宏浩翻譯有限公司

FROM PAGE TO SCREEN

"The choices real teenagers have to make at 16, 17 or 18, it feels like these are life-and-death decisions," Roth said. "I felt that at 16, this pressure to get it right the first time. People change majors, change colleges, change jobs. But when you're 16 or 17, you don't have that perspective."

Woodley, who made her name in smaller, dramatic films, had this feeling as she pondered whether to tackle her first blockbuster. "I had to decide if I wanted something this big in my life," Woodley said. "I'm grateful that I did because I have no regrets."

While many authors balk at allowing others to turn their novels into movies, it was never a problem for Roth. "I know from the second the book hits the shelf, it stops belonging to the person who wrote it. It starts belonging to everyone who reads it," she said. In fact, Roth wouldn't have been as happy with the film if it had been an exact representation of the book.

She spent more than 400 pages creating the world, characters and events. A movie with that much material would run for more than eight hours. Roth said she was confident director Burger would make the right decisions in turning her book into a film. "The challenge for me was fitting all this stuff into the movie because we loved the story. But the movie is different than the book. It has different needs," said Burger.

Roth was kept in the loop on all decisions regarding the movie. That meant she had to split her focus with writing the third book in the series, "Allegiant," while the casting was being done for "Divergent." "Writing is what I love to do. It's been wonderful to be a part of making this movie, but I'm just somebody who wants to write novels. We didn't test how much influence I had because they kept saying, 'Here's who we are considering for this role,' and I would just say, 'Sounds good,'" Roth said.

~宏浩翻譯引用~

資料來源：http://chinapost.com.tw/guidepost/topics/default.asp?id=4315&next=1&sub=5