Alice, Harry Potter, Shrek: What do they have in common? All are characters in books, and all have made the big leap(跳跃) from the printed page to the big screen!
Hollywood has 1 that popular children's books can make popular movies. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 2 more money than any other film in the year when it hit the big screen. Filmmakers have also worked their magic with other 3 , including Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat.
Turning a book into a movie is not 4 . Screenwriters(电影剧本作家) have a challenging job. They turn written words and imagined scenes into spoken words and action. 5 , they must make a 400—page story fit into two hours. At other times, the screenwriters make a short story longer 6 adding more to the plots(情节) . That's one reason the film is never exactly the same as the book. "It has to be different, or it won't work, " says Natalie Babbitt, an American author(作家). She 7 Tuck Everlasting. The movie has a love story that's not even in the book!
Some people are unhappy and even angry when the story is 8 . Not Chris Van Allsburg, the author of Jumanji and The Polar Express. The two books were also made into 9 . "A book is often just the starting point," he says. That's good 10 for both filmmakers and readers: Start with the book, and then go to see the movie!
