"Lá de volta outra vez...": uma apreciação de adaptações no cinema utilizando análise de redes sociais

Abstract

During the last few years the movie industry has been achieving high boxes office with its releases, many of these being adaptations from well known literature ,such as The Lord of The Rings, besides its income coming directly from the adaptation, the industry also earns from its byproducts, thus becoming a promising market with great opportunities. From these perceptions, this paper has as an objective to oversee a comparative analysis of the sociability of the universe presented in the book The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien and its adaptation, directed and produced by Peter Jackson, so that it’s possible to answer How the adaptation of literary works to the movie theater can create changes in the premier work? Such analysis will be held by the investigation of social network to demonstrate the possible alterations carried by the adaptation and understand how such mutations can influence the movie industry. The data collection was made from reading The Hobbit book and the scripts from the film trilogy (An Unexpected Journey, The Desolation of Smaug and The Battle of The Five Armies). After the identification of the network from both sources and with the comparative analysis with social networks graphs, it was shown that the adaptation tells the story in a different manner from that of the original, thus reaching the goal of this work, and the ways it affects the market.