Tale, Legend, Myth – In Literature and form Fiction to Screen

Abstract

Myths, legends, tales, fairy tales are the basis of many literary works. Cinema, the history of which, first of all, begins with the “revival” of literature, often follows this path too. In the case of picturizing, the basis is doubled and first acquires new sonority in the script and then – in the director’s concept or in the manuscript itself.

In what form and way do the writers share oral narratives and ideas, reality and folklore, and then, already based on them, how is the literary original source (intellectually or structurally) transformed into a text, how does a text transformation take place into a new artistic reality and how is it formed into a new form of the cinema?