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A Study On Cao Baoping's Movies

Posted on:2019-10-18Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J J ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2405330545488786Subject:Theater, film and television
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As a teacher,director,screenwriter,and writer of the Beijing Film Academy for more than 20 years since 1990,Cao Baoping has written a total of 15 screenplays,19 film and TV dramas,and 16 screenwriters since 1990.As a film producer,11 of his works are significant in terms of quantity,quality and influence.These works are not only significant in quantity and quality,but also have won a good reputation in the film industry and audience.Cao Baoping is one of the most famous directors in our country at present.Each of his works condenses the director's deep thinking on life and his concern and sympathy for the fate of the underclass characters.Innovation and exploration of artistic techniques.Through vivid depictions of cruel stories,directors rely on their distinctive and unique image style and sharp creative perspective.The deep humanistic concern stands out among all the directors.It is also because of Cao Baoping's consistent black humor,distinctive and unique image style and more mature artistic temperament.This thesis attempts to make Cao Baoping's personal growth experience and creative process of his works as the theme of Cao Pao Ping's films through combing Cao Baoping's personal growth experience and the creative process of his works,so that he can become a director of great research value among the young and middle-aged directors in our country.The narrative technique and image style are the starting point to dig into the unique aesthetic value and cultural connotation of Cao Baoping's film works,and then to make up for the gaps in the overall study of Cao Baoping's films in domestic film circles.This article is divided into five parts,the full text includes the introduction and four chapters,the specific content is as follows:The introduction mainly explains the background of the topic,the reasons of the topic and the current domestic and foreign research situation.The first chapter mainly discusses that in Cao Baoping's film,the expression of the film theme shows a variety of characteristics.In Cao Baoping's film works,the film theme has the absurd expression of politics.There is the cruelty of love and theexclamation of losing oneself in love,and the discussion of the entanglement of good and evil in human nature.Watching and caring for the fate of the underclass people in today's society shows the director's concern for the present society and his sympathy and gaze at the underclass characters.The second chapter,based on the aesthetic value,explains the unique narrative art in Cao Baoping's films.Through his own exploration practice,he tries to make a breakthrough in the narrative techniques of Chinese traditional films.He clings to the choice of serious realistic themes and shows his concern and sympathy for the fate of the underclass characters.Good at using strange reverse narrative plot to enhance the dramatic effect of the film;used to use trivial stories,confused time and space,complex character relationship,Cao Baoping's film works pursue strong narrative aesthetics and insist on leading the audience to return to the technical content and artistic quality of the film,which affects the aesthetic form of the Chinese film audience.The third chapter mainly analyzes the image style of Cao Baoping's films.In several films directed by Cao Baoping,the director adopts bold and novel visual elements and original auditory elements.Cao Baoping is good at using bold and novel mirror language style,using both narrative subtitles and pursuing the documentary style of the camera at the same time.Using more rhythmic motion lenses and realistic subjective lenses to express the contradictory heart and difficult situation of the characters in the film;in hearing,the voice in Cao Baoping's films shows originality.The preference for the use of dialects makes the film have a strong sense of substitution,and the careful design of the music also makes the film have its own unique rhythm.In the film editing,Cao Baoping's film matches the contradictory and violent plot through rapid and aggressive editing techniques.Make the film rise and shine.Conclusion,The author summarizes the artistic features presented in Cao Baoping's film works and fully affirms that Cao Baoping has always adhered to his own creative idea.In his artistic creation,Cao Baoping consciously takes on the responsibility of inheriting the classics of the academic school and maintains a highstandard in his creation.Actively exploring and discovering the skills of film in audio-visual presentation,not bewildered by money and capital,and keeping craftsmanship in the treatment of films at all times.Finally,the author analyzes the current situation of the film market in China.This paper puts forward some thoughts on the dilemma of film creation faced by young and middle-aged directors represented by Cao Baoping.
Keywords/Search Tags:Cao Baoping, Film Studies, Director's Theory
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