Lu Xun And Cinematic Arts

In his lifetime,Mr.Lu Xun not only created many excellent novels,proses,essays and other excellent works,translated many excellent foreign literary works and theoretical works but also made outstanding contributions to the study of the history of novels.Moreover,Lu Xun also forged a special relationship with art(prints),drama(Shaoxing drama),and movies.These arts externally demonstrated Lu Xun’s broad artistic interest,met the needs of his life development,and internally enriched his spiritual thoughts.At the same time,it consciously or unconsciously affected his literary creation,making his literary works,especially novels,have "cross-art " The style features and unique charm.Regarding movies,although Lu Xun said he was a film layman,according to Lu Xun’s diary,he watched nearly 200 movies in his life,translated foreign film theory works and wrote film reviews,forming a unique view of movies.From the perspective of the interactive relationship between literature and film,film has had an important impact on Lu Xun’s literary creation.Narration,aesthetics,etc.are the main aspects of the filming of his literary works.In addition,many works represented by "New Stories" rely on their appearance.The tendency to film is directly adapted into movies."Cross-art" study Lu Xun,more precisely,study the relationship between Lu Xun and film,from the perspective of artistic reference and adaptation is extremely appropriate.The thesis is divided into four chapters,as follows:The first chapter "Lu Xun and Film Art" analyzes the origin and connection between Lu Xun and the emerging art form of film from a macro perspective.The first section is based on the general background of the relationship between the writer’s work and the film,through comparing the differences in the artistic characteristics of literature and film,analyzing the interoperability of literature and film adaptation,and demonstrating the influence of film adaptation on the writer’s work,pointing to the relationship between Lu Xun and film is a typical epitome of the relationship between writers and movies.The second section "The Origin of Lu Xun’s Movie Watching" focuses on time factors such as the development of domestic films after the birth of the film,the prosperity of Western films and the influence of left-wing thoughts on films,and Lu Xun’s major activities in the economic,technological,and culturally advanced modern Shanghai in his later years.A space factor,and Lu Xun’s economic income in Beijing,Xiamen,Guangzhou and Shanghai during each period is sufficient to support his movie watching activities and analyze the important characteristics of the times and strong economic support of Lu Xun’s movie watching.The third section shows that Lu Xun’s emphasis on translation of Soviet and Japanese film theories,criticism of domestic films,and active promotion of the development of left-wing films shows that Lu Xun is no longer a "layman",but from both theoretical and practical levels.Deeply involved in film activities.The second chapter mainly analyzes "Lu Xun’s film view".Lu Xun adheres to the "usage doctrine",takes into account political stance,aesthetic interests and entertainment needs,travels by car,chooses high-end cinemas,and does not care about traveling back and forth.He has watched 151 movies in Shanghai.He has received a large number of movies,including history,adventure,and crime.Horror,war,western,love,music,science fiction,biography and other types are very complex,covering almost all categories of movies.At the same time,Lu Xun’s view of film criticism is unique and profound.With the help of films,he is based on the unique social and cultural dimensions of China in the 20th century.While looking back,he also shows his vision for the future,based on his own culture and paying attention to social transformation revealing a certain concern for China’s future and a certain care for weak and small nations outside the region too.Lu Xun’s film criticism is diverse and three-dimensional,based on reality but not limited to reality,paying attention to politics but never giving up art.In the interweaving and blending of his film criticism and other personal political,social,and cultural criticisms,it always runs through.The critical thread of Enlightenment became the inevitable presentation of Lu Xun’s political beliefs,social ideals and aesthetic thoughts.In addition,Lu Xun’s viewing of foreign films has undergone a process of translation and introduction.This process blends with the open mind of "usage",emphasizes the realistic meaning and critical value of movies,and distinguishes and criticizes mixed American films.Soviet films with a sense of rebellion,admiring the discerning and unique Japanese film theory,showed that Lu Xun himself took into account the aesthetic function of the film,while not neglecting his entertaining comprehensive,inclusive,and mutually contradictory and mesoscopic view of film translation.Chapter Three.The influence of film on Lu Xun’s literary career.The aim is to study the influence of film art on Lu Xun’s literary creation through the analysis of historical materials,close reading of texts,and counter-reading within the two-way interactive vision of literature and film.The external influence is manifested in the enlightenment of the literary road and the rich foundation of literary creation.The internal influence is manifested in two levels of cinematic narration and aesthetics.Lu Xun was the first writer who came into contact with visual culture in Chinese new literature and was also the first writer to try to incorporate cinematic imagination in his creation.The "slideshow" incident prompted Lu Xun to "abandon medicine and go to literature" to start a literary path,translate and learn Japanese(Iwasaki Chang)and Soviet(Lunacharsky)film theory works,and watch Hollywood landscape documentaries on theoretical methods and life experiences.The dimension has consolidated the foundation of Lu Xun’s literary creation.The film adds another flavor of Lu Xun’s literary creation in terms of structural form and aesthetic meaning.Lu Xun used film-like narrative methods for reference in his novel creation,using close-up shots,composition,"montage",sound-painting and other film techniques to play an active role in atmosphere creation,character creation,picture presentation and space expansion,enriching the literature The narrative is three-dimensional and multi-faceted from the aesthetic point of view,Lu Xun focuses on reading-creation,influence-criticism,or directly expresses his thoughts and understanding of social life through film,or uses film-like rhetoric to communicate with film-like language.The entry of the film ontology establishes and strengthens his own critical thinking and standpoint.The fourth chapter is the cinematic interpretation of the new Story.The first three chapters of this paper expatiate the relation between Lu Xun and film art from outside to inside.Based on the richness,complexity and controversy of New Stories,this chapter chooses New Stories as the object to make a cinematic interpretation,reviewing and demonstrating the above associations in the form of case studies,and establishing a paradigm for the integration of literature and film.It includes the inner connection between the creation of New Stories and Lu Xun’s film life,the film analysis of New Stories and the film adaptation of New Stories.At that time,Shanghai was the center of Chinese literature,publishing and film.The urban cultural context represented by film made it possible for the collaboration of New Stories and had a profound impact on its style and narrative mode.Deep inside the text,"new stories" in time and space arrangement,plot setting,characters,draw lessons from the film art,three aspects to construct a brand story movie time and space,implementation in the form of pictures and visual impact on narrative,promote the plot development,achieve the combination of visual and auditory,constitute a situation "magic" to reflect the character image.Finally,from the perspective of adaptation,the author extends and deepens the relationship between Lu Xun and the film to improve the integrity and logic of the research.Lu Xun did not object to the adaptation,the premise is that the adaptation must be faithful to the original and keep a certain distance from the original,that is,based on the original re-creation.The adaptabilities of The New Stories are confirmed by external associations or text analysis.The film adaptation has promoted the popularization and modernization of Lu Xun’s works in terms of dissemination and aesthetics.At the same time,it is limited by the thought and talent of the adaptors or the context of The Times,so the adaptation is not completely satisfactory.Ideally,the key to the film adaptation of Lu Xun’s works is to deeply understand the original author’s creative intention,follow the original style,and grasp the character characteristics of the characters.The difficulty is to reflect The Times without being bound by The Times.