During the first Rock in Rio, the city’s into only one thing
Ernesto Varela, from São Paulo, tries to set to their mood
VARELA IN RIO
Hello there, dear Abril Video spectators,
once again with you, your reports Ernesto Varela.
As you see, I’m not just a reporter,
but sometimes also a driver
to our staff.
We’re in Rio de Janeiro this week,
and we’re going to show you the sort of bloke
that lives around here, the carioca.
Are you recording, Waldecy?
Very well, dear spectators,
carioca, from the Tupi, cari-oca, means “white man’s home”.
Let’s check what the cariocas do
in their routines.
It’s now 12:30 pm, but some of them are already on the beach.
Let’s talk to them, Waldecy.
Wait, Waldecy, do you think we can wear shoes at the beach?
I don’t know, you better take them off.
It’s going to be weird, Waldecy.
Do you think we look weird in here?
I don’t think so, let’s go.
Hey, buddy, excuse me.
How long you’ve been selling stuff at the beach?
It’s been 3 years.
– Are you carioca? – Yes, I am.
Do you have anything different
from the other Brazilian inhabitants?
It depends, you know.
Brazilians are a really welcoming, nice people.
But in Rio this is way more advanced,
like, from…
– More advanced? – Yes, like…
– More cheerful. – More cheerful.
You’re super cheerful, but you spend the whole day lying
in the sand. How’s that word?
No, this is part of the thing… to come to the beach, go…
– It’s part of the thing? – This is a carioca thing.
Why do you all have this accent, like, is it part of the thing?
Well, I don’t know about that…
You don’t know? I don’t know either.
Teach me some carioca slang words.
Well, there’s “e aí?”, “beleza?”, “e aí, beleza?”…
What does it mean?
“E aí?”. You say it to salute someone.
To salute Waldecy
I have to say “e aí, Waldecy”, is that right?
“Beleza, cara, tudo bem?”
“Beleza, Waldecy?”
Hey Waldecy, what are you looking there?
My boss asked me to talk to some babes,
it must them. Let’s go, Waldecy?
– Hi, how are you? – Hi.
Are you a babe?
Are you?
Of course!
What’s important going on right now
here in Rio de Janeiro?
– There’ll be Rock in Rio. – What’s that?
– Rock in Rio. – Rock in Rio?
Yep. On the 7th of January.
– And what is that, the Rock in Rio? – Don’t you know it?
– Nope. Do you know it, Waldecy? – Nope.
Let’s get to know what Rock in Rio is.
Thanks a lot.
I have an idea. I’ll try to get know what Rock in Rio is
but I’ll pretend I have a carioca accent
so they won’t think I’m an uninformed paulista.
Let’s go, Waldecy.
Excuse me, can you tell me
what is Rock in Rio?
– Rock in Rio? – Yes.
– Are you carioca like me? – Nope.
– Oh, you’re not? – No, I’m gaucha.
Me neither, I’m paulista,
I was just trying to make a… Sorry about that, ok?
It didn’t work, Waldecy.
– Hey, excuse me, what’s your name? – Alexandre.
– Are you carioca? – Yep. Born and raised.
Born and raised. What’s that mean?
I was born here, near to the beach,
I was born in Copacabana.
At Barata Ribeiro avenue.
Why do you all talk like this, with this accent,
it’s all like…
– What is that? – It’s the swag, you know…
– The swag? – Yes.
We’ve got a lot of swag, the people in here
are really easy-going, open minded and free…
Free from what?
We’re free like, I mean, a people that…
We’re easy-going, we’re always chill.
– Chill? – Yes.
And how do you get to be always chill?
You just have to cheer up
and be yourself.
Oh, is it? Thanks a lot, Alexandre.
What do you feel happy for?
I think it’s…
Life is on wonderful thing, man.
– Is it? – We’re alive, we’re healthy,
everything is fine. – Everything is fine?
– It is. – Ok. Give me a hint, then,
so I can talk to your carioca fellow countrymen.
How am I suppose to behave when I talk to them?
I’m from São Paulo, you know? I don’t get it quite well.
Well, you just have to be open minded,
have the swag…
– Open minded? – Yes.
How’s it? Show it to me.
“Hey, bro, what’s up, all’s cool”.
“Hey, I’m in the house, see y’all”
“I’m in the house”… You’ve arrived and left?
What’s up, all’s cool?
– Yeah! – Ok, I’ll try it,
ok, Alexandre. Thanks a lot.
Hi! Hi! What’s up, all’s cool,
everything chill, you ok?
That’s it, I’m in the house. See y’all.
How was it, what did you think of performance?
It was ok, look… The thing is…
You go like “Hi, what’s up, all’s cool? All’s cool up here?
I said it all!
You don’t go and say “Hi, all’s cool, everything’s chill,
yo, yo, see y’all”. You say what you’ve got to say
and then sometimes you say “Hey, bro, what’s up, see y’all”.
Oh, and then you say “see y’all” when you leave somewhere?
– Yeah, like “see y’all later”. – Oh, ok, cool.
We’re now in a street in Rio de Janeiro
and, as you can see, it’s filled with cariocas.
Hi. Look, I’m not from here,
and I noticed that you, cariocas, talk a lot.
What do you have that’s so important
to talk about? – Women…
Soccer. Samba. Beach. Rock in Rio.
Why are you so smart?
We’re not smart,
we’re just cariocas… We’re smart,
aren’t you? No one here is smart.
You’re smart, I saw it in your face,
you’re very smart, you see?
Thanks for that.
What’s your secret to be smart?
– It’s being carioca. – Is it?
– Yes. – Well…
Another fact about the city of Rio de Janeiro
is that people here are always in fashion
that, like many of you may know, are fleeting ways
to hairdo, to dress up,
to wear shoes, to hold a microphone,
and even to wear glasses. Let’s check what’s in fashion
here in Rio de Janeiro. Let’s go, Waldecy.
Excuse me, what’s in fashion here in Rio de Janeiro?
– Surf style. – Surf style?
Is it what you’re wearing?
For those who don’t know, surfing is the action of accompanying
the trajectory of waves with these boards made of
glass fiber. They’re known as surfboards.
Can I show your surfboard?
– This one is a shaped board. – Shaped?
The foam, it’s shaped, it has this shape,
they wrap it up with a colorful resin
with a thousand colors, happiness, summer, surfing, Rock in Rio…
Rock in Rio? By the way, listen, I’ve been noticing
that you use words I don’t get quite well,
do you have any slang words to teach me?
The thing is that you’re sort of uptight, man.
– Uptight, do you think? – The youngsters here…
What does uptight mean?
It’s a dude that don’t get things well,
don’t know slangs… – Is it?
Someone who can’t talk. Who’s sort of square,
who don’t know what’s cool.
– Is it? – Sure!
Well, I’ll try again then,
this is the International Year of Youth.
As a member of the youth, what interesting thing
do you have to say to our spectators?
Rock in Rio…
Don’t show too much, Waldecy,
the security doesn’t want to let us show it.
It seems there’ll be a great ball I here, dear spectators.
Look, there’s a lot of ticket offices, look at the size of this sign.
Show it, Waldecy.
– I’m a journalist. – We’d like to see your credentials…
– Rock in Rio is going to be here, isn’t it? – I’d like to see your credentials…
Credentials? But we’re on the street!
No credentials, buddy, I’m a reporter.
Very well, dear spectators,
I just found what Rock in Rio is going to be.
It’s going to be a great ball with famous bands
from all over the world, like Ozzy Osbourne,
Whitesnake and Iron Maiden, for example.
Let’s see if we get to check what’s going on inside
from a hole in the wall. Come here, Waldecy!
Show it, Waldecy.
It seems there’re secret operations going on in there,
so they won’t let us in.
We can see a helicopter,
some men carrying grass
and some huge towers with lights on top.
There’re some interferences in here, Varela.
– What’s going on, Waldecy? – Something weird…
What’s that, Waldecy?
It seems that some image from another channel is on?
– It’s Grobo’s! – What?!
It’s Grobo’s!
Are they stealing our images? Abril Video’s been smuggled!
This TV channel dominates the city of Rio de Janeiro!
Look, dear spectators, next week
we’ll try to jump over the wall and show that ball to you.
If they don’t invade our camera, of course.