“Don’t worry! We are going on a big ship!” The Reinvention of the Deluge in Roland Emmerich’s 2012
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.34624/fb.v0i16.25219Keywords:
Noah, cinematic adaptation, intertextuality, 2012, Roland EmmerichAbstract
Directed by Roland Emmerich, 2012 (2009) constitutes a disaster movie, a subgenre of action films that had its prime time in the seventies. The screenplay, which follows Syd Field’s paradigm, is linear: the planet’s core has heated, earthquakes threaten mankind and the oceanic waters are rising. To survive the deluge and the mass extinction of humans, fauna and flora, scientists built gigantic arks. In this article, my objective is to examine how Noah’s myth is simultaneously appropriated and subverted in this cult movie. In my analysis, I resort to the theory of cinematic adaptation, intersemiotic translation and intertextuality.
Downloads
References
Austin, A. (2011). Roland Emmerich’s 2012: A Simple Truth. In J. Gelfer (Ed.), 2012: Decoding the Countercultural Apocalypse (pp. 108-122). London: Routledge.
Bíblia Sagrada. (2001). Lisboa: Difusora Bíblica.
Danelek, J. A. (2009). 2012: Extinction or Utopia: Doomsday Prophecies Explored. Woodbury: Llewellyn Publishers.
Jabouille, V. (1986). Iniciação à Ciência dos Mitos. Lisboa: Inquérito.
Jones, F. N. (2015). The Chronology of the Old Testament. Green Forest: Master Books.
Jung, C. G. (1990). The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious. Trad. R. Hull. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Kozlovic, A. K. (2016). Noah and the Flood: A Cinematic Deluge. In R. Burnette-Bletsch (Ed.), The Bible in Motion: A Handbook of the Bible and Its Reception in Film (pp. 35-50). Berlin: Walter De Gruyter.
Lévi-Strauss, C. (1966). Du Miel aux Cendres. Paris: Plon.
Mancelos, J. de (2017). Introdução à Narrativa Cinematográfica. Lisboa: Edições Colibri.
Molyneaux, B. L. (1997). Mitos da Terra Sagrada. Trad. Lucinda Silva. Lisboa: Temas e Debates.
Phillips, W. H. (2005). Film: An Introduction (3rd ed.). Boston: St. Martin’s Press.
Ryan, W. B. F., Pitman, W. C. III, & Major, C. O. (April 1997). An Abrupt Drowning of the Black Sea Shelf. Marine Geology, 138, 119–126.
Wagner, G. (1975). The Novel and the Cinema. Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
Winthrop, J. (1985). A Model of Christian Charity. In A. Heimert, & A. Delblanco (Eds.), The Puritans in America: A Narrative Anthology (pp. 81-92). Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Woodcock, P. G. (2009). Deucalion. In P. G. Woodcock (Ed.), Short Dictionary of Mythology (p. 46). New York: Worldside Press.
Filmografia
Kloser, H. (Produtor), & Emmerich, R. (Realizador). (2009). 2012/Mesmo título em português. USA: Columbia Pictures.
