【Abstract】
Since the film has been generated, it has a close relationship with literature, especially for the adaptation of the novel. In Hollywood, the concept of the film adaptation was researched as a type of genre movie. In recent years, it has become a strong team that novels have been adapted for screens in the film industry. Those films whether they could get a reputation or not, but once shown, they would attract numerous audience. And it's innumerable for movie fans that spending money and readers who are crazy about the original.
In the process of adaptation, two aspects can not be ignored. One hand is the play script, on the other hand is audio-visual language .Therefore, this article took the novel Twilight as an example to analyze the elements of the successful movie adaptation.
Keyword: Film adaptation; Twilight; Novel; Screenplay; Audio-visual language