A Comparative Study Of Zhang Yimou's Adapted Films And Novels

Zhang Yimou is an outstanding representative of China's "fifth-generation director",a well-known director at home and abroad,and one of the focuses of the domestic and foreign film industry.Zhang Yimou regards literature as the mother of movies,and novels are an important source of subject matter for his movies.He fully absorbed the nourishment of literature in order to nurture his own movie works.On the basis of drawing on literary works,he made new creations,created many excellent movie works,and wrote myths in the history of Chinese movies.So far,the research on Zhang Yimou and his films has achieved a lot of creative results,but there is still room for digging in the field of narrative.This article will start from the perspective of narrative,select eight adaptation films of Zhang Yimou,take novel narratology and film narratology as the theoretical basis,and through the text,carefully study these movies and their corresponding novels.The introduction introduces the research purpose and significance of the topic selection,the research status of the topic selection,and the basic ideas and main contents of this article.The text first compares the difference and commonality of novel narrative and movie narrative from the aspect of narrative media,and analyzes the history of Zhang Yimou's film adaptation,Zhang Yimou's concept of adaptation and the relationship between Zhang Yimou's film adaptation and the original novel,with a view to clarifying the context of the following research The basis of theory.Secondly,from the narrative content level,Zhang Yimou's adapted film narrative and the novel's narrative are compared from three aspects: narrative festival,narrative characters and narrative theme.Thirdly,starting from the level of narrative form,comparing the original film and novel from three aspects: narrator and narrative perspective,narrative time and structure,and audio-visual elements in the novel and film.Finally,the author ponders on Zhang Yimou's film adaptation,and discusses the reasons for Zhang Yimou's success in film adaptation as well as the shortcomings from the perspective of narrative.This article strives to rationally analyze and compare Zhang Yimou's film adaptations and original novels by combining case analysis and overall evaluation,thus summarizing the characteristics and deficiencies of Zhang Yimou's film adaptations,with a view to providing some guidance for current film adaptations And draw on.