Entre a literatura e o cinema: uma análise das adaptações cinematográficas brasileiras da obra "Romeu e Julieta", de Willian Skespeare

Abstract

This paper analyzes Brazilian film adaptations of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, focusing on the versions Monica and Cebolinha in the World of Romeo and Juliet (1979), Didi, the Clumsy Cupid (2003), and Once upon a time... (2008). The main objective of the research is to investigate how these adaptations maintain the essence of the original work, while at the same time inserting cultural and social elements of Brazil. The research adopts a qualitative and descriptive approach, with a comparative analysis between the adaptations and the original text. To this end, the research was carried out based on a critical analysis of the chosen films, considering their cultural specificities and how the elements of Shakespeare's original work were reinterpreted. The results show that, although the adaptations present different Brazilian contexts and characteristics, they all maintain the main narrative structure of Romeo and Juliet, while at the same time inserting aspects of local culture, such as humor and Brazilian social relations. It is concluded that the film adaptations of Romeo and Juliet in Brazil are a way of redefining the work, allowing the Brazilian public to appropriate the story in a way that is closer to their reality, without losing the essence of the original text. The research contributes to the understanding of the processes of cultural adaptation in cinema and suggests new investigations into the influence of classical literature on contemporary audiovisual productions in Brazil.