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to be well scripted (about a book) (films of books can be well scripted but often boring)
являться (быть) книгой, по которой написан хороший сценарий
to be involved in the film version
участвовать в создании киноверсии
to be considered a serious work of art
считаться серьезным произведением искусства
to be believable in a role
правдоподобно исполнить роль
to perform in a film
играть в фильме
to take a look at sometimes uneasy relationship between the printed word and the silver screen
взглянуть на временами непростые отношения между печатным словом и экранизацией
to have high expectations of sth / sb
возлагать большие надежды на что-то/кого-то (ожидать многого от чего-то / кого-то)
to make a film of a favourite book
снять фильм по любимой книге
a highly regarded book
книга, получившая высокую оценку
it’s safe to say that
можно с уверенностью сказать, что…
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Beloved
The
Printed Word vs. the Silver Screen
Set
in nineteenth century Ohio, Beloved is both an intergral part
of the midwest literary tradition and a haunting description of racism
in America’s heartland. The Nobel Prize-winning novel was adapted into
a film in 1998. Through this website, we intend to both examine the
novel and to make a critical comparison between the novel and the film.
Award-winning author and filmmaker Shandi Mitchell shares the complexities of mastering two very different—both difficult—forms of writing
Writing a novel feels like being inside the sea, surrounded by infinite possibility. To comprehend the whole, one must reach the surface. Writing a screenplay feels like being on the ocean’s surface. To see the whole, one must ascertain the depths.
These very different mediums share elements of plot, character, narrative, dialogue and setting—but the construction of the forms and how the writing palette is used bears little similarity. Fiction writing allows me to explore characters’ internal experiences. I put on their skins and touch their worlds. Screenwriting is behavioral storytelling. I watch characters and their actions to understand their inner lives.
In film, I establish a character with visual shorthand using the camera. The viewer is an observer writing the narrative with me.
INTERIOR. HALFWAY HOUSE. DAY.
Albert sits in his recliner. Heavy curtains smother the noon light; empty pill bottles line the windowsill; on television, the weather channel plays endlessly on mute.
In fiction, my palette consists only of words. I must leave the story open enough for the reader to invoke the visuals with me.
Albert’s fingers traced the burnished armrests of the naugahyde recliner, which had long stopped reclining. Albert had not taken his pills. He was waiting for her. At promptly ten minutes after the hour, she would appear, haloed by the weather map. She was never late.
When I write a description in a screenplay my research is often a sketch. Teams of experts do the historical research and gather the costumes, props, locations, vehicles and sets to make it a visual reality. As a novelist, I am responsible for the research and choosing the precise descriptions to infer an entire fictional world. In a script, I can write It’s raining and an FX team makes it rain. In prose, I need to find words to describe the rain and how it feels on bare arms.
In a novel, I expand outward tying together multiple characters, sub-plots and storylines to allow the theme to reveal itself. In a screenplay, I follow a distinct line dictated by time. Most films can be mapped to the minute and page as to when events will happen. Within this rigid frame, I must work inward from plot and action to shape character and theme.
As screenwriter, I must evaluate whether a script idea is financially feasible. Can a script with seventeen locations, spanning five countries, with forty-eight characters, during WW1… ever be made? Or do I write a story with two actors and existing locations that I can secure for free? As a novelist, I’m free to create any world I can imagine. There is nothing between the page and me.
Film is a collective experience. For a script to be shot, many need to say yes: producers, funders, distributors, broadcasters and cast. And everyone, regardless of qualifications, will have an opinion as to how to make the story better, more commercial or more marketable. Unless you are also the director, once the screenplay is delivered, the writer is often expendable.
The fiction world can seem gentler. If a publisher is found, the editor becomes the sole voice that guides the writer and the story. There is great respect for the written word and creative ownership. Success or failure belongs to the writer. In film, the writer is expected to give up creative ownership and can be paid handsomely to do so. The screenplay is a product. This can be harrowing if the writer wrote a small work of art and is now being told to turn it into an action-adventure with vampires. If it fails, it will be the writer’s fault. If it succeeds it will be the director’s, actors’, and producers’ success.
Both forms of writing are hard. Really hard. Each brings its own raptures and sorrows. Both demand your heart and soul. Both push you to question your sanity, neglect family and friends and consume years of your life. Perfection can’t be attained. Rarely is there profit or glory. But sometimes, there is a near perfect sentence, or a character startles you, or an image splits your heart open—and then you can’t imagine not writing.
This article was originally published in the Fall 2012 issue of Atlantic Books Today
Written By:
Shandi Mitchell
Shandi Mitchell is a novelist and filmmaker. Her first novel Under This Unbroken Sky (Penguin Group Canada) won a 2010 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. The Disappeared is a film both written and directed—phew—by Mitchell and premiered at the 2012 Atlantic Film Festival.
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It sure looks good to see an honest-to-goodness audience after looking at you all for so long from the silver screen.
Hattie McDaniel
PRONUNCIATION OF THE SILVER SCREEN
WHAT DOES THE SILVER SCREEN MEAN IN ENGLISH?
Silver screen
A silver screen, also known as a silver lenticular screen, is a type of projection screen that was popular in the early years of the motion picture industry and passed into popular usage as a metonym for the cinema industry. The term silver screen comes from the actual silver content embedded in the material that made up the screen’s highly reflective surface. Actual metallic screens are coming back into use in projecting 3-D films.
Definition of the silver screen in the English dictionary
The definition of the silver screen in the dictionary is films collectively or the film industry. Other definition of the silver screen is the screen onto which films are projected.
Synonyms and antonyms of the silver screen in the English dictionary of synonyms
Translation of «the silver screen» into 25 languages
TRANSLATION OF THE SILVER SCREEN
Find out the translation of the silver screen to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of the silver screen from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «the silver screen» in English.
Translator English — Chinese
银幕
1,325 millions of speakers
Translator English — Spanish
la pantalla de plata
570 millions of speakers
Translator English — Hindi
रूपहले पर्दे
380 millions of speakers
Translator English — Arabic
الشاشة الفضية
280 millions of speakers
Translator English — Russian
серебряный экран
278 millions of speakers
Translator English — Portuguese
tela de prata
270 millions of speakers
Translator English — Bengali
রূপালী পর্দা
260 millions of speakers
Translator English — French
l´écran d´argent
220 millions of speakers
Translator English — Malay
Skrin perak
190 millions of speakers
Translator English — German
die Leinwand
180 millions of speakers
Translator English — Japanese
銀幕
130 millions of speakers
Translator English — Korean
은막
85 millions of speakers
Translator English — Javanese
Layar perak
85 millions of speakers
Translator English — Vietnamese
màn bạc
80 millions of speakers
Translator English — Tamil
வெள்ளி திரை
75 millions of speakers
Translator English — Marathi
चांदीचा पडदा
75 millions of speakers
Translator English — Turkish
Gümüş ekran
70 millions of speakers
Translator English — Italian
il grande schermo
65 millions of speakers
Translator English — Polish
srebrny ekran
50 millions of speakers
Translator English — Ukrainian
срібний екран
40 millions of speakers
Translator English — Romanian
ecranului de argint
30 millions of speakers
Translator English — Greek
η ασημένια οθόνη
15 millions of speakers
Translator English — Afrikaans
die silwerdoek
14 millions of speakers
Translator English — Swedish
vita duken
10 millions of speakers
Translator English — Norwegian
kinolerretet
5 millions of speakers
Trends of use of the silver screen
TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «THE SILVER SCREEN»
The term «the silver screen» is very widely used and occupies the 3.407 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
FREQUENCY
Very widely used
The map shown above gives the frequency of use of the term «the silver screen» in the different countries.
Principal search tendencies and common uses of the silver screen
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «the silver screen».
FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «THE SILVER SCREEN» OVER TIME
The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «the silver screen» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «the silver screen» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.
Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about the silver screen
2 QUOTES WITH «THE SILVER SCREEN»
Famous quotes and sentences with the word the silver screen.
I know what the important things are in life. I know that just because I pretend to be someone else for two hours on the silver screen doesn’t make me a better person than the next man. So, I mind all those things. Simple things.
It sure looks good to see an honest-to-goodness audience after looking at you all for so long from the silver screen.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THE SILVER SCREEN»
Discover the use of the silver screen in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to the silver screen and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Scripture on the Silver Screen
Eloquently written and meticulously researched,Scripture on the Silver Screenoffers all students of Scripture—whether in an academic classroom or at home—an inviting new way to further their biblical literacy.
2
Savior on the Silver Screen
Both entertaining and insightful, Savior on the Silver Screen is structured for easy use in classroom, small group, and individual settings and includes rental information and practical tips for using the book.
Richard C. Stern, Clayton N. Jefford, Guerric DeBona, 1999
3
Sacred terror: religion and horror on the silver screen
Explores the intersection of religion and fear in major horror movies. …both entertaining and important! «-John Lyden»
4
An Amorous History of the Silver Screen: Shanghai Cinema, …
The first volume in the new and groundbreaking series Cinema and Modernity, An Amorous History of the Silver Screen is an innovative—and well illustrated—look at the cultural history of Chinese modernity through the lens of this seminal …
5
Sailing on the Silver Screen: Hollywood and the U.S. Navy
More than 100 films, as varied as Annapolis and Hunt for Red October, are analyzed for their portrayal of the Navy. The book’s focus is on feature films, but relevant documentaries and made-for-television movies are also discussed.
6
Red women on the silver screen: Soviet women and cinema from …
This book looks at the interaction between these two phenomena: at the extent to which women’s new status and roles were reflected and promoted on Soviet screens throughout the country’s history.
7
The Couch and the Silver Screen: Psychoanalytic Reflections …
The cultural richness of the material presented, combined with the originality of multidisciplinary dialogues on European cinema, makes this book appealing not only to film buffs, but also to professionals, academics and students interested …
8
The Challenge of the Silver Screen: An Analysis of the …
This book will thus benefit not only students of religious film but also those studying the portrayal of central religious figures in the contemporary world.
9
Before Hollywood: From Shadow Play to the Silver Screen
An illustrated tour of invention and showmanship explains how today’s movies—as well as photographs, special effects, and animation—came to be, providing a window into the world of entertainment before movies were invented.
10
Hollywood in the Information Age: Beyond the Silver Screen
This book will be vital reading for everyone involved in the film industry, and it will become a key text for students in media and film studies.
6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THE SILVER SCREEN»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term the silver screen is used in the context of the following news items.
Jurassic World Comes Alive Outside The Silver Screen
The action and adventure don’t have to end on the silver screen, you see: the dinosaurs can come alive in your hands! Thanks to Target – Jurassic, I’ve had the … «OhGizmo!, Jun 15»
Oscar party to follow ‘Music from the Silver Screen‘ this afternoon
Valley Concert Chorale will perform and host a special event of «Music from the Silver Screen and After Party» at First Presbyterian Church in Livermore Sunday … «Pleasanton Weekly, May 15»
‘Coney Island On The Silver Screen‘ Series At Atheneum
“The Crowd,” a 1928 drama about the common man, will be part of the film series at the Wadsworth Atheneum, “Coney Island on the Silver Screen.» (Handout). «Hartford Courant, Feb 15»
Gold-Plated Gowns And 8-inch Pumps: The Stuff That Made Starlets …
Dripping in diamonds and shimmering in silks, the movie stars of the 1930s and ’40s dazzled on the silver screen. Now, some of their costumes and jewels are … «NPR, Nov 14»
How the Silver Screen Turned Into a Technicolor Dream
Today’s moviegoers are a jaded bunch—it seems to require 3D visuals and advanced audio systems just to get a rise out of them. But it wasn’t always this tough … «Gizmodo, Oct 13»
Final curtain call for Pensacola’s historic Silver Screen Theatre
The locally-owned, family-friendly, value priced movie Silver Screen Theatre on … and a sizzling summer blockbuster at the Silver Screen Theatre in Pensacola, … «Pensacola News Journal, Sep 13»
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