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| Cartaz do filme "Raul Seixas - O início, o fim e o meio" |
Carvalho explained his thesis in an interview to the press conference on Monday (19), in Sao Paulo: "Raul, when he decided to leave Edith to marry another woman, in my mind I thought he [thought] could back and everything was ok, but she sent [to America]. He spent his life trying to get back to this woman, see her daughter, and never saw ... I think it helped the process of bohemia, self-destruction. "
The director also cites other passages narrated by the mother of Raul and the president of his fan club, Silvio Passos, who said he had seen the singer crying when talking about Edith. Currently, the first wife of crazy beauty lives in the United States, and refused to talk about the past for the documentary. The couple's daughter, Simone, does not speak Portuguese and says he does not remember his father.
Raul met Edith in adolescence. To convince her father, a Protestant pastor, that was a good party, the singer dropped his band at the time, "The Panthers" and the university entry exams. After they married, Raul returned to the band and went to Rio de Janeiro with his wife.
The film traces the singer's career from childhood in Bahia when he met Elvis Presley, until his death at age 44, suffered a cardiac arrest, a consequence of poor health by alcoholism and diabetes. The director sought to show new information about the artist, such as details of how he was a teenager. Carvalho was invited to direct the project, designed by Denis Beans, and says that what motivated him was the identification with the likes of Raul by Elvis Presley - the director says that was not a fan of the singer. "It was this bias that I discovered the value, the legacy of Raul Seixas. I did not chose Raul, Raul chose me," he says.
Chapman took a year and six months to summarize about 400 hours of recording a movie in two hours. In the material contained over ninety interviews, including reports from friends, family, fans and your partner most illustrious and controversial, Paulo Coelho. The writer has defined the friendship between the two as a marriage "sexless". "I had friendship, companionship ... just did not have sex."
For the filmmaker, the success of the singer was an unexplained phenomenon, Raul and he defines as a "meteor." "There are people that come to pass quickly, Raul is a meteor. If we do the math, 72 to 89 is 17 years, who's made this success, selling discs that sold and continues to do today? Roberto Carlos is 50 years in the parade. Caetano, Gil, we have all got old, you are getting. He died physically old, but was only 44 years. "
Chapman took a year and six months to summarize about 400 hours of recording a movie in two hours. In the material contained over ninety interviews, including reports from friends, family, fans and your partner most illustrious and controversial, Paulo Coelho. The writer has defined the friendship between the two as a marriage "sexless". "I had friendship, companionship ... just did not have sex."
For the filmmaker, the success of the singer was an unexplained phenomenon, Raul and he defines as a "meteor." "There are people that come to pass quickly, Raul is a meteor. If we do the math, 72 to 89 is 17 years, who's made this success, selling discs that sold and continues to do today? Roberto Carlos is 50 years in the parade. Caetano, Gil, we have all got old, you are getting. He died physically old, but was only 44 years. "
