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

Good Book,Bad Movie? CAO XUEOIN SHERLOCK HOLMES TheDREAM 时城 RED CHAMBER THE GREAT GATSBY F.SCOTT FITZGERALD S到R ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Good Book,Bad Movie? Can you guess the author's opinion through the title“Good Book,Bad Movie?” Passage: Argumentative essays. central point Sub-point 1 explain ideas Structure: body Sub-point 2 examples support Sub-point 3 provide additional conclusion information Read the passage and divide it into several parts. The (par.1） introduction The body (par.2-4) The conclusion (par.5 They say that "a picture is wortn 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”. 论点 2 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 反面 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"? 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, with fans of the books disappointed not to see some of their favourite characters in the movie versions. 正面， Movies also disappoint us when things don't look the way we imagined 论证， them in the books.Take,for example,the epic movie Troy,which is in part based on Homer's The lliad and was met with mixed reviews 说服读者 from the audience.The most questionable issue was the actress chosen to play the part of Helen.Many people thought she didn't live up to Helen's title of"the most beautiful woman in the world",influenc