Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made
1994 · 75 MIN · IMDB 6.8 · 456 VOTES · DIR. Mika Kaurismäki
Overview
In 1993, Sam Fuller takes Jim Jarmusch on a trip into Brazil's Mato Grosso, up the River Araguaia to the village of Santa Isabel Do Morro, where 40 years before, Zanuck had sent Fuller to scout a location and write a script for a movie based on a tigrero, a jaguar hunter. Sam hopes to find people who remember him, and he takes film he shot in 1954. He's Rip Van Winkle, and, indeed, a great deal changed in the village. There are televisions, watches, and brick houses. But, the same Karajá culture awaits as well. He gathers the villagers to show his old film footage, and people recognize friends and relatives, thanking Fuller for momentarily bringing them back to life.
Dialogue Timeline — 95 lines
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00:26:07 Yes.
00:26:49 We paint everything...
00:27:12 then charcoal.
00:27:58 Kuberene...
00:28:30 Kuberene was kind of a sad boy, but a good person.
00:28:51 Yes, they had families.
00:30:36 Immediately he remembered the wise advise of Kobehi, the oldest shaman:
00:31:17 We don't have...
00:31:33 being a human being, and about life.
00:31:51 of our culture, our language, our dances.
00:32:09 to change us into whites overnight.
00:32:32 not knowing how to live in this new situation...
00:32:53 By learning something from the whites, in the school.
00:33:08 We'll see if we will have to operate.
00:33:46 First in our language, Karaja, then in Portuguese.
00:34:00 because there we would learn only...
00:35:56 I liked it very much, I was very happy. It touched me.
00:36:20 I was very happy indeed.
00:36:36 I wish I could still see him.
00:37:01 when a crocodile attacked him.
00:37:20 He was steering the canoe.
00:37:38 right at his neck.
00:38:29 But for me the saddest thing is that I've lost my husband.
00:38:58 and the next morning we were husband and wife.