This document discusses the relationship between literature and cinema. It notes that both are narrative art forms used to tell stories. However, literature uses words while cinema uses images. When literature is adapted to film, it often results in a reduction or narrowing of the original work by removing its novelistic elements. The document also discusses genres in cinema and how films are classified. It addresses the purpose and format of film scripts and how their techniques can be learned through talent and practice.

1. LITERATURE AND
CINEMA
Literature and cinema are narrative arts, and consequently, a pretext to tell stories from the
first oral transmissions or The watered watering (1896).
Literary language:
uses words
Cinematographic
language: uses
images

2. Adaptations put into images (most of them mediocre from any point of view: direction,
performance, decoration) some famous episodes.
Adaptation:
In most movies from
the 20’s, the
adaptation was its
reduction to the
dimentions of a short
novel.
It was depriving it from
its novelistic width and
its temporality

3. THE LANGUAGE OF NOVELS AND THE LANGUAGE OF
CINEMA
A novel is able to make people
live something more than
abstractions:
The performers who are firmly
stated in time and space
Perfect expression: appropriate
content and shape
FROM ACTION NOVELS TO FILM- MAKING IMAGE
It uses words to evoque and vanish in
image.
It provides the reader with a content of
accurate shape, as if it were our direct
sight.
An image in a movie makes us to
relationships and significations

4. CINEMA GENRES:
Comedy, action, drama,
suspense.
It is difficult to talk about
movies without keep in mind
an element which is as basic as
its adscription to a determined
genre.
It is one more of the
manifestations with an
intention to classify and label as
an article related to
professional careers said not
long ago
CHANGING ACTION AXIS

5. WHAT ARE THE ESSENTIAL FIVE QUESTIOS OF THE SCRIPT?
The script
2. What is it used for?
For the realization of a movie as a
creative and technical team
3. How is it written down?
As a precise text which does not fit
changes or improvisations
4. What are its limitations?
the limitations are solved case by case
according to the agreements – or
disagreements – between both parts
5. Can its technique be learned?
With personal talent and lots of hard
work
1. What is it?
a text in the form of a book