Morais decides to pay for the renovations on Chicó's behalf, but he requests the “skin off his back” in the case that Chicó should fail to pay him back. Dressed up as a wealthy and educated man, Chicó asks for Rosinha's hand in marriage from Morais but Chicó talks him into paying 200 crowns to the priest for church renovations. João devises a plan to pit Vicentão and Corporal Setenta against each other which leaves Chicó the last suitor standing.
Morais wants to marry off Rosinha to a rich man and promises a dowry of a piggy bank filled with coins as left by her grandmother. Vicentão and Corporal Setenta are smitten with Rosinha, but she immediately falls in love with Chicó. João takes a job assisting Major Antônio Morais and his daughter Rosinha, who is in town seeking a blessing from the priest. The Bishop, initially infuriated at the priest for this, walks back immediately once he learns he is able to take some of the money.ĭora seduces Chicó and attempts to sleep with him before being visited by her other suitor, the town bully Vicentão, and then her husband. João first attempts to convince the priest to bless the dog by saying it is owned by Major Antônio Morais, a wealthy landowner in the area, and later has the priest perform funeral rites for the dog by saying it left the church money in its will. Desperate for help, Dora begs the duo to have the priest to bless her dog. When João and Chicó steal the dog's food, it accidentally eats theirs and quickly falls ill. The baker's wife, Dora, dotes on her dog, who is fed luxurious food. Upon arriving in Taperoá, the two look for work from the town's baker. Chicó is a handsome but cowardly man who tells outlandish stories about his past. João is constantly hungry and malnourished, relying on his charm and silver tongue to fool the townsfolk for his own gain. João Grilo ( Matheus Nachtergaele) and Chicó ( Selton Mello) are two poor men living in an arid, desert-like region of North-East Brazil in the 1930s. It is based on a similarly named play by Ariano Suassuna, with elements of some other of Suassuna's plays, The Ghost and the Sow and Torture of a Heart.Ī sequel is confirmed for 2024 and features the return of Matheus Nachtergaele and Selton Mello in the roles of João Grilo and Chicó, respectively. A Dog's Will ( Portuguese: O Auto da Compadecida, literally "The Compassionate Woman's Play", the woman being the Virgin Mary) is a 2000 Brazilian fantasy comedy film directed by Guel Arraes, who co-wrote the screenplay with Adriana Falcão and João Falcão.
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