Doctor Zhivago

In 1958, Soviet writer Boris Pasternak's novel Doctor Zhivago won the Nobel Prize for literature, but this award allowed the writer be severely condemned in the country. In 1965, the British director David ? Lean adapted the novel into a movie using the same name, which appeared on the Hollywood screen, and won a great success.Novels and movies are both the narrative arts, and film has continued drawing materials from novels since its inception.But Doctor Zhivago is a highly philosophical and time span of half a century of novel, expressing the idea about the personal life in the Russian Revolution.It is a difficult problem for the director and writer to successfully adapt this long novel into a three-hours film.The narrative content differences of the Doctor Zhivago's novel and film is plot, character and environment. The narrative strategy differences of the Doctor Zhivago's novel and film is the narrative time, narrator and narrative perspective. There are three reasons causes of the differences between the novel and film. Firstly, ideological differences, the former Soviet Union and the United States belong to the socialist and capitalist camps, which definitely has a certain impact on the film adaptation. Secondly, different perspectives of acception results the film Doctor Zhivago more focusing on the love story between Zhivago and Lara. Thirdly, the "sames" and "differences" of the novel and film make the Doctor Zhivago novel and film have two completely different works of art. In short, in the ideological and philosophical level, the film Doctor Zhivago is difficult to surpass the original, but the movie has a visual intuitive and public popularity, and the following audio-visual enjoyment of the audience, are the advantages that the novel can not be compared.