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WHO KILLED PIXOTE?

SÃO PAOLO, AUGUST 25, 1 987 - 1 0:00 AM

A FILM LIKE THIS CANNOT BE MADE WITHOUT REPERCUSSIONS

...AND THE TALE OF PIXOTE

And now, Ladies and gentlemen...

EIGHT yEARS EARLIER...

I shall change my assistant into a terrifying wild beast.

All he has to do is say the magic words.

Brave lad, say: Abracadabra.

Say: Abracadabra.

No, you idiot! I said, repeat the word!

Say: Abracadabra.

I'll say it myself!

And he will change into a wild beast.

Hocus-pocus... bungalow...

And the wild beast within you now shall show!

you idiot! What sort of a wild beast is that?

- A zebra, of course. - Go, go and get the money!

Fernando!

My mother!

y ou drive me mad! As soon as i turn my back, you run off !

How can i work if i have to keep an eye on you all the time?

Two, the lucky number! Two, the lucky number!

What's your name?

- Can i take a picture of you? - Sure.

What's your name? Why are you taking his picture?

To put him in the papers as a street urchin?

He has a family.

I'm sorry, but i'm not a reporter.

So why do you want a picture of him?

I work for a film producer and we need children for a movie.

I just thought your son might take part.

- Are you serious? - Of course i'm serious.

He'll go a long way.

He'll be a star. He'll be a blazing comet!

And she told me to take

Fernando to her office to do a test.

She even gave me her card. Look!

Just think, Cafu! Fernando a movie actor!

With his face, it'd have to be a horror film! Frankenstein...

Antonio Carlos! Is that a way to talk?

No hard feelings. Shake!

I hope you get rich and famous.

At least the grub here will get better.

Get down to work.

OK? It is all right?

- What's your name? - It's written down there.

I know, but i want you to say it.

- What for? - To get to know each other.

Fernando. Please do know you.

He's smart... and very expressive.

- Where do you live? - At my mother's.

- Is it far? - No.

What? Don't you live in Diadema?

If you know, why do you ask?

- y ou mean, it isn't far? - Far from here. There it's close.

See? He's smart.

And he looks right.

Riddled with disease, tape worms. . .

I like him. He's just right.

Fernando's gone crazy, Mum!

He's playing the movies.

We're in the shit and he wants to be a movie actor!

And what about the dough?

I'm supposed to go back to settle that.

Cut!

That's great!

Now, just one more with more anger.

- OK, Fernando? - OK.

Back to your positions!

Action!

- Did i do it right? - y ou were great.

- Shall i do it again? - No. That was fine.

- Can i eat something now? - Sure, Fernando.

y ou eat a lot for such a little runt, Pixote.

My name is Fernando.

After the film is released, no one will remember your real name.

y ou'll be Pixote forever!

PIXOTE SURVIVAL OF THE WEAKEST

- Can you stay on for an interview? - Of course.

So, what are your plans?

We'll buy a house of our own.

- What about you? - He's always wanted a bicycle.

- Is that what you want? - Go on, tell them, go on!

All right, Mum, i want steak and French fries.

Steak and French fries.

FERNANDO, THE REVELATION OF A GREAT ''PIXOTE''

PATHOS OF FERNANDO DA SILVA MOVES AUDIENCES TO TEARS

FERNANDO, A CONSCIENTIOUS ACTOR

''PIXOTE'', BEST FILM OF 1980

NEVER HAS SADNESS HAD SUCH SUCCESS

FOR SALE

LOS ANGELES CRITICS' AWARD FOR ''PIXOTE''

''PIXOTE'', AWARD-WINNER IN FRANCE

REAL ESTATE AGENC y DIADEMA

TWO AWARDS FOR ''PIXOTE'' IN BIARRITZ

''PIXOTE'' RETURNS FROM ABROAD WITH 10 AWARDS

FERNANDO, A STAR AT 1 2

How old did you say you were?

1 4.

I mean, 15.

I've just turned fifteen. Haven't got used to it yet.

y ou've certainly grown!

How old were you when we made the film? Nine? Ten?

- How time flies! - It wasn't that long ago!

So, what's the part like? Is it good?

Great! The director wants someone young and talented.

This one would be perfect.

But as this one, Fernando,

only if we had a time machine and went back five years.

So, how many films are you doing today, ''James Dean?''

Stop that! Leave him alone.

y ou spoil him. He's been going on about movies for five years,

and where's the money?

If it wasn't for me, what would you all be eating?

All those old newspapers with his picture you keep?

They're not even fit for wiping your arse on!

y ou mind your tongue! We have this house thanks to him!

Thanks to the money he earned from the movie.

Otherwise you'd be sleeping under a bridge!

So i'll have to support him for the rest of his life?

yet i still have to thank my dear brother for this marvellous house?

Forget it, Mum. He's just jealous.

Don't provoke him!

Jealous of what? Answer me!

y es, jealous! i did something you could never do!

What did you do that's so great? What's so wonderful about it?

A third-rate movie!

I'd Iike to see you be a real delinquent!

y ou go risk your life to put food on the table!

But you don't need to. y ou're a film star!

But i have to dirty my hands and Mum doesn't glve a shlt!

That's enough!

l've lost my appetite.

y ou have my steak, glamour boy.

you come back here!

It's time i learnt to keep my mouth shut.

Eat!

Don't shoot, fuck! It's me, Fernando!

What are you doing here?

- What are you doing here? - Shut up and get in!

Stop it! Stop, Cafu!

I could have killed you.

Why did you come after me? Why didn't you stay at home?

Sorry.

Did i hurt you?

Of course not.

Let me see. I don't want Mummy's little boy to go home with a black eye.

No, it's OK.

I could have shot you.

Forget it.

Now you know where the steaks at home come from.

- How long you been doing this? - How long you been eating meat?

- Don't you get scared? - Scared of what?

The cops.

Life's short.

Good or bad, we all end up eaten by the worms.

I'd rather go to hell on a full stomach!

Now you're in the know, what are you going to do?

Me?

Do you want in? What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

I don't want trouble. I'm an actor.

An actor, Fernando? y ou an actor?

y ou know, Fernando,

it really pisses me off,

watching you run after those guys! Why put yourself down?

No way they're going to ask you to do another movie.

They wouldn't do that.

They already have, except you won't see.

They've sucked you dry and used you,

but when it comes to giving you your share, they kick you out!

What did you get out of the movie? Fame? Can you eat that?

I'll show you how to make a lot of money. I mean, a lot!

It may not be right,

but it's better than dreaming of being a poor James Dean.

What a car, brother! Big money!

If you want, i'll set you up right now. We'd be partners.

Leave it to me. I'm your biggest fan.

But tell your mother to stop feeding you so much.

y ou're getting too big.

Can you tide me over?

What happened to all the money you made? Stars are never broke.

OK, here you are. But that's the last time, Pixote.

Get under it.

Tell me, Iracema,

that story about your son being an actor, is it true?

My wife has been glued to the TV for over three years,

but your son's never appeared in any soap opera.

y ou're just dumb!

Did i say my son was on TV?

He's a movie actor!

If they have movies in your country,

they showed it there and they loved it!

The little devil's been a real success abroad.

But he hasn't been much of a success here, has he?

If you really want to get out of this lousy life,

you should bet on your other son.

Antonio Carlos?

Right. He knows how to make money.

And what do you mean by that?

Me? Nothing.

But i can sense that he has a winning streak.

yes, he's a hard worker, i must say.

He's quick and he is pretty sly.

And what's with you, huh?

Got the day off just to pester me? Didn't sleep well?

If you hadn't held me back, I'd have killed that faggot!

He's jealous because he can't have kids and i've got six.

What's the matter, sweetie-pie? What happened?

y ou didn't get any work, did you?

Don't worry, life's like that.

Sometimes things look bad.

Sooner or later they'll realize you're the best actor in Brazil

and they'll come begging on their knees.

One day, i promise you,

I'll get you out of this lousy life.

I'll earn lots of money.

And then you'll see,

your life will change.

Do you promise?

Well, Fernando, we have two choices.

Get some job,

work ten hours a day to get the minimum wage...

God forbid!

Or find some old queen to back us.

y ou're good looking. y ou could be rolling in it.

Count me out!

Then there's only one way.

What the fuck are you trying to do to me?

y ou mean, that stuff in the film was only pretend?

- Where did you get that from? - It's easy to get this here.

Do you want to get fucked?

We have to earn a living. No factories for me!

And i'm too ugly to be a hustler.

Do you have the courage?

Here's all the courage i need.

Know what i'm thinking?

No, i don't. What the fuck are you thinking?

I'm fucked. No one remembers me anymore.

I haven't even been called in as an extra.

I need to be in the papers and on TV.

No one knows who Pixote is anymore.

And Cafu is supporting the household all by himself.

I know how to do it, Kiko. It's easy.

It's just like in the film.

y ou don't even need to rehearse.

y ou do it just like Pixote did.

We'll have a good time!

I can even see it!

''The Return of Pixote.''

- Keep still! Shut up! - My baby!

I'll give him to you. Quiet. Here!

We won't be able to carry it all anyway.

We should share it, fifty-fifty.

Keep quiet!

Darling!

Lie down on the floor! Lie down!

Please, my family!

y ou take the stereo, i take the TV.

Get them!

Son of a bitch, you'll fuck us!

Get them! Get them! Stop thief!

- Wake up! The cops! - Let me go!

They said there were two.

Don't you recognize him, Lobato? That's Pixote!

Pixote!

Well, what do you know? It is him!

At last we've caught a celebrity! A movie actor!

So, you've become a thief in real life!

So, life really does imitate art!

What do you want with my son? He didn't do anything!

Do you recognize him?

Tell me,

the guy that shot at you...

It was him, wasn't it?

I couldn't really see.

Take a good look. The other one got away.

If you don't accuse him, he'll be back on the streets.

Help me nail this son of a bitch.

Forgive my language, but he really is a son of a bitch.

That's just what i needed.

Did you think you were in a film?

Have you really turned to a life of crime?

What did you feel playing Pixote?

What did you do after ''Pixote?'' Were you really a vagrant?

Were you really at a reform school?

Cida, do you want to meet Pixote or not?

Fernando, Lucia.

His name is Fernando Ramos da Silva.

A great actor!

Isn't he sweet?

y es, he's lovely. Do you want to meet him or not?

y es, i do!

- He's being held in the precinct. - Held?

Haven't you heard, Cida? Armed robbery! It was on TV.

So, do you want to meet Pixote or not?

Aren't you a bit young to mix with criminals?

He's not a criminal.

He's a famous actor.

Come here, sweetheart.

Hey, movie actor!

There's a fan here who wants an autograph!

I don't want to see anyone!

What do you see in him?

He's really ugly!

y ou think he's John Travolta?

y ou think he has a mansion with swimming pool?

This boy is dangerous.

He's already killed three or four guys.

That's a lie! I've never killed anyone!

Just a matter of time, Pixote!

My name isn't Pixote! It's Fernando.

- It was your name in the movie. - In the movie.

It's all the same thing.

Come on! Visiting time's over.

Time's up!

Forget it. Actors always wear a mask.

PIXOTE ARRESTED FOR ROBBERy

- Why did you arrest that boy? - He's a thief, he confessed.

I know your methods.

Just squeeze him and he'd confess he killed the Pope.

Couldn't you have picked up a boy no one gives a damn about?

But why choose some little shit

who was in a well-known movie?

The phone doesn't stop ringing.

A judge, the Justice Secretary, a human rights committee...

All of them after my blood, And all because of that boy!

But he's a thief.

I don't care if he's a mass murderer!

I want that boy released right now!

Newspaper delivery.

y ou came out on the front page of them all! Satisfied now?

y ou should be. They didn't even mention my name.

Easy.

y ou should have gone on being an actor.

There were no problems. But you had to try it in real life.

Out here, it's the real thing.

No blanks and no special effects.

There are no doubles in case of trouble.

y ou have to take it on the chin!

Get him out of here!

Where are you taking me? Let me go!

Know what day it is today?

Don't you hear?

He's deaf, Jap.

I said, do you know what day it is?

It's April 25th.

Remember that, boy! From now on it's your birthday.

y ou've been reborn.

y ou can be born twice...

But you die only once.

Remember that!

Take off the handcuffs.

He wet his pants, Lobato.

I thought i'd never get out of there.

y ou thought your mother would leave her little precious in jail?

I went straight to the judge!

She pestered him so much he had to get you out!

Eat that all up! How about a fried egg?

- No, thanks. - I'll fry it in a jiffy.

Eat, Mummy's little precious!

Leave me alone!

Amateur! Stealing things you couldn't carry!

And worst of all, you got caught! Most incompetent!

What are you laughing at? y ou were just lucky.

That's the point of having a famous brother!

Why are you whispering?

We're just telling ''little precious'' how much we missed him.

He's so weak! Open your mouth.

Mum, get Fernando something to drink.

Go ahead, fuck me, Cafu!

I bet you wouldn't be so happy in my shoes!

y our first arrest is iike losing your virginity.

Very funny!

It's all over! Now you're ready for the next one.

Next time, you do exactly what i say

and do it right! OK?

- y es, sir! - I'm being serious.

Things are getting bad.

If you're not street-wise, you're fucked!

- Are you street-wise? - And you...

What are you?

What are you talking about?

Football. We've arranged to take Fernando to a game. Right, Cafu?

Make sure it's my team.

Let me go!

Don't worry, don't worry.

I'll take you through it all...

Step by step.

- Are you sure he's coming? - Of course i am!

Look, there he is. I told you he would.

He looks different. Sort of thinner.

He looks as ugly as ever for me.

But beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Why doesn't he ask me to dance?

- Why don't you ask him? - Me?

No, me. Don't you want to meet him?

Don't be stupid. Go on!

Do you still want my autograph?

y ou came to visit me in prison.

What's your name?

Cida.

Fernando, at your service.

y ou look different... From the movie, i mean.

I've grown a bit, but it's me. y ou saw the movie?

Not exactly. I wasn't old enough when it was on.

I haven't seen all of it.

I thought that if i didn't see the end,

it wouldn't end in real life either.

Do you want to dance?

Let's go.

- Right now, Lucia? - We'll miss the last bus.

Make up your mind.

It was nice meeting you.

He never saw the end of the movie.

He said that this way it would never end. Isn't that lovely?

Look, i've got nothing to do with that.

- I won't go, i won't go. - Go, go!

I wanted to see you. That's why i came here.

I just didn't know what you thought of me.

I just went straight up and kissed you.

Is that why?

Now, we're quits.

We make a perfect pair.

I'm not the kind of girl you think i am. I have a family.

I'm serious, Cida. I don't often say much,

but i've been thinking about you ever since that day.

I've never loved anybody before.

A zebra?

That's hilarious, Fernando.

When we were filming, each of us had to choose an animal

to symbolize each character. I thought Pixote had to be a zebra.

Couldn't he have been something better? A lion, a tiger...

No way, Cida. Pixote was very frightened.

He pricked up his ears at the smallest sound

to see who was going to hit him.

Just like a zebra. Just like me.

Funny... i never thought of that.

It does have sad eyes.

- Two, please. - I'll pay.

No, you won't! My girl paying for me? Two, please.

Salted.

Thanks very much.

Where do you get the money from?

From the movie?

No. i help my brothers in their business.

What business?

I'm lying, Cida.

I'm ashamed to tell you.

The film director helps me out every so often.

But when i strike it rich,

I'll pay him back double.

Come on!

Mum!

This is the girl i told you about.

A bit skinny! Don't they feed you properly?

- Bad girls never put on weight. - That's very rude!

In Hollywood, Cida,

all the stars leave their hand prints on a sidewalk.

It's called the ''Walk of Fame''.

They should have one here.

Then i could leave my mark for the future.

Careful, miss!

y ou're stepping on the hand prints of Fernando Ramos da Silva,

a great actor.

I know, sir.

He's the greatest of all actors.

And i love him.

Rest assured that you've made a really good buy!

- y ou removed the serial number? - Sure. It's a real beauty!

Thanks.

See, movie actor? Direct from the factory to the purchaser.

Here's your share.

Count it. If i were you, I wouldn't be so trusting.

y ou're my brother.

That's the secret of success in our business.

We're a family! Nobody can beat us.

- I've got a job for you today. - Not today.

Turning chicken already?

- I have an appointment. - What appointment?

The girl, Cafu. A real tasty number! Nice tight arse!

- Shut your gob, fag! - Turning butch, eh?

- When's the wedding? - She thinks i'm an actor.

When she finds out the truth, she'll kick me up the arse.

Where's the piece?

- I don't have a thing! - We'll soon see. Against the wall!

- Let him go! - Keep quiet!

Don't touch her, bastard!

Let her go, bastard!

He didn't do anything wrong!

PIXOTE ARRESTED FOR ROBBERy

I said 1 0,000. There's only 8,000 here.

Please, sir...

I scraped together everything my family and i had.

This is all i have! Please help me to get him out of jail!

Honey, it's your money, you do what you like with it.

But you'll just throw it away.

He was armed, and carrying a gun is illegal.

He's not a criminal. He's an actor.

An actor, an actor...

He made one film God knows how long ago.

He's got a record and this isn't a first offence.

- He's done nothing wrong. - How do you know?

How do you know?

They're all tarred with the same brush. Every one of them.

The whole family.

y our heart-throb never denied it. It's in the blood.

Do you know how he'll end up?

On the street. In jail.

Or quite probably a shallow grave.

Will you get him out or not?

I'll see what i can do. Just for you.

Are you hungry?

Shall i ask for a sandwich?

Why don't you take a shower?

That'll do you good.

Say something, for God's sake, Fernando!

What have they done to you?

Let's screw.

I'm so hot for you.

Tell me what happened in jail, darling.

I want to help, Fernando.

y ou really want to know?

y ou really want to?

I'll show you.

Tie my hands.

Tie them!

Know what this is?

They call it the ''parrot perch.''

They hang you up...

and kick you in the back, the balls and your head.

They shove a gun barrel or a club up your arse.

They burn you with cigarettes and yell at you!

Fess up, you bastard!

Come on, you cunt, speak up!

I don't know anything!

Talk, or die!

I'm clean!

Clean, my arse! y ou're a drug-pushing prick!

y ou're Pixote!

I'm not Pixote! I'm Fernando!

Fess up, or die!

Stop, stop, for God's sake!

Let me out of here, you bastard!

Let me out, let me out!

Let me out, you bastard!

I'm not Pixote! I'm Fernando!

I'm not Pixote! I'm Fernando!

For God's sake, don't kill me!

I'm Fernando...

Thanks to you, i'd still be there taking electric shocks.

If it weren't for Cida's lawyer...

y ou're lucky, man.

That chick really likes you.

Let me see what they did to you. How's ''precious''?

y ou fucking faggot!

That'll heal up soon.

Don't think we forgot you.

Me and Kiko worked fucking hard.

Here's your share.

Now you're so rich, will you marry me?

Let me go!

y ou'd have to have his picture. He just made one little movie.

A little thief!

Fuck you!

y es, he's a thief and you might end up the same way!

Shut up!

Gangster's moll!

This'll teach you not to keep slinging mud at people!

He's not a thief, he's an actor.

The best actor in Brazil!

- What's this, Fernando? - A motorbike.

I know that. What are you doing with it?

I bought it. Want a ride?

What's the matter with you?

I've been fired. I had an argument with a stupid cow.

- Why? - Over you.

She said you were a thief, so I slugged her.

Forget it. It was a crappy job anyway.

Where did you get this bike from?

I told you. Do you think it was Santa Claus?

- But how did you buy it? - I did a few odd jobs.

What odd jobs?

Are you trying to keep tabs on me?

I just want to know where you got it from.

I told you. Odd jobs.

- I lost my job because of you. - Now everything is my fault.

- y ou're the same as the others. - Are you crazy?

y ou're the same as your brothers. A common thief!

y ou shut up!

When the police arrested you,

I thought that it was just malice or envy on their part.

They were right to arrest you!

Shut your trap!

I thought you were different, you were an actor.

But you're just a common little thief!

- I told you to shut up! - Let me go!

Get out of my life, Fernando!

Beat it! Just disappear!

- Let's go, Cida. - Please, get out of my life, Fernando!

What are you all looking at?

He's all fucked up.

I don't like it.

What's got into him?

He's been like that for a while now.

He won't talk. He just cries.

He won't even eat. I'm so worried.

I'll talk to him, Mum. y ou go fix dinner.

Come on, out with it! What happened?

y ou going to lie there crying? Say something.

She found out, Cafu.

She knows what i am.

She's left me.

Couples always quarrel. She really likes you.

She's the only one who believed I could be an actor again.

But now she knows i'm just a thief.

What can i do, Cafu?

Why do we always lose what we want the most?

Lobato should have finished me off when he had the chance.

A bullet in the head would have put an end to this.

Bullshit!

What do we do? He might do something fucking crazy.

- Get the money. - What money?

The money under your mattress, of course!

It's my savings.

Get that money.

Take this.

What is it?

y ou want to be an actor.

Take it and go to Rio. See what you can get.

Try television, or whatever.

That friend of yours who wrote ''Pixote'', doesn't he live there?

Louzeiro?

Whatever! Maybe he has contacts in TV. He could help you.

Just get off your arse and do something.

- But it's Kiko's money. - No sweat.

We'll work it out when you win the Oscar.

I think you'll fall on your face, but the face is yours.

Take that shit and go there and be an actor.

Hey! Stop it!

Come on, stop it!

l didn't know you were going to start blubbering again!

Dinner's ready! Are you coming?

I'm going to Rio, mum! I'm going to be an actor!

- An actor! - Have you gone crazy?

He's always been crazy.

Thanks, Cafu!

Stop that! Get out!

I thought maybe you could get me into TV.

I need to get back to work as an actor.

- Can you help me? - y ou mean, in a soap?

Not in a main role. Any part will do.

I need something to show what i can do. I'm sure they'll like it.

I don't know.

When ''Pixote'' was on release, it would be easy.

They'd have hired you like a shot.

But that was a long time ago. y ou're grown up now.

And those incidents in Diadema

haven't gone down at all well.

I want to go straight.

I'm still young enough to put things right.

Help me, Louzeiro. All i want is to be an actor.

Fernando, i can't promise you anything, but i'll try.

Louzeiro? It's me.

Speak up. I can't hear.

Any news yet?

About that job on TV.

Do you have something for me?

But, Mum, why did you never tell me i was...

What is it?

Cut!

Fernando, we've done this scene eight times!

y ou're supposed to learn your lines. What's the matter?

Can't you change it?

He wants to be the scriptwriter too!

Aren't you pleased to be just an actor?

Leave it, Sonia.

Look, Fernando, this isn't Shakespeare.

Just cooperate. We want to go home.

We all have beautiful wives.

I can't concentrate. It was easier in the movie.

Movies are different. This is a soap factory!

Perfumed maybe, but soap. Just say your lines.

I can't.

Of course you can. Just repeat what's written here.

Repeat what's written here.

But, Mum, why didn't you tell me i was adopted?

Or better still, pay attention...

Mum, Why didn't you tell me...

why did you never tell me i was adopted?

y ou think you can do it?

- I'll try. - Great! Let's go, then.

Any good take in which he managed to say the whole line?

There's one where he says it, but the camera's all wrong.

Stick him voice-over on Sonia and leave him off scene.

The less he appears, the better.

A guy nobody knows taking the place of a professional actor!

There are plenty of healthy kids doing drama.

I'd like to know the genius who got him out of reform school.

I heard some money went missing around here.

That's the last straw!

And that wasn't the first time since he arrived.

That's all for today! Tomorrow we're in Studio C.

Thank you everyone.

Louzeiro on the phone!

Louzeiro! I certainly got stuck holding the baby.

y ou said the kid was good, and i believed you and got fucked!

He's a failure!

I'm under pressure. Someone's head has to roll!

I don't know how long I can hold him!

y ou thought him up. Do something!

Talk to him. Stick him in drama school.

I know not to tell thee who i am.

My name, dear saint, is hateful to myself,

because it is an enemy to thee:

Had i it written, i would tear the word.

Call me but love, and i'll be new baptised.

- What's this? - Open it and read it to me.

What's up?

Maybe you feel more free reading something more profound.

- Stop that, Louzeiro. - Go on! Read anything.

Shit! So you think i can't read?

Read.

Fuck off.

Read to me, Fernando.

- This is ridiculous, Louzeiro. - Read.

''No one...

''will attend...

''the...

''burial...

''of... his... last...

''chimera.

''Only...

''ingratitude...

''this...

''panther...

''shall be...

''his...

''insep...

''..arable...

''compan...

''..ion.''

Are you satisfied now?

y ou thought i was illiterate.

I can read, Louzeiro.

I can read.

It's here.

I was scared.

I was scared in Rio too.

I missed you so much.

- Didn't you like it in Rio? - It was shit.

I've been fired, Cida!

I was scared before you got back.

And now?

- I'm not scared any more. - Now do you like it?

I like anywhere where you are.

What am i doing among the photos of this celebrity?

I didn't know you had a photo of me. I never gave you one.

I'm a thief, remember. I stole it and you never knew.

y ou are not a thief.

y ou couldn't steal from me.

Everything i have is yours.

Come here.

I'm glad you took it.

y ou might have forgotten me.

Let me refresh my memory, Cida.

Cida, did you see the doctor?

What have you got? is it serious?

I'm pregnant.

Don't say anything. I know i'd better get rid of it.

Are you crazy?

It's our baby, Cida! Our baby!

- y ou want it, then? - It's all i do want!

I'm going to be a father!

My life will change, you'll see!

I'll get a job and work hard. I want to put everything behind me.

All i want is to be a good father and a good husband.

My life will change, you'll see!

y ou really fucked it! No one remembers you any more.

And then, the TV calls you in. y ou go and mess it up!

To be fired like that, you must have really fucked it up.

And then you come and ask me for a job?

- It needn't be as an actor. - No?

Anything will do.

Give me one good reason why i should help.

I'm going to be a father!

Fuck you! A father?

Not so long ago you were a little pain-in-the-arse

who kept pissing me off! ''I'm hungry!''

y ou're a real man now!

Will you get me a job?

Under the circumstances...

But i won't be able to offer you much.

y ou won't give that stuff up even when i'm pregnant!

Get off my back.

Leave me alone.

All we need now is for you to get arrested again.

If they catch you like that, you're finished.

And the baby will be born an orphan.

What do you want, Cida?

Haven't i got an honest job? Wasn't that what you wanted?

Before, with two car radios I got what i earn now in a month!

Now i slave away to earn hardly enough for the next day.

But at least, it's honest.

What do you want?

To take away my only bit of pleasure,

the only thing that lets me escape from my crappy life?

you can still be an actor.

Are you kidding, Cida?

Look at me.

Look, will you?

Tell me if i can.

A piece of shit like me, an actor?

l can't even read.

I can only be an actor

for a piece of shit like you.

If you're born a Pixote,

you never get to be James Dean.

It's a girl, Fernando.

Now i can say i've fulfilled my obligation as a mother.

Now, God can take me,

because my sons are now fully grown.

y ou'll still have to put up with us for a long time yet.

Not us. y ou're the apple of her eye! We don't count.

Antonio Carlos!

What a terrible thing to say to your mother!

I've always treated you all the same way.

Bullshit, Dona Iracema.

y ou really only cared about Fernando.

Oh, God, did you hear that?

A man with a beard jealous of his baby brother!

Jealous?

Come here, precious!

Is Mummy's little sweetheart jealous?

- Gimme a little kiss... - That's ridiculous!

I'm so happy!

I want to dance! Let's all dance!

Let's dance! Music! I want to dance!

The oldest one first.

And the cry-baby, right?

Now, the most famous...

And now, the little rascal! Come on!

They killed my boy!

Why? Oh, God! Why?

My Kiko never hurt anybody!

He was just a child!

He was just a child!

Fernando,

you were tiny and don't remember.

y our father, who died ten years ago, God rest his soul,

always said he wanted to go back to the country.

He didn't like big cities.

He said he couldn't stop the kids from keeping bad company there.

He said...

How could i go wrong? Where did i go wrong?

y ou didn't do anything wrong, Mum. y ou didn't do anything wrong.

They got Kiko. They won't stop until they've got us.

We have to do a final big job and disappear.

The factory wages come in on the 25th.

We need someone to give us cover.

- And that man will be you. - Find some other jerk.

Get wise. Now it's a matter of life and death.

We're done for unless we find a way out.

I have a daughter to look after.

Are you bringing her up on your shit wage?

Or you'll get another movie?

y ou've spent your whole life chasing after a dream.

This is your last chance to get out of your shitty life.

Just leave me alone!

y ou'll be back! y ou have nowhere to go.

All the doors are closed... And the key...

Here it is.

- Make that baby stop! - What do you want me to do?

- Are you going out? - To get some shit for the kid.

No, Fernando.

She'll quieten down.

Get off my back!

Don't do anything foolish!

Tomorrow at four.

Then we're made!

No son of a bitch will get hold of us afterwards!

- Going out? - To see Mum.

I'll just see how she is and be right back.

- Please, Fernando, don't go! - I won't be long, honey.

Stay here with us!

I have to go.

It's payday at the factory. y ou have no sense at all?

Don't start!

- Stay here with us! - Let me go!

Don't go, Fernando!

SÃO PAOLO, AUGUST 25, 1 987 - 3:30 PM

What are you doing here?

I knew you'd be here.

Don't go through with it.

Too late.

Think of me and Jaqueline.

I've thought of you both all day.

So back out now.

I can't.

Don't ruin your life, Fernando.

It was ruined from the start.

It was just one big mistake.

I'm just a poor boy from Diadema

they trained to be Pixote. That's all i am, Cida.

A petty thief...

Pixote.

Until someone puts an end to it.

y ou are not Pixote!

I'm sorry...

y ou're Fernando.

At the beginning, even i saw you as Pixote,

but Pixote for me now

is a little boy in a movie.

What i want now is not to lose

a great guy

who i admire

and who i'm in love with.

And this guy has only one name.

Fernando.

This guy i found

is not on the stage, not in movies,

not on TV.

He's right here

in my heart.

Come.

I want to show you something.

Do you know the story of Romeo and Juliet?

Tell me

Romeo went to Juliet's garden.

He loved her a lot and he went crazy about her,

and when he went to tell her so.

There she was on her balcony.

What man are thou, that thus bescreen'd in night

so stumblest on my counsel?

By a name i know not how to tell thee who i am.

My name, dear saint,

is hateful to myself,

because it is an enemy to thee.

Had i it written,

I would tear the word.

Call me but love,

and i'll be new baptised.

Bravo, Fernando Ramos! Bravo!

Now i'm sure, Cida.

I am an actor!

Don't give up your dream. The most beautiful one in the world!

I won't do any more shit.

I won't throw away my dream, our dream.

- I'll tell Cafu, i'm not going. - Forget Cafu. Stay here.

I have to go.

Please, don't go there!

I'll be back. Wait here.

Fernando, stay here!

I knew!

Where's Fernando? Where is he? He's fucked it up again!

Get up. Get up.

Get up, boy!

Are you scared, Pixote? y ou'll be in the news again.

- Give him your gun, Jap. - What?

Just do what i say.

Clean your prints off and put a bullet in.

I warned you, boy, but you wouldn't listen.

y ou can be born twice

but you only die once.

Listen carefully to what I'm going to tell, you piece of shit.

Now it'll be just like in the movies. y ou do what i say.

Shoot! Go on, shoot!

y our enemies want to see you rot!

Fill them full of lead! Blow their brains out!

Do what i tell you, bastard! Shoot...

Shoot! Go on, shoot!

Do what i tell you!

Are you shit scared, Pixote?

Ah, of course, Jap. I forgot the right words.

How does it go? I know!

Lights...

Camera...

Action!

Now it's our turn!

- What about my daughter? - y ou ham actor!

Some people will always say you were a thief.

They'll say you could have been someone,

but just ended up forgotten.

But i was lucky enough to know another Pixote.

Not Pixote, but a man i loved for over three years.

A wonderful man, full of hope and dreams.

And i miss that man even today.

It was nice to talk to you again. We'll talk again some other day.

Bye, Fernando.

BASED UPON THE LiFE OF FERNANDO RAMOS DA SILVA.

IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FICTITIOUS NATURE OF THIS FILM,

CERTAIN CHARACTERS AND EVENTS WERE DRAMATISED.

CIDA, HER DAUGHTER, AND FERNANDO'S MOTHER

ARE STILL LIVING IN DIADEMA.

HIS ELDER BROTHER WAS KILLED IN 1990.

DESPITE A LONG JUDICIAL PROCESS,

THE POLICE OFFICERS WHO KILLED FERNANDO ARE STILL FREE.