The Adaptation Of Heroes Of The Marshes From Novel To FILM And Television Works

With the development of times, film and television arts has been the arts style which is new but flourishing. Film and television arts has close connection with literary works from its beginning. On the one hand, film and television arts need to draw material from the classic literary works to enhance their artistic content; On the other hand, the classic literary works also need film and television, the new arts tool. And only in this way will the traditional culture realize modernization.Being different from literary works, film and television works always have been linked to box office and audience rating. We can say that economic profit is the most important measure to judge the film and television works sucsessfull or not. For Heroes of the Marshes itself, it has the particularity which is suitable for being adapted to film and television works. It has relatively independent story plot, which is not only fit for films of a single hero figure, but also fit for television plays of all the heroes in the story. It also portray many diverse heroes, who are well known for their unique personality in Chinese people. Undoubtedly, a broad audience is an important booster which will bring the high box office and audience rating. In this sense, Heroes of the Marshes has big advantage to be adapted to film and television works. It is true that about every film and television works,which is about Heroes of the Marshes, will be popular. It is difficult for other types of film and television works to attain so much anticipation and controversy. Because of that, many directors would like to choose the subject of Heroes of the Marshes.The accomplishments are very remarkable on the story adaptation about Heroes of the Marshes from the silent film era to the contemporary television times. With the development of times, people become like diverse appreciation gradually, so the adaptation on Heroes of the Marshes from novel to film and television works also goes in diverse ways. For example, the transplant type adaptation, which is faithful to the original novel; the derived type adaptation, which selects some material from the original novel and the made-up type adaptation, which is far away from the original novel. And all these different types shine in their special way.There have been many arguments on whether the adaptation from literary works to film and television works should be and how to be faithful to the original literary works since the beginning of the adaptation. We can not demand that film and television works should copy the original literary works blindly, which is quite definite.First, they are two entirely different types of arts, so it is impossible for us to make film and television works completely consistent with the original literary works.Second, the understanding of the same literary works is much different for each adapter. With the development of times, both the adapters and the audience have their own aesthetic habits,so we can not form a unified criteria for all to observe.Moreover, with the development of society, there must be some ideas which is behind times for the literary works itself, a contemporary adapter,who is in face of the contemporary audience, should have to remove the negative factors and carry forward the advanced concepts.Therefore, we should have an open mind to accept different ways of adaptation from literary works to film and television works, but we should also guard against the certain tendency which make the literary classics works vulgar.The adaptation is not simply a copy of the original literary works, but it contains the creation of adapters, therefore, influenced by the mainstream values of times, the film and television works adapted from Heroes of the Marshes have distinctive characteristic in each times. With the development of market economy, people in general run after the commercial interests. For the film and television works, the impact is that the classic literary works become consumer goods, in order to attract the audience to increase revenue, the adapters have take the aesthetic traditional and historical significance away from the classic literary works. The directors put the aestheticization of violence in excess on film and television, where human desire is raised to a very important position, and where they use high-tech means to meet people's sensory stimulation. In view of these new phenomena, we must give them adequate attention. while affirming its positive meanings, we must also pay attention to guard against the negative effects.