Tatu is a sertanejo who, tired of going hungry and thirsty, he decides to move with his companions to the city of Oróz. Tatu is portrayed by José Dumont.
History[]
After five years without rain, without fruit, without hunting, and with no chance of improvement, Tatu, along with his partners Didi and Soró, placed their last hope in Didi’s attempt to capture a vulture to eat. After the vulture escaped, the three decided to leave that dry land in which they were suffering. Didi then put their house on the cart pulled by Salvação the donkey and they set off in search of the city of Oróz.
On the way, they came to a fork where Didi saw a scarecrow. They became curious about the scarecrow after he laughed at a joke made by Didi. So they decide to walk around the scarecrow, noticing that he was staring back at them, making a face, and turning the trunk to which he was tied to better see them, terrifying Didi. He screamed at Didi, pressing him to get closer. Passoura then explained that he was brainless, because if he had a brain the caracaras would have already eaten it, and that he needed to be tied to the trunk so that he could be able to better watch over the plantation, then Tatu pointed out to the scarecrow that the plantation had already died, and that he was really brainless if he hadn’t realized it until that moment, Pasoura began to cry, making the three feel sorry for him and giving Didi the idea of taking the scarecrow with them to Oróz so that the doctor could put brain inside his head. When they three began to untie Passoura, the scarecrow saw a gang of caracaras approaching them. After Didi being able to escape the carcarás, Tatu called him to hide behind a bush with him. The caracarás then diverted their attention to Passoura, attacking him. Tatu and Didi decided to take a stick each and attack the caracaras, killing them all. After the battle was won, Tatu and Didi helped Passoura to get down from the trunk.
Later, Tatu found a house where there could be water, so Didi and Passoura went there.
Arriving in Oróz, Didi saw a bakery and, together with Tatu and Soró, they went there. As they didn’t have money to buy bread honestly, they decided to steal. The baker, noticing their intention, stayed on their tail, especially Didi, who lured him outside the bakery, leaving Tatu and Soró unsupervised and then giving them the opportunity to steal some baguettes. Unfortunately for the heroes, the baker saw them and started chasing them and calling the police. He and Soró fled from the officers, hiding behind the school wall. When one of the officers finds them, he sneaks up behind Tatu and points his gun at them, ordering them to raise their arms. That was when the teacher Aninha attacked the officer with a frying pan and gave Tatu and Soró a place to hide. When Delegate Lion arrived with a troop surrounding the school, he threatened Tatu and his friends by saying that he would count to five and if they didn’t leave by the end of the count, he would shoot them. Tatu and his friends gave themselves up.
As in Oróz, thieves are condemned and tried in a public square, but in response to Aninha’s requests, Delegate Lion challenged Didi to fight with him, if Didi won he could take his gang and leave the city, but if he lost they they would be judged in the public square. During the fight, Lion knocked out Didi, winning the fight. After the trial, the judge decided to arrest Tatu and Soró, and their sentence would only be served if Didi, accompanied by Passoura and Tonel, brought water to the city.
Upon seeing Didi and his friends, with the spigot arriving in Oróz, Tatu and Soró, alongside the city, celebrated, as they would finally have some water and be freed. Much to the city’s disappointment, the four did not expect that the spigot would not work when disconnected from its plumbing and could not supply water, causing the Oróz’s population to revolt against them and the mayor to sentence them to death. Didi convinced his companions to have faith that the rain would fall and save them, so their song of faith miraculously caused rain to fall from the sky and the “monster” finally spouted water from its mouth.(Os Trapalhões e o Mágico de Oróz (film))