Entre perdas e ganhos: a adaptação cinematográfica do conto O nevoeiro, de Stephen King

Abstract

This paper aims at discussing the narrative resources used by director Frank Darabont in the cinematic adaptation of the short story ―The Mist‖, by Stephen King. Through contemporary theories about cinematic adaptation, such as Diniz (1998) and Stam (2000), derived from the concept of Bakhtinian dialogism (BAKHTIN, 2015; 2016), stylistic choices in the source text, including point-of-view and character traits, are compared to the filmic narrative resources used to communicate visual meaning, like camera angles and plane construction, in a way to build a parallelism of communicative forms in both media. It remains, as a conclusion, to highlight the independence of each medium and how passé is the use of concepts such as fidelity, that permeated the work of traditional theorists, such as Bluestone (1966).