adaptar al cine

English translation: adapt to film

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Spanish term or phrase:	adaptar al cine
English translation:	adapt to film

02:00 Oct 11, 2001

Spanish to English translations [PRO]
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 KudoZ activity Questions: 217 (3 open) (4 without valid answers) (1 closed without grading) Answers: 3153
Local time: 13:54

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.

Selected response from:

tazdog (X)
Spain
Local time: 13:54

Grading comment

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 +3

adapt to film

tazdog (X)

4 +1

adaptation

Parrot

adapt to the movies

Roberto Cavalcanti

screen adapted // screen played

Lafuente

adapted for the screen by ...

Sery

Answers

9 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

adapt to film

tazdog (X)
Spain
Local time: 13:54
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 27

Grading comment

Tanks, Cindy - this is the one I used. Thanks to all of for your time and effort.

Davorka

43 mins confidence:

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
Local time: 13:54
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 12

1 hr confidence:

adapt to the movies

Explanation:
Como lo diria

Roberto Cavalcanti
Brazil
Local time: 08:54
Native speaker of: Portuguese

5 hrs confidence:

screen adapted // screen played

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

Espero te ayude.

Lafuente

1 day 7 hrs confidence:

adapted for the screen by ...

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

Sery
Local time: 06:54
Native speaker of:

Spanish

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