What's the difference between the novel and the screenwriter? For example, after the novel is changed into a script? Thank you~

Translate a novel, book, play or article into electricity.

Shadow scripts are the same as creating original movie scripts. "adaptation"

Adaptation means changing from one medium to another. adapt to

(adaptation) is defined as: "to make it more suitable or more suitable by changing or adjusting.

It should be an ability "-that is, to change something so that it is structurally,

Change the function and form in order to adjust it more appropriately.

In other words, novels are novels, and stage plays are stage plays and film and television dramas.

This is a screenplay. Adapting a book into a screenplay means putting this

Replace one (book) with another (movie script) instead of stacking this.

Add on top of another. Either the novel is made into a movie or it is made into a movie.

Stage play. They are two completely different forms. One is an apple, the other is an apple.

It's oranges.

When you put a novel, a play, an article or even a song

When a song is adapted into a screenplay, you are changing one form into another.

Type. You are writing a movie script based on the original material of the movie.

However, in essence, you are still writing original scripts.

So you must explore in an original way.

Fiction usually involves a person's inner life, especially drama.

The thoughts, feelings, emotions and memories of the characters in the ideological scene of action.

In a novel, you can use a sentence, a paragraph, a page of manuscript paper or a

Chapters describe the characters' inner conversations, thoughts, feelings and impressions. small

What is said often happens in the minds of characters.

On the other hand, a stage play is used correctly within the specified stage range.

Words describe thoughts, feelings and events. Drama contains dramatic actions.

Language (language)

The screenplay involves specific external situations.

Details-the ticking of the clock, a child playing in an empty street,

A car turned the corner, etc. A screenplay is a story told with pictures.

Things happened against the background of dramatic structure.

He directed Tired and Weekend.

Movies such as (Weekend) and "Life in Vivre" are rich in.

The innovative French film director Jean-Luc Ge Daer (Jean-Luc G-

Odard) said that movies are developing their own language, so we should learn.

How to look at the picture?

The adapted script should be regarded as an original movie script. This is just based on

Novels, books, stage plays, articles or songs are the starting points. These are all materials.

The source is the starting point. That's all.

When you adapt a novel, you don't have to be limited to loyalty.

Key points of original materials.

The presidential team is a good example. It was founded by William Goldman.

According to a book written by Bernstein and Woodward (about water, by the way)

The adaptation of the door event, here we need to make some choices about the script immediately.

choose In an interview with Sherwood Ochs Experimental College, Goldman

It can be said that this is a very difficult adaptation process. "I have to do it in a simple way.

Dealing with this very complicated material can't seem simple. I have to

Make up a story with materials without stories. To make up a reasonable and reasonable

Stories are always a problem.

"For example, the movie ended in the middle of the original. We decided

Hardman made a mistake. Not on behalf of Woodward and Bob.

How did Einstein win the victory? The audience already knows that they have proved themselves right.

, fame and fortune, became the darling of the press. Want to be so high-profile

It would be a mistake to end the film. So we decided to end here: at

Hardman's mistake is just over half of the ending of the original book.

Movies. The most important thing for a script is to determine the structure. I have to

Of course, we have found what we have been looking for. If the audience is made up of

Confused, then we will lose them. "

The tense and suspenseful passage of Goldman Sachs breaking into Watergate Building is as follows

Let's begin. Then, when those people were arrested, Woodward was introduced into the pre-trial court.

Germany (robert redford). He met a senior lawyer in court,

So I began to doubt, and then stepped in. When Bernstein (Dustin Hoff)

When Muncie came in to deal with this matter (this is plot point one), they succeeded.

Successfully uncovered the ins and outs of this secret and conspiracy, which led to the President of the United States.

Step down.

Raw materials are the source of materials. So, how to adapt it into a screenplay?

Everything depends on you. You can add some people, scenes, events, events.

But don't copy novels into movie scripts, be visual,

A story told by a picture.

This is the case with Goldman in Marathon Man.

It worked. He adapted his novel: "People asked me if I should write a movie first.

Script. I told them no. Not at all! Fiction comes first. it

It is a coincidence that I was bought to make a movie.

"Marathon Man is a very complicated script. This novel is

An inner novel, most of the actions will take place in the young man's mind.

noodle In the original works and movies, the only direct scene is the Austrian.

Leo's scene in the diamond district. This is a location drama. I don't need to change it.

How old? Because it's already good. It is very useful in books and movies.

It works well in the script and in the movie. "

When you adapt a novel into a screenplay, you don't have to put yourself in it.

Limited to being faithful to the original material. Not long ago, I adapted a novel into electricity.

Shadow script. I have to start with bits and pieces. This is a disaster novel, written by.

A meteorologist found that a new ice age was coming. of course，

No one believed him. When the climate began to change, it was too late. New glacier

This period has already begun. Meteorologists and other scientists were sent to Iceland.

Investigating the glacier, the ship froze. The novel ends with the hero freezing to death.

This is the book. A 650-page disaster novel. this is

Very tempting.

I decided to keep this hero. However, in order to pursue more drama prices.

Value, I want to let him into emotional conflict. So I made him one.

A professor who is outspoken on political issues is being considered for awarding to the United States.

Tenure at new york University. His story about the coming ice age

The statement of "irresponsibility" may endanger his position.

Then, I need to figure out how to deal with this story. I need to change the ending to one.

A "high-profile" or positive ending. I hope they are all alive, not

Is to freeze to death in the ice and snow. I'm beginning to understand that I need an exciting one

Let's begin. I read through the book, and on page 278, I saw that the hero was in Iceland.

Measure the movement of glaciers. I decided to start here-on this vast land.

On the ice sheet. This is a visual factor. When they go deep into the center of the glacier.

There was an earthquake, which triggered an avalanche. They finally survived. this is a

A powerful visual paragraph properly constructs the whole story.

When the professor returned to new york and handed over his findings to his superiors, they didn't believe him.

Men ... the first snowstorm that year, a warning, became the end of the first act.

Plot point. This snowstorm happened on Halloween (my idea) because it was.

Sometimes it may snow, which is a good visual passage.

This is what the future looks like.

The second act is another problem. I divide most sports into three main parts.

First, the hero organized a worldwide network of scientists to try.

Solve this problem; Second, new york city began to freeze; Third, people finally accepted it.

I learned the facts and tried to work out a plan. I selected some events from the book,

Connect these scenes in series. I know I have to avoid replaying those disaster movie.

It's a cliche, because there was no market for disaster films at that time. As mentioned earlier.

In that case, the ending of the original work is not applicable and must be changed. I will use an unnamed one.

The story of the survivor ends here.

I changed the action to this, when the scientist's ship was frozen (Act II).

Finally, I let the hero and his girlfriend, a scientist, and another.

Seven people left the ship and tried to adapt to the living conditions of ice and snow.

Just as Eskimos have done for thousands of years.

So the third act is brand new. These nine people form a tour group, one

Hunting reindeer on the road and abandoning the remnants of the twentieth century. I use this meteorology

The girlfriend at home gave birth to a child to end the movie script.

This script is very effective.

When you adapt a novel into a screenplay, it must be a vision.

Experience. This is the work of a film playwright. You just need to be loyal to the natural environment.

The integrity of the material is fine.

Of course there are exceptions. Perhaps the most unique exception is john huston.

A play written by maltese falcon. at that time

Winston has just adapted a book by W R bernat.

The screenplay The Mountain (humphrey bogart

Humphrey bogart and ida lupino). This part

The film was a great success. So Houston got the chance to write and direct for the first time.

Works. He decided to put dashiell hammett.

The novel maltese falcon has been made into a new film. This Sam speed

Sam Spader's detective story was shot twice by Warner Bros.

Movie: 193 1 A comedy film was made by Ric-

Ado Cortes) and Bebe Daniels.

The other time was in 1936, when I met a wife in the name of Satan (Satan

Meet a lady), by Warren William and Betty.

Starring bette davis. Both films failed.

Houston likes the taste of this book very much. He thinks he can finish it on the screen.

Show the story carefully and make it hammett style.

A tough detective feature film. He handed in the book just before he went on holiday.

I gave it to his secretary, told her to read through the book, and then changed the literary narrative into a movie.

The shot form of the script marks the inside or outside of each scene to explain the basic content.

Act out and quote the dialogue in the original. Then he went to Mexico.

After he left, the screenplay was passed on to Jack L. Warner.

"I like this book, and you feel the charm of this book," he looked at it with relish.

The astonished playwright and director said, "Action! Just like this! I hope

It worked! "

Houston means what he says. As a result, this film has become a classic of American movies!

William Goldman is talking about his book Cassidy sells peanuts and jumps in the sun.

Dancing young man "said when encountering various difficulties:" First of all, for the western region.

The survey was boring because most of the materials were inaccurate. Those who write

The authors of western stories are engaged in endless myths, which is empty in itself.

Fake. It's hard to find out the truth. "

Goldman Sachs spent eight years investigating Cassidy, a peanut seller.

He saw "one or several articles, or a message about Cassidy,

But there is nothing about the young man dancing in the sun: between him and Cassidy.

Before going to South America, he was just a nobody. "

Goldman found that in order to let Cassidy and this young man leave the country, they fled to

South America must distort history. These two outsiders are the last two of such people.

Times have changed, and these two westerners can no longer be like they have been since the Civil War.

What they have been doing since the end of time.

"In this film," Goldman said, "Cassidy selling peanuts and

The young man dancing in the sun robbed the train several times. Then the government organized a big one

The vigilante followed them closely. When they found that they could not escape the pursuit of the militia,

They jumped off the cliff and made a living in South America. But in real life, when

Cassidy, who sells peanuts, left after learning the news of this large security organization and went straight there.

Let's go! He knew it was over. He can't beat them. ...

"I think I should prove why my hero left here to escape.

Therefore, I tried my best to write that this huge vigilante group is intolerant, which makes the point.

The audience applauded for their escape from the law.

"Most of this film is fabricated. I used personal history.

In fact, they did rob the train twice, and they did get a lot of explosives to put the car in.

The car was blown to pieces, and every time Woodcock was in the car; They did go.

After new york, they went to South America, and finally they did have guns in Bolivia.

Died in battle. The other is a material, and the stories are all pieced together. "

Eliot famously said, "History is just a fictional channel."

If you want to write a movie script with a historical theme, you should not describe the relevant characters accurately.

It is correct as long as historical events and their results are accurate.

If you have to add a new scene, do so. If necessary, you can

Add some events to make the story more personalized as long as they can lead to accuracy.

It's just an exact historical result. Abel, French film creator

Napoleon (2) shot by Gans is an application.

History as a springboard is a prominent example. This film was originally shot on 1927, the most

Recently discovered by kevin brownlow and Fran.

Sister Ford Coppola was released publicly. The film traces the early life of Napoleon.

Ya, (children in Ganges River have snowball fights, and then release Napoleon's army in childhood.

Things can be dramatic. Remember, actions are people! ) then,

The film jumps to 1789, showing the six years of the French Revolution, when Napoleon was

The appointment of the commander-in-chief of the French army is over. The end of the film is a wonderful three-sided.

The scene on the screen (three screens are displayed at the same time) shows Napoleon's leadership method.

China's army marched into Italy.

However, we should not treat history too casually.

In a recent European TV drama book creation class, a French student wrote

A screenplay about Napoleon's trip from Waterloo to St Helena was shown. he

Writing this story into a romantic martial arts movie is full of inaccuracies.

Historical facts and purely fictional events. He was not fully prepared for the story.

Or investigation and study, so the script is not only used as a negative writing model,

It's no use.

The same should be true for a stage play adapted into a screenplay.

Stay. Although you participate in different forms, you follow the same principle.

A drama is expressed through dialogue, which includes dramatic actions.

Language. The characters in the play tell their feelings and talk endlessly about their

Memories, emotions and events. The performance area, location and background are always confined to the stage frame.

Inside.

There was a time in Shakespeare's dramatic career when he cursed it.

Limited by a stage, it is called "worthless gallows" and "wood"

Zero! "And implore the audience gentlemen" to make up for the performance with their own brains.

Feet. "He knows that on this stage, it is impossible to show the British company under the blue sky.

Two opposing armies in the ups and downs of Yuan Ye, this magnificent scene. only

He didn't go off the stage until he finished Hamlet.

Created a great stage art.

When you adapt a script into a movie script, you should use your skills.

Imagine the events mentioned or said. Drama involves language and drama.

Dramatic dialogue. Tennesee tennessee williams (3)

A Streetcar Named Desire or Hot Roof

A cat on a hot tin roof, arthur miller (art-

Hull Miller's Death of a Salesman

Or Eugene O 'Neill (4) "until late at night.

In the long journey from day to night, the action is sufficient.

Part of it takes place on the stage. In the set, the actors are talking about themselves or each other.

Dialogue. You can choose any script, whether it's Sam Shepard's.

(Sam Shepard)' s modern plays such as The Curse of the Hungry Class (Curse

Hungry class), or edward ablee (Edward

Who's afraid of Julia Woolf (who's afraid

Virginia Woolf) are all the same.

Because the action of a play is spoken, you must unfold it.

Give it a visual range. You should be responsible for what is mentioned only in the dialogue in the play.

Add some scenes and dialogues, arrange the design, and it becomes.

Children can lead out the main scenes of the original stage play. Find an action from the dialogue.

A visualization method.

Australian film Morant.

Is a good example. This play was written by Kenneth Ross.

(He also wrote The Day of the Jackal. Later,

By Australian film creators and Bruce Beresford (Bruce Bailey-

Sford) was adapted and directed into a movie. This film is about the Boer War.

(Boer War) (1900), an Australian officer was arrested in some way.

Accused of killing the enemy in an "unorthodox and uncivilized way" (guerrilla warfare),

The story of being tried and finally executed. He became a victim of political struggle and war.

Collateral in gambling, an Australian in the British colonial system at the beginning of this century

The original stage play took place in court, but the film expanded the action.

Spread out, not only the flashback shots of the battle scenes are added, but also the tables are added.

Now the scene of the soldier's personal life. The result is a shocking movie.

A thought-provoking film.

Stage plays and movies are unique, which is of course due to drama.

Writers and film creators.

A screenplay that mainly shows people, whether they are alive or dead,

In other words, biographical scripts must be carefully selected and condensed to make them rich and effective.

Fruit. Winston of Youth by Kyle Foreman.

(Young Winston), for example, only Winston Churchill was elected.

Several episodes and events in the prime minister's previous life.

Your character's life is just the beginning of your writing. Have a choice. as long as

Pick out several events or things from the hero's life and then combine them into one.

Dramatic storyline. Tom rickman's coal miner.

"(the daughter of a coal miner), Robert Poulter (R-

Lawrence of Arabia by oberth Bolt.

And orson welles and Herman mankiewicz's Citizen Kane (according to

William Rudolf Hearst's career is loosely adapted) all about the protagonist.

A good example of dramatic arrangement of several events in life.

How you handle your object's life determines the basic story line; no

There is a story line, no story; Without stories, you can't write a movie.

Script!

Not long ago, one of my students got the title of an important big city newspaper.

The life of the first female editor-in-chief was filmed. My students tried to put everything

Everything is written into the story; Early in my career, "because they are interesting";

Her marriage and childbirth,' because she has an unusual attitude towards life'; she

The early life of a reporter who reported several important news. "Because they really.

Exciting ",and get the position of editor-in-chief and several other stories," because of this.

This is why she is famous. "

I suggested that she pay attention to several events in this woman's life, but she is herself.

The object is so tangled that it is impossible to look at the problem objectively. So I let

She does exercises. I asked her to write down her story line on a few pages. She wrote it all.

Give me 26 pages of manuscript paper, only write half of this character's life! She doesn't even

I didn't write a story, I just wrote a note, which was boring. I told her it was

The sample essay is not well written, so it is suggested that she focus on one or two reasons in the editor-in-chief career of this character.

Things. A week later, she came to me and said that she couldn't decide what was worth writing.

This indecision overwhelmed her, and she felt depressed and finally lost.

I lost confidence and didn't want to write this script. One day, she came to me crying. I encouraged her.

Re-study those materials and find out the three most interesting things in this woman's life.

(Writing, please remember, is optional), if necessary.

If necessary, talk to that woman and ask her what she thinks of her life and career.

What are the most interesting aspects? She did, and finally reported to the hero.

A news story, that is, the news story that made her the first female editor-in-chief is

Foundation to form a story line. This story line became the hook of this movie script.

Son "or foundation.

You can only tell a story with 120 pages of manuscript paper. Choose those things carefully.

Sketch, so that they can describe you through the best visual ability and dramatic elements.

Their stories make them interesting. The screenplay must be based on your story.

Seek the foundation. The original material is only the original material after all. This is just a starting point,

Not the end.

It seems difficult for reporters to understand this. When they are based on reports

I often find it difficult to write screenplays. I don't know why, maybe because,

The method of constructing dramatic story lines in movies is the same as that in news reports.

The structural method is the opposite.

Journalists collect facts and information for a living. He studies books or collects information.

Visit relevant personnel to complete their tasks. Once they have all the facts, they will

You can imagine a story. The more materials a reporter collects, the more information he has.

The more; So he can use some, or all, or not at all he

Once the facts are collected, we begin to look for the "hook" or "corner" of the story.

Degree ",and then only use the most interesting and convincing facts.

Write his story.

This is a good news report.

But writing a script is just the opposite. You have an idea, a master.

Title, an action, a role, to write a movie script; Then weave a play that will make it happen.

Dramatic story line. Once you have this basic story line, such as a three-person robbery.

Rob Chase Manhattan Bank-you can expand it; Conduct an investigation,

Create characters, write biographies, interview some people when necessary, and collect missing things.

Facts and information useful to the story. If there is something missing from this story, then

Just write it.

In the script, facts support the story; You can even say that they created

Wrote this story.

In the writing of movie scripts, you are from general to special. You should find out the reason first.

Things, and then collect the facts. In news report writing, you go from special to general;

You collect the facts first, and then find out the story.

There is a famous journalist who published an article in a national essay according to his own situation.

A controversial article in the magazine was adapted into a screenplay. Although he has mastered it.

All the facts, but he still finds it difficult to get rid of the article and put a good one.

Dramatize the elements needed for a movie script. Looking for the right facts and

In details, he is at his wit's end. I have written 30 pages and I don't know how to write it down.

He got into trouble, panicked, and then turned this into a good movie.

The script is on the shelf.

He can't be an article, the script is a script. He wants loyalty.

In the original material, but it won't work.

Many people want to write a screenplay based on an article in a magazine or newspaper.

Or a TV script. If you want to adapt an article into a screenplay, you must

It must be handled from the perspective of film writers. What is this story about? Who is the Lord?

Want someone? How did it end? This is a story about a man accused of murder.

He was arrested, tried and later acquitted, and it was not until a public trial that he was found to be true.

Guilty? Or the story of a young man who designs and makes racing cars.

Take part in the competition and finally become the champion? Or did a doctor find a cure for diabetes?

Method? Or is it about incest? Who is it written about? What is it about? When you come back,

When answering these questions, you can arrange them in a dramatic structure.

When you adapt an article or news report into a movie or TV script.

You will encounter many legal problems. First of all, you should be allowed to write this play.

It means you have to get the editing rights from the relevant personnel and negotiate with the author, maybe.

We must negotiate with newspapers and magazines. Most people want you to put their stories on it.

Screen or TV. If you are serious, this kind of thing needs consultation and special study.

Legal adviser or literary agent.

But in any case, don't get entangled in legal affairs. If you don't want to do it now,

Then don't do it. Write the first draft or outline first. There's something in the material that appeals to you,

What are they? To explore. You can decide to write a story based on this article or story.

Draft, and then see what the result is. If it is good, it can be given to some people who care.

Take a look. If you don't do this, you'll never know the result. along with

Almost everything you should do.

Above we discussed the adaptation of novels, plays or articles into screenplays.

Question, but we still have to ask such a question: What is the best art of adaptation?

Surgery?

Answer: Don't be absolutely faithful to the original. Books are books, and plays are plays.

A play, an article is an article, and a script is a script.

The adapted script is an original script. They are completely different forms.

Just like apples and oranges are different!

Exercise:

Just open a novel and read a few pages. Pay attention to how the narrative action is described.

It's written This happened in the mind of the hero of the novel? It is told through dialogue.

what's up How about the description part? Take out another drama script and read a few pages. concentrate one's attention

How the characters talk about themselves or the actions of the script. Then read a few pages of the movie script.

Look at how the screenplay works.

Dealing with external details and events, as seen by the main characters.

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Writer.

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Eugene O 'Neill is regarded as a contemporary American dramatist.

The father of contemporary drama.