Unit 4 Stage and screen Developing ideas课件-2022-2023学年高一英语外研版（2019）必修第二册

Unit Four Stage and screen Section Four Developing ideas Have you ever seen the movies or TV plays based on the books above? They say that “a picture is worth a thousand words”, but the briefest look at books and the movies based on them would have anyone questioning this common saying. All too often, great words end up being turned into cinematic “turkeys”. What are the author’s opinion on the movie adaptations? Good movies need good stories. If so, why has one of the earliest and greatest works in Western storytelling, Homer’s The Odyssey, never had an equally great movie based on it? Movies need strong characters. So why have the movies based on The Great Gatsby never been praised as “great”? Movies of course need impressive images, so why has Alice in Wonderland only resulted in movies best described as ”interesting”? What factors is a good movie supposed to have? What’s the function of the examples? The Odyssey: to prove that the movie is not as good as the book even with a good story. The Great Gatsby : to prove that the good characters do not stand out in the movie. Alice in Wonderland: to prove that the visual images are not as striking as the description in the book. to explain ideas and concepts Good movies need good stories. If so, why has one of the earliest and greatest works in Western storytelling, Homer’s The Odyssey, never had an equally great movie based on it? Movies need strong characters. So why have the movies based on The Great Gatsby never been praised as “great”? Movies of course need impressive images, so why has Alice in Wonderland only resulted in movies best described as ”interesting”? Parallelism Rhetorical question One of the key reasons behind this is that while a book usually takes a few days to read, a movie typically lasts under two hours. This means that great books can lose plot details and characters when they move to the big screen. This is something that even the highly successful Harry Potter movies can’t escape from, wi