Unit4 Stage and screen Good Book, Bad Movie P44-45ppt课件-（含音频）-（新教材）新外研版高中英语必修第二册.zip

Unit 4 Stage and screenGood Book,Bad Movie?(P44-45)Unit 4 Developing ideas P44-45.mp3They 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”.Good movies need good stories.If so,why has one of the earliest and greatest works in Western storytelling,Homers 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”?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 cant escape from,with fans of the books disappointed not to see some of their favourite characters in the movie versions.Movies also disappoint us when things dont look the way we imagined them in the books.Take,for example,the epic movie Troy,which is in part based on Homers 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 didnt live up to Helens title of“the most beautiful woman in the world”,influencing opinions of the movie to some extent.There are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand peoples 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 such as Sherlock or Mad Men,which can have many characters and gradual plot development.Perhaps,one day,readers of F.Scott Fitzgeralds most admired work will find themselves glued to their screens by episodes of The Great Gatsby.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”.Good movies need good stories.If so,why has one of the earliest and greatest works in Western storytelling,HomersThe Odyssey,neverhad an equally great movie Good Book,Bad 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”?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 cant escape from,with fans of the books disappointed not to see some of their favourite characters in the movie versions.Movies also disappoint us when things dont look the way we imagined them in the books.Take,for example,the epic movieTroy,which is in part based on Homers 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 didnt live up to Helens title of“the most beautiful woman in the world”,influencing opinions of the movie to some extent.There are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand peoples 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 such as Sherlock or Mad Men,which can have many characters and gradual plot development.Perhaps,one day,readers of F.Scott Fitzgeralds most admired work will find themselves glued to their screens by episodes of The Great Gatsby.