Unit 6 Period Ⅰ TOPIC TALK & LESSON 1（课件）-【优化探究】2022-2023学年新教材高中英语选择性必修第二册同步导学案（北师大版2019）

返回导航 下页 上页 北师英语 选择性必修第二册 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”． 返回导航 下页 上页 北师英语 选择性必修第二册 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”？ 返回导航 下页 上页 北师英语 选择性必修第二册 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 favorite characters in the movie versions. 返回导航 下页 上页 北师英语 选择性必修第二册 Movies also disappoint us when things don't look the way we imagined them in the books. Take, for example, the epic movie Troy, which is in part based on Homer's The Iliad and was met with mixed reviews 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”， influencing opinions of the movie to some extent. 返回导航 下页 上页 北师英语 选择性必修第二册 There are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people's eyes. Furthermore, books and movies are two different forms of media and therefore have different rules. With this in mind, perhaps we should judge a movie in its own right, and not against its original source. Interestingly, audiences have in recent years turned to television series, whic