The Film Adaptation Of Literary Text And Analysis Of The Acceptance

Literature art has been influenced on film which is called the "seventh art". In the course of development of Chinese movies, literature provides a wealth of nutrients for the film, in turn, the film also has great impact on literature, the most typical example is the director Zhang Yimou's adaptation of the literary works which is written by Mo Yan and Su Tong and other writers and obtain the huge success. The original work's contribution cannot be left unrecognized, but at the same time, the success of the film also contributed to the spread of literature at home and abroad. However, the combination of literature and films is not easy, because of the factors of differences in media, audience, market demands,and so on, in addition of the differences of the director's individual style, the adaptation film based on literary works is not completely get win-win reputation and ticket office, the film is not always play a positive role of the original production.According to the acceptance level of literature and the acceptance level of adaptation film based on literary works, The combination of literature and films can be generally divided into three categories, one of which is from popular literature to the popular film,and the second is from the minority literature to a small minority of the film, the third is from the minority literature to the popularization of the film. Through the specific example of film, we do comparison of the above three categories in detail, analysis the acceptance level of three different types of literature, the adaptation ways of three different types of films, and the audiences status of three different types of films, so that we can find a suitable path to the combination of literature and film: The film adaptation based on the literary works should seek a balance in art, leading and commercial on the basis of Inheriting the spirit of the original literary works. And we hope the film can have a positive impact on literature in turn besides of seeking the success of the reputation and ticket office. On this basis, we further put related suggestions and expectations to the literary writers and the contemporary audience in order to make the literature art and film art can be better spread and accepted.