"BASED ON THE BOOK BY DARCY RIBEIRO" ""THE BRAZILIAN PEOPLE"" ""Urubu is the oldest Village in the dry lands" "My Virgin, my life I won't be back there no more" "I won't be back there no more" "Like the days on these green lands My sad cow" "Buriti, blue water Carnauba, salt of the ground" "Wide river banks The guitar of solitude" "When it flew away to battle It took my heart with it" "Another component in Brazil." "Which is entirely unique." "Is the one created by the raising of cattle." ""In the dry lands, or the caatinga, as the Indians used to say." "Gray stone chaos carved on the dry terracotta ground." "Harsh, wavy and tragic landscape which spreads to the infinite. "" "DRY LAND BRAZIL" "There is a serious of extreme conditions." "The most extreme of them is the one in the Northeast." "Because the caatinga is an extremely hostile environment." "The temperatures are high, there is no rain." "And, when the rain comes, it comes in an irregular fashion." "The ground is so shallow and stony that the water can't penetrate." "It is the hardest-to-live environment in Brazil." "And it is where people are better adapted." "They managed to create their own culture." "Not only spiritually, but materially, with the cattle raising." "Which is extremely important and interesting." "The cows and the bulls came with the European settlers." "And they were kept near the mills to provide the owners with meat." "But they had to build fences, because cattle are tricky animals." "They cut through the fences and eat the sugarcane crops." "So they decided to keep the cattle away from the mills." "And leaving it in a big area." "The biggest one in Brazil, and they were all natural passages." "Most of them were useless because there was no water to be found." "That's where the dryness of the Northeast comes from." ""In the dry lands, then in the caatingas and later in the plains." "They developed a pastoral economy associated with sugar." "As a provider of meat, leather and animal work force." "It has always been and independent and poor economy." "Pastoral activities shaped not only the life." "But the image itself of the cattle man."" "They would take the cattle where there was water." "They would leave it there, with the cowboy." "And the cattle would grow." "Cattle is a comparable to the slaves as a merchandise:" "It reproduces itself." "When there were too many cows, they'd build another corral." "So, the corrals and the dry land inhabitants multiplied." "And they were different." ""The dry land man comes from blending Amerindians and mixed white people." "Who have traveled between São Paulo and Bahia." "And extended the agricultural boundaries." "He was raised facing the perennial menace of the sun." "Which slides across the sky no matter what the season is." "Bringing successive cycles of devastation and disgrace." "The dry land man is doomed to live." "He grew strong, smart, resigned and practical." "Early on, he was ready to struggle. "" "When we talk about the Northeastern culture, we think of music." "Of Padre Cícero, of saints and drawings." "But, actually, living in the dry lands." "Is a remarkable feat, and it all started in the 18th century." "With the corrals in Piauí." "You know that old rhyme:" ""My cow is dead, and now I'm too." "Send me a new one from Piauí."" "In Piauí, they started to extensively raise cattle." "That's what you do in the Northeast." "There's no way to grow crops there." "Those who think dry lands are ugly come from the city, the beaches." "They are used to the type of beauty that has to do with grace." "The beaches are pretty, but their beauty has to do." "With grace." "The beauty of the dry lands has to do with grandeur." "The dry lands are grand and terrible, sometimes." "Because its beauty has a different, strange, but strong connotation." ""Of leather are the doors of the shacks, the rough bed on the floor." "Of leather, the ropes, the bucket to carry water." "The bag where you carry food." "The suitcase to store your clothes, the backpack to mount a horse." "The knife handles, the trekking suit." "To the swamps." "They would carry sand using leather ties on cattle." "They used leather to store their sniffing tobacco. "" "The Northeastern culture, of the dry lands culture." "Is directed related to the medieval world, the medieval tradition." "Many scholars talk about the archaism, the medieval tone." "In the language of the dry land man." "A clear example of that is the challenge... the poetry, the challenge between Northeastern minstrels." "The religious dimension in the dry land is obviously medieval... due to its lack of skepticism, its quest for the Promised Land... it's judeo-Christian millennialism, which is a medieval factor." "That's very alive in their every mystical expression." "One can say it was born in the dry lands Brazil." "The crossbreed, mameluco and caboclo Sebastianism." "I think that goes for everything in the Northeastern tradition." "In the dry land, there's the secular monopoly of land estate." "Owned by colonels carrying knifes and rifles." "If you take a look at the estate map of the State of Pernambuco." "You'll see the ecology of the place." "The Atlantic Jungle area belonged to the sugarcane crops." "The sugarcane was an industry." "The larger the capital, the larger the land." "In the dry lands, instead, you see one cow in two acres." "To have a farm, you have to have a lot of land." ""The dry season approaches." "With the dusk, the afternoons are smaller and lighter." "And the dry land man sadly gazes, flying around in the skies." "The first flocks of migrating birds, leaving for better climates." "That's the omen of his own disgrace. "" "In the silence of the afternoon An omen" "Calling the dry season" "Calling the dry season" "Ah, cauã." "The riot of land against man, the ruin of the farms." "The spectral cattle, barely alive." "Lying under the dead trees." "Dead cows, intact, because not even the vultures want them. "" ""Any cowboy knows, by his own experience... how conflicting is the ability to help a sick bull." "And the inability to medicate his sick child."" "I'm keeping my promise, "padinho Ciço"!" "Don't let the poor ones starve to death!" ""The dry land vigilante, running as a crazy snake." "Represents the victory of instinct over hunger." "An inappropriate result of the strength." "To fight against calamity and its tragic effects." "In order to understand the caatinga." "We have to think on a wider basis, which would be." "The colonel power in dry land Brazil." "The colonel was the head of a paragovernmental device." "With his own troops of militants." "He was the law and, at the ame time, he was above the law." "I killed many of them and I watched many of them die." "But I'm not sure how many." "Catingueira, Natina, Sabonete." "Azulão, Cangica, Zabelê." "They were the lords of life and death for the locals." "The dry land vigilante is someone who used to lead a normal life." "But who ends up stumbling upon the power of the colonel." "Usually because his father got killed or his sister was raped." "Instead of swallowing it and bending before the power of the colonel." "He fights it back using the only way he knows how:" "Violence." "Guimarães Rosa says something beautiful about the violence." "In the dry land Brazil:" ""The dry land is where the smartest one rules." "God himself should go there heavily armed." "Because a bullet is nothing but a piece of metal"." "Saint George lent me his spear to kill the evil giant." "Here it is!" "The guy who challenges a colonel may show off his lack of fear." "Through his long hair, his Solomon stars." "His jewelry covered fingers." "His cartridge belt made of the puma fur." "Maria Bonita lives in our memory as an example of beauty and vanity." "Lampião was multimedia." "He worked with leather, he played instruments, he was a writer." "For her, Lampião himself wrote:" ""I've had my lovers, my passions" "I've loved a lovely flower Born in my home town" "I dreamt of enjoying life By my loved one's side" "And to her I gave my heart"" "Despite this tragic picture." "We can't forget the happiness of the dry land people." "It is a happy and festive area." "The "cangaço" was a colorful party." "The dry man land is simple, naïve, willing." "And very superstitious." "The Northeaster religion has more to do with superstition than with faith." "They mix ghosts, angels, demons." "It's very unique." "It's not a revealed religion." ""The creepy legends of evil Caapora." "Of red hooded Sacis." "Of werewolves and Headless Joes." "Of haunting apparitions, of evil temptations." "Of fantastic apparitions." "Of every prophecy. "" ""Padre Cícero in Juazeiro do Norte." "Saint of Jaguaripe, Pedra Bonita, the Counselor in Canudos." "In the dry lands, religion is as tragic and covered in horns." "As tortured by the sun as the landscape. "" ""You know what silence is?" "It is us, for too long. "" "Those people spread themselves." "And they adopted the Catholic faith coming from Portugal... and they started to talk about." "This king who had died." "Dom Sebastião was killed by the Arabs in the Crusades." "And he was ready to return and triumph." "Along with his knights, and save everybody in the dry lands." "Cults started to arise, and people would take their children." "To wash stones away with the blood of innocents." "Believing it would cause the king and his knights to come." "All those different beliefs." "Floated around the person of the Counselor." "In fact, the Northeast is an expulsive region." "Hence, the unstoppable migrating movements." ""With the population rising." "The cattle zones became people breeding zones." "Where contingents of work forces are generated." "Under the requirements of other regions in the country." "So they went to the new agricultural farms in the South." "And to the growing urban masses." "Every time a cycle in construction and industrialization." "Required unqualified work forces. "" "I see Brazil ever more uniformed." "By transportation and information." "I went to Itaquera once, and I ended up at a forró dance." "Anyone could look at it and think they were in Jequié." "Because of all those people dancing to the sound of forró." "Brazil is getting more and more blended." "If you go to Acre, there are many towns called Fortaleza, Quixadá." "Not to mention those who were named after wishful thinking in Ceará:" "Good Intentions, Good Future, Workup." "Brazil is a country on wheels." "The dry land people invented "baião", built cities... and gave the world the term "luar", which means "moonlight"." "This is the Portuguese from Brazil." "The dry lands is not only a depository of old things." "Where we go to rescue things." "That are dying or are about to vanish." "These people are not trapped in time." "If you listen to the Northeastern music." "Which is very alive in many places thanks to a large number of poets." "And to sophisticated resources." "What are the most frequent themes?" "Science, Genetics." "War, all of that." "It's not like." "We are modern and we are able to use such information." "To make our modernity more complex." "But the thing itself is modern and complex." "In a challenge, they have to think fast." "They have to sample different poetic speeches." "They have to gather information in an amazing way." "This is the hardest way of life in Brazil and." "Of course it has influenced our culture." "With its creative but very often retrograde thinking." "I was in Bahia the other day." "And a Congressman was being rudely interviewed." "And the reporter asked him:" ""Did you hire your daughter for a job she's not fit for?"" "He said: "Yes and, in 18 years, I'll hire her son." "Because my family is my business", and the whole crew applauded." "The Northeast is a social environment where you can have, at the same time." "Ariano Suassuna and Fernando Collor." "Being in the dry land is like being, thinking and accepting the infinite." "That notion can serve us... as a warning and an antidote." "To the contemporary's world small tribal mind." "Which is resumed to a consumption scenario:" ""I have my shopping malls, you have yours"." "A shopping mall is very small." "That notion of no boundaries... is a way of enjoying the world." "And not limit yourself to your own street." "Everybody thinks the Northeast is just about the dry season." "But they're wrong." "The Northeast has banks of permanent rivers, like the São Francisco." "Which now is the best place in the world for crops." "Of vineyards, and they make wine." "And for crops of many different fruits." "So, there's a Northeast that receives a bit of water." "And acts accordingly." ""The dry lands do not call anyone." "They just hide themselves and wave." "The dry lands are everywhere." "They are inside of us. "" "That shines in the North" "The white wing When it heard the roar of the thunder" "It went back to the dry lands" "I'm leaving now To take care of my crops" "The dry season Caused me to leave my hometown" "But now God has remembered" "To send some rain To this suffering land" "The dry lands of good women And hard-working men" "The rivers run The waterfalls roar" "The earth is wet The trees are green" "And the white wing Sings in the afternoon" "The people are happy The nature is happier" "When I feel the rain on my face It reminds me of Rosinha" "That beautiful flower Of my Pernambuco town"