当名著被改成电影以后

在美国文学课上，老师让我们先读故事，然后再看根据故事改编的电影，最后比较电影和原著有什么区别。

我们上星期看的电影和读的故事是美国著名自然主义文学作家JACK LONDON的作品： To build a fire. 我读完故事看完电影之后，能感觉到原著和故事的不同。但我们班二十几个同学，都觉得电影和原著没什么区别。

一时间，我糊涂了，觉得自己是不是提前患了老年痴呆征了？我的看法咋和大家不一样呢？等到老师判完作业以后，我才明白，真理是可以掌握在少数人手里的。老师不仅赞同我的观点，还给了我满分。

下面这个小作业，只是四道作业题中的一道小题。只做一道小题，姐就得费牛劲了！其它作业和娱乐生活的关系不大，我就不晒了。

作业题：How does hearing London's story ("To build a Fire") being read and watching it being acted out change the experience of the story for you (compared to reading it on your own)? Did any details or other elements stand out or emerge for you? Did anything get lost? 

我的回答：

When I read the story, I could feel the inner struggling of the main character in the cold and snow.   This feeling makes me to have a strong sympathy on him. When I watched the video, however, I somehow feel a different way.  For example, the sky is not as dark as I imagine after reading the story. When I see two birds on the tree branches, it seems to me that the spring is coming and the main character will survive the cold weather, since birds often symbolize spring.  When the main character build the first and second fires, it looks very easy to build the fires.  He does not wear mittens and his hands are very skillful to make the first and second fires. To my understanding, there is something lost in the movie, why it is so hard to build the third fire after two successful building of fires.   In the novel, character likes to have a cigar whenever he is happy, However, I only see the main character has a cigar once in the video. In addition, the subtle relationship between man and dog is not well shown in the video.

老师评语：I agree--I think that there is often many things lost in movie versions of literature, mainly because the intimate details are so hard to capture.