Resumen de Nelson Rodrigues, del teatro a la pantalla
From 1900 to 1950, Brazilian theatre had very little to offer to a Brazilian cinema concerned with the kind of serious drama taken as a central feature for the consolidation of a narrative cinema akin to the Hollywood classical tradition. Things began to change around 1960. Since then, among the modern playwrights who have become significant to film production in Brazil, Nelson Rodrigues has been by far the most influential and most translated into film. This article presents an overview of the film-makers’ dialogue with his work, giving emphasis to the way in which movements like Cinema Novo and Tropicalism, and the cinema of the 1990’s as well, adapted his texts to the screen and gave different political connotations to abstract his anatomy of the crisis of the Brazilian patriarchal tradition.
