To write a successful original screenplay is not an easy task. That's why there are so many adapted screenplays in the film industry and so as among those highly creditable ones. Years before, famous Chinese kung-fu star Jacky Chan once claimed that he was willing to spend a hundred thousand HK dollars to purchase a good original screenplay for his movie. This showed the insufficiency of good original screenplay in Hong Kong, a place renowned …showed first 75 words of 2431 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2431 total…Deborah Cartmell and Imelda Whelehan, ADAPTATIONS From text to screen, screen to text. London; New York: Routledge, 1999, 29-37. 3.Pat Kirkham and Sarah Warren, "Four Little Women: Three films and a novel". Deborah Cartmell and Imelda Whelehan, ADAPTATIONS From text to screen, screen to text. London; New York: Routledge, 1999, 81-97. 4.Derek Paget, "Speaking out: The transformation of Trainspotting". Deborah Cartmell and Imelda Whelehan, ADAPTATIONS From text to screen, screen to text. London; New York: Routledge, 1999, 128-140.