LONELINESS, I DON'T BELIEVE: LITERARY FLOATS AND IDENTITY IN THE SCREENPLAY AND THE MOVIE MISTER LONELY, BY HARMONY KORINE
Literature. Cinema. Screenplay. Mister Lonely. Harmony Korine.
This work intends to provoke discussions about the cinematographic screenplay as a possible genre within the domain of Literature, considering its multiple faces of writing and imagery conception that confront traditional paradigms around its own written nature. We will verify, in the course, elements of structure and content that allow the argumentative sharpening for a determined study, raising interpretive possibilities about the fluidity of the genre usually considered technical and, therefore, non-literary, to the detriment of the approximations it presents with the essentially poetic language and the form. We also intend to present an analytical reading of the work Mister Lonely, by the filmmaker Harmony Korine, in its two versions: the script and the film, in order to provide appraisals that focus on both configurations, with the intention of valuing both the film and the written work. In addition, we intend to verify how the identity crisis occurs in the narrative, taken by the characters, especially the protagonist. The work in question presents, in both forms of manifestation, configurations applicable within the notion of literary art, especially when it comes to the screenplay, the written genre, which has syntactic and semantic aesthetic elements of appreciation. For support we will have as theoretical itinerary authors who deal with themes related to literature, such as Eagleton (2006-2012), Lajolo (1995), Roland Barthes (2004-2005) and Tzvetan Todorov (2017); subjects concerning the screenplay, such as Syd Field (2001), Jean Claude-Carrière and Pascal Bonitzer (1996); authors who discuss the contents of the language of cinema and adaptation, such as Hutcheon (2011), Stam (2006), Henri Mitterand (2014), Ingmar Bergman (1960) and Jennifer Van Sijll (2017); and also theorists who study about the contemporary social subject, such as Zygmunt Bauman (1998-2004) and Stuart Hall (1992), among others.