| FILM | Preference(/10) | Memorable Scene | Film Element Focus |
| City of God (Meirelles, Lund, 2002) | 8/10 | Lil Dice grows up Montage | Editing |
| Rome, Open City (Rosselini, 1945) | 3/10 | Sound | |
| Pan’s Labyrinth (2006, Del Toro) | 8/10 | Pale Man chase sequence | Mise en Scene |
City of God’s “Lil Dice/Lil Ze” sequence begins at 00:38:48, and ends at 00:43:48 (exactly 5 minutes), detailing the point from Lil Ze correcting Blacky on his new name, through the narration of his story growing up, to his being newly Christened as Ze in the alleyway.
Film elements I want to focus on in my writing include Editing (the montage elements are very clever, there’s a lot to talk about there), Sound (the use of music especially corresponds to the sequence’s momentum), Influences (Quentin Tarantino is important, as well as one can use this space to blend the referencing of cultural context, and the autobiography the movie is adapting – as well as the Lund documentary News from a Private War, which features one of CoG’s directors and covers the same topics of crime in Brazilian favelas) and Critical Reception (incidents with drug arrests in and around movie showings at the time harshly painted how the movie was seen in Brazil at the time, links again into context)
Links to remember:
https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/14797/who-is-this-man-changing-the-name-of-little-dice-to-lill-z (not a source but contains one)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26996489 (worth looking at)
Wikipedia stuff about Candomble (look into Wiki’s citations)
and Wikipedia stuff about Olurun
of course also Wiki stuff on City of God itself (and more importantly the sites it cites, provided they remain accessible)
https://books.google.je/books?id=bwYlDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA93&lpg=PA93&dq=lil+ze+necklace&source=bl&ots=KPPL8H-lE0&sig=ACfU3U0wNhn7Um-NTbNSdNFqkQVu28vzjg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi8lKOtvqHzAhWTSsAKHSpmA5UQ6AF6BAgfEAM#v=twopage&q&f=false
Source-News From a Personal War (on DVD featurettes, Lund, 1997??)
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-jan-24-et-munoz24-story.html
Score by Antonio Pinto – “Meu Nome e Ze” – free on Soundcloud (and on Spotify but on there it won’t play in UK) – https://soundcloud.com/antonio-pinto/14-meu-nome-ze?in=antonio-pinto/sets/city-of-god
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-23333368
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-latin-america-12801078
City of God 10 years on, Source documentary
https://www.worldcat.org/title/new-brazilian-cinema/oclc/55808559
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2003/jan/03/artsfeatures2
https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/city-god-review/
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/city-of-god-2003
https://www.gamesradar.com/the-total-film-interview-robert-altman/
https://www.top10films.co.uk/1712-review-city-of-god/
https://introductiontocinema.wordpress.com/2016/05/03/pulp-fictioncity-of-god/
https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/city-of-gods-an-interview-with-fernando-meirelles/
https://nextbillion.net/city-of-gods/
http://archive.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2008/02/29/city_of_men_is_a_safer_return_to_rio/