1.2.1. Type of Film
Start from the type of this film, The Painted
Veil is a novel adaptation film from the same title of
novel, which is written by W. Somerset Maugham in
1925. This novel has been adapted for the screen
three times. The first one came in 1934 with the
same title, the second one came in 1957 with the
title, The Seventh Sin, and the last one is in 2006,
which is discussed in this analysis.
Novels are frequently adapted for films with
a purpose to appeal an existing commercial
audience. The popularity of this book makes it
worth adapting to screen. Other reasons are like enhancing the life of the author so
that audience can analyze the reasons why such characters are picked through
swimming deep into author‟s background life. It is then challenging to bring the
story to screen since the question of faithfulness is often raised. The faithfulness
between novel and the screen becomes producing it worth deep interpretation.
Thus, some differences between enjoying it through its novel and film can be
experienced and analyzed to see which one is lacking and vice versa.
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