Os cavaleiros imaginários de Terry Gilliam: uma análise da transição da figura do cavaleiro medieval da literatura para o cinema

Abstract

The narratives around the quest for the Grail originated in the XI century and were of great importance to fix the image of a typical character of medieval society , the knight , as a new heroic style. In this sense, the knights who found the Grail in these narratives, especially in the literary cycle known as the Matter of Britain, represent the maximum configuration of this paradigm . This research aims to examine the permanence of such an image on film , it is also a narrative art , as were the novels of chivalry which originated the style. The corpus to be analyzed are three significant works of American filmmaker Terry Gilliam who directly or indirectly reproduce the issue Grail : Monty Python and The Holy Grail , 1974; The Fisher King, 1991 and Twelve Monkeys, 1995. Thus, looking to give an overview of thesis resumed literary image and medieval knights in film, as well as observe the changes in the pattern of these images described literarily to optical - sound representation