Hamlet e o versossímil

No trecho abaixo, Hamlet lança sua filosofia sobre a representação - o papel do ator - para um dos atores que irá representar um papel na peça para o Rei da Dinamarca. O que ele pensa é basicamente o que sinto ser um dos conceitos fundamentais do realismo e, consequentemente, da verossimilhança. Eu aprecio esse conceito - verossímil - sinto-o mais potente que o realismo ou, acredito, os dois conceitos se aglutinam. Creio nessa última afirmação, de fato. É difícil falar desses conceitos porque se permite muitas interpretações, mas a verossimilhança é a verdade acerca da própria natureza de determinada criatura. Não quero relativizar com palavras o que seja essa verdade, pois o meu olhar me diz, quando vejo uma cena, se o que se mostra é de fato crível. Se o corpo, se a voz, o texto e a relação estão todas em arranjo. Seu discurso é a síntese profética do próprio papel da arte.

HAMLET
Mas também nada de contenção exagerada; teu discernimento deve te orientar. Ajusta o gesto à palavra, a palavra ao gesto, com cuidado de não perder a simplicidade natural. Pois tudo que é forçado deturpa o intuito da representação, cuja finalidade, em sua origem e agora, era, e é, exibir um espelho à natureza; mostrar à virtude sua própria expressão; ao ridículo sua própria imagem e a cada época e geração sua forma e efígie. Ora, se isso é exagerado, ou então mal concluído, por mais que faça rir ao ignorante só pode causar tédio ao exigente; cuja opinião deve pesar mais no teu conceito do que uma platéia inteira de patetas. Ah, eu tenho visto atores - e elogiados até e muito elogiados! - que, pra não usar termos profanos, eu diria que não tem nem voz nem jeito de cristãos, ou de pagãos - sequer de homens! Berram, ou gaguejam de tal forma, que eu fico pensando se não foram feitos - e malfeitos! - por algum aprendiz da natureza, tão abominável é a maneira com que imitam a humanidade!

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Tura Satana obituary
Actor best known for her role as a go-go dancer in Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!


Tura Satana em "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!"
Filme de Russ Meyer, 1965

The actor Tura Satana, who has died aged 72, lived a life as eventful as the plots of the lurid B-movies that made her a star. Almost 6ft tall and trained in martial arts, she specialised in a kind of tough charisma that has rarely been matched on screen.

She was best known for her role in the Russ Meyer sexploitation movie Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965, tagline: "Superwomen! Belted, buckled and booted!"). As Varla, the leather-clad leader of a gang of thrill-seeking go-go dancers, Satana was given an opportunity by Meyer to perform her own stunts and choreograph fight scenes, as well as to adlib dialogue. She responded by channelling a kind of controlled rage, stating in an interview: "I took a lot of my anger that had been stored inside for many years and let it loose." Made for $45,000, the film became a cult classic, inspiring directors including John Waters and Quentin Tarantino.

Satana was born Tura Yamaguchi in Hokkaido, Japan, where her part-Filipino father acted in silent films and her mother was a circus performer of mixed Native American and Scottish heritage. The family moved to the US in 1942, but Tura and her father were interned for two and half years in the Manzanar relocation centre for Japanese-Americans in California.

The family were eventually reunited and settled in Chicago. At a time when anti-Japanese feeling was still prevalent, the young Tura suffered constant bullying at school. One evening, just before her 10th birthday, she was sent out by her mother to buy some bread. On the way home she was raped by a gang of teenagers. The five youths were never prosecuted, although in interviews she claimed that over the course of the next 15 years, she tracked down each of her assailants and exacted an unspecified revenge.

Her father responded to the attack by teaching her the martial arts akido and karate. Tura was soon afterwards sent to reform school as a result of her frequent delinquency. When she was 13, her parents arranged for her to marry a 17-year-old family friend, John Satana. The marriage lasted nine months, by which time Tura was appearing in Illinois nightclubs as a burlesque dancer and a nude model – her act combined martial-arts displays with the usual tassle-twirling.

Moving to Los Angeles, Satana dated Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra before being spotted performing at the Follies theatre and offered a role in the television series Hawaiian Eye. Her martial arts skills led to bit parts in shows such as The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and she appeared in Billy Wilder's Irma La Douce (1963) and alongside Dean Martin in Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? (1963). In the former she played a prostitute and the latter, a stripper.

It took the softcore king Meyer to fully recognise Satana's potential, even if he did not exactly cast her against type. After Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, she appeared in two more films, The Astro-Zombies (1968) and The Doll Squad (1973), before she was hospitalised after being shot in the stomach by an ex-boyfriend.

She had abandoned her burlesque career when changes in California licensing laws led many club owners to require dancers to perform topless. Satana gave up acting to become a nurse and, later, a police radio operator. In 1981 she married a former policeman, Endel Jurman. Soon afterwards, she was injured in a serious car accident.

For much of her later life, she worked in hotel security in Reno, Nevada. She was a canny businesswoman, trademarking her image, which appeared as an action figure, a Halloween mask and on T-shirts. She was also a good-natured regular at cult film conventions and, despite having a pacemaker fitted in 2003, seemed as tough as ever. Indeed, in one interview she recounted what had happened when an over-enthusiastic fan hid in her hotel room after a signing: "He went flying across the room and wound up with a broken arm, busted nose and badly twisted leg. The house detective carried him out."

Jurman died in 2000. Satana is survived by her daughters, Kalani and Jade, and her sisters, Pamela and Kim.

• Tura Satana, dancer and actor, born 10 July 1938; died 4 February 2011

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