User:Danilosf/As Aventuras de Poliana

Background and Context
Pollyanna is a Eleanor H. Porter's 1913 bestseller considered a children's literature classic, whose main character's name is becoming a popular term and synonym in psychology and sociology of people with excessive or reckless optimism, known as The Pollyanna principle. The book was such a huge success that Porter soon wrote its sequel, ''Pollyanna Grows Up(1915). Eleven sequels, known as "Glad Books", were later published, mainly by Elizabeth Borton or Harriet Lummis Smith. Other sequels followed, including Pollyanna Plays the Game by Colleen L. Reece, published in 1997. Today, the piece is under public domain.''

Pollyanna was adapted into movies and TV shows several times. In the 1920's Silent film starred by Mary Pickford. Disney's 1960 Pollyanna film was starred by child actress Hayley Mills, who received an special Oscar for the role. The japanese TV channel Fuji Television  produced in 1986 an anime called: The Story of Pollyanna, Girl of Love, and NBC exhibited in 1989, Polly, a Television film starred by Keshia Knight Pulliam. In 1956 Tatiana Belinky adapted it into a telenovela in the brazillian Rede Tupi. Pollyana aired between October 9, 1956 and January 17, 1957. By the time there was still no videotaped recording method. The show was transmitted live and only twice a week, every Tuesday and Thursday at 7:35 PM. In no time the show became the product with the largest audience on the channel.

Production
The production of a show based on the romance Pollyanna was being planned by SBT since before the release of Carinha de Anjo in November of 2016. In the occasion, it received the temporary title of As Aventuras de Pollyana e João Feijão. They wanted a 11 years old main character, by reason of resembling the original piece. Some episodes had a budget of approximately 120 to 280 thousand brazillian reais. After the introduction of the show's cast a workshop for improvement of characters took place in the 20th day of the same month. The filming began in September 26, 2017, in the city of Fortaleza. Some shots were also taken in Mundaú beach, in the cities of Trairi and Quixadá. In February 9, 2018, SBT promoted in the auditorium of its headquarters CDT da Anhaguera, in Osasco, the first conference exclusive to the children actors' parents (and part of the teens actors') with the participation of nutrologist Liliane Oppermann. In the news conference of May 8, 2018, the whole cast and production team were present in the event conducted by Fernando Pelégio, SBT's artistic director. Íris Abravanel, show's creator, and Reynaldo Boury, show's director, answered questions from the press. In May 15, 2018, Sophia Valverde went live on the show's Instagram and Facebook.

The telenovela's logo was presented during the Teleton in 2017. Other SBT's TV shows, such as Silvio Santos, Eliana, Domingo Legal, Raul Gil and The Noite com Danilo Gentili, invited some of the show's actors as guests.

Casting
Larissa Manoela was supposed to be the show's main character but ended up taking another role as the book's main character was only 11 and Larissa would turn 18. Changing the main character's age would end up altering the whole story's timeline and functioning. Sophia Valverde was announced as the main character soon after it. The tests to other characters started in January, 2017. Mel Lisboa was the first one invited to play Luisa, but the actress refused the proposition as it would be in conflict with her theater performances. Milena Toscano - who had already refused a supporting role in Cúmplices de um Resgate for a leading role in O Rico e Lázaro in the RecordTV - was announced for the role. Igor Rickli was invited to play Afonso, but preferred to renew his contract with RecordTV, therefore passing the role to Victor Pecoraro, who had already been discarded by the same channel. Walderez de Barros was invited to play Ruth, but decided to continue in Rede Globo, the role happening to be accepted by Myrian Rios. Before Maria Gal, Maria Ceiça was offered the role of Gleyce, but refused because of her job post of managing the Luminis Produções Artísticas. Davi Campolongo was chosen to play a wheelchair user called Bento, who soon became quite popular in the internet.

Casting Changes
In March of 2018, Milena Toscano discovered she was pregnant and had to leave the cast, compromising the future of her character, who was a major one. It was originally decided to film Milena's scenes as soon as possible and explain her absence as a business trip, but the actress discarded the possibility of returning to the show only weeks after the ending of her maternity leave, having to leave the show. Thaís Melchior took Milena's place in May 19, 2018.

William Mello filmed a few scenes as Éric's dad, but as it was a participation role he soon left it for a definitive one in RecordTV's Jezabel. His scenes were deleted and filmed once again with Tatsu Carvalho.