Briefly explain why it’s easier to adapt a play into a movie, than a movie into a play, using the genres of action and sci-fi to illustrate your answer

What will be an ideal response?

Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. There are thousands of stage plays that have been adapted into movies, but relatively few movies that have made a graceful transition to the stage.
2. Sci-fi fantasy films and action movies are two genres with virtually zero potential for the stage. That’s not to say that the stage can’t produce its own magic, usually through cleverly conceived sets and evocative lighting.
3. But the stage is always a small space compared to the expansive possibilities of a movie. Science-fiction fantasy films like Jurassic World create a dramatic space that seems limitless, populated with totally realistic giant creatures of heart-pounding ferocity.
4. Similarly, the spectacular stunts and terrifying thrills of action films would be hard to produce on stage because live theater doesn’t have movable cameras, aerial shots, zoom lenses, turbo-charged editing, and thundering musical accompaniments.
5. An imaginative stage director might be able to create these kinds of scenes in stage terms, but the subject matter would have to be miniaturized, reshaped into symbolic form. The realism of these genres would be impossible to duplicate in the live theater.