Coffin Joe: The Strange World of José Mojica Marins

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Holland W @RT88003026 04/12/2024 Grim, but overall I liked it! A remake in colour wood be nice! See more 05/08/2020 Marins was born in São Paulo, on March 13, 1936. His parents, of Spanish origin, were circus artists. He always loved comics and movies. His father became a cinema manager, which allowed the boy to develop his imagination in the dark of the cinema. At 12, he won a camera. He never stopped filming. Some of his artisanal films were even shown to paying audiences, which covered "production" expenses. At the age of 17, he founded the Companhia Cinematográfica Atlas. Recruiting actors he tested with insects and other animals, he discovered that his vocation was in eschatological terror. Adventure western and drama. José Mojica Marins did everything, throughout his career as an actor and director. But it was the terror that made him famous. It is one of those cases where the character overcame the author. Zé do Caixão in Brazil, "Coffin Joe" in the USA. Who doesn't know the sinister figure with long, curved nails? Even when his films stopped being successful - the last, the best produced of his career, was below expectations - the aura remained intact. People still stopped him on the street, wanted to take pictures, asked for autographs. In 1958, he launched his western caboclo, A Sina do Aventureiro (Adventurer's Fate). Six years later, "My Destiny in Your Hands" appeared, following the adventures of five children who fall on the road, fleeing their parents. The leader of the group sings, and the film follows the trend opened by the so-called golden nightingale, the Spanish child actor Joselito, who sang like no one else. In 1963, finally, it was time for "At Midnight I Will Take Your Soul". Marins repeatedly told the story of the genesis of Zé do Caixão. The character was created by him on October 11, 1963. Marins had dreamed, a terrible nightmare, of a figure that dragged him into a hole. Seeking to reproduce his affliction, he created Zé do Caixão and gave it this name based, as he said, on the legend of a being who lived millions of years ago on Earth and who became light, returning, like light, much later, to the home planet. The curious thing is that Marins was not satisfied with his own voice. He sensed that Zé do Caixão needed a special timbre just as he has a birth date; the character had a voice actor - Laércio Laurelli, who voiced a then popular Italian actor, Mario Carotenuto. Criticism fell to death, and so it continued in the following films. The public took on Zé do Caixão The recognition began abroad, even though Glauber Rocha, an icon of cinema in the country, was a pioneer in recognizing that there was something in that Zé do Caixão. Josefel Zanatas is the character's real name. Amoral and nihilistic, he acts as a funeral director. He is an obsessive unbeliever who does not believe in God or the Devil, but considers himself superior to others and seeks the perfect woman to conceive the perfect child. This perfection is never physical - it is a mental concept. For the visualization of Zanatas / Zé do Caixão, Marins was inspired by Max Schenk, protagonist of Nosferatu, by FW Murnau, from 1922. The character continued appearing in 1967 "This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse" and in 1968 "The Strange World of Zé do Caixão" plus The Trilogy of Terror and The Awakening of the Beast. In 2008, and with the help of friends, he concluded the trilogy that started with "At Midnight I Will Take Your Soul" and that continued with "This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse" with "Embodiment of Evil" that had a budget of R $ 1 million (220,000 US$), the highest in a film by Zé do Caixão, which was entitled to chic costumes, created by the stylist Alexandre Herchcovitch. Marins was invited to the Venice Film Festival and presented his film - of course - at midnight. Despite his fame, he never made much money from the terror. He became a folkloric figure, embarked on several genres (even porn). He presented Cine Trash on Brazilian TV, commanded "The Strange World" by Zé do Caixão on Canal Brazil. Many scholars believe that José Mojica Marins was not just a visceral name of the most popular Brazilian cinema. Due to his production methods and the connections at Boca do Lixo, he would also have been decisive for the emergence of marginal cinema. Source: "O Estado de Sao Paulo" newspaper. See more 08/16/2011 I can't say that I'm 100% sold on the man's work as a whole, but for sheer weirdness this one is an interesting watch, giving some behind the scenes of the influence that the man has had both in his own country as well as the world. Worth a look. See more 10/22/2010 Coffin Joe is a must see for those who dig movies that are not of the norm.Seen all his films.Big fan.Strange!!!! See more 07/03/2010 Biographical documentary boasts as its subject one of the most fascinating and outlandish cult figures imaginable: maverick filmmaker Jose Mojica Marins, which is why it's such a disappointment that the film itself is pretty lackluster. Great interviews with Marins and his collaborators relating their rough and tumble approach to filmmaking; but at just 65 minutes, it only alludes to events that would seem to be significant (Marins arrested? Marins runs for congress?). Fans of Marins will find a lot to appreciate, but his lurid life and career deserve more. See more 07/02/2010 A documentary about the life and times of Brazilian horror director and actor Jose Mojica Marins, aka Coffin Joe. The doc allows Marins the opportunity to justify the content of his films, which are full of graphic images of gore, sex and violence. Marins claims that he is a social commentator and was just trying to draw attention to the problems Brazil was having at the time -- prostitution, drugs, etc. I'm not convinced, unless the bestiality porn film he made after his horror career was over was a plea for humane treatment of animals. He may or may not have been trying to make a point with his films, but that doesn't take away from the fact that his films are crap....entertaining crap, but crap nonetheless. A somewhat informative but ultimately pointless doc. See more Read all reviews

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