Do papel à série de televisão: A vida como ela é... e suas personagens femininas

Abstract

The present work is dedicated to comprehend the process of feminine characters creation by Nelson Rodrigues and the adaptation of his works to television. Such comprehension turns possible by analyzing two episodes of the television series A vida como ela é… (The life as it is…), directed by Daniel Filho and script by Euclydes Marinho in 1996, based on the homonym newspaper column written by Nelson Rodrigues, published in the 1950s by Última Hora (Last Hour) news. It was interesting to research the creation and acting of the feminine characters in the short stories “Curiosa” (Curious) and “Sem caráter” (Characterless) as they, eventually, left the paper and earned television format and language. To achieve such objectives, we make use of the theoretical references on the character – especially, the works written by BRAIT (2004) and CANDIDO (2011) – and the creation of literature versions to television, among which we must highlight the texts by PELLEGRINI (2003) and Xavier (2003) and PALLOTTINI (2012; 2013). Therefore, we aim to analyze: the presence of artistic elements of the poetry written by Rodrigues on texts from newspaper columns; the creation of his feminine characters, marked by the transgression of social standards at the time; the insertion of short stories adaptation to a popular television program; and, finally, in which ways the work by Nelson Rodrigues received, by the series creation staff, a new perspective through the use of costumes, make up, frameworks, music and voices in this process of adaptation/rereading of a literary creation