On The Film Adaptation Of Wang Shuo

With the development of commodity economy and the emergence of new media, with sound effects of TV as the main mode of transmission of the arts to flourish, and plays an important role in everyday life.Today, the television media has become an independent、more developed mature art, face a huge population, only in terms of market share, the film definitely has a large living space and development advantages.To some extent, the audience can get huge information through television, even can lead the trend, affect people’s concept of value.A phenomenon can not be ignored:in today’s major hit TV drama or movie, most were adapted from the novel,Such as "Du Lala getting promoted"(adapted from Li Ke-tong novel "the workplace Du Lala promotion"),"Tangshan earthquake"(adapted from Yan Ge-ling novels "Aftershock"),"startling step by step"(adapted from Tong Huas network novel "startling step by step"), it is not difficult to find, all kinds of novels by film wings onto the screen.Since the birth of this art film, literature and film seemed a natural kind of relationship inseparable.The film as a new art, are all influenced by literature, sculpture, painting and other kinds of mature art in its growth process.Adaptation of the film and literature to achieve "marriage" an important intermediary,many outstanding literary works were adapted for film and television drama, and achieved good results, such as the literary classic "a dream of Red Mansions","Water Margin" and other adaptations.As one of the most representative writer in the late1980s and early1990s Wang Shuo still suffer from fame to controversy,it is not only related with the Wang Shuo itself, is also closely related to the social background of the time.At that time,reforming and opening makes people get great satisfaction in material terms,in literature and art has also put forward different requirements,and the rise of mass culture but also played a role in fueling the public sectors due to the impact of new ideas and trying to integration of political space separation. Wang Shuo is a kind of very smart, he was able to meet the requirements of readers, viewers, and identify the market, so that his work can be recognized. This paper focus on exploring the reason of Wang Shuo’s novel adapting was able to become a "phenomenon", and from the perspective of his works has been adapted to form "Wang Shuo film year", apply knowledge of semiotics、popular culture theory,be to grasp a whole film adaptation of Wang Shuo’s novel, hoping to providing a feasibility reference for the present film adaptation.The first chapter expounds from the Wang Shuo novel to film adaptation aspects, points out what is adapted, it actually appeared in those aspects. Wang Shuo’s novel is consistent with the features of that times, and social trends of the invasion, that his novels adaptation can generate, and achieved remarkable results. The first chapter relates to the identity change of relationship between language and picture of Wang Shuo to the film and television screenwriter and writer, director and audience from the readers, from the perspective of Wang Shuo fiction film adaptation of opportunity. Wang Shuo’s success is its own creation and development, at the same time, the changes of the whole society is adapted to provide a hotbed of his works, is the outcome of internal and external causes.The second chapter discusses concepts of mass culture, the concept of mass culture long-standing, in popular culture in the context of the discussion of Wang Shuo’s film adaptation is necessary, because at eighty and ninety years of the last century, with the development of reform and opening-up, the public mind get great liberation, reform and opening-up thoughts also swept through a large number of writers and television playwright, which also includes Wang Shuo. Of course, the development of the society whether it means the film can replace the novel? The answer is negative, in the context of mass culture, the novel and Movies should be symbiotic, and two mutually promote, rather than either this or that.The third chapter discusses Wang Shuo fiction film adaptation’s effection and expectation to the current film adaptation from Wang Shuo’s film adaptation can produce certain enlightenment significance to the current film adaption. This chapter first from the shortcomings of Wang Shuo’s film adaptation of the start, discusses the significance, adaptation should be faithful to the original, only after understanding the original, adaptation of the effect is the best, on the contrary, departure from the original adaptation is failure, sometimes even diametrically opposite however, we can not rigidly adhere to the original, the original framework defined in the conservative and complacent, but should carry out creative play and imagination, which based on respect for the original, but also to surpass the original existence. Finally, Wang Shuo’s film adaptation’s influence and expectation to the current numerous film adaptation phenomena, discusses the adaptation means from literature should have lost the market, lost it’s due attention. Literature and film are different areas of achievement, their made outstanding contributions in different field, but the two are not diametrically opposed, the two can be skillfully combined,only in this way, in order to achieve the greatest harmony, achieve coprosperity.Research on Phenomenon Since its produce on the popular attention, the moment, as more and more novels, especially the Internet novel was adapted into a film and television works, film and television adaptations of the works of Wang Shuo’s study even more attention, he was the film adaptation of the moment to provide a reference, the reference. Mentioned in the film adaptation, Wang Shuo is a writer must not be ignored, and even editing, director. With the development of society, the explosion of information, a single literary style may have been unable to meet the public’s needs, and the combination of both literature and film rich literary technique of expression, but also provide material for the film adaptation, while also for the public unlimited senses. Therefore, more and more writers began to get involved in film and television, to improve visibility, but also can provide the conditions for a mutual literature, film and television.