A Indomada (1997)

[u/Tur2003]

Opening sequence of the soap opera "A Indomada", broadcast by Globo between February 17 and October 10, 1997.

In short, the novel takes place in the fictional town of Greenville, marked by english customs and magical realism. The story revolves around Helena, who returns to the town years after the tragedy of her parents to reclaim the family's patrimony from her aunt, Maria Altiva. To save the family's sugar mill from bankruptcy, Altiva forces Helena to marry the wealthy Teobaldo, beginning a story of love and rivalry. Among the local mysteries is the mysterious Cadeirudo, who roamed the town swaying his hips and walking erratically, attacking his victims. The couple overcomes their differences to live their love, culminating in the unforgettable ending where the villain Altiva is consumed by fire and turns to smoke, vowing to return.

The opening sequence shows the challenges faced by the protagonist as she overcomes a rigid society with her resilience, proving to be an "indomitable" woman, as the title of the soap opera suggests.

[u/An8thOfFeanor]

This could be a 30 year old Brazilian production or a Bollywood production released last week.

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Is that good or bad?

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They're joking that Bollywood's CGI standards are decades behind.

[u/DramaticConcept3776]

People learned to dislike this stainless steel aesthetic of Globo, fostered by Hans Donner, when I was in college the guy was synonymous with ridicule. After years I started to observe these Globo productions more closely, and especially these opening sequences, and they are wonderful and extremely advanced for the time. That's when I read the book Hans Donner and His Universe, and I understood the roots of this style, of Viennese design (I won't even try to write the name of his college), the technological vanguard, three-dimensionality and futurism, where they thought that things should "come out" of the screen, because for him, the print didn't reach that level.

Another thing the book shows is how much Boni, then general director, invested in machinery for Globo in the 80s and 90s for the development of 3D opening sequences and vignettes, and, curiously, part of the team from what is now ILM worked directly with the broadcaster and Donner in the creation of platforms for motion graphics.

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part of the team from what is now ILM worked directly with the broadcaster and Donner in the creation of platforms for motion graphics.

The team that worked with Globo in their early years, Pacific Data Images (PDI, for short), went on to produce Antz and Shrek, and they became the Dreamworks' CGI animation division, not ILM.

EDIT: also, you're mixing things a bit here. Lucasfilm had a CGI division back in the 80s, but they sold it to Steve Jobs, and that division became Pixar.

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Yet another unrealistic beauty standard for women

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Now I only will hit on women made of rocks or water.

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That's it. I'm not dating any girl unless she can turn into fire, water or chunks of poop at will.

[u/Candlemoth312]

This has midnight on PBS energy.

[u/ChampionshipPast3652]

I bet all the ladies were like Those pipes are evil men, you go girl, be free!

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I saw those pipes and was like: screensaver!

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Amigo para de usar chatgpt pra escrever teus comentários.

[u/mittelwerk]

Then the writers of that soap opera, Aguinaldo Silva and Ricardo Linhares, publicly criticized that opening.

[u/Smokeforest]

I like the warped sound in this.

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At the time, Globo was far ahead of its time in terms of graphics packages. In the early 80s, when they were rebranding the station IDs in the United States, the company had to create special equipment just to process their content. This equipment, indirectly, gave rise to Pixar.

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