Cómo y para que construir y adaptar una historia a un libreto teatral
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Los guiones pueden ser originales o adaptados, como nos recuerdan todo los años desde los premios Oscar. Los guiones originales son los que tienen un desarrollo original de la trama, escenarios, situaciones y personaje, aunque estén basados en una idea de otra persona. Los guiones adaptados se desarrollan a partir de una obra ya realizada. Esta es la clave, una adaptación es la transformación de una obra en otra, lo que significa cambiar de lenguaje, sobre todo si se cambia de medio. Por ejemplo, el lenguaje audiovisual actúa diferente que el literario: mientras en el cine se crean emociones con luces, sombras, encuadres y sonidos, en la literatura se transmiten por medio de palabras o metáforas, que pueden crear diferentes imágenes en cada persona.
Explicación:
Adaptación.
Follow as close to the original work as possible. The scriptwriter does not change the story, time, places, or characters. The dialogues reflect only the emotions and conflicts present in the original.
Romeo and Juliet, George Cukor's 1936 adaptation of the Shakespeare classic, garnered 4 Oscar nominations and was noted for casting two veteran actors, Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer, to play the two lead roles.
Franco Zeffirelli also adapted Romeo and Juliet in 1968, but selected two teenage and unknown actors, who were 16 and 14 years old respectively, to play the lovers. The age of the protagonists was not the only aspect in which the director sought the maximum possible fidelity to the text and placed the action in the original places. The film won two Oscars.
Basado en…
In this case, it is required that the story be kept intact, although some licenses are allowed, such as changing the ending. You can reduce and modify situations and characters, and although it has a lower level of fidelity with the original, you can still recognize the origin easily.
Romeo + Julieta by Baz Luhrman respected the original text, but moved the story to a contemporary setting, close to an MTV video clip, full of gunmen with guns and high school playground drama.
Inspirado en…
The scriptwriter takes as a starting point a character or a dramatic situation in the original work and develops the story with a new structure. Although it is a work with a different structure, there are certain aspects of the original work that remain, such as the location or the time in which the action takes place.
This is what William Shakespeare himself did, who was inspired to write Romeo and Juliet by an Italian short story by Mateo Bandello, The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet (1562). The grace of Shakespeare was to spice up this story by creating new secondary characters, which contributed to the main plot making the play a tragicomedy of mistakes.
Recreación.
EThe screenwriter extracts the main plot from the original work and then works with it freely. That is, change the characters, take the story to another time and space, and create a new structure. The degree of fidelity between the work and the original is minimal. Let's look at some examples of recreations of Romeo and Juliet:
The musical West Side Story turned the Montagues and Capulets into two rival New York street gangs: the Puerto Rican-born Sharks and the Irish-born Jets. In Vicente Escrivá's Montoyas and Tarantos, two gypsy families, the Montoya and the Taranto, who have been estranged since time immemorial, will clash when their respective children Ana and Manuel fall in love. In Anno Saul's Kebab connection, a young Turkish immigrant messes it up when he gets his German girlfriend pregnant, ignoring his father's instructions: "go out with whoever you want, but never get a German woman pregnant." In Alacrán enamorado, by Santiago Zannou, the protagonist is a neo-Nazi who falls in love with a mixed-race girl, provoking the ire of his skinhead friends.
In Andrzej Bartkowiak's Romeo Must Die, a man escapes from jail to avenge his brother's death. What he does not know is that on the way he will fall in love with the daughter of the capo who ordered the murder. The families that are fighting are the American Mafia and the Chinese Mafia. In High School Musical the captain and star of the basketball team meets and becomes interested in the shy nerd, an open war will break out between their respective gangs of friends. In Gnomeo and Juliet, the Montagues, garden gnomes with the blue hat, are taken to kill with the Capulets, gnomes with the red hat. Things get worse when Gnomeo Montague, meets and falls in love with Juliet, the daughter of Lord Brick, whose hat is not the same color.