Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, in Mar. 2014
The word adaptation It is a term that we use extensively in our language and that we also use it in various fields to refer to various issues.
In its broadest and most general use, adaptation refers to the accommodation or adjustment from one thing to another. The adaptation of the dress to my body is fantastic.
On the other hand, adaptation will also be discussed when an object or a mechanism undergoes some kind of transformation so that it performs different functions from those it had when it was built. Behind the disease Mom's we had to make an adaptation in Tomás's room so she can occupy it and she doesn't have to climb stairs like before.
Also in the ambit artistic, specially in theater and in the movie theater, the word adaptation is widely used since it is used to designate the transformation of one original work into another, of a Format to another, which in many cases will involve changing the language, part of your argument, among other issues, which makes it be considered as a different work due to these changes. Normally the cinema adapts many literary works to its format and likewise the theater does the same with literary works and films.
It should be noted that adaptation in this sense is not something simple but is a complex process because it involves transferring a story from one format to another with the differences that this implies and also when it is a work of great popular acceptance, which are the ones that are normally adapted, the public is usually more critical with the final result.
In the cinema, the adaptation work is widely recognized, it even has an award in the delivery of the Academy Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay, category that just rewards those scripts that have been adapted. The last delivery of the prizes of Holywood has awarded the author in this category John ridley for his adaptation of the Memories 12 Years a Slave , of the kidnapped African American Solomon Northup, for the tape 12 years of slavery, also winner of the award for best film.
For its part, Biological adaptation involves the process through which an animal accommodates itself in a environment new and the changes that it proposes.
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