新北師大版高中英語選擇性必修二Unit6TheMedia

FromPagetoScreen1.Doyouknowthesebooksandfilms?2.Whatiseachoneabout?Lookatthefollowingpicturesanddiscussthequestions.Warming-upTheShawshankRedemption《肖申克的救贖》TheLegendof1900《海上鋼琴師》Schindler’sList《辛德勒的名單》TheBoyintheStripedPajamas《穿條紋睡衣的男孩》Pre-reading“Page”referstotheoriginalbook.“Screen”referstothefilm.Thefilmcanbeadaptedfromthebook.Whatdoes“page”referto?Whatdoes“screen”referto?Howdoessomethinggofrompagetoscreen?While-readingWhatdoesthetitle“FromPagetoScreen”mean?Readparagraph1.Whatisthewriter’sattitudetowardsit?“FromPagetoScreen”meansadaptingbookstomakefilmsorTVseries.Hehasbeendisappointedmanytimesbyafilmofabook.Readthewholearticleandcompletethediagram.While-readingclassicnovelsshortstoriescomicbooksstageplaysthosewrittenbyghostwritersnon-fictionTheSourceMaterialsbooksfilmsWhile-readingTheMainChallengesforFilmmakersTheoriginalVSFilm

Para.3TopicsentenceAquestionisobviouslyhowclosetotheoriginalthefilmis.原著TheCast

Para.4TopicsentenceAnotherproblemareaisthecast.演員陣容TechnicalReasonsPara.5TopicsentenceSomefilmsaredifficulttobeadaptedfortechnicalreasons.技術(shù)的TheScreenwriterPara.6TopicsentenceOnemaythinkthatitisthebookwriterwhoisinthebestpositiontodofilmadaptations.Infact,sometimesauthorsareveryinvolvedintheprocessandmayevenbethescreenwriter.參與編劇TheoriginalVSthefilm________________________________________________________________________________________________Thecast________________________________________________Technicalreasons________________________________________________________________________________Thescreenwriter____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________booksfilmsItbecomesaquestionforscreenwriterstodecidewhatisappropriateforthescreenandwhattoleaveout.It’sdifficulttofindactorsacceptabletofilmaudiences.Somebooksarejusttoodifficulttobeadaptedfortechnicalreasons.Ifthewritersarethescreenwriters,theymaybetooclosetothematerialandfinditdifficulttoadapttoanewform;iftheyarenot,theymaybeveryunsatisfiedwiththefilmversionsofthebook.While-readingTalkaboutthereasonswhymanyadaptationsfailwithbothcinemaaudiencesandcriticsbasedonthediagramabove.Workingroupsanddiscuss.Post-readingPost-reading1.Whydoaudiencesalwayshavethefeelingof“thefilmis

notlikethebook”?2.Whatfactorsshouldbetakenintoconsiderationwhen

adaptingbooksintofilms?3.Whatistheauthor’sopinionattheendaboutadaptedfilms?

Highlighttheevidenceinthearticle.Doyouagreewiththe

author’spointofview?Whyorwhynot?Thinkandshare.1.Whydoaudiencesalwayshavethefeelingof“thefilmisnotlikethebook”?

Becausethefilm’slengthisabouttwohours.Screenwriterstakecreativeliberty

andsometimestheremaybechangestotheplot,additions,andevendifferent

endingstopleaseproducers,directorsandtestaudiences.2.Whatfactorsshouldbetakenintoconsiderationwhenadaptingbooksintofilms?

Theselectionofcasts,theuseoftechnologyandthescreenwritersshouldbe

consideredwhenadaptingfilmsfrombooks.Post-reading3.Whatistheauthor’sopinionattheendaboutadaptedfilms?

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author’spointofview?Whyorwhynot?

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alwaysabadideatowatchafilmofabookyoulove”.Post-readingP1.Readingabookandwatchingafilmaretwoverydifferentexperiences,butit'snormaltohavehighexpectationswhenafilmofafavouritebookismade.讀書和看電影是兩種截然不同的體驗(yàn)。如果人們最喜歡的書籍被翻拍成電影，他們對(duì)電影的期待值自然更高，這種現(xiàn)象很正常。TherearemanytimesIhavebeenpessimisticaboutorevendisappointedbyafilmofabookIlove.

不止一次，我喜歡的書籍拍成電影，我都不看好，甚至很失望。bepessimisticabout對(duì)悲觀

pringstomind想到①it指代Althoughhighlyregarded

booksdonotalwaysmakegoodfilms,itissafe

tosaythatgreatfilmsmaybemadefromnotparticularlygoodbooks.(TheGodfatherimmediatelyspringstomind.)盡管高質(zhì)量的書并不總是能拍出好看的電影，優(yōu)秀的電影也可能來自不是那么好的書，說的倒是沒錯(cuò)。（這讓我馬上想到《教父》。）P2.Thesourcematerialforafilmmaybetakenfromclassicnovels,shortstories,comicbooksandstageplays,aswellas

non-fictionsuchasbiographiesandautobiographies,eventhosewrittenbyghostwriters.一部電影可以取材自經(jīng)典小說、短篇小說、漫畫書、舞臺(tái)劇，也可以取自傳記、自傳等非小說作品，甚至是代筆人寫的作品。aswellas也,又;和……一樣好，通常連接兩個(gè)并列成分,而且強(qiáng)調(diào)前者；連接兩個(gè)并列主語時(shí),句中謂語動(dòng)詞遵循就前原則。

Allcanworkwell,butwhydomany

adaptationsandindeedremakesfailbothcinemaaudiencesandcritics?Andwhydosomeadaptationsgetlowerratingsthanothers?這些素材都可以拍出很棒的作品，但為什么許多改編、翻拍的電影沒能受到電影觀眾與評(píng)論家的好評(píng)呢？為什么有些改編作品的評(píng)分比其他作品低呢？P3.Akeyquestionisobviouslyhowclosetotheoriginalthefilmis.Sinceatypicalfilmisonlyaroundtwohourslong,itbecomesaquestionforscreenwriterstodecidewhatisappropriateforthescreenandwhattoleaveout.

顯而易見，一個(gè)關(guān)鍵的問題在于這部電影與原作接近程度如何。電影通常只有兩小時(shí)左右，在有限的時(shí)間里，編劇要決定書中哪部分適合銀幕，哪部分不適合。beappropriateto/for...適合遺漏,不包括Screenwriterstakecreativelibertyandsometimestheremaybechangestotheplot,additions,andevendifferentendingstopleaseproducers,directorsandtestaudiences.對(duì)此編劇有一定的創(chuàng)作自由度，有時(shí)為了迎合制片人、導(dǎo)演、觀眾，會(huì)改動(dòng)部分情節(jié)，甚至演繹不同結(jié)局。I,likemanypeople,haveoftenleftthecinemafeeling“thefilmisnotlikethebook".像很多人一樣，我也經(jīng)常在看完電影后感嘆“這部電影和原作不一樣”。P4.Anotherproblemareaisthecast.Findingactorsacceptabletofilmaudiencescanmeanthedifferencebetweensuccessandfailure.另一個(gè)問題是演員陣容。找到電影觀眾所接受的演員，有時(shí)決定著電影的成敗。Readersofthebookusetheirimaginationstovisualisecharactersandhaveverydefiniteideasabouthowcharactersshouldlookandsound.讀者會(huì)通過自己的想象，將書中的人物形象化，對(duì)角色的外貌、聲音他們都有明確的想法。ThisiswhereIthinkmanyfilmadaptations

falldown.我認(rèn)為選擇的演員不符合他們的想象，成為很多電影改編失敗的原因。摔倒;不能令人滿意,不夠好P5.Somebooksarejusttoodifficultto

beadaptedfortechnicalreasons,althoughfilmslikeTheLifeofPiarechangingthisidea.一些書由于技術(shù)原因很難拍成電影，雖然《少年派的奇幻漂流》等電影的出現(xiàn)正在改變這一問題。②it指代CGI(ComputerGeneratedImage)technologyhashadahugeimpactonthefilmindustry.Itallowedthepreviouslyunfilmabletobecomeareality.電腦生成動(dòng)畫技術(shù)對(duì)電影產(chǎn)業(yè)有重大影響，讓以前無法拍攝的內(nèi)容成為現(xiàn)實(shí)。haveanimpacton對(duì)……有影響haveaneffect/influenceon對(duì)……有影響P6.Onemaythinkthatit

isthebookwriterwhoisinthebestpositiontodofilmadaptations.Infact,sometimesauthorsareveryinvolvedintheprocessandmayevenbethescreenwriter.人們可能會(huì)認(rèn)為，最適合改編電影的人應(yīng)該是書籍作者本人。事實(shí)上，作者有時(shí)的確會(huì)參與改編，甚至可能擔(dān)任電影編劇。③it指代beinvolvedin卷入;參與involvesbin(doing)sth使某人參與(做)某事

involveoneselfinsth參與/熱衷于/沉迷于某事強(qiáng)調(diào)的是人時(shí),可用itis/was...who/that...強(qiáng)調(diào)句型。④it指代toadapttoanewformThiscanactuallybeadisadvantagebecausetheymaybetooclosetothematerialandfinditdifficulttoadapttoanewform.但這其實(shí)是一個(gè)弊端，因?yàn)樽髡弑救丝赡苓^于忠于書中內(nèi)容，很難將其改編成一種新的形式。Atothertimestheyarenot,andthereareinstanceswherewritershavebeenveryunsatisfiedwiththefilmversionsoftheirwork;StephenKingisanexampleofthis.有時(shí)作者本人并不是電影編劇，于是出現(xiàn)了作者對(duì)自己作品所拍攝的電影版本非常不滿意的情況。史蒂芬?金就是這樣。EvenmoreextremewasnovelistJ.D.Salinger,who

madesurenofilmversionsofhispopularnovelACatcherintheRyecouldeverbemade.小說家杰羅姆?大衛(wèi)?塞林格更為極端，他永遠(yuǎn)不準(zhǔn)自己廣受歡迎的小說《麥田里的守望者》被拍成電影版本。Inthissituation,itisclearthatviewerswillnotbedisappointed!Forme,anyway,itisalwaysabadideatowatchafilmofabookyoulove.如果是這樣，讀者就永遠(yuǎn)不會(huì)失望！不管怎樣，我認(rèn)為去看自己鐘愛的書籍翻拍成的電影不會(huì)是個(gè)好主意。⑤it指代viewerswillnotbedisappointedP7.Despitethechallenges,therehavebeen