Seguindo Pinocchio: a ambientação, o feminino e a fuga na obra fílmica de Roberto Benigni como elementos de ressignificação da obra literária de Carlo Collodi

Abstract

Le avventure di Pinocchio is a work that closely interacts with the translation because since its launch, in 1883, has been translated to several languages and adapted to different artistic forms. The work is considered a fiction and children`s narrative of great representation of Italian literature of the late nineteenth century, however, few speak about the relevant realistic aspects, that keep a close relation with the fictional elements (CAMBI, 1985; GUERINI, 2009), significant of a historical, economical and social period of many difficulties that marked the Italian post-unification, what makes Pinocchio a symbol of national identity (ASOR ROSA, 1985). Our research aims to verify how those realistic aspects, and significant of a specific Italian historical moment, were resignified into the Italian filmic adaptation Pinocchio, from Roberto Benigni, launched in 2002. The concept of resignification goes back to the resemantization concept, theorized by Lotman (1970), who defends that the artistic text, as language, has the function to produce new meanings. In fact, theorists from filmic adaptation, like Bazin (1977) and Cattrysse (2014; 1992) recognize the importance of movies as a text that brings their own interpretations and views of the literary work and, therefore, deserves to be understood in its own copyright and marketing particularities. In this perspective, we support our study in the Polysystem Theory of filmic adaptations, from Cattrysse (2014) to comprehend the movie as a product itself. Thus, the elements that are meaningful in the literary work as: the embience, the female figure and the escape; when translated into the filmic narrative will be resignified according to the copyright, marketing and acceptance requirements: the ambience, that in Collodi portrays the social denounce of poverty and hunger, in Benigni, portrays a historical moment, but without highlighting the social denounce; the female figure is restricted to the presence of Fata, in the literary work, Benigni, however, uses the room in the filmic narrative to insert the woman in the most diverse everyday activities, through figuration; the escape element, that permeates all the literary work, will be analyzed in what we define as the great escape, when Pinocchio receives the coins from Mangiafoco until its hanging; Colodi portrays it in a tough and violent way, characteristics of children`s tales of once, yet Benigni resignifies it, using realistic elements, but not so violent, whereas the contemporary children`s narrative tries to soften it.