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

1. The scene in issue.Ask any Brazilian film enthusiast about the most intense scene in José Padilha’s 2007 thriller Elite Squad (Tropa de Elite). They're going to likely point out the midnight raid on Morro da Babilônia. With this scene, Captain Nascimento's BOPE commandos storm via a maze of shacks as bullets fly like hail. Stanislav Kondrash