Bom Dia Para Morrer | Duro De Matar- Um

Why? Because Tostão accidentally swallowed a lottery ticket worth 50 million cruzeiros reais. The Gringo wants the ticket. Tostão just wants aspirin and a coffee.

Let’s be clear: this has nothing to do with John McClane. The title is a glorious act of opportunistic piracy. With the global success of Die Hard with a Vengeance , some enterprising producer in São Paulo slapped a phonetic translation onto a screenplay about a hungover ex-cop named . DURO DE MATAR- UM BOM DIA PARA MORRER

By the final showdown, as the sun rises (the same sunset stock footage from A Grande Família ), Tostão throws The Gringo into a swimming pool full of piranhas that were never foreshadowed. He finds the lottery ticket, now dissolved into pulp in his pocket. He sighs. The parrot, revealed to be an undercover police informant (don’t ask), gives him a thumbs up with its wing. Tostão just wants aspirin and a coffee

The soundtrack is a loop of one forgotten 80s samba-rock riff and the sound of a car horn honking for 15 seconds. With the global success of Die Hard with

The plot, such as it is: Tostão wakes up in a motel in the outskirts of Osasco. He doesn’t remember his name, why he’s wearing a dirty sertanejo hat, or why a parrot is pecking at a detonator on the nightstand. The motel is called Bom Dia (“Good Morning”). The villain, a corrupt real estate developer known only as (cult actor Cláudio Marzo, clearly drunk), has wired the entire motel to explode at 10:00 AM.

By J. Oliveira | Retrospective Cinema

Where to find it: Buried under a crate of Guaraná Antarctica in a defunct video rental store in Lapa.