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A film adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude
Intent
We have reached an age, where most things are done through TV and
cinema. It is unfortunate many people do not read many books anymore.
People would rather sit for a few hours in a dark room eating popcorn
and watching a screen. In my opinion it is necessary for more books to
be adapted in films. Some people might argue whether a great book such
as Madame Bovary and The Great Gatsby can shine in the same light with
a film adaptation. With the film techniques available and the great
talent this is very possible. I am a strong believer that watching an
excellent movie on Pride and Prejudice or any other literary
masterpiece is equal to reading the book. For this reason I have taken
on the responsibility of adapting chapter 1 of One Hundred Years of
Solitude.
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a novel
about a family, the Buendias living in a town called Macondo. The
novel is postmodern. There are many instances where time jumps around.
Along with the postmodernism feel there is also an element of magical
realism. The magical realism is where characters can do things that
are not possible in real life. In example of this is Remedios’s
ability to fly in the air and go away. The elements of postmodern and
magical realism make One Hundred Years of Solitude a difficult novel
to adapt. For this particular paper I have chosen to adapt chapter 1.
Chapter 1 includes flashbacks, magical realism, and the encounters
with the gypsies. I have chosen chapter 1 because it includes the
elements the novel is based on. The title of my film on One Hundred
Years of Solitude is Opportunity. The main reason I have chosen this
title because it is rooted in the last sentence of the novel,
“…Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and
that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial
and forever more, because races condemned to one hundred year of
solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth (Gabriel Garcia
Marquez 448). In this quote, Marquez discusses how civilization with
cease to be if there continues to be the solitude that is outlined in
One Hundred Years of Solitude. Because the Buendia was the first
attempt at a ‘perfect’ world, I have called it Opportunity, since this
family was the first opportunity at the ‘utopia’.
By adapting chapter 1 of One Hundred Years of Solitude I hope to show
that a film can be just as or better than the novel it is based on.
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