DeMuZa Produções
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Background
Demuza was a group of comedians from Brazil, getting its name from members Dedé Santana, Carlinhos Mussum, and Zacarias Gonçalves. The three were previously part of the four-part comedy group Os Trapalhões, and Demuza was founded after the group split up.
(1983)
Logo: We fade into a pastiche of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer logo, where a cartoon version of Dedé Santana sporting facial hair similar to that of a lion's mane is rubbing his hair inside the MGM ribbon. The camera zooms out, and he does a double take at the audience before making a taunting face (putting his hands in his ears and sticking his tongue out). The camera pans to the right where we see a woman holding a torch in the air (parodying the Columbia logo) snickering at the man in return. The camera then cuts to the back to Dedé, who realizes he's being mocked and angrily walks out of the cutout towards the torch lady. He then smiles as he grabs a ribbon on the ground that's connected to the torch lady's dress, then yanks it away, causing the torch lady to cartoonishly spin around in place while her dress and costume unravels, revealing that the "torch lady" was Zacarias in costume, covering his nudity once he's exposed. Then we cut to the torch that the Zacarias dropped earlier falling down towards a bird with Mussum's face standing atop a mountain encircles by a ring of stars (spoofing Paramount). As the torch falls, its flame lights up Mussum's tail. He turns around to sniff shortly before realizing his tail is on fire, and he promptly dashes off the mountain. Then we cut to Mussum running in front of golden structure similar to that of 20th Century Fox, but displaying three gold rings and the word "DEMUZA" stacked on each other instead. The searchlights move as "DEMUZA" zooms in and turns silver, and the rest of the logo fades out. Fading in are three silver spheres above "DEMUZA", and "&" in white, "J.B. Tanko" in red, and "apresentar" in white below fade in.
Variant: A much shorter variant that starts at "DEMUZA" zooming in and, instead of fading out, has the white text "APRESENTA" typed out in the bottom-right is used on 1984's Os Trapalhões e o Mágico de Oróz.
FX/SFX: 2D animation.
Music/Sounds: Comedic rock background music and the sounds of the characters interacting with each other, before segueing into a disco/samba rendition of the CinemaScope extension of the 20th Century Fox fanfare.
Availability: Seen only on Atrapalhando a Suate.
Editor's Note: A humorous (and slightly risqué) spoof of multiple American film logos.
