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''Black Orpheus'' was shot on a shoestring budget, with a cast of amateurs (except for female lead Marpessa Dawn). It won both the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestForeignLanguageFilm. Compare ''Film/{{Orpheus}}'', another SettingUpdate of the Orpheus myth in the modern day (namely 1950 France). Much of the film's success was due to the music score by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Luiz Bonfá, which became popular and introduced ''samba'', ''bossa nova'', and Brazilian music in general, to a worldwide audience.

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''Black Orpheus'' was shot on a shoestring budget, with a cast of amateurs (except for female lead Marpessa Dawn). It won both the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestForeignLanguageFilm.MediaNotes/AcademyAwardForBestForeignLanguageFilm. Compare ''Film/{{Orpheus}}'', another SettingUpdate of the Orpheus myth in the modern day (namely 1950 France). Much of the film's success was due to the music score by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Luiz Bonfá, which became popular and introduced ''samba'', ''bossa nova'', and Brazilian music in general, to a worldwide audience.
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* DisposableFiance: Mira is sexy and seems like a lot of fun, but she's also very high-maintenance, and Orfeu dumps her like a sackof potatoes when Eurydice comes to the favela.

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* DisposableFiance: Mira is sexy and seems like a lot of fun, but she's also very high-maintenance, and Orfeu dumps her like a sackof sack of potatoes when Eurydice comes to the favela.

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