With its bravura mix of historical events and inventive flights of fancy, the 650-page novel has long been seen as unfilmable.
历史事件与非现实幻想的精妙结合，使这本650页的小说长久以来被认为不具改编成电影的可能。
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Owing to the unfilmable nature of the novelistic text, the two versions have failed in presenting some of the literary themes of the original novel.
由于小说文本存在着不可拍摄性，两种版本的电影都不可能完全传达小说的文学主题。
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The book's celebrated double ending meant that for a long time it was considered unfilmable, until Harold Pinter's screenplay of 1981 proved this to be magnificently untrue.