Malhação

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Malhação is a Brazilian telenovela for the teenage audience. The series started in 1994, and was set in a fictional Gym Club called Malhação on Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro. Through the years the location varied slightly. Although the series name remains the same, it is now set in the Múltipla Escolha (Portuguese for "Multiple Choice") High School.

Malhação is very popular in Portugal (known as New Wave, broadcast on SIC). The series inspired others telenovelas, like TVI's Morangos com Açúcar, which is strongly based on the Malhação format, and Rede Record's Alta Estação.

The show reached its peak in 2004, with Guilherme Berenguer and Juliana Didone as the leads, and the ratings decreased from this season on. In 2005 and 2006, Malhação lost a huge part of it's fanbase to the Mexican teen soap Rebelde, airing at SBT.

1 Criticism
2 Malhação main characters and actors since 1995
3 Reference
4 Trivia
5 External links

[edit] Criticism

The telenovela is criticised because it does not reflect accurately the 1990s and 2000s Brazilian generation. It is also criticised because the education system displayed in the telenovela is unrealistic, compared to the Brazilian reality. Another complaint is that the standard of living shown in Malhação is available only to few Brazilians.

Even middle-class and rich teenagers can't relate to the characters, and some of the main girls (especially Luísa) have been accused by fans of following the Mary Sue stereotype. But it's still hugely popular, mainly among preteens.

[edit] Malhação main characters and actors since 1995

1995 - Héricles (Danton Mello) and Isabella (Juliana Martins)
1996 - Dado (Cláudio Heinrich) and Luiza (Fernanda Rodrigues)
1997 - Vudu (Pedro Vasconcellos) and Patrícia (Luana Piovani)
1998 - Bruno (Rodrigo Faro) and Alice (Cássia Linhares)
1999 - Rodrigo (Mário Frias) and Tati (Priscila Fantin)
2000 - Marcelo (Fábio Azevedo) and Joana (Ludmila Dayer), Rodrigo (Mário Frias) and Tati (Priscila Fantin), Touro (Roger Gobeth) and Érica (Samara Felippo)
2001 - Gui (Iran Malfitano), Nanda (Rafaela Mandelli) and Valéria (Bianca Castanho)
2002 - Pedro (Henri Castelli) and Júlia (Juliana Silveira)
2003 - Victor (Sérgio Marone) and Luísa (Manuela do Monte)
2004 - Gustavo (Guilherme Berenguer), Letícia (Juliana Didone) and Natasha (Marjorie Estiano)
2005 - Bernardo (Thiago Rodrigues), Betina (Fernanda Vasconcellos) and Jaque (Joana Balaguer)
2006 - Cauã (Bernardo Melo Barreto), Manuela (Luiza Valdetaro), Eduardo (Gabriel Wainer) and Priscila (Monique Alfradique)
2007 - Marcela (Thaila Ayala), André (Rômulo Arantes Neto), Vivian (Fiorella Mattheis), Murilo Jaguar (Bruno Udovic), Cecília (Maria Eduarda Machado) and Mateus (Klebber Toledo)

Like American soap operas, cast and characters change from year to year, but actors and characters who have stayed for long in the series are, among others, Alexandre Slaviero whose character "Kiko" has experienced changes (he has gone from student, to bad boy, to steroid addict to model) and Sérgio Hondjakoff, whose character Cabeção, has been in the story from 2000 to 2005.

[edit] Reference

Much of the content of this article comes from the equivalent Portuguese-language Wikipedia article (retrieved January 7, 2006).

[edit] Trivia

Malhação is going to be adapted into a movie with filming to begin in 2007, with a release date in the Brazilian theaters sometime in 2008.
The school bell always ring before the teacher says to begin exercise.