"3%" The Brazilian sci-fi TV pilot

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director Jotaga Crema explained the premise: “The story takes place in a world where all people, upon reaching age 20, can enroll in a selective process where 3 percent are accepted to transfer to a better world full of opportunities and the promise of a decent life. The selection process is cruel, filled with tension, and composed of extreme situations of stress, fear and moral dilemmas.”

Sci-Fi TV Pilot 3% Hurls Brazilians Into Lord of the Flies Mode

the 9 minute clip of it in 1080p
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=R_rvS7nX7pM

the 3 Porcento Facebook page.

Hmm. looks a little like THX-1138.
I'm all for the Internet allowing people and scifi fans all over the world to see other countries scifi tv pilots...

 

[Kegg]

Those first nine minutes were pretty solid, I'd definitely watch more of that. I do wonder if the premise lends itself to a TV series (is it all about the selection process? About the two sides of the world? Or what?).

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Looks interesting. I'm not a huge fan of subtitles, but I'd give it a go.

Something from outside the vacuum of the U.S. movie/TV industry might have a chance of being original and really good.

 

[Harvey]

Looks cool. I'd definitely watch more.

 

[watermelony2k]

Orwellian and tense. Up for more.

 

[Agent Richard07]

Looks good.

 

[iguana_tonante]

Very interesting.

 

[Kegg]

Finished watching it (as it appears the makers released the whole thing on youtube). Very strong starter episode - it's taut, and there's a process that is both cruel and clever in deciding where people end up.

I definitely would tune into this every week.

 

[Noname Given]

I thought it was okay. I wouldn't call it Science Fiction per se though. It just uses the 'two worlds' as a vehicle to tell the story. It's more straight up psychological drama similar to 'The Prisoner' in a way, but without the technology.

 

[Kegg]

I'd call it science fiction because it's a speculative future. The 'depressing greyscale statist dystopia where people are treated as disposable products' isn't just sci-fi, it's a good old fashioned sci-fi cliche.

The Prisoner's a good analogy, though.

 

[FreezeC77]

Wasn't bad. Although I expect should it continue on as a series we'd see more game/contests/fights to weed down the number from the original 100 to the 3 who actually pass.

Still I expect that ultimately in the end the twist is that the 3% selected don't wind up going to any kind of utopia "good side".

 

[Kegg]

I get the impression the good side is better than the other side... but given how bad the other side is, that may not be saying a lot.

Besides, our only contact with 'the good side' is a bunch of manipulative jerks behind desks who are getting off on their ungodly amount of power (admittedly it seems to pretty much be in the job description to be a jerk but even so), which hardly bodes well for what the other side is like.

One could call it a little trenchant as far as social criticism goes, the way good interviews and good impressions can make or break one's entrance to the elite, privileged world. I know this episode made me think back to my college applications (even if those were hardly as ridiculous as this), and I think that's a good enough angle to go with. That character flatly saying he doesn't want to be his father really spelled that out for me.

Also, was it said they had a solid round 100 applicants? I thought only %3 passed, but had the impression the amount of people who applied each year was a lot higher than that. I guess my assumption is this works at a national level of whatever this society is... or whatever.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Looks about on par with a Skiffy Sat night movie, only with an even lower budget. I got about halfway through the preview before getting bored. It's easy to whomp up an "Orwellian" scenario with a bunch of hangdog looking actors all wearing the same raggy clothes, a bit harder to come up with anything that grabs ya.

Awfully white buncha people - not representative of the Brazilian population as a whole - did they all rebel and lock up the whiteys?

 

[Kegg]

Hey, it's American TV.