Misery de Stephen King e a obra homônima de Rob Reiner na adaptação cinematográfica: os elementos de suspense e a conversa entre literatura e cinema

Abstract

Cinema and literature have a relationship that is not new: the adaptation. This is part of the daily life of the various consumers of art and has existed since the beginning of the construction of artistic manifestations. It all started with the Lumière brothers, the creators of the cinematograph that allowed the cinema experience to evolve and to be increasingly appreciated as art. The seventh art took from the literary works a part that became fundamental for itself: the narrative. Both cinema and literature have the capacity to bring pleasure and fun from the stories built according to the media in which they operate. For this reason, dealing with adaptation in terms such as "betrayal," "deformation," "perversion," "infidelity" and "profanation" (STAM, 2000, p.45 apud HUTCHEON, 2013, p.23) does not fit the perspective who sees each work as individual because it is part of a new construction, in a new media, starting from a re-reading. In the adaptation as a new, original work, we will study the work Misery, by Stephen King and the homonym from Rob Reiner in order to list elements of suspense that are distanced and approached in both works, taking into account the form as the two authors have constructed this important element of tension for the horror narrative. Even following a perspective that compares one work with another, fidelity to the book in Rob Reiner's adaptation was not the main object of this research. Certainly, because they are works that depart from different media, the focus of this work was on identifying the different forms through which the narrative (in the book as well as in the movie) developed in order to cause the suspense effect on the receiver. For that, to theoretically support this research on film adaptation in the understanding of the relationship between literature and cinema, the works of Linda Hutcheon, José Domingos de Brito and José Carlos Avellar were sought after.