Considerações sobre a tradução do humor nas legendas de Noivo neurótico, noiva nervosa de Woody Allen

Abstract

The main objective of this study is the analysis of the Portuguese subtitles of the film Annie Hall, by Woody Allen (1977), with focus on the translation of the comic effects to the Brazilian audience. To achieve that, we seek to initially address the concept of translation as a textual, cognitive and communicative act (Hurtado Albir, 2005), and approach the Skopos Theory, which emphasizes the communicative dimension of translation between languages and cultures. The role of subtitling and the specificity of the translation of humor,-- the genre of Annie Hall— are presented and discussed. A short biography of Woody Allen and his filmography are presented, as well as a brief comment on the so-called Jewish humor, which is a frequent theme in his work. Finally, we offer a critical analysis the subtitling of Noivo neurótico, noiva nervosa, by comparing it to its English version, Annie Hall. We conclude that despite few effective options, the translator had difficulty in rendering to the Brazilian audience the comic effects in some critical scenes of the film