Literary works are put on the screen, which is another way of regenerating words, and between the flow of light and shadow, the characters and stories on the paper are visualized, and new directions will also be produced.
When seeing the beloved text works being adapted into film and television works, feeling the new viewing experience brought by the new medium, some people care about the "likeness" and "dissimilarity" between the text and the screen, and some people are surprised to see the old story being visualized and rejuvenated with new vitality...
Literary works film and television, a thousand viewers also have a thousand Hamlet, today's unread Jun sorted out some of the works that have been filmed in the books published by himself, let's take a look, these original works and adapted film and television works, which is your dish?
Little Woman
Author: [U.S.] Louisa May Olcott
Translator: Wang Zhiguang
Publication year: 2016-10
"Little Women" is a classic book that is well-known in the United States. The novel depicts the life of the March family.
The March family has four sisters, and although they come from poor families, their lives are simple and warm. The four groups of sisters have very different personalities: the eldest Meg is beautiful and dignified, some of them love vanity when they were young, and later realize the true meaning of love and marriage, and married a simple and loyal governess; the second Joe is free and independent, eager to become a writer, and hopes to take on the responsibilities of the family, and later met her soul mate, Professor Barr; the third beth is kind and shy, loves music, and she is weak and sick, and finally accepts her fate peacefully and peacefully, and passes away peacefully; the fourth Amy is smart and lively, loves art, Hoping to become a high-society "lady", she eventually married Laurie, a boy from the neighbor's house, and lived a happy life.
Whether it is Meg, who is willing to be poor for love, Joe who has become a writer through her own struggle, or Beth who faces death calmly, and Amy who takes it as her responsibility to help the weak, they all face life bravely and tenaciously with their unique personalities. Although their ideals and destinies are not the same, they all share the common characteristics of self-reliance.
The storyline of "Little Women" is simple and true, touching and profound, and has been put on the screen many times since its appearance for more than a hundred years. For example, in 1933, 1949, and 1994, several film versions have been performed by big stars such as Elizabeth Taylor. The 2019 version directed by Greta Gerwig has also attracted much attention. Silsa Ronan plays the heroine Joe, and "Sweet Tea" Timothy Challemet plays the male protagonist Laurie.
Stills from Little Women (2019).
The film innovatively breaks the linear narrative structure of the original work, adopts a non-linear narrative structure, and has a new performance of the personality traits of the characters such as the boss Mei Ge and the old fourth Ai Mei, which is different from the original work, allowing us to see a more diversified female force.
The Wizard of Oz
By Lyman Frank Baum
Translator: Ma Ainong
Published: 2016-10-1
This book is the masterpiece of the "Father of American Fairy Tales", an insurmountable classic of world children's literature, telling the story of the little girl Dorothy who is blown by a sudden tornado to a mysterious country called the kingdom of Oz, and then begins a long journey back to her hometown. During the trip, she met four friends, and like Dorothy, they had their own wishes to achieve. The friends experienced all kinds of magical illusions and twists and turns of adventure together, but finally found that what they wanted was actually always by their side. This is not only an innocent and beautiful fairy tale work, but also a reflection of people's search for their own lost inner world.
"The Wizard of Oz" has been adapted into a number of films, animations and other film and television works, the most well-known is the 1939 version directed by Victor Fleming, and has become a national treasure classic in the history of American cinema.
Stills from The Wizard of Oz (1939).
In the era without computers, the film was shot with innovative photography techniques and art productions, using the new technology of color film by dyeing and printing, which cost a lot of money, and finally presented an exquisite set, bright and dazzling colors, and the aesthetics were amazing.
Pride and prejudice
Author: [English] Jane Austen
Subtitle: Huang Yuning Introduction Edition
Translator: Sun Zhili
Publication year: 2020-10
Published in 1813, Pride and Prejudice has been read, recognized, and transmitted by readers around the world for two hundred years. Maugham listed it as one of the world's top ten novels, and the famous American literary critic Edmund M. Maugham was listed as one of the top ten novels in the world. Wilson said that in the change of literary tastes, "only Shakespeare and Jane Eyre were the only ones who were able to change literary tastes. Austin endured".
In the novel, the squire Bennett family has five daughters to be in the boudoir, and Mrs. Bay's life event is to marry the daughters off. As Mr. Bentley leased Netherfield Manor, several love stories unfolded. Due to many misunderstandings, Elizabeth has formed a deep "prejudice" against Darcy's "arrogance". The next series of yin and yang errors caused the Bei family to fall into the lowest valley, and this is the beginning of the peak circuit of the novel's plot. Eventually, prejudice dissolves and arrogance shines. In terms of attitude towards marriage and love, "Pride and Prejudice" can still arouse the direct resonance of modern women.
Based on the book' adaptation, the most well-known films and BBC dramas in 1905, the 2005 version, actress Kayla Knightley was nominated for Best Actress at the 78th Academy Awards for this film.
In 1995, the BBC version of Pride and Prejudice was evaluated by many viewers as "the closest to the original" and "the most classic" version.
Stills from Pride and Prejudice (1995).
Stills from Pride and Prejudice (2005).
Venetian merchants
Author: Shakespeare
Publisher: Unread, Literary artist, Beijing United Publishing Company
Translator: Zhu Shenghao
Publication year: 2016-6
The Merchant of Venice is an important early work of Shakespeare and a comedy of great satire. The Venetian merchant Antonio, in order to help his friend Bassanio get married, borrowed three thousand gold coins from the Jewish loan shark Shylock. Because Antonio lent money to others without interest, which affected his business and insulted him, Shylock took the opportunity to take revenge, writing on the loan that if he could not repay the money at the end of three months, he would cut a pound of meat from Antonio to pay the debt. Antonio was unable to repay the money on time due to the shipwreck, and Shylock filed a public prosecution to ask Antonio to fulfill the loan...
The most beautiful Shakespeare classic drama collection contains Shakespeare's original play and the rewriting of novels by contemporary global first-line writers: In order to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, the famous British Hogarth Publishing House (founded by Virginia Woolf) invited seven of the world's top novelists to work together to rewrite Shakespeare's famous play, and the Chinese Simplified edition was jointly launched by Penguin Langdon (North Asia) and "Unread".
Stills from The Merchant of Venice (2004).
This theatrical work was adapted into a film in 2004, and the image of Sherlock in Al Pacino's "The Merchant of Venice" can be described as deeply rooted in the hearts of the audience, a greedy, cunning, and cruel character, which is more profound under his performance, and people see the bitterness and helplessness of the fate of the characters behind more characters, hate and pity for it, and the film depicts this role more deeply on the basis of respecting the original work.
Love has lost times
Author: [U.S.] Matthew Quake
Publisher: Unread Beijing United Publishing Company
Original name: Love May Fail
Translator: Siwen Qian
Publication year: 2016-11
Four people with very different personalities and different concerns meet each other, so a story of mixed laughter and variables begins... Aim the muzzle of the gun at the woman who is at her husband – the gunshots are fired and the water is hard to collect. Portia has already paid for his entire youth, and will she ruin the future for him? The obsessive mad teacher, Nate Vernon, threw himself into his work, but in return, he was on crutches and alone. Maeve Smith, an old nun who has little time, is not afraid of death, she is afraid that she will not be forgiven by her son until death. The uncle who hides the dark secret: when love comes, it is like seeing the sun in the clouds, which catches people off guard. But how does Chuck confess his dark past to his beloved?
The authors of Love Have Lost are J.K. Rowling, Stephen King, and George R.R. Martin among the top ten most influential authors in Hollywood, Matthew Quake. He is good at constructing ups and downs of plot conflicts, using plain and shallow words to deeply dissect the hearts of characters, conveying the Hemingway spirit of "people can be destroyed, but cannot be defeated", and inspiring people's desire for a better life. His screenwriting of "The Happy Thread Behind the Dark Clouds" has also won several Oscars.
The filmization of the book is still on the way, and the film of the same name will be directed by Emma Stone plays the female lead (Sister Stone, who won the Oscar for Best Actress for "Philharmonic City").
Emma in Philharmonic City Stone
Source: Unread (original title: Those literary works that are "targeted" by the screen | Book List)
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