segunda-feira, 10 de janeiro de 2011

O Clone



O Clone (Portuguese for The Clone) is a Brazilian TV Series/Telenovela that ran on the Rede Globo Network from October 1, 2001 to June 14, 2002, airing 221 episodes.

Plot
In the early 1980s, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Jade (Giovanna Antonelli), a young Muslim girl is orphaned and has to go to Morocco where her uncle Tio Alí lives. The problem is that Jade, was living in a country with a culture so different from Islam, that taught her to put her religion aside. But once she arrives in Morocco, she must learn the way of her Islamic religion, adjust to her new way of living, and face all the punishments she will be exposed to because of her conflicting personality and actions that go against her religion.
Back in Rio, a well-positioned family, the Ferraz, go to vacation in Morocco. Twin brothers Lucas and Diogo Ferraz (Murilo Benício), along with Leônidas (Reginaldo Faria) their father, and doctor Augusto Albieri, friend of the family and genetics scientist visit Alí, a friend of Albieri's. There, Lucas and Jade meet for the first time, and they fall in love at first sight. Jade, knowing it's haraam a (sin) to love Lucas, she decides to put her love first despite her religious beliefs; also despite knowing that she will be forced to marry a stranger, Jade makes plans to run away with Lucas, but he has problems of his own. In Rio, Diogo has an accident with his helicopter and dies. Both Lucas and Leônidas are devastated by the news and Lucas' plans of running away with Jade get ruined. But who is mostly devastated with Diogo's death is Albieri, his godparent.
He and Diogo were so close that he decided to (with a cell of Lucas) make the very first human clone. Deusa, a low-middle class woman who has not been able to get pregnant, was inseminated with Lucas' clone, and gave birth to a baby, not knowing that it was a clone. Léo is born without complications, but Albieri wants to stay close to Léo and watch him grow, causing Léo to become fascinated with the doctor, leaving Deusa very angry. The story comes to present, with Jade married to Saíd (Dalton Vigh) and mother of a little child, Khadija. She lives happily with her new family and is even starting to care about Saíd. However, due to Said's insecurities a new encounter with Lucas is forced upon her to test Jade's love for him, with this encounter the old passion revives, but they're not the young lovers they once were and now they have new lives and new responsibilities. Lucas, who also is married, to Maysa (Daniela Escobar) and with a daughter, Mel (Débora Falabella) doesn't know he had been cloned 20 years before. Albieri had kept this a secret from everybody's knowledge and is trying to make it so that Léo and Lucas never meet and thus find out the truth. The last thing Albieri knew from Léo is that he and Deusa went to the north of Brazil, but with the return of both, Léo has become a young, handsome man, and the living image of the young Lucas whom Jade met in Morocco. The appearance of Leo in Brazil and his later travels to Morocco will change the life of all the characters forever.

Syndication
O Clone aired in Brazil comprising of 221 episodes, of variable duration. However, when syndicated and sold to other countries the telenovela got the number of episodes enlarged to 250 and the duration fixed at 45 minutes. O Clone was a big hit, being aired in several countries all around the world. It was dubbed in several languages, with the Spanish version airing in the United States by Telemundo. There are also a few differences between the Brazilian soundtrack version and the syndicated one; some music was changed in order to make the people feel more identified, many Portuguese songs were changed to Latin American music when it aired to the Hispanics in the United States. See Soundtrack to see the list of music featured in the telenovela. Also, the Brazilian opening features the song "Sob o Sol" by Sagrado Coração da Terra, and the syndicated opening features the same video, but the music is replaced by "Maktub" by Marcus Viana.

Remake in Spanish
In January 2010, a remake in Spanish started to be recorded in Colombia. This remake is a production of Rede Globo and Telemundo and it was titled El Clon.

Cast

Main cast
Murilo Benício - Lucas Ferraz, Léo (The Clone) and Diogo Ferraz (twin of Lucas and dead at the age of 18)
Giovanna Antonelli - Jade
Juca da Oliveira - Augusto Albieri
Eliane Giardini - Nazira
Reginaldo Faria - Leônidas Ferraz
Vera Fischer - Yvete
Stênio García - Ali
Dalton Vigh - Saíd
Daniela Escobar - Maysa
Luciano Szafir - Zein
Adriana Lessa - Deusa
Nívea María - Edna
Antônio Calloni - Mohamed
Letícia Sabatella - Latiffa
Débora Falabella - Mel
Marcelo Novaes - Xande
Solange Couto - Dona Jura
Neuza Borges - Dalva
Jandira Martini - Zoraide
Cristiana Oliveira - Alicinha
Cissa Guimarães - Clarisse
Marcos Frota - Escobar
Osmar Prado - Lobato
Victor Fasano - Tavinho
Beth Goulart - Lidiane
Nívea Stelmann - Ranya
Raul Gazolla - Miro
Juliana Paes - Karla
Mara Manzan - Odete
Roberto Bomfim - Edvaldo
Totia Meirelles - Laurinda
Eri Johnson - Ligeiro
Guilherme Karam - Raposão
Thiago Fragoso - Nando
Viviane Victorete - Regininha
Thaís Fersoza - Telminha
Sérgio Marone - Cecéu
Maria João - Amália
Myrian Rios - Anita
Francisco Cuoco - Father Matiolli
Murilo Grossi - Júlio
Françoise Forton - Simone
Thalma de Freitas - Carol
Elizângela - Noêmia
Perry Salles - Mustafá
Sebastião Vasconcelos - Abdul
Carla Diaz - Khadija
Stephany Brito - Samira
Thiago de Oliveira - Amin
Sílvio Guindane - Basílio
Christiana Kalache - Aninha
Antônio Pitanga - Tião
Ruth de Souza - Dona Mocinha
Léa Garcia - Lola
Andressa Koetz - Soninha
Ingra Liberato - Amina
Jayme Periard - Rogê
Marcelo Brou - Pitoco
Francyele Freduzesky - Beta
Eduardo Canuto - Gasolina
Paula Pereira - Creuza
Eduardo Martini - Cotia
Carolina Macieira - Sumaya
Yuri Xavier - Zé Roberto
Luã Ubacker - Duda
Aimée Ubacker - Aimée
Karinma El Maatovi - Karima
Ahmed El Maatovi - Ahmed
Michele Franco - Michele
Haylton Farias Da Silva - Haylton
Nóris Barth - Tetê
Rosimar de Melo - Lurdes
Fabiana Alvarez - Zuleika
Gustavo Ottoni - Detective Ramos
Milena Paula - Milena

Special appearances in the first part
Walderez de Barros - Sálua
Eloísa Mafalda - Sálua's neighbour
Paulo Betti - Armando
Nuno Leal Maia - Jorge Luís
Mário Lago - Dr. Molina
Beatriz Segall - Miss Penélope Brown
Tânia Alves - Norma
Cássia Linhares - Elba
Karina Bacchi - Muna
João Carlos Barroso - Severino (Edvaldo's friend)
Samara Felippo - Diogo / Lucas's girlfriend
Pedro Cravo - Diogo / Lucas (child)
Victor Coluga - Diogo / Lucas / Léo (kid)

Special appearances in second part
Silvia Pfeiffer - Cinira
Fábio Junqueira - Chuvas
Alessandro Safina - (as himself)
Sérgio Mamberti - Dr. Vilela
Joana Fomm - Dr. Cecília
Tácito Rocha - judge
Jonas Bloch - lawyer in the Tavinho and Karla case
Roberto Pirillo - lawyer in the Tavinho and Karla case
Carla Regina - Dora (Xande's girlfriend)
Luiz Nicolau - drug dealer
Gustavo Moraes - Clarice's young boyfriend
Clemente Viscaíno - Mel's doctor
Tadeu Di Prieto - Mel's doctor


Special appearances in last episodes
Tony Ramos - Maysa's new boyfriend
Humberto Martins - Aurélio (ex de Alicinha)
Danielle Winits - Shirley (Escobar's new girlfriend)
Henrique Pagnocellis - José Victor (Alicinha's new boss)
Cynthia Falabella - Monique (Lobato's daughter) *
Caio Junqueira - Pedrinho (Lobato's son)
Pelé (Édson Arantes do Nascimento)- As himself *
Michael Bolton- As himself (Singing in Nefertiti)

Ali's wives
Zeina Abdou
Vanda Assaf Travasssos
Mônica Brahim

The replacement of Débora Falabella
Cynthia Falabella is a sister of Débora Falabella (the actress who plays Mel). In earlier episodes, Débora got sick and Cynthia replaced her.

Portrayal of Muslims
While the program's attention to issues of drug addiction won its creator an award, the portrayal of Arab-Muslim cultures within the program has brought a critical response from different Arab-Muslim sources, according to a 2005 doctoral dissertation written about the program by Elizabeth Barbosa.
The part of the program dealing with Islamic customs and attitudes mixes traditions from diverse countries, rather than those of Morocco alone, and has been criticised for its inaccurate representation of these traditions, according to Barbosa. These criticisms include the portrayal of polygamy as commonly accepted in Morocco, women as rarely working outside the home or pursuing an advanced education, and women having only unimportant roles within the family. Critics making these judgments included sheik Abdelmalek Cherkaoui Ghazouani, the Moroccan ambassador to Brazil, who considered the high profile of these representations to merit his posting his criticisms directly on his embassy's website as part of a bulletin board.
In addition to sources from the print media, Barbosa presents several messages from online forums[which?] that she analyzed for her study.

         

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