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Personagens Em Processo: Narração Em Better Call Saul UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL FLUMINENSE PRÓ-REITORIA DE PESQUISA E PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO PROGRAMA DE PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM COMUNICAÇÃO WANDERLEY ANCHIETA Personagens em processo: narração em Better Call Saul Tese apresentada ao Curso de Pós-graduação em Comunicação da Universidade Federal Fluminense, como requisito parcial para a obtenção do grau de Doutor. Área de concentração: Estética e Tecnologia da Comunicação. Niterói, RJ 2020 WANDERLEY ANCHIETA Personagens em processo: narração em Better Call Saul Tese apresentada ao Curso de Pós-graduação em Comunicação da Universidade Federal Fluminense, como requisito parcial para a obtenção do grau de Doutor. Área de concentração: Estética e Tecnologia da Comunicação. Orientador: Prof. Dr. Benjamim Picado Niterói, RJ 2020 Ficha catalográfica automática - SDC/BCG Gerada com informações fornecidas pelo autor A539p Anchieta, Wanderley Personagens em processo : narração em Better Call Saul / Wanderley Anchieta ; José Benjamim Picado Sousa e Silva, orientador. Niterói, 2020. 207 f. : il. Tese (doutorado)-Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, 2020. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22409/PPGCOM.2020.d.09904244723 1. Personagem. 2. Narração. 3. Narrador. 4. Dramaturgia. 5. Produção intelectual. I. Picado Sousa e Silva, José Benjamim, orientador. II. Universidade Federal Fluminense. Instituto de Arte e Comunicação Social. III. Título. CDD - Bibliotecário responsável: Sandra Lopes Coelho - CRB7/3389 WANDERLEY ANCHIETA Personagens em processo: narração em Better Call Saul Tese apresentada ao Curso de Pós-graduação em Comunicação da Universidade Federal Fluminense, como requisito parcial da obtenção do grau de Doutor. Área de concentração: Estética e Tecnologia da Comunicação. Niterói, 26 de fevereiro de 2021. BANCA EXAMINADORA ______________________________________________________ Prof. Dr. Benjamim Picado (Orientador) Universidade Federal Fluminense ______________________________________________________ Prof.ª Dr.ª Mayka Castellano Universidade Federal Fluminense ______________________________________________________ Prof.ª Dr.ª Maria Guilhermina Castro Universidade Católica Portuguesa ______________________________________________________ Prof.ª Dr.ª Simone Maria Rocha Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais ______________________________________________________ Prof. Dr. Marcel Vieira Barreto Silva Universidade Federal da Paraíba AGRADECIMENTOS À minha mãe, Vera, de cuja força de vontade descomunal jamais saberei como retribuir. Sem ela não haveria a primeira luz, nem qualquer das seguintes, nem sequer poderia ter continuado a estudar. Ela é minha maior encorajadora, é quem primeiro e sempre me disse que deveria perseverar. Ela é a pessoa mais forte que conheço, a mais resistente e guerreira. Ela quem me ensinou a ser uma boa pessoa, porém em nenhuma circunstância conseguiria eu ser tão bom e caridoso quanto ela. Quisera eu ter um coração tão puro. Te amo mãe! Aos meus avôs, sempre! Pessoas amadas que, como diria Caetano, saíram para fora do círculo do (nosso) tempo. Espero que, conforme ora o poeta, “ainda assim acredito | Ser possível reunirmo-nos | [...] Num outro nível de vínculo”. Seu Hugo e Dona Nilma. Serei perpetuamente devedor incondicional de todas as suas ajudas e conselhos. Saudades infinitas, vovô e vovó! Ao meu irmão, Lucas, cuja inteligência superior eu nunca poderei alcançar. Fosse ele o dono desta tese, haveríamos de encontrar um abalo sísmico tão significativo para área que seus pares passariam um longo período para absorver tamanho maravilhamento. Te amo, bro! Aos meus colegas do grupo de pesquisa Media Müthos, pelas muitas trocas afetuosas ao longo de todo esse período, e nossas infindáveis risadas e brincadeiras em nosso grupo online. Ao grupo Bolsistas CAPES no Facebook, pelo bom humor de seus participantes, mesmo em face de todas as dificuldades aparentemente intransponíveis encontradas na vida acadêmica. E à todas as pessoas que contribuíram diretamente para a realização desta tese e indiretamente, no convívio do dia-a-dia da pós-graduação. À professora Simone Rocha e ao professor Bruno Campanella, por terem aceitado participar de minha qualificação e me disporem de sábios conselhos sobre como proceder daquele material desajeitado até este; por minha culpa ainda desajeitado – porém melhor organizado. À Luciana, a melhor secretária que já existiu. A pessoa mais carinhosa que encontrei na pós- graduação e que sempre fazia questão de saber o nome de todos, mesmo sendo nós em centenas, e nos conhecer e nos acolher e nos resolver todos os problemas. À CAPES pelo financiamento de minha pesquisa. Aos professores que aceitaram participar de minha defesa – Mayka Castellano, Maria Guilhermina Castro, Simone Maria Rocha, Marcel Vieira Barreto Silva –, que sobreviveram (espero!) aos meus longos desvios textuais e digressões disparatadas. Ao meu orientador, Benjamim Picado, last but not least, para quem sempre repito, com a devida razão, ter consigo uma dívida impagável. Não somente me acatou quando mais precisei, como sempre teve uma paciência sobre-humana com minhas infindáveis mudanças de tema e copiosas divagações. Ademais das correções e mais correções, com as quais nos torturamos mutuamente com vistas de que esse trabalho estivesse à altura do que se espera de uma tese de doutorado. Meu muito obrigado, de novo. Serei teu eterno devedor, com grande orgulho e honra de todas as horas que dedicou a mim. Obrigado, obrigado, thanks, et merci beaucoup pour tout! “Narration, the interaction of the syuzhet arrangement and the stylistic patterning of the film (or television), is the very force that conjures the fabula into being” David Bordwell, professor de cinema da Universidade de Iowa RESUMO Nossa tese busca entender como se realiza a presença e se cumpre a função de um personagem secundário em Breaking Bad, Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk). Adjuvante pavonesco do direito (i)legal do protagonista, Walter White (Bryan Cranston), buscamos delinear o que isso significa precisamente. A posteriori, adensamos nosso corpus com outra obra, Better Call Saul, spin-off do primeira, atuando também como sua prequela, posto que sua trama ocorre anos antes dos eventos contados no primeiro seriado. Nele, Goodman ganha sua própria história, focada em seu declínio moral entre Jimmy McGill, seu nome de batismo, e Saul Goodman – advogado criminoso, em sua definição peculiar de si. A partir desse recorte trabalhamos sobre o estatuto do personagem ficcional, na tentativa de compreender como eles foram historicamente rebaixados a meros seres de papel enquanto vivem vidas bastante complexas nas mentes de seus fãs. Sendo multicromáticos, nos termos de James Phelan, os personagens possuem três dimensões principais, duas das quais são as mais importantes para nosso escopo de pesquisa: i) a sintética, ou seja, o tracejado de aspectos ou adjetivos que os constituem enquanto existentes por si próprios; ii) a temática, que se efetua na progressão temporal, onde encontramos, no desfecho, a finalidade de seu pacote aspectual. Dessa maneira, analisamos, por exemplo, a hybris – conceito que pode ser definido como uma arrogância descomedida, e averiguamos que ela é a verdadeira nêmesis ou inimigo de ambos nossos titulares. Ainda, investigamos o regimento do narrador, apontando ele como o responsável pela alocação desses elementos sintéticos a fim de apresentar seu próprio ponto de vista, sua torção sobre a história – ou ótica. Desse modo, é a narração que acopla a arrogância de nossos heróis com a noção de destruição, configurando assim sua efetivação temática: pois lidamos com uma dupla de seres ambiciosos e esnobes em dois mundos nos quais esses predicados são recompensados com a pior das fortunas. Exploramos todas essas questões num texto entrelaçado entre a dramaturgia, fonte dos adjetivos e da estratégia textual que conforma o próprio narrador e sua encenação, dos milimétricos mises-en-shot das obras, que as elevam ao patamar das grandes produções. Por fim, destacamos que os personagens possuem tempos de existência diferentes, ainda que possam aparentar estarem física e contiguamente lado a lado. Um desses modos de existir se concretiza no tempo sucessivo – da supracitada progressão, das causas e efeitos, atos, arcos, até o destino implacável do fim. O outro é uma disposição de acúmulo de espaço, num tempo que não se move, somente se expande sem a obrigação de se concluir ou modificar. E, em consequência, examinamos como Saul Goodman, um mesmo personagem, trafega naturalmente entre esses estados: estando, de forma respectiva, no primeiro em seu próprio show e no segundo em Breaking Bad. Palavras-chave: personagem; narração; narrador; dramaturgia; encenação. ABSTRACT Our thesis seeks to understand how the presence and the role of a secondary character in Breaking Bad, Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk), is fulfilled. A flamboyant helper to the (i)legal rights of the protagonist, Walter White (Bryan Cranston), we seek to outline precisely what this means. Furthermore, we densified our corpus with another work, Better Call Saul, a spin-off of the first, also acting as its prequel, since its plot occurs years before the events told in the first series. In it, Goodman gains his own story, focused on his moral decline between Jimmy McGill, his birth name, and Saul Goodman – a criminal lawyer, in his peculiar definition of himself. From this research focus, we work on the status of the fictional character, in an attempt to understand how they were historically demoted to mere paper beings while living quite complex lives in the minds of their fans.
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