Minions on the screens and bolsominions in life: a bakhtinian analysis

Abstract

The study, based on Bakhtinian philosophy, taken from the notion of language as understood by Paula ((2017a, 2017b, 2017c, 2019a, 2019b) – in a three-dimensional way – verbivocovisual, aims to reflect on the networked subject, called bolsominion, on Facebook pages. To this end, we start from a corpus made up of a movie franchise entitled Despicable Me (2010, 2013, 2015 and 2017), which presents the idea of being minions as a subject, so that we can expand this conception to the Brazilian political context from the term “bolsominion”, in a dialectical-dialogical movement that comprises the clash of forces between opposing values, with no solution. Thus, the term, according to its use, is understood as an ideological sign and it is perceived as a certain thematic content, which comes from art, is elaborated aesthetically and, later, turns to the social soil with a new meaning, and acquires, as in the case of this study, a criticism of a specific group, because they take advantage of features present in the movie franchise to establish a relationship between life and art - the constitution of minions subjects parallel to the constitution of the bolsominions subjects. The result demonstrates that an intolerant discourse is associated with this group (“bolsominion”) as one of its characteristics of existence on social networks and beyond them.