Análise dos roteiros de Flores Raras: percurso criativo de um filme sobre Elizabeth Bishop

Abstract

Literature and cinema, as forms of language and artistic expression, have been dialoguing in an ever closer way. When thinking about the adaptation of the starting text, a novel by Carmem Lucia Oliveira adapted into a film directed by Bruno Barreto, we can assume that this re-creation in the target culture offers multiple interpretative possibilities and presents traces of the starting text. It is under this perspective that the present thesis aims to show the film Flores raras as an adaptation of the novel Flores raras e banalíssimas. With the purpose of identifying paths that led to the creation of the cinematic work under consideration and taking into account scripts made available by LC Barreto Production, we reflect on the genesis of such adaptation based on the referred creative process documents. For the proposed analysis, principles and criteria of genetic criticism, besides studies of adaptation and intermediality have proven to be of relevance. We proposed to reflect on the creation of the film through the analysis of the manuscripts left by the screenwriters, as we understand that the genetic analysis of the transposition from a novel to a film reveals that the relationship between both works, book/film, is not that of opposition, but rather a supplementary relation, reaffirming that every text is complete in itself and each text presents certain characteristics that are relevant to the author that proposes to re-signify it.