Between Commerce And Art

Eileen Chang is a playwright in addition to be a famous novelist. She began screenwriting works from 1947. After nearly twenty years, eleven of her screenplays have been preserved and documented. These screenplays clearly reflect the contradiction of her inner state between commercial and art in the film script creation.After the victory of the Anti Japanese War, Eileen Chang was acutely aware of unusual smell in the special period. She once stopped writing, but, under the pressure of life, she finally turned to the screenplay writing. The commercial characteristics of the movie pressed Eileen Chang to meet the requirements of mass psychology and create movies of popular taste.The literary temperament of Eileen Chang naturally leaded her to the art creation path. The commercial characteristics of this contradiction, tangled mentality in her screenplay have been reflected in her script writing: Eileen Chang’s screenplay depicts a group of "little crafty little bad" of the people, make the audience feel cordial;the films are full of funny twists and turns of plot, humorous language. Exaggerated antics formed the comedy style; in addition, happy endings also suit for popular psychology. On the other hand, the screenplays also reflect Eileen Chang’s pursuit of art: the movie scripts create many rich implication images; movie techniques of exploration and innovation are also in them; and desolate theme reminds us that Eileen Chang is still that original and natural Eileen Chang. Eileen Chang’s movie scrip writing though commercial appearance, but contains the essence of art. This is also the success of the main reasons of Eileen Chang’s screenplay.