えいがか

映画化
making (book) into film
making screen version

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えいがか【映画化】

cinematization; film adaptation; 《英》 picturization.

～する cinematize; film 《a novel》; make a screen version [play] of 《a novel》; bring to the screen; 《英》 picturize.

●この話は映画化しやすい. This story can be easily adapted to [made into a] film.

・この小説を映画化するのは非常に難しいだろう. It will be very difficult to turn this novel into a motion picture.

・これは, ディケンズの『大いなる遺産』を, 時代設定を 20 世紀に置き換えて映画化した作品だ. This film brings to the screen Dickens's Great Expectations retold in a twentieth-century setting.

●彼女は書けば映画化の話が来る人気作家だ. She's a popular writer who receives inquiries about film adaptation every time she writes something.

映画化権 the right to make into a motion picture; filming rights.