Una propuesta de análisis de los personajes de David Fincher desde la perspectiva del viaje del héroe: héroe, mentor y enemigo

• Autores: Rafael Suárez Gómez, Jaume Durán Castells, Joan Frígola Reig
• Localización: Avanca / Cinema 2012 / Cine Clube de Avanca (dir.), 2012, ISBN 978-989-96858-2-6, págs. 406-414
• Idioma: portugués
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• Resumen

  • The American director David Fincher is now recognised and respected by audience and critics.His position in Hollywood's major studios allows him to hold total control of the final cut of hismovies, a relevant fact in an environment where this rarely happens. In this sense, a contentanalysis of the most significant characters of his films from the point of view of a series ofarchetypes closely linked to film critique based on Campbell's (1949) concept of the 'hero'sjourney' (The Hero with a Thousand Faces), allows us to observe and describe his work with aclassical narrative approach, exploring these themes in more detail and gaining insight in thekey aspects of Fincher's cinematographic activity.This research focuses therefore on the figures of the hero (or the antihero, as a strange andmarginal element in society), the mentor and the enemy (or enemies - including obstacles -whether internal or external) within the specific context of the tragedy and drama in a critique ofthe established society as an ordinary world that the main characters leave after crossing athreshold into the unknown