The Romance Of The Three Kingdoms In Film And Television Works

As history, Three Kingdoms has been far away, but the stories are still beautiful views in our modern life because of the development of films and televisions, going through long history. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, one of the China's four famous works, was the first novel including long chapters. It described the image of that war time vividly, and originated many lifelike figures, according to the principles which has seven of historical facts, and one third fiction. The improvement of the art of film and television broadens its space, just as a bird has powerful wings. But so far, none of the articles about its adaptation research is systematic. This article sorted out all film and television works about The Romance of Three Kingdoms orderly, and then analyzed their advantages and disadvantages, through listing the characters of each time. It will reveal the basic direction of adapting the stories of Three Kingdoms, and then analyze its deep reasons that make this phenomenon appeared.The stories of The Romance of Three Kingdoms originated from the war among Wei, Shu, and Wu. Later on, lots of people told them one by one, and in the end, it was arranged and created by Luo Guanzhong in Ming Dynasty. In fact, The Romance of Three Kingdoms which is from the novel to the film and television works, is not just the transform between two arts. It must be affected by the time environment, the ideas, and the directors, etc. Therefore, a very clear developing procedure appeared.From its first film adaptation to this day, the variation of The Romance of the Three Kingdoms has gone through three phases:First, the initial stage of The Romance of Three Kingdoms adaptation is on the basis of the theory "shadow play". In this stage, most of the films were created in the way of drama and opera, and they only cut out some phrases of the novel to put them on the screen. Second, the growing stage of The Romance of Three Kingdoms adaptation is the process of exploring the adaptation theories and practicing them. In this stage, the film and television art made great development, and many kinds of adaptation works appeared. But people have different views about whether obedience on the novel or not. Third, the mature stage of The Romance of Three Kingdoms adaptation is developing rapidly. The works in this stage is colorful in their main contents and manifestations. A lot of them broke through the manacle of adaptation in the past, and found their new angles. Most works like creation more. China's film and television art become more and more consummate. At the same time, most of the people view the film and television adaptation more multiply. Under the environment to globalization, the film and television of The Romance of Three Kingdoms shows these obvious characters as follows:the multidimensional interpretation of the works'connotation, the more improvement of the creational means, and the rudimentary attempt of global perspective.In summary, as the techniques of manufacturing films and TV drama programs going generally, the ways of adapting The Romance of Three Kingdoms was more and more. Meanwhile, with the techniques improving, the stories will be known to the people all over the world. The interaction of literature and film and television will be also appeared more clearly.