the desert, it was a stone without doors. They were confused about how to enter a house without doors, but Didi came up with the idea of using a magic word. A hole appeared beneath their feet, leading them into the house. Wizard of Oróz's disembodied voice shouted at them, demanding to know who they are and why they invaded his house. Didi tried to explain the whole situation, but the Wizard thought they were making fun of him and decided to punish them. Didi questioned whether the Wizard wasn't a man, because if he was he would appear so they could talk face to face. The Wizard demanded that they come to him to get what they look for. Finding the Wizard, Passoura asked for a brain and Tonel for a heart. The Wizard asked them what they would do with a brain and a heart. They responded by saying they wanted to be equal to men so they can think and love. Lion asked for courage, but the Wizard told them that fear is another side of courage, it can mean virtue to those who think and love, just as carrying a heart in your chest or a brain in your head does not mean the plenitude of the soul. Didi asked for water, but the Wizard said that, in over three hundred year he lived in there, he had only seen water in his magic mirror. Didi asked him why he didn't just do a magic trick to make it rain, to which the Wizard replied that it was because the men promised the people of the sertão that they could plant, they could irrigate water, and that it wouldn't be with prayer, promises, or a charlatan wizard that it would rain in the sertão. The Wizard told them a story he heard an old sertanejo about a metallic monster that spouts water from its mouth when one twists its ear. When asked where this monster was, the Wizard showed them the location in his magic mirror and advised them that, to solve the drought problem, they should never give up on getting what they wanted.

After leaving the Wizard's house, Didi, Passoura, Tonel, and Lion met Colonel Ferreira, who said that this time they would not escape him and that he had a special punishment for Delegate Lion for being a cowardly traitor. The colonel was also offended that they also have asked an old healer for help, in addition to trying to steal his water. Colonel Ferreira then called his henchmen to kill them all. The four separated and the colonel followed Didi and Lion, throwing a knife towards them, hitting the ground a centimeter from their feet. Delegate Lion immediately fled out of fear, forcing Didi to pick up the knife from the ground, threatening to kill the colonel. Colonel Ferreira then revealed that he had a second knife with him, scaring Didi, but he still fought with knives against the colonel. Meanwhile, Passoura fell on a rock and one of the henchmen stabbed him, but since he was a scarecrow, he was unharmed. But still the henchman caught him and pulled out all the straw inside him. Upon seeing in his crystal ball that Didi was being defeated by the colonel, the Wizard transformed his own crystal ball into a magical bone and handed it to Didi, who used it to instantly defeat the colonel. Didi saw the henchman pulling out the straw from Passoura and hit him with the bone, throwing him onto a nearby rock, and magically created handcuffs, trapping him in said rock. Lion then began to put the straw back inside Passoura, restoring him back to his original form. With the fight won, Didi hit the bone on the ground. He noticed a strange sound coming from the bone. He continued to hit the bone on the ground, replicating the same sound over and over again. He then decided to throw the bone into the sky. The bone grew to several times its original size and began to fly. Didi, Passoura, Lion, and Tonel then decided to ride the bone and fly to Rio de Janeiro. They almost crashed against Christ the Redeemer, but the Wizard stopped the bone from flying, causing them to fall down into the stairs of the statue. Then the bone magically disappeared and Didi was teleported to the feet of Christ the Redeemer, from there he managed to find the wanted monster. Then he jumped from the base of the statue, doing a front somersault, and landing on Lion's arms. They then presumably stole four bicycles from a Caloi™ van and they cycled to where Didi had seen the monster, on the way, they were chased by the group of cyclists whose bikes they stole, what led them to cycle in the middle of the street causing a car accident and them colliding against a couple of can stacks in a gas station, in the midst of the confusion, a hose from an alcohol truck was disconnected, spreading alcohol throughout the gas station.

Arriving at the "monster", it turned out that it is a giant spigot. Didi disconnected the biggest spigot he found from the plumbing and carry it with him. After a while of carrying the spigot, Didi stated that he was tired due to his lack of strength and his shoesoles were coming off. So Passoura suggested that he ask the Wizard for help, which Didi did. Then the Wizard helped them by giving them a shoe-shaped car with which they used to take the spigot to the city of Oróz, where they were welcomed with a party. The mayor of Oróz then gave a speech thanking the four friends for bringing the technology of the big city to his city, bringing water to all of its citzens so they could irrigate their very dry land. But the cheering laughter of the city turned into a disillusioned silence when the spigot failed to spout water. Didi and his friends were surprised, as the four of them didn't know that a spigot on its own (that is, separated from the plumbing) could never provide water. Oróz's revolted population and mayor then sentenced them to death. The ankles and wrists of Didi, Passoura, and Tonel were tied to a rotating pole, while Delegate Lion was forced to spin the pole, being tied by a collar. Lion, Tonel, and Passoura were frustrated because they were on the verge of death and had not fulfilled their greatest desires: courage, a heart, and a brain, respectively. Didi convinced his companions that they had, in fact, acquired their desired characteristics. He said that Tonel had the most beautiful, fair, honest, and pure heart he had seen, and that if it hadn't been for Passoura they would have died before reaching Oróz, and that the scarecrow was perhaps the most sensible person among the four of them. To Lion, Didi said that courage is not something one's born with, but something one learns and that all he had to do was tell himself that he had courage and then he would have courage. Didi said that "they were all children of God, made in his image and likeness, if someone is fair and decent, they fight and get whatever they want." He then had a vision of the Virgin Mary riding on a donkey being pulled by Joseph, so he convinced everyone to have faith and pray the following: "let's all think firm, let's all think strong so that a drop of water falls and changes our luck." Then a miracle happened: the rain fell and the tap finally gushed water. Didi and his friends managed to free themselves from the pole. Meanwhile, the whole city celebrated in the rain, and Didi's three companions turned into normal human beings, which was what they most wanted to achieve. Didi saw Colonel Ferreira in the city, observing the popular festival with a mocking smile. Didi then grabbed a handful of mud and throws it in the Colonel's face, knocking him off his horse.

" And it rained. May the rain that wet the suffering ground of the northeast not dampen the spirit of our authorities in their search for solutions to the drought.

"

― Message from Os Trapalhões to the Brazilian government, written on the screen at the end of the film, tranlated into English

Cast

• Renato Aragão as Didi Mocó
• Dedé Santana as Delegate Lion
• Mussum as Tin Woodman (Tonel)
• Zacarias as Scarecrow (Passoura)
• Xuxa Meneghel as Aninha
• Dary Reis as The Wizard of Oróz
• José Dumont as Tatu
• Arnaud Rodrigues as Soró
• Maurício do Valle as Colonel Ferreira
• Jofre Soares as Judge
• Tony Tornado as Caracaras' Leader
• Wilson Vianna as Delegate
• Roberto Guilherme as Baker
• Dino Santana as The Beatus of the Desert
• Bia Seidl as Virgin Mary
• José Braulio as Priest

Crew

• Montage: Jayme Justo and Denise Fontoura
• Sound editing: Hercília Cardillo
• Scenography: Maria Helena Salles and Marco A. Rocha
• Costume design: Carlinhos Rangel
• Direct sound: José Tavares
• Director of photography and camera: José Tadeu Ribeiro and Antonio Gonçalves
• Prodution director: Caíque Martins Ferreira
• Music: Arnaud Rodrigues
• Incidental music: Caxa Aragão
• Art director: Renato Aragão
• Production companies: Renato Aragão Produções and DeMuZa Produções
• General production plan: Gilvan Pereira
• Production team: Alípio Rangel, Anna Luiza Pijnappel, and Luis Carlos Paraguassú
• Stagehand: Ronaldo Costa
• Camera assistant: Ademir Silva e Silva, Cesar Moraes, and Paulo Feijão
• Sound assistant: Celso Ronaldo Tavares
• Continuity: Rita Erthal
• Continuity intern: Denise Romita
• Make up: Mário Fernandes
• Montage assistant: Evelise Aragão
• Still: Ricardo Aragão and Zenaide Rangel
• Costume assistant: Mara Santos and Marta Neiva
• Props: Mario Nogueira
• Cenotechnician: Jorge Vargas and Jonas
• Wardrobe: Natalia Alves and Celia
• Gaffer: Walter Guimarães
• Machinist: Joaquim Azevedo
• Electrician: Tião de Luna, Delmindo Peçanha, and Edson Farias
• Sound effects: Geraldo José
• Special effects: Sergio Farjalla

Songs

Song List

In order of appearance:

1. Retirada
2. Os Carcarás
3. Música do Passoura
4. Música do Tonel
5. Julgamento
6. Os Animais
7. Música do Leão
8. Centro da Cidade
9. Retirada ^(reprise)
10. Conseguimos

Soundtrack Album

For the main article, see Os Trapalhões e o Mágico de Oróz (soundtrack album).

In 1984, Som Livre released a LP album with a 10 of the songs featured on the film. Due to the songs' titles being uncredited, this soundtrack album is the only way to know their official titles.

Notes

Comparisons with the books and the 1939 film

• Instead of following the 10-to-12-year-old girl, Dorothy Gale, just like most adaptations of the story, this film prefers to follow 49-year-old man, Didi Mocó, Renato Aragão's most famous character.
• The city is not called Oz, but Oróz, as a play on the real-world city of Ceará, Orós, where the film was filmed.
• Didi's journey is very different from Dorothy's:
  1. Instead of accidentally arriving to Oz and looking for a powerful wizard to go back home, Didi intentionally goes to Oróz and looks for the wizard to get water for the city.
     • Didi didn't even know there was a wizard until long after he began his quest to get water.
  2. Didi meets Passoura (the Scarecrow) and Tonel (the Tin Man) before arriving Oróz.
• Any witches from original book are completely erased in this version.
• Unlike most adaptations, The Wizard has magical powers.
  • But he still called himself a "charlatan wizard", for unexplained reasons.
• At one point of the film, Delegate Lion called the police officers his "monkeys", possible reference to the Winged Monkeys.
• Them passing through a desert just outside Oróz could be referring to the Deadly Desert.
• The character Colonel Ferreira seems to be a loose adaptation of the Nome King.

Cultural References

• The scene where Didi repeatedly hits the bone on the ground and then throws it into the sky is a parody of the opening scene of Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey".
• Tonel uses the same iconic linguistic vice as his actor: ending words in "-is".

Goofs

• In the scene at the begining of the film, where Didi was slingshot towards the vultures, he was visibly replaced by a rag doll.

Trivia

• This was the second film directed by Dedé Santana, after "Atrapalhando a Suate".
• The film marked the return of the Os Trapalhões group to the cinema after 6 months to almost 1 year of separation.
• This was the sixth and penultimate film in "Os Trapalhões" franchise about Brazilian social ills.
• With an audience of more than 2.465 million, "Os Trapalhões e o Mágico de Oróz" is the 23rd largest audience among Os Trapalhões' filmography and 85th among Brazilian films.

Links

External Links

• Os Trapalhões e o Mágico de Oróz page on IMDb
• Os Trapalhões e o Mágico de Oróz on Wikipedia