Research On The Symbolic Construction Of The Clown Image In DC Comics

In recent years,DC movies and marvel superhero movies have gradually attracted the attention of the audience.From Marvel movie "Avengers 4" won the first place in the world box office to "clown" won the best film in the 76 th Venice Film Festival,superhero movies have gradually separated from the ranks of popcorn movies and won the double harvest of art and commerce.As one of the most popular super villains in the history of superhero movies,clown naturally gets more attention.In the background of the development of superhero movies,from the funny clown played by John Joseph Nicholson to the crazy clown played by heath ledger to the marginal clown played by the Phoenix.Because of its pure evil and full of social philosophy,the clown has gained a lot of fans.At the same time,it has also completed the construction from the original flat paper image to the rich three-dimensional film and television image,leaving a deep symbolic impression on the audience.The introduction summarizes the research background and significance,summarizes the research status at home and abroad,and finally draws the conclusion of the feasibility study.The article is divided into five parts.Firstly,the first part introduces the prototype of the clown image,the development process of the clown image,and how the clown image gradually evolves from the circus clown and the court elite into the synonym of terror.Secondly,it introduces the comic image of the clown and the origin of the image.Thirdly,it explores the evolution from the clown comic image to the film image.Secondly,from the perspective of film audio-visual semiotics,this paper analyzes in detail how the director uses the film media to shape and construct the symbolic meaning of the clown image in the film.First,from the perspective of visual symbols,this paper makes an in-depth study of the clown’s behavior,props,modeling and character scene in the film.Secondly,it introduces the symbol presentation of the clown’s modeling and behavior,the fixed dressing and behavior of different clown images,and analyzes the clown’s principles and personality from the scene of the clown’s appearance and the props used by the clown.Then from the perspective of auditory symbols,from the movie soundtrack,the clown’s strange laughter and the clown’s appearance of the environment sound to study the construction of the clown image auditory symbols.Thirdly,from the perspective of psychoanalysis and linguistic symbols,this paper explores the construction of the plot and the relationship between the characters by sound linguistic symbols and literal linguistic symbols,and analyzes Arthur’s character and psychology before he becomes a clown,and his psychological state and spiritual world after he becomes a clown.Finally,from the perspective of semiotics,combined with the social background,American popular culture and sociology,this paper analyzes in detail the prototype of the clown image and the image evolution in various versions of comics,and combined with the film text,analyzes the layered construction of the symbolic meaning of the clown image and the polysemy of the symbolic meaning of the clown image,in order to achieve the systematic and comprehensive research on the clown image.