LIMA, R. A. C.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8123689140883511; LIMA, Romário Amorim Cavalcante.
Resumo:
This research investigates the possibility of applying the theories of classification for literary
character to the film character. It checks the way people understand the character as a fiction
being and an element from the text. It gets supported by the relationship between film and
literature to propose a theory, at first directed to literature, to be used as a background for a
study about a category of film. Regarding the character, we rely on the studies of Brait (1999),
Cândido (2005), Foster (1985), Gancho (2002), Segolin (1999) and Moisés (1979). Regarding
the actual film character, we take as a basis the text of Gomes (2005. We consider some
characters which were selected as our object of observation; they were taken from different
filmic narratives and were used to verify the possibility of application of theory that we
proposed.