This paper is the abridgment of the research Processos de Adaptações Criativas - Cinema Literário e Psicanálise (Creative Adaptation Processes - Literary Cinema and Psychoanalysis), which main goal is the specific analysis of language as well as of the transformations undergone by literary texts in their translation to filmic texts. I present as an example the movie Quincas Borba (directed by Roberto Santos), based on the homonymous book by Machado de Assis.