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O Bem-Amado
O Bem-Amado (English: The Beloved) is a Brazilian telenovela that first aired on Rede Globo in 1973. It is based on a play by Dias Gomes called Odorico, o Bem-Amado ou Os Mistérios do Amor e da Morte, written in 1962. It was the first Brazilian color telenovela. It was shot in Rio de Janeiro.
A notable feature of this telenovela was its music, composed by Vinícius de Moraes and Toquinho.
Mayor Odorico Paraguaçu is a demagogue and corrupt politician who, with his inflammatory and verbose speeches, deludes the simple people of small Sucupira, on the coast of Bahia. The priority goal of his administration is the inauguration of the local cemetery, criticized by the opposition to his government, led by the Medrado family, who run the local police, the dentist Lulu Gouveia and the journalist Neco Pedreira, editor-in-chief of the newspaper A Trombeta.
Odorico's direct arm in the town hall is his secretary Dirceu Borboleta, a shy, stuttering and clumsy guy who hunts lepidoptera. The mayor's biggest supporters are the sisters Cajazeiras: Dorotéia, Dulcinéia and Judicéia. Old maids and false fools, each of them has a secret affair with Odorico, without one knowing the other, until Dulcinéia gets pregnant and the mayor arranges for the paternity of the baby to fall on the disconnected Dirceu.
Machiavellianly, Odorico plans the death of someone in the town so that his cemetery can be inaugurated. However, he is always unsuccessful. Neither the various suicide attempts by the depressed pharmacist Libório, all of which were thwarted, nor Zelão's desire to fly like a bird (and the expectation that he will crash to the ground), nor a shootout in the square, a crime or a dying man from the neighboring town make his dream come true, until the mayor comes up with the idea of having the famous killer Zeca Diabo brought to Sucupira to commission the job, no matter who the victim is. But Odorico didn't count on the professional killer regretting his criminal past and retiring, caring only about his old mother, his belief in Padre Cícero and his dream of becoming a dental surgeon.
Odorico also faces the idealistic doctor Juarez Leão, who is obstinate in his mission to save lives. Shaken by the trauma of losing his wife in his hands during surgery, the doctor drinks, but does a good job in Sucupira taking care of the people's health, much to the mayor's dismay. Juarez wins the heart of Telma, Odorico's temperamental daughter, who constantly criticizes her father's methods, suspecting that he was responsible for her mother's death.
The main plot of O Bem-Amado is based on a text written in the early 1960s by playwright Dias Gomes, who was inspired by a story told by journalist Nestor de Holanda. According to him, the singer Jorge Goulart, while performing in a town in Espírito Santo, heard from the locals that the mayor had built a cemetery, but was unable to inaugurate it because no one had died. So Gomes wrote the play Odorico, o Bem-Amado with the idea of staging it at the Brazilian Comedy Theater in São Paulo, whose director Flávio Rangel turned it down because he chose to perform another work.
In 1962, Claudia magazine commissioned a short story for its Christmas issue from Dias Gomes, who sent Odorico, o Bem-Amado. Benjamin Cattan, director and producer of TV de Vanguarda, a program on São Paulo's TV Tupi, requested authorization from the Brazilian Society of Theatrical Authors to produce and broadcast the play, which was shown in June 1964. The play premiered at the theater in Salvador, the capital of Bahia, in 1965, and went on to be toured in other cities and to great success.
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O Bem-Amado
O Bem-Amado (English: The Beloved) is a Brazilian telenovela that first aired on Rede Globo in 1973. It is based on a play by Dias Gomes called Odorico, o Bem-Amado ou Os Mistérios do Amor e da Morte, written in 1962. It was the first Brazilian color telenovela. It was shot in Rio de Janeiro.
A notable feature of this telenovela was its music, composed by Vinícius de Moraes and Toquinho.
Mayor Odorico Paraguaçu is a demagogue and corrupt politician who, with his inflammatory and verbose speeches, deludes the simple people of small Sucupira, on the coast of Bahia. The priority goal of his administration is the inauguration of the local cemetery, criticized by the opposition to his government, led by the Medrado family, who run the local police, the dentist Lulu Gouveia and the journalist Neco Pedreira, editor-in-chief of the newspaper A Trombeta.
Odorico's direct arm in the town hall is his secretary Dirceu Borboleta, a shy, stuttering and clumsy guy who hunts lepidoptera. The mayor's biggest supporters are the sisters Cajazeiras: Dorotéia, Dulcinéia and Judicéia. Old maids and false fools, each of them has a secret affair with Odorico, without one knowing the other, until Dulcinéia gets pregnant and the mayor arranges for the paternity of the baby to fall on the disconnected Dirceu.
Machiavellianly, Odorico plans the death of someone in the town so that his cemetery can be inaugurated. However, he is always unsuccessful. Neither the various suicide attempts by the depressed pharmacist Libório, all of which were thwarted, nor Zelão's desire to fly like a bird (and the expectation that he will crash to the ground), nor a shootout in the square, a crime or a dying man from the neighboring town make his dream come true, until the mayor comes up with the idea of having the famous killer Zeca Diabo brought to Sucupira to commission the job, no matter who the victim is. But Odorico didn't count on the professional killer regretting his criminal past and retiring, caring only about his old mother, his belief in Padre Cícero and his dream of becoming a dental surgeon.
Odorico also faces the idealistic doctor Juarez Leão, who is obstinate in his mission to save lives. Shaken by the trauma of losing his wife in his hands during surgery, the doctor drinks, but does a good job in Sucupira taking care of the people's health, much to the mayor's dismay. Juarez wins the heart of Telma, Odorico's temperamental daughter, who constantly criticizes her father's methods, suspecting that he was responsible for her mother's death.
The main plot of O Bem-Amado is based on a text written in the early 1960s by playwright Dias Gomes, who was inspired by a story told by journalist Nestor de Holanda. According to him, the singer Jorge Goulart, while performing in a town in Espírito Santo, heard from the locals that the mayor had built a cemetery, but was unable to inaugurate it because no one had died. So Gomes wrote the play Odorico, o Bem-Amado with the idea of staging it at the Brazilian Comedy Theater in São Paulo, whose director Flávio Rangel turned it down because he chose to perform another work.
In 1962, Claudia magazine commissioned a short story for its Christmas issue from Dias Gomes, who sent Odorico, o Bem-Amado. Benjamin Cattan, director and producer of TV de Vanguarda, a program on São Paulo's TV Tupi, requested authorization from the Brazilian Society of Theatrical Authors to produce and broadcast the play, which was shown in June 1964. The play premiered at the theater in Salvador, the capital of Bahia, in 1965, and went on to be toured in other cities and to great success.