You might have heard that Comic-Con 2010 started yesterday in San Diego, and that Sylvester Stallone’s new movie, “The Expendables,” made its unofficial debut there. While that in itself is probably not worth mentioning, what’s interesting is the fact that Stallone managed to get a whole lot of people angry by joking about filming in Brazilian locations and the local violence. So because of that, a lot of people are considering the movie an attempt by Stallone to “denigrate the Brazilian image,” and are campaigning against it.

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Why am I mentioning this, and why do I believe the anger is not justified? Well, first of all, nobody has seen the movie yet. And second, Stallone’s comments about violence in (some parts of) Brazil are pretty accurate. I for example don’t know another country where 10 women are killed every day in domestic violence. Also, Rio is by far one of the most violent cities in the world, with an extremely high rate of killing: 50 for 100,000 inhabitants. Brazil itself has a rate of 23, while the US has 6.2 and the UK only 0.7 – source. If that does not make Brazil somewhat violent, I don’t know what does.

Anyway, whatever it was that Stallone said in the “offensive” interview wasn’t a political statement and shouldn’t have been taken as such. But it’s the internet and a lot of people are bored and/or oversensitive about stuff, so yeah… I can see where the angry mob is coming from.

And besides, The Expendables looks like it’s going to be the manliest movie ever made, with tons of action, explosions and an exceptional action-star cast. Why hate on it?



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  • http://armannd.com/ Titus-Armand

    The site you based your information on has ads on it and is ran by an amateur. The first rule of internet research: never use sites with ads on them. Please stop being naive.

    And Sangari _is_ an official Brazilian organization. You talked about education in another comment. Maybe you should educate yourself about what's going on in your country. I live over the ocean and seem to know more about it than you do.

  • Diego Andollini

    Americans… you think the world it´s you only..
    Fuck you all. You have more money then half part of the World, and still you have violent places like where the black and poor people leaves… There are so many rich people, but still you couldn´t stop the suffering of your own people.
    Fuck you all… Our police uses a Skull as a simbol, you stupid, a simbol that means the fight agaist the death. Stallone and all you bastards should research things before say something…

  • Juliocesargama

    Again and at last. Sangari is NOT AN OFFICIAL BRAZILIAN ORGANIZATION. And YOU, must apply you comments about educate YOURSELF, instead to talk as your words are true, just because you are saying… This is bullshit man.

  • http://armannd.com/ Titus-Armand

    I’m sorry, but you appear to be too stupid for this conversation.

  • No_Bullshit

    As a Brazilian I must say:
    Pacific country as fuck! You are not a mate at all.
    You are just another stupid Brazilian who speaks English as your brain start to stinks. You idiot, Bronx and Favela are really different at all. Grow up! Brazil and Brasil are really different but you don’t accept it:
    Brazil: um bando de gente sem o minimo de amor a patria que preferem se destruir e roubar do que guerriar contra a ditadura de “Brasilia e Rede Globo” (sem falar na Petrobas). Entram em um ringue e mostram que sao bons mas quando teem de lutar de verdade sao tudo uns bundoes. Brasileiras sao mulheres lindas que merecem muito mais do que os brasileiros estao oferecendo e veem sendo tratadas e esse eh o ponto do filme (seu burro). ps: me fale qual pais no Mundo evoluiu sem guerra principalmente guerra civil?
    Brasil: tudo lindo. ficam reclamando do governo a mais de decadas mesmo tendo vindo de um golpe militar encoberto pela Rede Globo e seus personagens politicos. Acham que a vida eh soh festa principalmente em Brasilia.
    Bom quer saber, vc eh muito ignorante e mentiroso. Quer justificar sua acomodacao? O BraSil eh um pai$ de pouco$ e para pouco$.
    “We do not have any, i repeat any, country, state, tribe, religion, organization or group of people focused on make our lives worst, legally or illegally, with protests or bombs or planes…” claro que nao, vc eh um bundao que nem sabe como lutar por um pais melhor ou pela simples liberdade.
    Voce sabe o que sobre as leis de imigracao no Brasil? Sabe o que sobre a historis do Brasil em especial sobre o militarismo. Voce sabe o que sobre Favelas sendo que voce compara isso com o Bronx porem o mundo inteiro sabe que Favela soh tem no Brasil e na Africa? A Rede Globo nao te ensinou isso, menino? A Xuxa ensinou as meninas a se comportarem ou o Galvao ensinou os meninos a odiarem os argentinos?
    Ah que um exemplo: quantas vezes vc foi apra a Amazonia? Sabe que o recorde de nado no Rio Amazonas eh de um Ingles? Voce por acaso parou para pensar que o Stallone nada mas fez do que um comentario “legal” perto do que realmente falando do Brasil?
    E agora temos os caras da Copa do Mundo pedindo desculpas para o povo. Esse pais esta sendo administrado por pessoas ridiculas porem que estao fazendo um bom trabalho em deixar o povo preso e cego sobre o que realmente acontece no mundo e pricipalmente no pais.
    Vergonha dessa “historia do pais”.
    Btw: speak the truth or make your piece some other way.
    “Is just because we are a pacific country.” Ok brow, so take your camera and your iPhone and make a movie where I can see you walking on the streets at SP or RJ using this phone and then brow, send it to if you still have the camera with the movie. Palhacada isso neh? Ah nao, vc ja acostumou a ser enganado ou viver “esperto” nas ruas.

  • No_bullshit

    “We do not have any, i repeat any, country, state, tribe, religion, organization or group of people focused on make our lives worst, legally or illegally, with protests or bombs or planes…” Yes you right. What you have is a television channel and a bunch of politics doing that on your on soil.
    What is the difference? Only mans protests with bombs or planes, cowards use television and the police against their own people.
    Tenho cada vez mais nojo e doh dos meus pais quando estudo a fundo a historia da Rede Globo, opa me enganei, do Brasil. Ah e aposto que como bons brasileiros assim que a Rede Globo te oferecer emprego voce aceita, nao eh?!
    “thinking locally, thinking that be strong, be rich, have things or money, is the top of the world… grow up phillipe, the world and humanity is not such kind of kindergarten words… we do not need USA help by the way” hahahaha Brazilians don’t need help and you know why. They just don’t know nothing about evolution.

  • No_bullshit

    I can guaranty Brazil is the biggest shit when talking about “we know what is happen in my country”.

    I funny thing: Stallone made heaps of movies around the world and he never had a similar problem like in Brazil. The people from the world need to realize the people from Brazil don’t understand what the world know: Brazil is a big prison for its own people as North Korea as well. The only difference between NKorea and Brazil is:the Brazilian people do not accept the fact they are living in a prison as they have a cooked brains by a channel television. (you can use this in a song because its rhyme when in Portuguese). Envia esse refrao para o seu idolo Falcao do O Rappa. Ele eh um belo exemplo de lider que nao leva o povo a nada mas apenas a dancar e cantar. Que linda essa revolucao.

  • Barbara

    I have to say one thing. Brazil is not made only of Rio de Janeiro. Rio is only a small part of Brazil. Our country is really big, one of the biggest. So please don’t think that all the cities are like Rio, don’t base your opinion in that. There are so many good places with not much of that violence.

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