Cao Baoping's Film Recessive Narrative Research

Cao Baoping’s works mostly contain pluralistic character set,intense emotional conflict and brisk narrative rhythm,and under the limited time,making the story content in narrative space reasonably.Through reassociation and excavation of the object,the new theme and meaning will be digged out.Besides commercial market,Cao Baoping gives the film deep artistic fascination,sends out a strong“attitude and emotion”.The films made by Cao Baoping have been in the existing Theater business system,and also have a big difference from the type of commercial film,including very personal art,emotion and attitude.This paper is the study of Cao Baoping’s works’ covert narrative,including the film’s interpretation,the way how the director construct the covert narrative,and explore the story’s evolution under the covert narrative.Under the conflict and tension of the keynote,the director’s insight into human nature and thinking will be revealed.This is the outward expression of the character set,the emotional conflicts and various aspects of this society.It’s also the outward expression of the director’s own high-standard requirements for material selection,role,scene of the performance.Compared with the mass culture’s fast-food consumption,he does not discard the artistic charm of film,While creation,he uses variety of ways to increase the signality,valuable nature and mystery,one of these is the use of "covert narrative ".He uses the character set and emotional conflict to increase the "covert" meaning,and makes to a new level."covert narrative " has become an indispensable element of a film,especially in intuitive sensitive subject matter,this kind of " covert narrative " can reach a compromise effect,and fly his own colours in the wave of commercialization and popularization.The article contains five parts,the first one is the overview of Cao Baoping’s works and covert narrative,through that,get a whole grasp for his personal experience and the creation idea,and then combthe cognition of the covert narrative evolution,and summing up the characteristics of covert narrative.The second one will analyze the covert narration ’s presenting modalities of Cao Baoping’s representative works through the covert narrative theme,covert narrative structure and the characters.The third part is about the varieties aspects of society revealed by his works’ covert narrative,expressed as a director,his attention to social issues,social groups and thinking.The fourth part is some thinking and the moderate principle In the process of the pursuit of covert narrative.The fifth one is epilogue,it discusses the significance of Cao Baoping’s works’ covert narrative,and realize the balance between the filmmaking process for business and the art,also the social responsibility he takes by a positive recognition.As a director,Cao Baoping has high enthusiasm for film creation,at the same time,he is good at hiding his views and opinions for social and cultural phenomenon in the typical characters ande group types,with covert narration through the film to express his strong sense of responsibility to the society.Covert narrative is hidden under the dominant plot,the relationship with apparent narrative is a kind of supplementary or subversiveness.Meanwhile the covert narrative easily cause suspense,tension and mysterious atmosphere.Other than the plot of the movie theme related,covert narrative can also express some social problems to some extent.This paper will unscramble Cao’s works through the covert narrative theme,covert narrative structure,covert narrative characters and the thinking in the process of several aspects,in order to show people the covert narrative ‘s redeemingfeature during the process of movie,and based on the covert narrative,I will try to make a new explanation of Cao Baoping’s works.