Presenting Characters A comparison between the novel and the script (Delights and Pains)

Abstract

It is well known that many international and Arab films were produced based on literary origins, many of these origins are different, some of which are mainly long narrative texts, short stories, and theatrical and poetic texts to a lesser degree. This applies to Arab cinema, as it also does to international cinema. If we investigate the number of literary texts that took their way to the cinema screen, we will find the number of quoted films exceeds (420); this number represents films adapted from Arab literary texts. Moreover, many Arab films have their texts from non-Arab literary origins, whether Russian, French, English or other, thus increasing the proportion of films quoted from literary works in general.

In order for the literary work to reach the screen, it must go through multiple stages before it is completed and displayed to the recipient on the screen after it has come out from the hearts of books to pulsate on the screen with sounds, colors and movements, some of which may be hidden in the written literary text.

Turning the literary text to a scenario (the middle stage between the book and the screen) varies from one work to another, and from one literary text to another. There is a literary and literal setting and so on, and the research and detail goes on to illustrate the differences between these types, so we only examine what the novel (Delights and Pains) represents, and the text quoted from it. It is worth mentioning here that all the components of the narrative work have the touch of the cinematic producer who aims at preparing a picture script from a written script. It is obvious that the characters undergo many changes that make them suitable for the plot of the script to be visually embodied on the screen. In terms of the number of characters in the original narrative work and its journey to the narrative to the end, what the film narrative adheres to later, what it is dispensing with and what the reasons for it are.