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- In the film 'Lavoura Arcaica,' Luiz Fernando Carvalho works with the image as it relates to its symbolic and allegorical content, borrowing the critical perspective of Antonin Artaud with respect to signs, whose great significance is what affects us most immediately. The filmmaker explains that his objective was not to discuss life, but rather to "touch on life," as Artuad suggests, and that in order to reach his objective, he chose to use a complex combination of verbal and nonverbal languages to broaden the expressive possibilities. In addition to superimposing word and image, Carvalho mixes and fuses sounds, shouts, vibrations, color, light, and other audiovisual resources. In this process, he creates a language that is physical, plastic, and spatial, whose goal is that all of these elements of the big screen affect the spectator through his or her skin. To illustrate the creative process of Luiz Fernando Carvalho, this article seeks to dicuss the nonverbal languages of the initial scenes of the film, in light of the critical considerations of various theorists of literature, theater, and film.
- No filme ‘Lavoura Arcaica’, Luiz Fernando Carvalho trabalha com a imagem relacionada ao seu conteúdo simbólico e alegórico, tomando de empréstimo as perspectivas críticas de Antonin Artaud a respeito dos signos, cujo significado indizível é o que mais nos atinge de imediato. O cineasta relata que seu objetivo não foi discutir a vida, mas sim "tocar na vida", como sugere Artaud, e que, para atingir seu objetivo, optou valer-se de uma complexa combinação de linguagens verbais e não-verbais para ampliar as possibilidades expressivas. Além da sobreposição da palavra e da imagem, Carvalho mistura e funde sons, gritos, vibrações, cor, luz, entre outros recursos visuais e sonoros, criando, assim, uma linguagem física, plástica e espacial, cujo intuito é conseguir que todos os elementos da grande tela ajam sobre o espectador através da pele. Para ilustrar o processo criativo de Luiz Fernando Carvalho, objetiva-se discutir as linguagens não-verbais dos planos iniciais do filme à luz das considerações críticas de diversos teóricos da literatura, do teatro e do cinema.
Citation
Camati, Anna Stegh,
"Non-verbal languages: the opening scenes in Luiz Fernando Carvalho's film ‘Lavoura Arcaica’"
(2008).
BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://doi.org/10.26300/e82m-wq66
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BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature
...BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature (ISSN: 2526-4885), founded in 1988, publishes scholarly articles on Brazilian literature and in Comparative Literature with a focus on Brazilian literature, as well as book reviews, interviews with writers, English-language translations of Brazilian literature …