The document discusses the film Closer and differences between its stage play and film adaptations. It summarizes that Clive Owen originally played a role that Jude Law played in the film. It also mentions the original ending of the stage play was changed for the film. Owen and Natalie Portman won Golden Globes for their roles in the film.

1. Closer
Clive Owen originated and played the role of Dan (Jude Law’s
character) in the stage play
The ending of the play was changed for the film.
The original ending shows Dan and Anna talking about how
Alice was hit by a car and killed.
Owen and Portman won Golden Globes for their roles.

2. Story and Writing

3. Difference between story and plot
Story: General subject matter

4. Difference between story and plot
Story: General subject matter
Plot: How the story is told (the structuring
of the scenes)

5. Romeo and Juliet (1968) Franco Zeffirelli
Romeo and Juliet (1996) Baz Luhrmann

6. The screenplay is the skeleton of the film

7. The screenplay is the skeleton of the film
the inner thoughts of the character are often omitted

8. A figurative technique: “An artistic
device that suggests abstract ideas
through comparison, either implied or
overt” (Gianetti)

9. Motif: so much a part of the film
(almost) an invisible symbol

10. Motif: so much a part of the film
(almost) an invisible symbol
A Motif: technique/object: that is
repeated and doesn’t call too much
attention itself

11. Examples:
Water
The Graduate

13. Symbol: Objects placed in a film for purpose of
communicating an idea (symbolic meaning)

15. Homage: The deliberate reference to another film

16. Who is telling the story?

17. First person: Narrator tells personal story (the entire
film is seldom told this way)

18. First person: Narrator tells personal story (the entire
film is seldom told this way)
Omniscient point of view: narrators are not
participants (all-knowing observers)

19. First person: Narrator tells personal story (the entire
film is seldom told this way)
Omniscient point of view: narrators are not
participants (all-knowing observers)
Third person: a nonparticipating narrator tells the story
from the consciousness of a single character

20. First person: Narrator tells personal story (the entire
film is seldom told this way)
Omniscient point of view: narrators are not
participants (all-knowing observers)
Third person: a nonparticipating narrator tells the story
from the consciousness of a single character
Objective point of view: does not enter the
consciousness of any character

21. Literature into Film
Three types of literature to film adaptation

22. Literature into Film
Three types of literature to film adaptation
1.Loose: an idea , situation or character used
from source

23. Literature into Film
Three types of literature to film adaptation
1.Loose: an idea , situation or character used
from source
2.Faithful: attempt to re-create/ as close to
original as possible

24. Literature into Film
Three types of literature to film adaptation
1.Loose: an idea, situation or character used
from source
1.Faithful: attempt to re-create/ as close to
original as possible
2.Literal: usually restricted to plays and
subtler in their modifications