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The old man and the sea
加拉诺鲨
大马林鱼
Ernest Hemingway 1899—1961,an American writer. He got the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954.
A man can be ruined, but never be defeated.
一个人可以被毁灭,但不可以被打败。
Unit 6 THE MEDIA
Lesson 1
5
Reading
——From Page To Screen
6
(films)
(books)
What does the title"From Page to Screen“mean?
Page
Screen
adapt
Have you ever watched a film that is adapted from a book?
8
The source materials
Short stories
Classic novels
Comic books
autobiographies
biographies
Stage plays
READ AND EXPLORE
Read paragraph1 and 2
The Lord of
the Rings
Wandering Earth
Read paragraph 1 and 2.
What is the writer's attitude towards it?
READ AND EXPLORE
The author always feel pessimistic or even disappointed about it.
Why?
13
There are definitely some adapted films which are not very well-received.
OriginalVSAdapted
小龙女
神雕侠侣
林黛玉
红楼梦
It is a real challenge to adapt a novel or something else into a film.
我太难了。。。
Why do so many adaptations fail with both cinema audiences and critics?
Think about it
A critic is a person who writes and expresses opinions about things such as books, movies, music, or art.
The main challenges for filmmakers
?
?
?
?
READ AND EXPLORE
Read paragraph3--6
Pay attention to the topic sentence of each paragraph
The main challenges for filmmakers
The original VS The film
The cast
Technical reasons
The screenwriter
The source materials
Page
(book)
Screen(film)
Short stories
Classic novels
Comic books
autobiographies
biographies
Stage plays
The main challenges for filmmakers
The original VS The film
The cast
Technical reasons
The screenwriter
Let’s read paragraph 3—6 again
Comb through the 4 main challenges in details:
1. The film is always the same as the original book .
2.It is easy to find acceptable actors for adapted films .
3.The success of Life of Pi partly owes to advanced Computer Generated Image technology.
4.The original book writer is in the best position to be the film screenwriter.
F
T
F
F
A typical movie is only around two hours long.It becomes a question for screenwriters to decide what is for the screen and what to _________
The original VS film:
appropriate
leave out.
Readers of the book use their __________to visualize charaters and have very ______ ideas about how characters should ________
The cast:
imaginations
definite
look and sound
张爱玲(第一炉香)
女主(葛薇龙):她的脸是平淡而美丽的小凸脸,眼睛长而媚,双眼皮的深痕,直扫入鬓角里去。纤瘦的鼻子,肥圆的小嘴。。。显出温柔敦厚的古中国情调。
男主(乔琪乔):他比周吉婕还没有血色,连嘴唇都是苍白的,和石膏一般.人是高个子,也生的匀称,身上衣服穿得那么服帖,随便,使人忘记了他身体的存在。
Some films are_________________ for technical reasons. ______technology allowed the previously ________to become a reality.
Technical reasons:
difficult to be adapted
CGI
unfilmable
Game of Thrones
权力的游戏
加勒比海盗
Pirates of the Caribbean
If the writers are the screenwriters, they may be__________ the material and find it difficult to adapt to a new form. If the writers are not, they may________________ the film versions of their work.
Screenwriters:
too close to
be very unsatisfied with
No film versions of my novel A Catcher in the Rye could ever be made.
----
J.D.Salinger
Filmmakers are faced with real challenges in producing adapted films ,which results in some failures.
What’s the author’s attitude towards adapted films at the end of the passage?
pessimistic
What’s your attitudes towards adapted films ?
Optimistic or pessimistic? Share your opinions with us.
EXPRESS YOURSELF
36
Promote our tastes in appreciating films. Make a wise judgement on adapted films so that some excellent adaptations will be passed down and have a lasting influence.
summary
1.Books are the ladder of human progress.
2.Reading ten thousand books is like travelling ten thousand miles.
3.Film is one of the three universal languages.
Famous sayings
Homework
1.To finish the related exercises on page54
2.To continue to talk about the topic in Exercise11
The old man and the sea
加拉诺鲨
大马林鱼
Ernest Hemingway 1899—1961,an American writer. He got the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954.
A man can be ruined, but never be defeated.
一个人可以被毁灭,但不可以被打败。
Unit 6 THE MEDIA
Lesson 1
44
Reading
——From Page To Screen
45
(films)
(books)
What does the title"From Page to Screen“mean?
Page
Screen
adapt
Have you ever watched a film that is adapted from a book?
47
The source materials
Short stories
Classic novels
Comic books
autobiographies
biographies
Stage plays
READ AND EXPLORE
Read paragraph1 and 2
The Lord of
the Rings
Wandering Earth
Read paragraph 1 and 2.
What is the writer's attitude towards it?
READ AND EXPLORE
The author always feel pessimistic or even disappointed about it.
Why?
52
There are definitely some adapted films which are not very well-received.
OriginalVSAdapted
小龙女
神雕侠侣
林黛玉
红楼梦
It is a real challenge to adapt a novel or something else into a film.
我太难了。。。
Why do so many adaptations fail with both cinema audiences and critics?
Think about it
A critic is a person who writes and expresses opinions about things such as books, movies, music, or art.
The main challenges for filmmakers
?
?
?
?
READ AND EXPLORE
Read paragraph3--6
Pay attention to the topic sentence of each paragraph
The main challenges for filmmakers
The original VS The film
The cast
Technical reasons
The screenwriter
The source materials
Page
(book)
Screen(film)
Short stories
Classic novels
Comic books
autobiographies
biographies
Stage plays
The main challenges for filmmakers
The original VS The film
The cast
Technical reasons
The screenwriter
Let’s read paragraph 3—6 again
Comb through the 4 main challenges in details:
1. The film is always the same as the original book .
2.It is easy to find acceptable actors for adapted films .
3.The success of Life of Pi partly owes to advanced Computer Generated Image technology.
4.The original book writer is in the best position to be the film screenwriter.
F
T
F
F
A typical movie is only around two hours long.It becomes a question for screenwriters to decide what is for the screen and what to _________
The original VS film:
appropriate
leave out.
Readers of the book use their __________to visualize charaters and have very ______ ideas about how characters should ________
The cast:
imaginations
definite
look and sound
张爱玲(第一炉香)
女主(葛薇龙):她的脸是平淡而美丽的小凸脸,眼睛长而媚,双眼皮的深痕,直扫入鬓角里去。纤瘦的鼻子,肥圆的小嘴。。。显出温柔敦厚的古中国情调。
男主(乔琪乔):他比周吉婕还没有血色,连嘴唇都是苍白的,和石膏一般.人是高个子,也生的匀称,身上衣服穿得那么服帖,随便,使人忘记了他身体的存在。
Some films are_________________ for technical reasons. ______technology allowed the previously ________to become a reality.
Technical reasons:
difficult to be adapted
CGI
unfilmable
Game of Thrones
权力的游戏
加勒比海盗
Pirates of the Caribbean
If the writers are the screenwriters, they may be__________ the material and find it difficult to adapt to a new form. If the writers are not, they may________________ the film versions of their work.
Screenwriters:
too close to
be very unsatisfied with
No film versions of my novel A Catcher in the Rye could ever be made.
----
J.D.Salinger
Filmmakers are faced with real challenges in producing adapted films ,which results in some failures.
What’s the author’s attitude towards adapted films at the end of the passage?
pessimistic
What’s your attitudes towards adapted films ?
Optimistic or pessimistic? Share your opinions with us.
EXPRESS YOURSELF
75
Promote our tastes in appreciating films. Make a wise judgement on adapted films so that some excellent adaptations will be passed down and have a lasting influence.
summary
1.Books are the ladder of human progress.
2.Reading ten thousand books is like travelling ten thousand miles.
3.Film is one of the three universal languages.
Famous sayings
Homework
1.To finish the related exercises on page54
2.To continue to talk about the topic in Exercise11
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