This paper examines the cinematization of a literary text. Cinematization inevitably entails a process of adapting the original text to the cinematic grammars and in that process, the original text is transformed, shortened, eliminated, stressed or distorted. By analyzing Norman Maclean’s novella A River Runs through It and its cinematized work together, this paper explores the aspects of transformation between those different texts and the alternative experiments of cinematic imagination for the novel text. As a movie usually has limits to the time, the numbers of characters, narrative, and etc, the filmed < A River Runs through It > also shows changes in narrative and characters. Nevertheless, it tries to follow the original as authentically as possible, imagining some ways to interpret the literary text into cinematic one by using still pictures, film clips and voice-over technique. This kind of interpretations of cinema could make the literary text richer and more meaningful and, of course, vice versa.