Literature and Screen Adaptation

STUDENT: EREMIŢA CTISTINA

 Literature and Cinematography
• The writer • A director is also
• The author uses her i
a person who tells actor
of a book, article, s in a movie or play how magination to create
or other text. to act their parts. a universe parallel to
our own.

Author
Director Imagination
 Most Popular Adaptation

 “Harry Potter” by J.K. Rowling (2001)

 “Green Mile” by Steven King (1999)
 “Lord of the Rings” by J.R.R. Tolkien (2001)
 “Forest Gump” by Winston Grumman ( 1994)
 “Gone with the wind” by Margaret Mitchel (1939)
“ The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar
Wilde

Book: first published

complete in the July 1890
Movie: was released in the
United Kingdom on 9
September 2009
 Differences
Movie
 In the film, Dorian Gray gets rid of the
corpse of his friend by maiming it and
frowning it into the river.
 Sibyl’s body is found in the river, but it
is not clear whether it was murder or
suicide.
 In the movie Henry has a daughter
that was in love with Dorian.
Book
 A chemist, Alan Campbell, is
blackmailed by Dorian in order to burn
a body in acid.
 Sibyl, shattered sentimentally, commits
suicide by taking prussic acid.
 In the book Henry didn’t have a
daughter .
 Conclusion

 Expression , imagination, creation

 Movies and books represent the part of both old and new age as these
are two resources which will never disappear from our world.
 Reading books and watching movies help the development of the human
brain.
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Thank you!