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U4
Developing Ideas
By the end of the class,students will be able to:
1) understand the reasons behind the unsuccessful movies based on books ;
2) analyze the organisation of this passage
3) think criticalliy about making judgements
Learning Objectives(学习目标):
Lead-in
1.Have you ever read any of these books What are they about
2.Have you ever seen the movies or TV plays based on these books
What do you think of them
红楼梦
了不起的盖茨比
福尔摩斯探案集
骆驼祥子
京华烟云
伊利亚特
《红楼梦》,中国古代章回体长篇小说,中国古典四大名著之一,通行本共120回,一般认为前80回是清代作家曹雪芹所著,后40回是清代作家高鹗所补。小说以贾、史、王、薛四大家族的兴衰为背景,以富贵公子贾宝玉为视角,以贾宝玉与林黛玉、薛宝钗的爱情婚姻悲剧为主线,描绘了一批举止见识出于须眉之上的闺阁佳人的人生百态,展现了真正的人性美和悲剧美,可以说是一部从各个角度展现女性美以及中国古代社会世态百相的史诗性著作。
《了不起的盖茨比》是美国作家弗朗西斯·斯科特·基·菲茨杰拉德创作的一部以20世纪20年代的纽约市及长岛为背景的中篇小说,出版于1925年。
主人公詹姆斯·卡兹本是北达科他州的一个贫穷的农家子弟,自幼梦想做个出人头地的大人物。经过一番努力,他终于步步高升,并更名为杰伊·盖茨比。他在一个军训营里任中尉时,爱上了南方的大家闺秀黛茜·费。可是当他戴着军功勋章在战争结束后从海外归来时,黛茜已嫁给一位来自芝加哥的、体格健壮、富有但举止粗鲁的纨绔子弟汤姆·布坎农,沉醉于爱情梦幻中的盖茨比艰苦创业,由一个贫穷的军官奋斗成为百万富翁。他在长岛西端买下了一幢豪华别墅,与住在东端的布坎农夫妇隔海湾相望。他的府第每晚灯火通明,成群的宾客饮酒纵乐。他唯一的愿望是希望看到分别了五年的情人黛茜,当他们重逢时,盖茨比以为时光可以倒流,重温旧梦,但久而久之,他发现黛茜远不像他梦想的人,可是这种醒悟还没多久,黛茜开车碾死了丈夫的情妇,汤姆嫁祸于盖茨比,盖茨比终于被害,黛茜居然没来送葬:叙述者尼克由此看透了上层社会有钱人的冷酷残忍和居心险恶,离开纽约,回到了中西部的故乡。
《了不起的盖茨比》的问世,奠定了弗·司各特·菲茨杰拉德在现代美国文学史上的地位,成了20年代“爵士时代”的发言人和“迷惘的一代”的代表作家之一。20世纪末,美国学术界权威在百年英语文学长河中选出一百部最优秀的小说,《了不起的盖茨比》高居第二位,并被多次搬上银幕和舞台。
《福尔摩斯探案全集》,作者是英国作家阿瑟·柯南·道尔。主角名为夏洛克·福尔摩斯(Sherlock Holmes,又译作歇洛克·福尔摩斯),共有4部长篇及56个短篇。
《骆驼祥子》是人民艺术家——老舍(舒庆春,1899-1966)所著的长篇小说,描述了20世纪20年代军阀混战时期人力车夫的悲惨命运。祥子是旧社会劳苦大众的代表人物。
《京华烟云》是林语堂旅居巴黎时,于1938年8月至1939年8月间用英文写就的长篇小说,英文书名为《Moment in Peking》,《京华烟云》是他转译为中文后的书名,也有译本将这本书译为《瞬息京华》,1939年发布首版英文版。
《京华烟云》讲述了北平曾、姚、牛三大家族从1901年义和团运动到抗日战争三十多年间的悲欢离合和恩怨情仇,并在其中安插了袁世凯篡国、张勋复辟、直奉大战、军阀割据、五四运动、三一八惨案、“语丝派”与“现代评论派”笔战、青年“左倾”、二战爆发,全景式展现了现代中国社会风云变幻的历史风貌。
1975年,林语堂凭借《京华烟云》荣获诺贝尔文学奖提名。
《伊利亚特》(ΙΛΙΑΣ,Ilias,Iliad, 又译《伊利昂记》《伊利亚特》。) 相传是由盲诗人荷马(Homer,公元前800年-公元前600年)所作史诗。
《伊利亚特》全诗共15,693行,分为24卷,主要内容是叙述希腊人远征特洛伊城的故事。它通过对特洛伊战争的描写,歌颂英勇善战、维护集体利益、为集体建立功勋的英雄。
《伊利亚特》是重要的古希腊文学作品,也是整个西方的经典之一。
Good Book,
Bad Movie
Scan the passage. Find out which of the books in Activity 1 are mentioned.
while-reading
1.Skim the passage and choose the genre(体裁) A:Narrative (记叙文)
B:Expository (说明文)
C:Argumentative (议论文)
2.What's the author's point of view towards movie adaptations
unsuccessful
√
Argument: All too often, great words end up being turned into cinematic “turkeys”
Organisation--Argument
unsuccessful movies
e.g.
The Odyssey
The Great Gatsby
Alice in Wonderland
Tips:Examples here are used to provide additional information
3.How does the author make his point of view persuasive
while-reading
By giving reasons
and using examples
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”.
人们常说“一图胜千词”,但是简单对照一下书籍和由之而改编的电影,就会让人们开始质疑这一说法。很多时候,优秀的文字作品最终却变成电影中的失败之作。
被变成失败的电影作品
Good 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 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”
好的电影需要好的故事。若是如此,那为什么西方叙事文本中最早且最优秀的作品之一——荷马的《奥德赛》——从未产生过同样优秀的改编电影呢?电影中需要个性鲜明的人物。那为什么基于《了不起的盖茨比》改编的电影从未被称赞为“优秀”呢?电影当然需要令人印象深刻的画面,那为什么由《爱丽丝梦游仙境》改编的电影顶多被称为“有点意思”呢?
be described as 被描述为
Argument: All too often, great words end up being turned into cinematic “turkeys”
Organisation--argumentation
e.g.
The Odyssey
The Great Gatsby
Alice in Wonderland
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 can’t escape from, with fans of the books disappointed not to see some of their favourite characters in the movie versions.
这背后的一个重要原因是,一本书通常需要花几天的时间来阅读,而一部电影通常不会超过两小时。这就意味着优秀的书籍被搬上大银幕之后,会删减一些情节和人物。这是连大获成功的“哈利·波特”系列电影也无法避免的事情,有些书迷因为在电影中没看到自己最喜欢的一些角色而感到失望。
Movies 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. 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.
电影呈现出的事物与我们读书时的想象的有落差时,我们也会备感失望。以史诗电影《特洛伊》为例,该电影部分改编自荷马的《伊利亚特》,观众对它的评论褒贬不一。其中最有争议的问题在于扮演海伦的女演员。许多人认为她配不上海伦“世界上最美丽的女人”这一称号,这在一定程度上影响了人们对这部电影的看法。
play an important part/ role in
起到了重要的作用
live up to one’s title of
名副其实
Argument: All too often, great words end up being turned into cinematic “turkeys”
Reason1:
Time limit
Reason 2:
Different from readers’ imagination
Loss of characters and details,
e.g. Harry Potter
“Helen—the most beautiful woman in the world”
e.g. Troy
Organisation--argumentation
e.g.
The Odyssey
The Great Gatsby
Alice in Wonderland
Tips:Examples here are used to support an arugument
There 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. 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.
一千个读者就有一千个哈姆雷特。而且书籍和电影是两种不同的媒体形式,因此也遵循不同的原则。考虑到这一点,也许我们应该基于电影本身而不是将其与原始版本进行对比来评价电影。值得注意的是,观众已经逐渐将兴趣转向了《神探夏洛克》或《广告狂人》这样的电视连续剧,因为电视剧能展现更多人物,情节也得以逐步展开。也许有一天,F. 斯科特·菲茨杰拉德最杰出作品的读者们,会发现自己已被《了不起的盖茨比》的剧集深深吸引。
be glued to their screens
被粘在屏幕上
while-reading
4.What conclusion does the author draw
Argument: All too often, great words end up being turned into cinematic “turkeys”
Reason1:
Time limit
Reason 2:
Different from readers’ imagination
Loss of characters and details,
e.g. Harry Potter
“Helen—the most beautiful woman in the world”
e.g. Troy
Organisation--Conclusion
e.g.
The Odyssey
The Great Gatsby
Alice in Wonderland
Conclusion: Judge a movie in its own right.