When film adaptations of literary classics are lackluster it is often because they i)______ a certain ii) ______ to the cultural prestige of literature. The good ones, by contrast, succeed through the arrogant assumption that a great novel is not a iii) ______ artifact but rather a lump of interesting material to be shaped according to the filmmaker's will.
Blank (i) |
Blank (ii) |
Blank (iii) |
invite |
hostility |
sacred |
display |
obeisance |
malleable |
eschew |
indifference |
generic |
the official answer is attached... but i do think the word sacred fits better for the last blank, as 「a lump of interesting material to be shaped according to the filmmaker's will」this description sounds more like malleable and there's a 'not' before the last blank.
thanks for answer this question!