The Study Of Zhang Ailing’s "Hong Kong Period" Film Scripts

From the "new era" period to now, those studies about Zhang Ailing emerge one after another and raises a "Zhang Ailing" upsurge. These kind of achievement are mostly focus on Zhang Ailing’s novel and prose, scholars are seldom pay close attention to her film script. With Zhang Ailing’s "Hong Kong period" film script creations first time compiled and published in domestic of China, we can finally see the whole picture of this ignored, repressed world. This ignored, repressed part shows vulgarize characteristic of hubbub, exaggerated, grotesque, joking, coincidence, happy ending, it filled with nonsense and laughter role character symbol and mannerism bridge plot, seems widely divergent with Zhang Ailing’s desolate, dreary, gaudiness creation style, it shows a brand new creation style. Based on above-mentioned, this thesis selected Zhang Ailing’s "Hong Kong period" film scripts as a research object, trying to investigate those questions below:1. explains ins and outs of those film scripts clearly, and linked with the social environment which create these film scripts to distinguish the problems these film script exists;2. Analysis film scripts in Hollywood "Screwball Comedy" showing what the characteristics they are;3. attempt to delve how is Zhang Ailing’s way to writing film script as an author, how is she try to make up for the stylistics difference between novel and film;4. attempt to analysis "The Twin City Imagination" of Shanghai and Hong Kong in her novel world how is it become aggravated to effect her film script creation and leads to her "Hong Kong period" film scripts are very different with her "Shanghai Period" film scripts;5. trying to find out that there are any Zhang Ailing’s element left in this obviously variation process.The chapter one of this thesis describe the general situation of Zhang Ailing’s nine "Hong Kong period" film script creations, explains ins and outs of those film scripts clearly, analysis and evaluated the conception and setting of these film scripts. We trying to presented an overall style of Zhang Ailing’s "Hong Kong period" film scripts creations. Chapter two expounded the aesthetic characteristics of Zhang Ailing’s "Hong Kong period" film scripts:1. enclosed method;2. pretty of publicize;3."Geometric point" of time view. Chapter three we placed Zhang Ailing’s film scripts in the coordinates of her film script creations, compare Zhang Ailing’s "Hong Kong period" film scripts and her "Shanghai period" film scripts, we can found that both the same characters and themes use on a completely different approach, her "Hong Kong period" film scripts uncharacteristically emerged a noisy, exaggerated, joking, coincidences, happy and popularized characteristics, its characters are also being functional and symbolic. Chapter four attempts to explain why Zhang Ailing so concerned about the living world "dirge" in her "Shanghai period" film scripts, and suddenly turned to the pursuit of laughter in her "Hong Kong period" film scripts?-Urban culture and language changes created her "Hong Kong period" film scripts.The innovation of this paper are:demonstrated the influence of cultural production mechanism of modernization and commercialization in Hong Kong on Zhang Ailing, her writing is not a private writing, it is a contract writing in commercial operation mechanism; Interpret the Hollywood’s "Screwball Comedy" has a significant impact on Zhang Ailing’s film script creations; We can find that the differences and similarities through compared Zhang Ailing’s "Hong Kong period" film script creations with her "Shanghai period" film script creations and her whole creations, and propose a view of "The Twin City Imagination" to explain this difference.