A Comparative Analysis of Five Adapted Films of Iranian Cinema and their Respective Literary Works

In this research, the literary adaptations and the adaptation techniques in the cinema of the eighties in Iran will be discussed and therefore, five cinematic films of the eighties (‘White Nights’, ‘Gav Khouni’, ‘I Saw Your Dad Last Night Aida’, ‘This is Winter’, ‘The Reward of Silence’) have been compared with the works of the fiction which the scripts of the mentioned films are based on, respectively. These works of fiction are: ‘White Nights’, ‘Gav Khouni’, ‘Nora's Dad’, ‘Voyage’, ‘I am Your Son's Murderer’. This research is aimed to study and analyze these fictional works with their adapted cinematic films in regard to the narrative axis of the work, the manner in which a cinematic film borrows from a fictional work, the manner in which the text markers of the story are turned into the movie pictorial signs and at the same time kept loyal to the origin of the work. Furthermore, the interpretative effort in converting subjectivity to objectivity and subject to object or Vice versa in the process of changing the script to the movie, has been analyzed in order to Indicate the extent to which the mentioned works were successful in adapting their designated novel or short story. Also this paper is aimed to answer a main question which is the defining the characteristics of a successful adaptation of a work of fiction into a movie and the features that should be chosen to make the adapted movie favored.