From Novels To Movies: Zhang Yee Mou’s Film Adaptation Characteristics Theory

From China in1913the first feature length films appeared, up to now hasexperienced in120years, suffered many hardships and frustrations of the Chinese filmart in the hundred years of development process, the vast literature resources alwaysgoes hand in hand with it, and give it to enlighten and help, and vigorously promotedthe development of Chinese film art.In the literary works adapted into a movie director, especially prominent is ZhangYee Mou, Zhang Yee Mou has been a novel with the director. At present, the researchon Zhang Yee Mou film is mostly focused on Zhang Yee Mou’s film image morphology,Zhang Yee Mou and the artistic features of the fifth generation, Zhang Yee Mou film,narrative style and works of Zhang Yee Mou, comments, etc., which, though withoccasional articles deals with Zhang Yee Mou’s movie adaptation art, but often is notcomprehensive, not system, or only in Zhang Yee Mou’s early films. This paper tries toabandon the great and general comments, choose early film three movies, the late filmtwo, careful analysis.In this paper, based on the Zhang Yee Mou film adapted from the former works offiction and film adaptation after comparative analysis, this paper mainly discusses threelate early films and two films, the author thinks that the five films is the mostrepresentative meaning, Zhang Yee Mou to draw international attention to adaptation isthe most successful film red sorghum, having strong criticism of the feudal system offilm raise the red lantern ", and was banned after adaptation but remains in the minds ofmany of the classic film "alive", after the middle of the precipitation, zhang once againreturn to the "novel took the movie" the creation of the track, the creation of two latemovie "hawthorn tree and the jinling thirteen women. The author detailed analysis wascarried out on the above five films, detailed study combined with novel contentcompared with movie clips, narrative pattern of the transformation, the change of thecharacters and the plot of the story changes three parts systematically examine the earlyand late adapted from novels of Zhang Yee Mou film, concluded that in order to masterZhang Yee Mou’s films adapted from overall style, respect for original works or use,make a consideration of Chinese movies and Chinese literature value.The author thinks that adaptation of Zhang Yee Mou has formed his unique art, hischoice of novels reflected the consciousness of the cultural industry; From novel to film adaptation of the process, he on the theme of change often take all to make way for thetheme and main characters of the category; In narrative on the alignment with the mainline, rich comic patterns; In addition, he also took advantage of a large number of audioand visual modeling elements to increase the film adaptation of the sense of form.Articles that Zhang Yee Mou has been formed its unique adaptation art, but he still faceschallenges by limitation of depth.