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Film adaptation
- 1. Film Adaptation The QuietAmerican Adaptations & Criticism
- 2. Content • Book –Film Adaptation • The Quiet American • 1958 vs. 2002 Adaptations • Film Criticism • Discussion
- 3. What is FilmAdaptation? • Book: original work • Film: derivative work • novel + short stories + comic >> 65% films • All works classic literature –Romeo and Juliet 50 film adaptations –British Literature >> American Films
- 4. Why Film Adaptation? •Entertainment : contemporary viewers • Business – box office (HBO) • Direct visual stimulation >> Imagination & Interaction
- 5. What to Adapt? •Time frame • Narrator • Characters & characterization • Plot & Subplot • Music, theme song
- 6. Film Adaptations -examples • Wuthering Heights 2011 • Schindler’s List 1993 • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 2004 • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 2011 • Sherlock Holmes 2010
- 7. Faithfulness? • Should thederivative work be faithful to the original work? • How much faithful it should be? –Once Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest 1975 –The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 2009 –Gone with the Wind 1986
- 8. The Quiet American •Graham Green – war correspondent • Setting: Saigon, 1952 • Protagonist: Fowler, British journalist • Antagonist: Pyle, CIA agent • Anti-war novel –Reading of the excerpt
- 9. The Film Adaptations •1958 – Hollywood Rambo movie –anti-war message excised • 2002 – Phillip Noyce’s movie –Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Do Thi Hai Yen
- 10. Film Criticism • Theme,tone, attitude • Music • Dialogue • Performance • Symbolism • Cinematography
- 11. Discussion • How successfulis the film adaptation? – Music, theme song – Dialogue adaptation – Inner thoughts / narrator adaptation – Narrator Tone, director attitude adaptation