Abstract
The following article analyzes the script Seven Tropical Sins, written by Manuel Puig in 1986 during his exile in Brazil. By commenting on one of its scenes and, in particular, on the composition of the leading actress Sônia Braga, we will seek to show how Puig sought to construct a script for a film that would be consumed by a wide Brazilian audience, designed in line with the interests of the foreign industry and, likewise, governed by the parameters of the Hollywood cinema of the 1930s and 1940s, the author's favorite cinema age. In this way, this paper seeks to show how this all ties up in Braga’s leading role and in the operations that Puig performs to take and, in turn, displace the images attached to her figure since the mid-seventies.
Keywords:
Puig; Braga; Cinema; Brazil; Eighties
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