O estilo universalizante na legendagem de séries e seu impacto na construção de personagens

Abstract

This work aims to analyze and discuss the subtitle translations of two streaming shows: Mr. Pickles (2013) and The Boys (2019). We will analyze two episodes from the first, and from the second, a single episode. In both cases only a section with around five minutes will be analyzed. Our discussions, within the scope of Translation Studies, are based on specialized literature on subtitling, and also on literary translation. We show throughout our analyzes the hypothesis of a universalizing style, understood here as a style that neutralizes, through subtitles, the specificities of a character's speech, affecting their profiling. We present some translation proposals which comprehend such specificities. The universalizing style, also referred to as generalizing, comes from marketing needs, i. e., the neutralization and mitigation – aiming to turn a speech into something less aggressive – which happen at subtitling are more related to the more effective range to reach the audience. The series whose subtitles will be discussed can be found at HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video, the hosts of Mr. Pickles (2013) and The Boys (2019), respectively.