When adapting a literary work into a film, the director takes into consideration what that specific literary work conveys in terms of motif and attempts to portray that aesthetic value on screen. Bright Star by Jane Campion is an adaptation of John Keats's letters and poems to Fanny Brawne. His film is a faithful adaptation in which it captures the emotional aspects of these literary pieces and physically displays them on screen in a way that represents the subtext of the literature on which it is based. The difficulties in adapting these letters and poems arise from the one-sided perspective which reveals only a few insights into how John Keats felt. Campion's point of view on the tragic love story does not play from Keats' point of view, where he had accounts in his thoughts, instead, Campion decides to tell the story of Bright Star from Fanny Brawne's point of view allowing her to manipulate the story by creatively filling in the blanks. To do this, Campion uses the letters and poems of John Keats as a backdrop on which to base his screenplay, as well as using the many resources available on Keats's story in a way that may not be true in an absolute sense but in a way faithful to the story of these two lovers. Making a film based on letters and poems is the most interesting aspect of the process of making Bright Star. Campion was faced with the challenge of not only finding ways to incorporate letters and poems into the film, but also creating the scenes that inspired Keats to write these pieces. The situation of uncertainty surrounding the accurate telling of the story was not a factor when Campion wrote the screenplay as he borrowed Keats's idea of ​​"negative capability" in which Keats stated that...... middle of paper .... ..left by John Keats, Campion manages to tell the story of a brief moment in Fanny Brawne's life while remaining faithful to Keats's writings.Works CitedBright Star. Dir. Jane Campione. Perf. Abbie Cornish, Ben Whishaw, Paul Schneider. Sony Pictures, 2009. DVD.Keats, John. Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems from John Keats to Fanny Brawne. New York: Penguin Books, 2009. Print.Keats, John. "To George and Thomas Keats." The Norton Anthology of English Literature eighth edition. Ed. Alfred David, et al. New York: Norton & Company, 2006. 942-943. Press.Movement, Andrew. Keats: a biography. University of Chicago Press ed. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 1999. Print.Tobias, Scott. "Jane Campion | Film | Interview | The AV Club." The AV Club. Np, 22 September 2009. Web. 28 February. 2011. .