All Girls Want Bad Boys: Dora throws herself at every bad boy that catches her fancy and cheats on her husband Eurico behind his back with the local tough guy Vincentão.He wants to punish the sinners and the wicked without a just trial and when forced to play district attorney in the main characters' trial, he is trying his best to get them as screwed as possible. Amoral Attorney: The Devil is characterized this way.The Devil's terrified of her and Jesus himself listens to her every word. Almighty Mom: Our Lady Mary, mother of Jesus and intercessor of mankind, is not to be trifled with.Adaptational Name Change: The Devil was referred to in the original play as "Encourado" rather than obviously identified as a Satan.Much of Chicó's subplot is lifted from these works. Adaptation Distillation: The 2000 version takes aspects and characters from Suassuna's other works such as Rosinha, Corporal 70 and Vincentão.Adapted Out: Certain characters from the original play were written out from the movie such as the friar, the deacon and the demon assistant, due to how minor their roles were.This movie features the following tropes: In 2023, a sequel was announced, with Selton Mello and Matheus Nachtergaele returning to their roles. The film had great critical and commercial reception, being the highest-grossing Brazilian movie in 2000. The movie is ostensibly a comedy, playing on several archetypes from the Brazilian Northeast region and also has some supernatural elements. The two men work as assistants to the local baker and get wrapped up in several misadventures including tricking a priest to deliver the last rites to a dog as part of its will, trying to marry a landowner's daughter or risk loosing a lump of flesh as the price and an fatal encounter with a bloodthirsty bandit lands the main characters on a trial by the Devil, Jesus and the Virgin Mary. The story takes place the impoverished, dry deserted region of Northeast Brazil and follows two friends trying to get by using their wits and silver tongue: the lively Jack ( João Grilo, played by Matheus Nachtergaele) and the cowardly Chicó (played by Selton Mello). O Auto da Compadecida or known among English viewers as A Dog's Will is a Brazilian movie (originally released as a four part miniseries in 1999 before a version cut down to feature length hit theaters in 2000) and regarded as one of the country's greatest classics, based on a play of the same name by Ariano Suassuna.
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