City of God (2002)

Alexandre Rodrigues: Buscapé

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Quotes 

• Buscapé : It was like a message from God: "Honesty doesn't pay, sucker."

• Buscapé : You need more than guts to be a good gangster. You need ideas.

• [after seen his pictures printed in the front page of the news by mistake] 

  Buscapé : Fuck... I'm dead!

  [cut to slum] 

  Zé Pequeno : What's the name of that friend of yours who took this pictures?

  Thiago - Tiago : Buscapé.

  [Enjoying the pictures] 

  Zé Pequeno : Buscapé! The guy is good!

• Buscapé : [after Dadinho kills many people in a motel]  That night, Dadinho killed his dream of kill.

• Buscapé : What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out war. The City of God was divided. You couldn't go from one section the other, not even to visit a relative. The cops considered anyone living in the slum a hoodlum. People got used to living in Vietnam, and more and more volunteers signed up to die.

• Buscapé : A picture could change my life, but in the City of God, if you run away, they get you, and if you stay, they get you too.