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edit: tirei a imagem gigante, hehe. pra variar tava zoando o template.

G1 > Edição São Paulo - NOTÍCIAS - Vestido de homem-aranha, menino salva irmã na piscina
A roupa do Homem-Aranha, um presente de Natal, inspirou Gustavo Ferreira Veloso, de 4 anos, a salvar a irmã Julia Veloso, de um ano, pulando na piscina para resgatá-la na segunda-feira (31) em Franca, a 400 km de São Paulo.

Segundo a mãe das crianças Olialda Veloso, ela e familiares se descuidaram durante o momento que se preparavam para viajar a uma cidade vizinha. “Estávamos na casa de uma das minhas irmãs e nos preparávamos para festejar a entrada no ano novo em um rancho da região. Esquecemos aberta a porta do fundo, que dá acesso à piscina.”

Nesse momento o bebê teria ido até a piscina e caído na água. “Gustavo estava vestido com a máscara do homem-aranha e correu então para a piscina puxando a perna da irmã”, disse.

beautiful work for one of the greatest movies ever.

there’s a particular feel to it, borrowing from Hammer studio films, the weirder grindhouse flicks and a sensibility that was pretty much of the 70s.

not only a sad but also scary movie somehow, at least for me when i was a kid back in the 80s. lynch knew already how to infuse a strange sense of mistery.

watch it if you haven’t yet, watch it again if you can. I know I will. it’s been a while.

it’s also trailer voice-over actor Don laFontaine’s favourite:

The Elephant Man (released in 1980) is certainly one of my top five trailers. It is, by far, the most unusual also. I wrote the script for the trailer based upon the feature script, and it was approved by the film’s producer, Jonathan Sanger, before a foot of film was shot. We made one cut of the trailer. No revisions. It went directly to finish.

“It had to be the most inexpensive trailer ever produced for a major motion picture. We needed John Hurt to re-voice one line — ‘I am not an animal’ — for the trailer, and when he saw it, he wept. A memorable moment in my career.”