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Spanish: adaptar al cine

English translation: adapt to film







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Spanish term or phrase:adaptar al cine
English translation:adapt to film
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Art/Literary - Cinema, Film, TV, Drama
Spanish term or phrase: adaptar al cine
ADAPTAR. Operación literaria que consiste en trasladar un texto original (como un cuento, una novela, una pieza teatral) al cine, mediante un guión literario adecuado al lenguaje de la pantalla (véase Tratamiento).

TRATAMIENTO. Desarrollo de la sinopsis en forma literaria, que da importancia a la estructura dramatica, a los momentos esenciales y a las articulaciones de la narracion.

Necesitio el equivalente inglés del primer término.

Muchas gracias a todos.
Davorka Grgic
Netherlands
adapt to film
Explanation:
Some examples:

Novels that Kubrick Adapted to Film
Kubrick Multimedia Film Guide. Kubrick Print References:
Novels Kubrick Adapted to Film. The ...
www.indelibleinc.com/kubrick/skprint/novels.html - 3k - Cached - Similar pages

Kurt Vonnegut
... version published Off-Broadway as Happy Birthday, Wanda June, 1970-1971. Adapted
to film 1971; produced by Lester Goldsmith and directed by Mark Robson. ...
www.duke.edu/~crh4/vonnegut/plays.html - 18k - Cached - Similar pages

AFI: RICHARD III IN FILM HISTORY
... IN FILM AND TELEVISION HISTORY. No author in history has had more works adapted
to film and television than William Shakespeare. Since the beginning of cinema ...
www.afionline.org/archive/films/richard3/richard3.history.h...

Hope it helps.
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Cindy Chadd
Spain
Note from asker to answerer
Tanks, Cindy - this is the one I used. Thanks to all of for your time and effort.

Davorka
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Summary of answers provided
4 +3adapt to film
Cindy Chadd
4 +1adaptation
Parrot
4adapted for the screen by ...Sery
4adapt to the movies
Roberto Cavalcanti
4screen adapted // screen playedLafuente


  

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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
adapt to film

Explanation:
Some examples:

Novels that Kubrick Adapted to Film
Kubrick Multimedia Film Guide. Kubrick Print References:
Novels Kubrick Adapted to Film. The ...
www.indelibleinc.com/kubrick/skprint/novels.html - 3k - Cached - Similar pages

Kurt Vonnegut
... version published Off-Broadway as Happy Birthday, Wanda June, 1970-1971. Adapted
to film 1971; produced by Lester Goldsmith and directed by Mark Robson. ...
www.duke.edu/~crh4/vonnegut/plays.html - 18k - Cached - Similar pages

AFI: RICHARD III IN FILM HISTORY
... IN FILM AND TELEVISION HISTORY. No author in history has had more works adapted
to film and television than William Shakespeare. Since the beginning of cinema ...
www.afionline.org/archive/films/richard3/richard3.history.h...

Hope it helps.


    as noted
Cindy Chadd
Spain
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 27
Note from asker to answerer
Tanks, Cindy - this is the one I used. Thanks to all of for your time and effort.

Davorka

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Nikki Graham
50 mins
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agree xxxeilema
6 hrs
  -> thanks

agree Suzanne Couture: I completely agree. Good luck!
7 hrs
  -> tks. Suzanne
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43 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
adaptation

Explanation:
the process that consists of changing the form of a literary piece into another form (called "transmedia" in post-modern art). We talk of adaptation to theatre, film, or even the adaptation of a novel into a shorter literary piece.

Parrot
Spain
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 12

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Jesús Paredes
3 hrs
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
adapt to the movies

Explanation:
Como lo diria

Roberto Cavalcanti
Brazil
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
screen adapted // screen played

Explanation:
Creo que lo he visto traducido de esta forma en la TV...

Espero te ayude.

Lafuente
Mexico
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1 day7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
adapted for the screen by ...

Explanation:
In this sense, screen meaning the motion picture industry. Hope it helps! Sery

Sery
Panama
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
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