FICTION TO FILM: THE EVERLASTING INSISTENCE ON FIDELITY

摘要

FILMS BASED ON LITERARY SOURCES ARE ALMOST ALWAYS JUDGED ACCORDING TO HOW FAITHFUL THEY ARE TO THE ORIGINAL TEXT(S). HOWEVER, THE ISSUE OF FIDELITY HAS BECOME MORE AND MORE CONTROVERSIAL. ON THE ONE HAND, THERE ARE CRITICS WHO CONTEND THAT THE “TRANSLATION” OF A PIECE OF LITERATURE INTO A FILM SHOULD BE BASED ON A QUITE LITERAL INTERPRETATION. AND YET, ON THE OTHER HAND, INCREASINGLY STRONGER VOICES ARGUE THAT THE INTERPRETATION MAY AND, TO A CERTAIN EXTENT, MUST BE AS RADICAL AS POSSIBLE. THE CURRENT PAPER AIMS AT PRESENTING AN OVERVIEW OF HOW THE FIDELITY CRITICISM OF CINEMATIC ADAPTATIONS HAS EVOLVED ACROSS TIME.