(共20张PPT)
Unit 4
Developing ideas
Have you ever read any of these books
How much do you know about them
author
setting
main idea
importance...
红楼梦
了不起的盖茨比
夏洛克·福尔摩斯
骆驼祥子
伊利亚特
京华烟云
Good Book, Bad Movie
adaptations (movies based on books)
Now let’s read the passage to find out the author's opinion.
Good Book, Bad Movie
Fast reading
What’s the text type of this passage
A. narration 记叙文
B. practical writing 应用文
C. argumentation 议论文
D. exposition 说明文
1They 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”.
变成
v. 质疑
通常
end up doing sth.以做某事而告终
电影的
be worth sth / doing sth 值/值得做
根据;基于
1. What’s the main idea of Paragraph 1
A. A picture is worth a thousand words.
B. We should read books briefly.
C. Many people doubt the common saying.
D. Many good books can’t be filmed into good movies successfully.
2Good movies need good stories. If so, why has one of the earliest and greatest works in Western storytelling, Homer’s The Odyssey, never had an equally great movie based on it
同样地
同位语
《奥德赛》叙述伊萨卡国王奥德修斯在攻陷特洛伊后归国途中十年漂泊的故事。它集中描写的只是这十年中最后一年零几十天的事情。奥德修斯因得罪了海神,受神祇捉弄,在海上漂流了十年,到处遭难,最后受诸神怜悯始得归家。当奥德修斯流落异域时,伊萨卡及邻国的权贵们欺其妻弱子幼。向其妻珀涅罗珀求婚,迫她改嫁,珀涅罗珀用尽了各种方法拖延。最后奥德修斯扮成乞丐归家,与其子杀尽求婚者,恢复了他在伊萨卡的权力。
Movies need strong characters. So why have the movies based on The Great Gatsby never been praised as “great”
称赞
1922年的春天,作家尼克满怀希望离开家乡,随淘金热潮来到纽约,这里股票飞涨,贫富两极分化,人们沉沦在纸醉金迷中。尼克为了追寻美国梦,放弃写作而进入证券市场,并搬入纽约附近的海湾居住,成为了神秘富豪盖茨比的邻居。而海湾的对岸住着尼克的表妹黛西和她的贵族丈夫汤姆,尼克渐渐迷失在这个充满魅力,以及富豪编制的假象、爱与谎言的世界中。
尼克被邀请参加了盖茨比豪宅中的盛宴,还发现盖茨比心中的秘密,原来他一直深爱着黛西,即使她没等到他战后归来,转而嫁给富豪汤姆,盖茨比一直深信他们的爱情矢志不渝。尼克作为盖茨比与黛西爱情的见证者,终于在盖茨比被谋杀之后,看清了这个上流社会的虚情寡义,决心远离大都市,黯然回到故乡
Movies of course need impressive images, so why has Alice in Wonderland only resulted in movies best described as “interesting”
导致,造成
爱丽斯始终被同一个梦魇所困扰,直到她20岁时参加的一场聚会。面对养尊处优的公子哥哈米什突如其来的求婚,毫无准备的爱丽斯着实被吓了一跳。爱丽斯被一只身马甲的兔子所吸引,在追赶过程中爱丽斯掉入了一个深不见底的树洞里,来到了一个如同仙境般不可思议的“地下世界”。此时,生活在地下世界的善良人们似乎都在盼望着她的到来,可是她却认为这是一场梦,只想快点醒过来回到现实世界。然而,在认识疯疯癫癫的疯帽子之后,爱丽斯才知道地下世界正处于“红桃皇后”的血腥统治之下,按照“皇历”的预言,只有她才能帮助“白色皇后”战胜“红桃皇后”,让地下世界重归和睦与安宁……
2. Good movie needs:
A. Good stories
B. Strong characters
C. Impressive images
D. all of the above
3One 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.
通常
v.持续
take time to do sth.
花费时间做某事
表从
宾从
时间状从
This is something that even the highly successful Harry Potter movies can’t escape from, with fans of the books disappointed not to see some of their favourite characters in the movie versions.
从……逃离
宾从
3. From Paragraph 3, we can know that ______.
A. reading a book is a waste of time
B. a film results in something important lost compared with the book version
C. a film only needs less than two hours
D. Harry Potter is a great success
4Movies also disappoint us when things don’t look the way we imagined them in the books. Take, for example, the epic movie Troy, which is in part based on Homer’s The Iliad and was met with mixed reviews from the audience.
史诗般的
部分地
遇到;面对
非限制性定从
The most questionable issue was the actress chosen to play the part of Helen. Many people thought she didn’t live up to Helen’s title of “the most beautiful woman in the world”, influencing opinions of the movie to some extent.
可疑的;有问题的
非谓语表被动
符合(标准)
头衔
在某种程度上
4. Why do movies adapted from books always disappoint us
A.Because they didn’t choose a good theme.
B.Because audience are picky.
C.Because they are badly performed.
D.Because things in movies are different from those in the books.
5There are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people’s 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.
此外;而且
with...in mind
考虑到……
评判
凭借自身,靠自己
来源
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 Fitzgerald’s most admired work will find themselves glued to their screens by episodes of The Great Gatsby.
转向
渐进的
被赞美的
粘住
Match the author’s opinions about the movie adaptations to the examples from the passage.
1. Some parts of the story and some characters are missing in the movie.
2. The visual images are not as striking as the descriptions in the book.
3. The movie is not as great as the book.
4. The movie doesn’t look the way we visualised while reading the book.
5. The characters do not stand out.
The
Odyssey
Wonderland
Alice in
The ILIAD
a b c d e
a
d
b
c
e
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