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name: literature-to-cinema

description: Translate approved literary adaptation decisions into shootable expressions with source mappings and justified explicitness; no camera execution or media.

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# Literature to Cinema

Own CinemaTranslation in `contracts/creative_source.py`. Consume reviewed source analysis, philosophical constraints and adaptation/compression decisions. Realize each retained destination through observable choice, action, consequence, reaction, performance, gaze, blocking, timing, environment, spatial relation, object/motif, composition, sound/offscreen sound, silence, montage, transition or dialogue.

Begin from the retained literary tension and how the source makes a reader encounter

it, not only the facts that must appear. Distinguish what happens, what a participant

can know and what a later speaker is doing by telling it. A return, omission,

repetition or changed sequence can alter an earlier event. Compare film forms by

what a spectator can perceive, misread, revise or remain unable to settle. Visible

action can carry part of a thought without exhausting private knowledge, irony or

uncertainty; speech can itself be an event. Another person's continuing need or the

world's activity need not confirm the protagonist's account.

Retain the source-unit mappings, then examine the scene's accumulated relation:

which understanding or need is now harder to dismiss, and what the chosen form

cannot give. A complete list of expressive carriers is not proof that literary

force has survived. In an authorized exploratory study, develop materially different

organizations when the question warrants them; identify their source function,

spectator consequence, strongest rival reading and expressive cost. These are

options, not a menu of required styles. Do not make every idea an action, every

scene a delayed revelation or every ambiguity a puzzle. Let Scene and Director

turn the selected relation into their own concrete work; a persuasive explanation

has not succeeded if their design loses it. See [relational form research](references/relational-form.md).

Internal thought does not default to VOICE_OVER. Every expression records a nonverbal alternative and the choice/action/consequence it communicates. VOICE_OVER and EXPLICIT_EXPLANATION require a source/character/structure justification plus an explicit Director decision. Do not ban vocabulary; review dependence on explanation. The compiler supplies the shared theme preference order. Preserve productive ambiguity without excluding necessary philosophical speech or choosing its form in advance.

Record source-bound specialist review. Design screenable dramatic intention; cinematography, blocking, performance, sound and editorial departments retain their execution authority. Return novel inventions outside the contract to literary-adaptation.

Use [Creative Source boundary](../../docs/creative-source.md) for review hashes, routing, persistence and source-map consumers. `source.prepare_screenplay` validates the complete reviewed package; it does not author missing specialist outputs.

For missing retained context read `work.get_work`, `script.get_script`, or `context.build_context`.