The Film Interpretation Of Zhang Ailing's Novels With Petty Bourgeoisie Feature

With the initial popularity of the female writer Zhang Ailing and her works since the beginning of the last century,which has attracted the attention of many readers and well-known scholars as well as got the favor of many directors and screenwriters.In the current circle of film and television,films that adapted from novels are quite common and of course it's not a exception for Zhang's.Since the beginning of 1980's,novels such as Qing Cheng Zhi Lian(also called Shanghai Love Story),The Rouge of the North,Red Rose and White Rose,Eighteen Springs etc.had been successively adapted into films which made some impact on the public.Among whichLust,Caution of year 2008 granted the highest achievement and won the best film The Golden Lion Award of the 64 th Italian Venice International Film Festival.As for films adapted from novels always triumph in endless comparison that whether they are faithful to the originals.In my humble opinion,it's just the topic talked about among the fans of the originals and it cannot reach to be the academic standard to measures whether a adopted film is excellent or not.The meaning of the text is infinite extension and there are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people's eyes.The implantable adaptation,or disruptive adaptation is just a certain understanding of director and screenwriter about the texts,on this basis,combining with the characteristics of the film itself,the demand of the market and reception psychology the audience etc.,to amplify,dispel or increase part of text contents and eventually form the work with personal style.In short,the image interpretation is a collectively recreated process that is the combination of writers,directors,photographers,dressers and electricians etc.In terms of visual perception which image brings to the spectators,each expression of characters in the movie and the color of his or her dresses all give the audiences completely different experience from pure text which forming a collection of special significance.Therefore,this article has no intention of discussing the relationship between the adapted works and the originals as well as whether they are faithful to the originals or not.The purpose of this article is taking Zhang Ailing's novels for example to discuss the process which adapted novels into films especially works like Zhang's,with some petite and popularity to adopt into films with popular art and from a closed and intimate reading space to the much-anticipated screen,what changes have taken place in the content itself.The passage is divided into six parts:The introduction part introduces and analyzes several adapted works with great influence,including Red Roses and White Roses,Eighteen Springs,Lust,Caution those three films and makes corresponding analysis about the huge influence of adaptation films to make certain finishing to the previous related research.The first part of body introduces the characteristics of Zhang's novels.The materials of Zhang's novels are all derived from stories of ordinary men and women and the content about romances,gratitude or resentment,but it reflects a sense of incisiveness and superiority,which is titled with a tag of petty bourgeois.The second part of body makes an analysis of characteristics of target group of novels and films.In terms of a generalized concept,both novels and films belong to public art,the significance of target group for both is without saying.However,as for novels and films,their audiences have different characteristics.In terms of adapted movies,even is a kind of relationship of including and included.The third part of body discusses the adaption process from novels to films,which is from films with strong style of "small endowment" to films faced to public even the films coming into the sight of foreign audience,which makes some adjustment to meet the requirements of target group of films.This part is main body of the paper.The fourth part makes a summary.Novels and films are two kind of different art forms and so are their audiences.The adapted films is a process of recreation to the original novels.Only regarding the original texts as the starting point but not the end and set no restriction to the texts thus creating better works.