The Cafona was the first novel of Bráulio Pedroso in TV Globo. The author wrote, for TV, Tupi Beto Rockfeller (1968), considered a watershed in Brazilian teledramaturgy for inaugurating the urban plots mirrored in Brazilians' daily lives. Braulio Pedroso was also noted for creating humorous stories with strong social criticism. To make one of the scenes of the novel, the actor Carlos Vereza, interpreter of the underground filmmaker Rogério, dismissed the stuntman and hung in the cable car of Sugar Loaf, camera in hand, to film the character Shirley Sexy (Marília Pêra) for a commercial.
