From Stage To Film And Television

"Butterfly Lovers" is one of the most classical plays of Shaoxing Opera,and also one of the earliest film and television plays in the history of Shaoxing Opera.In order to investigate the law of film and television transformation of traditional opera,the transformation from stage to film of Shaoxing Opera "Butterfly Lovers" is undoubtedly a typical sample.From the film "The Elite of Shaoxing Opera" in 1949 to the film "Butterfly Lovers" in 2010,eight films and TV dramas on the subject of "Butterfly Lovers" are based on stage versions such as "History of Butterfly Lovers' mourning" and 1951 "Butterfly Lovers".To the traditional old drama text level innovation adaptation,in the plot setting up the folk discourse purification and the loss parallel,the love theme continuation and the dispersal simultaneously exalts;In terms of ideology and purport,the national will is strongly involved,the human nature perspective is initially displayed,and there is a gap between political vocabulary and drama narration.In the process of the fusion of drama and film,"Butterfly Lovers" film and TV drama tries to reconcile the documentary aesthetics of film and television art with the virtual aesthetics of opera art,and through lens editing,program performance,singing and reading white words and other aspects of the changes.To adapt and transform the aesthetic tonal of traditional opera with the creative paradigm of modern film and television shooting.However,in the process of practice,some works blindly pay attention to the law of film and television art creation and ignore thetraditional opera art concept,which ultimately leads to its inability to achieve the balance and unity between drama and film.