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In this essay, I discuss the characteristics of Hardy as ‘a cinematic novelist’ which can appeal both to audiences of films and readers of novels, by comparing some aspects of narrative techniques found both in Hardy's novels and their adaptations to screen. Hardy employes ‘verbal description as a film director uses the lens of his camera,’ which can be analysed in cinematic terms: long shot, close-up, wide angle, telephoto, zoom, visual perspective, and flashback. These cinematic equivalents for the narrative techniques in Hardy’s novels give a ‘Hardyesque’ feel to their adaptations to screen. In fact, many film directors such as Winterbottom, Polanski, Schlesinger, and Agland have picked up characteristic narrative techniques from Hardy's novels, such as their use of specified observers, restricted narrators, ellipses and omission. Thus, it is true that they have found not only stories as a raw matter but also their narrative techniques in the novels of Hardy. Hardy anticipated modes of film narration, which has been a gift for modern film directors.