The Study Of The Film Adaptation Of The Criminal Luyanshi

With the advent of the age of images,the film adaptation of literary works has become a major trend in the development of film and television in China.Because of the unique tendency of film and television,Yan Geling's works are favored among many directors.As Yan Geling's first full-length novel featuring with male protagonists,The criminal Lu Yanshi was still adapted by Zhang Yimou into the film Return in 2014 because of its unique film and television characteristics although it was declared "anti-film" by the author before publication.As the first return of Zhang Yimou after experiencing the tide of commercialization,the success of Return at the box office and word of mouth is inseparable from the advantages of easy adaptation of literary mother books and it is inseparable from the inheritance and innovation of the director's self-adaptation strategy on the one hand.Therefore,this paper takes Return as the entry point,and through the comparison of "Return" and The criminal Lu Yanshi,introduces,analyzes and summarizes the experience that has reference significance in the art of film and television adaptation of Return,so as to promote the better development of China's film and television adaptation.The main body of this paper is divided into four chapters: the introduction part mainly introduces the reasons for the selecting the theme,the research summary and the significance of choosing the theme of the film adaptation of the The criminal Lu Yanshi.The first chapter is the interpretation of The criminal Lu Yanshi.In the first section of this chapter,the male protagonist Lu Yanshi is the center.According to the sequence of his three "departures and returns",the plot is sorted out and the surrounding relationships are classified according to family and society.On this basis,the analysis of human nature,reflection on history,exploring the tragic fate of women and the plight of intellectuals and other themes in the novel are summarized and analyzed.The second section analyses the film and television characteristics of the novel according to its rich stories,tortuous plots,multiple themes,special themes and unique perspectives.The second chapter is The criminal Lu Yanshi and Return.This chapter compares novels and movies by means of comparative analysis.First of all,Return only intercepts two plots of the novel,and re-writes the structure and content of the two plots.Secondly,the novel deletes and increases the characters according to the changes of the plots,and sublimates the characters such as Lu yanshi and also changes the character identity of her daughter Dandan.Finally,by deconstructing the scars in the novel,Return takes history as the high-song love and calling back beautiful humanity as the background,thus realizing the tenderness treatment of the theme.The third chapter is the deep analysis of the adaptation strategy of The criminal Lu Yanshi.Novels and film belong to two different media.On the one hand,the director needs to delete and modify the plot according to the performance expression and audience scope of the film.On the other hand,the director also needs to deepen and extend the theme according to the times,the public and other factors through the innovation of narrative methods and artistic techniques.The fourth chapter: the reflection on the film adaptation of The criminal Lu Yanshi.This chapter reviews the history of the film adaptation of Yan Geling's novels and the film adaptation process of Zhang Yimou,analyses and summarizes the experience of film adaptation of The criminal Lu Yanshi from the two aspects of the selection of the literary mother book and the reinterpretation of "soul grasping".At the same time,according to the analysis of the experience of film adaptation of The criminal Lu Yanshi,this paper has a deep rethinking of the film adaptation of literary works.