Capoeira: Vida de Mandingueiro. Fragment 10 minutes of the documentary

[ronaldinhoDDDE]

Is there a chance to get this on dvd?

[thiangola]

como faço para conseguir todo o documentario.....???

thiagoaafonso@ig.com.br

[quisquefaber88]

6:58 MESTRE BOCA RICA!!! :D

[peterpan710]

When will you guys put some english subtitles or just have the portuguese audio track, sorry I don't speak french.I like the documentary either way.

[auxdocks]

This documentary will be published soon (with English subs BTW). We will keep you all posted!

[ratinhaaa]

is this documentary out yet? how can i see it? est-ce que ce documentaire est déjà sorti? je me le procure comment?

[crespoo0]

"I am angolero by heart. I learned capoeira regionale. I had the opportunity to start with Mestre Bimba, then with XXX (I could not get the name)" the name of the master is Canjiquinha.

[PropagandasProfile]

english ones that is.lol

[PropagandasProfile]

wish it had subs.lol



[bricedebrignaisplage]

Here is an imperfect translation in english from the french audio.

01:00

It's strange that in a town like this, there is still prejudice against capoeira. It's not only capoeira, but the whole black community, the whole cultural production of the black people. The worst is that they want to recognize capoeiristas, but under the condition that they organize themselves. And this organization thing, I think it's terrible: it's not recognizing that they have their own organization.

[bricedebrignaisplage]

This is were the prejudices lie. They reject the capoeiristas, but want capoeira. But they do not recognize its own nature. The biggest prejudices are not against the activity, but against the guys who traditionally play capoeira: the black people.

[bricedebrignaisplage]

Speech by Mestre Lua Rasta at the third minute.

I am Maloungo. Maybe I am crazy too (translation note: it seems that there is a pun in Portuguese between maloungo and crazy). In this crazy society, it's difficult to avoid being crazy. Maloungo, it's the guy who does not agree with the system, the systematic thing, military, dominant; it's the guy who is looking for alternatives to survive, as an artist, a musician, a capoeirista...

[bricedebrignaisplage]

I am angolero by heart. I learned capoeira regionale. I had the opportunity to start with Mestre Bimba, then with XXX (I could not get the name), who was not angolero either. Who was what his berimbau said; he was capoeira. Nowadays, you are either one or the other. At this time, I learned this capoeira: play low, play high, play slow, play fast... I like that capoeira is spontaneous.

[bricedebrignaisplage]

You go to a capoeira roda, you do not need recognition signs, all those things, this horrible uniform, this corda system. I find this uptight. I find it uptight that you go to a roda and there are 20 to 30 people dressed in black and yellow.

[bricedebrignaisplage]

But if you do many nice movements, without paying attention, you are not playing capoeira. You go up, down, you perform like a pantomime, but you don't feel the journey. Sometimes, a guy with 2 or 3 capoeira moves is much more capoeira than the one who does lots of fancy stuffs for nothing. If you see Nelson Foumoufine (?), he only used a scissor, a head-but and his tongue: he'd stick his tongue out at you. If you do that nowadays, you get punched in the face.

[bricedebrignaisplage]

Here is a partial and imperfect translation from the french in the video. But since comments can only be 500 characters long, I had to cut it pieces and there are arranged in reverse order, so start from the bottom...

[bedoy34]

@bricedebrignaisplage thanks for translation, Hermano

[KayNyne13]

Amazing..where can we see the whole documentary?