The Summer Olympic Games in Rio De Janeiro are imminent and the world will focus on the Brazilian city for a month lapping up everything to do with it and the South American country. True to form, Tokyo Fox is most interested in filming locations and over the years there have been a handful of movies featuring Brazil though it has to be said they were not all filmed there!
Here then, in no particular order, is the Tokyo Fox top 10……films “set” in Brazil…
1. Fast Five (2011) – The film that really propelled this franchise into the big time following on from four fairly average films in the series. Thanks to aerial shots and quick editing many viewers were deceived into thinking it was the real Rio but it was actually filmed in Puerto Rico as their government offered some very beneficial tax incentives to influence the decision to film there. The locals were unimpressed with the Rio stereotypes that included heavily armed drug traffickers, corrupt police, laughable accents and sexy women.
2. Moonraker (1979) – Bond confronts antagonist Jaws on a cable car going up Sugar Loaf mountain. The atmosphere shots of the Rio Carnival were filmed a year before the film itself was shot but the ‘Brazilian’ training camp was actually Continue reading
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