National Passion: 70 Years of Brazilian TV Series | National newspaper
6 min readOn Tuesday night (21st), it was exactly 70 years since the first television series was broadcast in our country. It’s been seven entire decades in which Brazilians have been influenced, entertained, engaged in the stories told by Brazilians, and introduced themselves.
Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Brasilia, Salvador: Where did everyone go? a night October 20 2012The national passion that showed all its intensity. Conspiracy “brazil street We have come to the last chapter. At home, in bars and restaurants, monitor screens and cell phones.
Imaginary feelings on screen reflect the reality of families. On the sofa, the viewer experienced a change in behavior.
“I remember most watching soap operas with my grandparents from my father. It was very special. There was something very delicious. The first was the time when the family was together. Another one, I think, was the time when the series was born, besides entertaining, a reflection, inviting you to Think about the issues,” he says. Kawa Raymond, the actor.
So soap operas and Brazil build a long love story, which Started in December of 1951, when Tupi . TV Broadcast the first chapter of “Your Life to Me”.. He only came twice a week and everything was live. Quote from the radio series. and the actor Lima Duarte There was already.
Lima Duarte in a scene from the movie “Your life belongs to me” – Photo: Reproduction
We would sit and say what we said on the radio. Thus, the first television series was broadcast. Fix the cameras. Today, press the button and go to close. There push the camera and focus was. And this series, “Your life belongs to me”, the curious thing is that everything went first. I was the first bandit, the first girl, and there was a first kiss.” Lima Duarte.
The first daily recorded production was shown just 12 years later by TV Excelsior, with Glória Menezes and Tarcísio Meira.
employment Globe, had the first appearance at the opening of the channel on April 26, 1965. Reginaldo Faria and Lila Diniz were the romantic couple “Ilusões Perdidas”.
Lost Illusions Scene – Photo: Reproduction
TV series are getting closer to the audience with the arrival of Janet Claire. The author brought Carioca scenarios, graceful plots, and slang.
Brazil stopped in front of the TV to watch our team’s victory in the 1970 World Cup Final. But the next day, a TV series managed to bypass this audience. The phenomenon of “Brothers Courage” has attracted the public’s attention all the time 328 chapters. Neighbors vied for a seat on the sofa in homes with televisions. The story attracted a male audience. Among the characters was a soccer player, wearing the tenth Flamengo shirt. The telenovela recorded scenes during a real match in the Maracana. Football and TV series: One or two works even today.
Telenovelas explore the cultural richness of Brazil. The characters have already shown the traditions of all regions.
This is why telenovela plays an important role in creating national identity, and the way we differentiate ourselves from other countries.
“The soap opera is really an arena, a meeting place where Brazilians talk to each other. This perception that despite living in geographically distant and culturally distant places, we are a family and we live in the same house,” says Gloria Pérez, author of the soap opera.
A mirror that reflects our society as it was before. A way of expressing what is needed from now on.
Scene of Camila’s character in Amor de Mãe – Photo: clone
“It was the scene where I got the most messages from the public, from people at home on my cell phone. Camila is Camila, she’s Fabricia, she’s Fernanda, she’s Jessica, and she’s several. Camila is the embodiment of the change we want to see in the country, of a black woman who understands that education It really is what changes the country,” highlights actress Jessica Ellen.
From the struggle of the weakest to the welfare of the millionaires. The conspiracies are linked to reality and national diseases since “Pim-Amadu”. When we first saw an unscrupulous politician like Odorico Paraguaçu on Brazilian color TV.
Reviews in “Roque Santeiro” are blocked. This version with Betty Faria as the widow of pigs already had 36 chapters recorded when it was overturned by the censorship of the military dictatorship in 1975. It has never been broadcast. Ten years later, a new version appeared.
A scene from the censored version of “Roque Santeiro” by the dictatorship – Photo: Reproduction
Stories of courage and daring. 32 years before Felix and Nico kiss in “Amor à Vida”, Inácio, performed by Denis Carvalho, suffered from prejudice in the soap opera “Brilhante” and in real life as well. Censorship did not allow the use of the word gay. But Gilberto Braga’s plot did not fail to show what gays face in many families.
This and other indoor dramas have been shown on national television.
Such as the harassment of the stepfather of the character Elisa in the TV series “Totalmente Demais”.
“It’s important to be able to talk to a wider audience about harassment, and even to report and defend themselves, this reflection can make families understand what’s going on within that environment, within the home itself. Because that’s what happens to Elisa, she has a mother who knows what’s going on, But she pretends not to see, she wants to pretend not to see,” highlights Roseanne Svartman, author of the series.
Soap opera time is also a nice break for laughter, dreaming and happiness. The songs that marked the scenes became the soundtrack to great moments in our lives. The connection is instant because everything is done with the person who matters most.
“It’s kind of an exchange with the spectator, who’s our partner in the story. The next day, somebody’s working the house, the janitor I’m living in, somebody’s reacting and saying, ‘That scene yesterday, what was it about, Tony?” That for me is Interact, the best there is,” says Tony Ramos, actor.
The audience should be surprised, and TV series can be a kind of crystal ball that predicts the future.
“It took a while to convince people that this wasn’t science fiction. It was a whole new drama, because new technologies also brought struggles that didn’t exist before, and possibilities for drama that previous generations didn’t see,” Gloria Perez says.
And when humanity was threatened by Covid-19, serial production was stopped. But the recordings were carefully resumed, and challenges were taken to bring passion and fun to those who were at home.
The telling of these stories is a task involving about 300 people of different professions. From the text of the first chapters to the end of the recordings, teams work for a year or even more. Our TV series are the main export product of Brazilian TV. and the TV Globo is the biggest winner of the Best Television Series Oscar in the Emmy Award for Television Academy Awards with eight awards..
“Increasingly our role is to be with all the colors, all the accents, all the temperatures in Brazil. A telenovela is necessarily a place where our Brazilians meet. They are represented as numbers, and they are also found as subject and object. I believe that open television brings a collective experience, where Everyone is watching the same story at the same time, and I believe that broadcasting should create a new experience, a new way to consume this series. Now the series is a TV series. So I think it’s not exactly the telenovela that will change. But what’s more is the experience that it enjoys. by the audience when taking up these stories,” Ricardo Waddington, Director of Estúdios Globo.
These are new paths that can transport the characters in our stories to new places on the planet. Novels Globo TV Viewed in 160 regions, translated into 70 languages.
“Every time I travel, I’m still Jorginho, depending on where I go,” Kawa says.
“When you touch a human you always know yourself. It doesn’t matter what culture you come from, what kind of clothes you wear, and what kind of ideas you have. There’s a point we all have in common, we’re human,” Gloria Perez says.