It's famed for being a very patriotic song for Brazil. It's funny because the original lyrics (translated from the Portugese) are strikingly different from the English version most of us know...

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Here's the one we're used to:

Brazil (English lyrics by S.K. “Bob” Russell) Brazil The Brazil that I knew Where I wandered with you Lives in my imagination. Where the songs are passionate, And a smile has flash in it, And a kiss has art in it, For you put your heart in it, And so I dream of old Brazil Where hearts were entertaining June, We stood beneath an amber moon And softly murmured “someday soon” We kissed and clung together, Then tomorrow was another day The morning found me miles away With still a million things to say Now when twilight dims the sky above, Recalling thrills of our love, There’s one thing I’m certain of; Return I will To old Brazil.

And here's a more accurate translation:

Aquarela de Brasil (Translation by Daniella Thompson)

Brazil My Brazilian Brazil My cunning mulatto I will sing of you in my verses Oh, Brazil, samba that gives swing, That makes people sway Oh, Brazil of my love Land of Our Lord Brazil! Brazil! For me... for me... Ah, open the curtain of the past Bring the Black Mother1 down from the mountains Place the Congo King2 in the congado3 Brazil! Brazil! Let the minstrel sing again In the melancholy moonlight Every song of his love I want to see the Bahian woman4 walking, Trailing through the salons5 Her lacy skirts6 Brazil! Brazil! For me... for me... Brazil Good and savory land Of the cunning dark-skinned woman With an indiscreet gaze Oh, Brazil, green that makes The world amazed Oh, Brazil of my love Land of Our Lord Brazil! Brazil! For me... for me... Oh, this palm tree that gives coconuts Where I hang my hammock On clear moonlit nights Oh, hear these murmuring fountains Where I slake my thirst And where the moonlight comes to play Oh, this Brazil, beautiful and swarthy Is my Brazilian Brazil Land of samba and pandeiro Brazil! Brazil! For me... for me... Notes: 1. Black Mother: main figure in the Ilê Aiyê fest 2. Congo King: a slave crowned in a traditional fest 3. Congado: feast of Our Lady of the Rosary 4. Bahian woman: metaphor for Black Brazil 5. Salons: metaphor for White Brazil 6. Lacy skirts: traditional costume of Bahian women

Taken from http://daniellathompson.com/ar y/lista.html

Thanks, and goodnight.

Seriously, guys. This is the least inspiring teaser for a Pixar flick in years, maybe ever. Aren't any of you tired of kiddy friendly Pixar crap or are you happy with the way they play everything safe?

Pixar is placing themselves in the position that Disney was in a decade or two ago. Just because they lead the industry people think they own it. Because of that, everybody and their mother clones them.

Where's the PG-13 and over CG? When Pixar pushes into the PG zone and we hail it as mature CG storytelling, as happened with Incredibles, there's a problem. The CG industry will never have its equivalent of Casablanca, Gandhi, or even Haloween if all people accept is this rugrat crap.

Pixar was in the right place at the right time. That's it. Wall-E might be fun, but it's probably more of the same old same old. Its probably even filled with the same cliches that they've been milking for the past 12 years.

Pixar plans their shit 5 years in advance. Want a bright future where CG isn't just "cartoons", but actual animation? Demand it now.

Apart from verging on being self-congratulatory, this teaser screams Playskool, crying 5 year olds, and stuffed toys.

Is that what you want? No? Stop sucking up to Pixar. They cannibalize ideas from other movies and shorts only to pass them off as originality. Anybody who says that Cars wasn't Doc Hollywood needs to play "7 minutes in heaven" with a damn rattlesnake.

Pixar isn't the shit. This teaser isn't brilliant. Wall-E does look like a ROB/Johnny5 rip.

Don't suck up to Pixar. They don't deserve it as much as you (or they) think.

It wasn't until The Black Cauldron that Disney got around to getting above a G rating, yet somehow they maintained the highest quality standard in the animation industry (while consistently drawing in audiences of all ages) doing that "Rugrat crap" as you so eloquently put it. You want animation with more adult ratings? Anime has the market cornered so by all means engorge yourself on those if that's your fancy. That's not Pixar's niche.

Obviously there are a lot of us who don't see these films as little kiddie stuff 'cause many of us regular adults own and watch them too.

I watch these movies because they don't treat the adults in the audience as adults, and they are emotionally engaging.

My bad. My apologies. I'm shutting up now.

So yes, it was indeed terrific hearing the Brazil music, and I will, for the rest of the day, only refer to myself as Neck Boy.

Sonicdeathmonkey, I think you got the wrong impression. Saying they decided it was time to get into another feature and stating that they "knocked around a bunch of ideas" doesn't imply that the lunch is where they came UP with those ideas, just that it was the first time they'd put them on the table (so to speak) and began developing them. So IMHO your 'profitable' thing is based on a misconception, although admitedly it was slightly vague. Think about that. Oh, and ;)!

I was saying in another TB that another reason I wish this format war would end is that then we can finally get some high-def Criterion goodness!