The Construction Of Author Consciousness In Johnnie To's Gang Film

Johnnie,as a talented and prolific Hong Kong director who has always devoted himself to the local type of film creation,has enjoyed a high reputation both in the domestic and in the world.The gangster films created by the "Galaxy image" film production company that was founded by Johnnie not only subvert the gangster film creation model since 80 s in Hong Kong in an unique image style,but also make it possible for him to win an honor of "author of the film" with a strong spirit of the experiment.For Johnnie To's gangster film,people usually only pay attention to the surface of the form features,few people explore how he constructs "author" consciousness from genre film creation on earth,in combination with Johnnie's complex life experience and creative environment,and also few people probe into the influence and significance of the "author" consciousness on contemporary Chinese-type Films.This paper explores the forming reasons of Johnnie To's gangster film,reveals the formation and persistence of the "author" consciousness of Johnnie To and its relevant value and significance through "spiritual meaning" of the gang film.This paper is divided into six parts.The first part is the introduction.First of all,it sorts out the general development situation of Hong Kong gang film from 1970 s till now.Secondly,it is the literature review on the Johnnie To gang film research.Finally,the paper clarifies the innovation,difficulties and research methods.In the second part,the author defines the related concepts involved in this paper.First of all,it defines the concept of "Hong Kong gangster film".Secondly,combining with Johnson's creative career,the author defines the author's identity.In the third part,the paper analyzes the relationship between Johnnie's personal experience and his film style comprehensively through Johnnie's childhood experience,creative career and the era of the environment.First of all,combining with Johnnie To's childhood experience,the paper analyzes the scene,characters,modeling in the film.Secondly,it summarizes his creative ideas combined with Johnnie's career.Thirdly,it overviews Johnnie To's gang film placed in different periods of Hong Kong society,culture background in a three-dimensional elaboration.In the fourth part,the paper interprets "author" values in the film from the perspective of postmodern aesthetics theory.Firstly,by analyzing the anti-traditional hero reshaping in Johnnie's gang film,it reveals the postmodern "deconstruction" characteristic of the gangster film.Secondly,it expounds the Johnnie To's Existentialism with a combination of dramatic and contingency in the narrative.Thirdly,it attaches great importance to the analysis of black humor elements in the film,and explains the critical and humanistic value of Johnnie's gangster film.Fourthly,it analyzes the postmodern image world constructed by Johnnie To with the realism film creation technique.The fifth part mainly analyzes the creative value of the local film in Hong Kong by analyzing the ecological changes of the film industry in Hong Kong,and reveals the significance of Johnnie To's experience in the Chinese film.The sixth part is the conclusion,combined with the author's own point of view of the research,the paper discusses and summarizes the results,and outlooks the development of Chinese film industry.Throughout the history of Hong Kong gangster film and the realistic context,Johnnie's own complex personal experience and creative background render him a possibility to form a unique "author" consciousness.At the same time,his gang film style has a wide range of reference and inspiration on contemporary Hong Kong local type film creation as well as and the entire Chinese Type film production.