On The Hollywood Movie - Style Interpretation Of Hemingway's Novels

Ernest Hemingway was one of the 20th century's most famous American authors. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, also was known all over the world for his simple, short sentences and his lively dialogue. He wrote poems, plays, as well as novels, which won him the international acclaim. It may be said that researching on him and his novels is unfailing. However, so far, majority of research is still focusing on the authors' points of view. So in this thesis, the research will be done in the model of reception theory. Virtually, by reviewing the anticipated fields of vision, summing up the adaptations, discussing the practice, it is considered reasonable that Hollywood's transitions are conscious misunderstanding. The most important factor that contributes to this phenomenon is the literature particularity of Hemingway's novels.As the popular culture's representation, Hollywood, namely American film in a way, creates genre films that follow a set of commercial and histrionic principles. According to the anticipated box office gross, it may be said without fear of exaggeration that any ambitious studios of Hollywood have to look for the materials in literary works which contain a multitude of potentially commercial elements, as well as in Hemingway's novels. To begin with, Hemingway's experience made him the darling of the mass. "Throughout his life, he was followed by headlines." That is in favor of the films' distribution. Moreover, his novels were accepted extensively, which offer a favorable effect for the films' reception. Most important of all, the novels by themselves possess admirable plots, concise narration, typical topics, religious standpoint, and figure some lively withal touching characters else. So, all above elements are propitious to the Hollywood's transitions from language to images. Nevertheless, most adaptations received the Philippic from Hemingway. What accounts for this? What measures did Hollywood take to make the transitions become fact?First of all, with the adaptation of the original work in plots, characters and topics,...