#Last stop 174 how to
#Last stop 174 movie

Let’s do it.’’īijan: To me, “Last Stop 174” is like a tale of Greek mythology with street kids.īruno: Yes. We had lunch, and when I told him what I just told you, he said ‘Wow this is great, yes, I get it. Initially, when I got him on the phone he said, ‘What!? It is a documentary sensation, how would this work?’ But I said no, it will be a fictional version of the documentary. So that was when I got in touch with Braulio Montavani, who wrote “City of God”. All of those elements got into my head, and I realized that there was a great story here. The bus is not the essence, but the climax, and the catalyst for the story. Using the bus as a catalyst was also very interesting. It is not she who adopts him as a son, but rather he who adopts her as a mother. She thinks he is her real son, and he ends up adopting her as a mother. I thought that there is a great story here a mother who loses a son, a son who loses a mother, and then their lives cross. The worst because of course it is awful for a mother to lose her son, but the best because it made her clean up her act. But to lose her son was the best and worst thing that could happen to her. So, when he told me her story, which is very similar to the story in the film-although she did not lose her son that way-she was never really sure who the father was, she was a drug addict. I thought, ‘God, this does not stand up, if this was a fictional story, this would be a flaw.’ I went to speak with Jose Padilha, and he told me that the story of this woman could be another documentary in itself. The documentary does not say more than what I just said, it just focuses on him. Why would she want a juvenile delinquent to be her son? The way she treated him, it seemed like she thought he was her true son. In 2006, Bruno Barreto directed the Brazilian production of the 2005 Pulitzer and Tony winner play “ Doubt” by John Patrick Shanley.īijan Tehrani: How did you come up with the idea of making this film?īruno Barreto: Well, when I saw Jose Padilha’s documentary, “ Bus 174”, I was very intrigued by a woman who adopted Sandro, the boy on the bus, as her child.

#Last stop 174 movie

Since 1990, Bruno Barreto has divided his career between Brazil and the United States, where he did 6 feature lengths with such major movie stars as Robert Duvall, Andy Garcia, Kevin Spacey and Amy Irving in A Show of Force Dennis Hopper and Amy Irving in Carried Away and Gwyneth Paltrow and Mike Myers in View from the Top. He directed his first film, Tati, in 1972 at the age of 17, followed by A Estrela Sobe ( A Star Rises) and Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, the biggest box office hit of all time in Brazilian cinema, with more than 12 million tickets sold. With 18 feature films, Bruno Barreto is one of the Brazil’s most successful directors. A moving and strong relationship begins between these two orphans-she of a son, and he of a mother-culminating in a tragic outcome in June of 2000 that was broadcasted live for 6 hours, stopping the whole country of Brazil. By chance, Marisa finds Sandro and believes he’s the lost son she’s searched for. Soon, Sandro and Alessandro meet, first on the streets and later in an institution for juvenile delinquents.

There, she learns that everybody was killed except for her son, who’s escaped. Marisa, returns to her community to look for her son when she hears about the death of the drug lord.

#Last stop 174 how to

Soon Sandro learns the rules of survival in the streets, meets his first girlfriend and-although he hasn’t learned how to read and write-he dreams of becoming a famous rapper. Even though he is taken in by his aunt, the boy doesn´t feel welcome in her house and decides to run away. Ten years later, on the other side of the city, Sandro, 10 years old, sees the corpse of his mother knifed by a robber, lying on the floor of her snack bar. Cast out of the community and homeless, all Marisa has left only is the memory of son Alessandro.

Because Marisa doesn’t have the money, the baby is yanked from her arms and taken to be raised by Meleca. The door bursts opened and drug lord Meleca comes in to collect a drug debt. Marisa, a drug addicted mother in her early twenties is breastfeeding her three- month-old baby, Alessandro in her shack. Last Stop 174 starts in Rio de Janeiro, 1983.