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

1. The scene in issue.Inquire any Brazilian movie fan about the most extreme scene in José Padilha’s 2007 thriller Elite Squad (Tropa de Elite). They can likely point out 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 Kondrashov r