Collision and Immergence of Context and Content: Analysis of Adaptation on Slumdog Millionaire

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10.2991/icassee-19.2019.90How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Slumdog Millionaire; Q&A; adaptation; context; recreation

Abstract

Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 film directed by Danny Boyle and based upon a 2005 novel originally called Q&A written by Indian diplomat Vika Swarup. The film's success is beyond words globally, as can be seen from the increasing sales of the book and film tickets, as well as various institutional awards and box office performance. This thesis, through analysis of the creation and reception contexts and recreation of the film in respect of the book, tries to prove that the skillful merging of the typical cultural elements and those universal concerns with a global purpose in the onset constitute the secret of the film's worldwide success. The analysis of the creation context will include aspects of industrial information, such as book fame, film production, film marketing, the vital "adapters" and the overall cultural background of the period; for the reception context, parts are divided into influence on book sales, box office performance as well as audience review of both amateur and professional. The second part of the essay is mainly laid upon analysis of the film's translation by comparing the source novel and the film in various aspects, namely, general overview of novel and film as two sets of codes, chronology and location maneuver, visual and audio devices, characters and costumes, as well as cultural connotations. Taking a detailed scrutiny of the above aspects, either from the objective industrial background of the film context, or to the inspirational process of recreation into film, collision and fusion of the two great cultures can be spotted everywhere, forming the unique charm of Slumdog Millionaire of its own.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Ni Li
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