In class this week we prepared for a presentation on literature that we will soon start by reading an essay by Philip Pullman. It discussed the amounts of "story" and literature contained in a book titled His Dark Materials. I enjoyed the essay; it gave me good insight on how much literature appears in films. For example, Pullman explained that it is hard to express what is happening to characters internally in movies and used Mary's conversation with Lydia to prove the fact. While Mary was talking Lydia felt like a dark house had become light inside of her. That vision would be very hard to put into a film. I have often wondered why movies that are based off of books always seem a little off and this essay showed me why that is, it is hard to put a narrative voice inside a movie that would describe what is happening to the author internally. Also it helped me understand the difference between story and literature in books; the story part contains the plot, characters, and settings. Literature is the more complex ideas that are often, as Robert Frost says, "lost in translation" when a book is converted into a movie.
https://www.bustle.com/articles/64990-why-you-shouldnt-be-mad-if-the-movie-adaptation-of-your-favorite-book-isnt-100-percent
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Josephine
10/13/2016 05:43:20 am
Hi Melissa,
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