Article

Name: Reinterpretation of M. Bulgakov’s Cine Optics in the Script by S. Bodrov Jr. and in A. Balabanov’s Film “Morphine”

Authors: Natalya A. Muratova, Galina A. Zhilicheva

Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

Abstract:

The article uses the material of M. A. Bulgakov’s novella “Morphine” and other works of the writer, including “Notes of a Young Doctor”, “The Doctor’s Extraordinary Adventures”, “The Dog’s Heart”, as well as the text of Sergei Bodrov Jr.’s script and A. O. Balabanov’s screenplay to show the ways of adapting specific features of Bulgakov’s cine poetics in filmic narratives. We have examined how the internal structure of the discourse of recordings in “Morphine” appeals to intentional elements of visualisation at the expense of demonstrative detachment, in some places almost nominative, certainly having in mind the formed culture of the reader-film-viewer; specific techniques of scripted and filmic representations of filmic metaphors in the writer’s prose are analysed. The relevance of the filmic context in the poetics of “Morphine” is also noted with references to well-known studies, however, it is emphasised that what in the movies of the German Expressionist demonstrated the dual nature of reality, the ambivalence of the subject of action, in Bulgakov’s narrative is realised in the signs of cinema itself, where the experimental synthetic nature of the image is fully manifested. S. Bodrov’s screenplay is considered as a phenomenon of the transition of literary discourse to cinematic, with an emphasis on musical counterpoint and “action-narrative”, while the discrepancies between the literary source, the script and the film are thought by the authors within the boundaries of the problem of intersemiotic translation.

Keywords: cinematography of literature, cine optics of the narrator, M. Bulgakov, “Morphine”, script, S. Bodrov Jr., A. Balabanov

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