Malhação

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Malhação

Malhação brazilian Intertitle
Format Drama, Comedy, Family,Romance / Soap Opera
Created by Paula Amaral
Izabel de Oliveira
Patrícia Moretzsohn
Andréa Maltorreli
Emanuel Jacobina
Cláudio Lisboa
Celso Taddei
Márcio Wilson
Directed by Mário Márcio Bandarra
Opening theme Paraíso Proibído, Strike
Country of origin Brazil
Language(s) Portuguese
No. of seasons 13
No. of episodes 3137 (24/01/08)
Production
Location(s) Flag of Brazil Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Running time 30 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel Brazil:
Globo Network
USA:
Globo International
Picture format 576i (SDTV)
Original run April 24, 1995 – present
External links
Official website
IMDb profile

Malhação is a Brazilian soap opera for the teenage audience. The soap started in 1995, and was set in a fictional Gym Club called Malhação on Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro. Through the years the location varied slightly. Although the name of the soap remains the same, it is now set in the Múltipla Escolha (Portuguese for "Multiple Choice") College.

Malhação is very popular in Portugal (known as New Wave, broadcast on SIC). The show inspired others soaps, like TVI's Morangos com Açúcar, which is strongly based on the Malhação format, and Rede Record's Alta Estação.

The show reached its peak in 2004, with Guilherme Berenguer and Juliana Didone as the leads, and the ratings decreased from this season on. In 2005 and 2006, Malhação lost a huge part of its fanbase to the Mexican teen soap Rebelde, airing at SBT. Malhação used the technique Cold open by the end of 2007.

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[edit] Criticism

The soap is criticized because it does not reflect accurately the 1990s and 2000s Brazilian generation. It is also criticized because the education system displayed in the soap is unrealistic, compared to the Brazilian reality.[citation needed] Another complaint is that the standard of living shown in Malhação is available only to few Brazilians.

Even middle-class and rich teenagers can't relate to the characters, and some of the main girls (especially Luísa) have been accused by fans of following the Mary Sue stereotype.[citation needed] But it's still hugely popular, mainly among preteens.

Malhação has also been criticized by some[who?] as being the "Globo acting school", because it is the program where unfamous actors start their careers to later achieve bigger success in other soaps by the same network.

[edit] Malhação main characters and actors since 1995

Like American soap operas, cast and characters change from year to year, but actors and characters who have stayed for long in the soap are, among others, Alexandre Slaviero whose character "Kiko" has experienced changes (he has gone from student, to bad boy, to steroid addict, to model) and Sérgio Hondjakoff, whose character Cabeção, has been in the story from 2000 to 2005.

[edit] Trivia

  • Malhação is going to be adapted into a movie with filming to begin in 2007, but the status of the film development is totally unknown.
  • The school bell always ring before the teacher says to begin exercise.

[edit] Logos

1995 1998 1999 2003 2006 2008
1995 1998 1999 2003 2006 2008

[edit] Malhação around the world

  • Country - timetables
  • Australia - 00:15 h/17: 00h
  • Japan - 17:50 h -
  • Canada - 03:00 h/10: 50h
  • United States - 03:00 h/10: 50h
  • Mexico - 03:00 h/10: 50h
  • Guatemala - 03:00 h/10: 50h
  • Bolivia - 05:00 h/13: 15h
  • Ecuador - 05:00 h/13: 15h
  • Uruguay - 06:00 h/13: 50h
  • Chile - 06:00 h/13: 50h
  • Peru - 06:00 h/13: 50h
  • Paraguay - 06:00 h/13: 50h
  • Colombia - 06:00 h/13: 50h
  • Venezuela - 06:00 h/13: 50h
  • Spain - 11:00 h/17: 50h
  • France - 11:00 h/17: 50h
  • Italy - 11:00 h/17: 50h
  • Swiss - 11:00 h/17: 50h
  • Argentina - 11:35 h
  • United Kingdom - 15:35 h/22: 40h
  • Ireland - 15:35 h/22: 40h
  • Holland - 16:35 h/23: 40h
  • Germany - 16:35 h/23: 40h
  • Brazil - 17:30 h
  • Greece - 17:35 h
  • Malhação arrives at the countries by Globo International.

[edit] Soundtrack internacional 2007

Malhação Internacional 2007, vol. 1

Malhação Internacional 2007, vol. 2

[edit] Malhação 24 Horas

 This article or section contains information about one or more scheduled or expected films.
The content will change as the film's release approaches and more information becomes available.
Malhação 24 Horas
Directed by Ricardo Waddington
Produced by TBA
Written by TBA
Starring TBA
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date(s) Unreleased (Possibily in Development Hell)
Country Brazil
Language Portuguese (Brazil)

[edit] Trivia

  • Malhação 24 Horas is not related with the Multipla Escolha or with the Academia Malhação, only the name.
  • None of the actors of the soap opera will make the movie.
  • The movie was to be released in Brazil in January 11, 2008, the same day it will be the last chapter of the 2007 season, USA. In January 9, 2008, 2 days before the Brazil release and in Portugal and UK in January 12, 2008, since aren't any news or trailer, the film is possibly in Development Hell.
  • The movie will show teens traveling in Fernando de Noronha.
  • The movie will be Distributed by Globo Filmes and Europa Filmes and Produced by Columbia Pictures International.

[edit] External links

  • This article was initially translated from the Wikipedia article Malhação, specifically from this version.
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