Adaptando superbrinquedos: hiper-realidade em “Superbrinquedos duram o verão todo” de Brian Aldiss, e em A. I., inteligência artificial, de Steven Spielberg

Abstract

The main objective of this research has been to analyze the situations which involve hyperreality in the short story <Supertoys Last All Summer Long= ([1969] 2001), by BrianAldiss, in its process of adaptation to the film A. I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), directed by Steven Spielberg. Hyperreality, whose characteristics were extensively studied by Jean Baudrillard (1991), occurs in parallel with reality and, albeit imperceptibly, occupies a large space in our lives, that is, especially with the development of digital technologies, we often let ourselves be influenced by the massive dissemination of images that circulate around us, without even realizing that they concern to simulations of reality. However, both in Aldiss9s short story and in Spielberg9s movie, the expression of hyperreality is exacerbated, thus representing a metaphor for the place which our world has gradually become. For this research to be possible, we have verified some characteristics of the modalities of science fiction over time, to understand how this genre has become a favorable field for the development of themes about hyperreality. Some science fiction critics, such as Edward James (1994), Adam Roberts (2018), Brian Attebery (2016), and Andrew Butler (2016), have been very relevant in this regard. In addition, we have studied some aspects of the film adaptation process, especially from critics and theorists such as Linda Hutcheon (2013), André Bazin (1991), and Robert Stam (2006). We have verified that there are some well-defined situations that address us to hyperreality in the short story and in the film and that, certainly, the robot child David is one of the main bonds that both characters and the reader/spectator feel entangled in by the simulations present in the plots.