Word: bracanga
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...miles up the Amazon, he stayed open to suggestions from real life. Seeing a woman suspected of theft fleeing through a market crowd, he whipped out his camera, shot the scene, and used it to introduce one of the film's heroines. During ten days on the Belem-Bracanga railroad, the company lost some of their clothes to sparks from the wood-burning engine; the train had no brakes and derailed itself at least once a day. Also aboard were refugees from back-country drought land, and when one woman bore a baby on a rolling flatcar, Camus kneaded...
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