Narrative Breakthrough In Cao Baoping’s Films

Based on genre blending,director Cao Baoping constructs a unique film narrative by setting dramatic coincidence,using regional dialects,original personalized music and choosing stylized shots and other artistic means to show the cruelty and indifference of social reality and the plight of people at the bottom.He is good at digging out the psychological state and emotional expression of characters,so as to show the complex human nature.It is of great practical significance and social value to bring the audience thinking beyond the film.Director Cao Baoping strives to find a balance between genre and author,which not only conforms to the requirements of the film market,but also reflects the sincere artistic pursuit.His creative practice provides new aesthetic guidance for the development of Chinese film.This paper analyzes and discusses five films directed by Cao Baoping,summarizes the narrative strategy and artistic expression of film creation,and expounds the profound ideological themes in the director’s film works.This article is divided into six parts,and the full text includes an introduction,a conclusion,and four chapters,as follows.The introductory section gives an account of the background of the selected topic,the significance of the research,the current status of the research on this selected topic,and the research methodology.The first chapter focuses on the mixed genres of director Cao Baoping’s film works.In Cao’s films,there are compassion for the tragic fate of characters,descriptions of absurd reality,and lamentations about the loss of love.Behind the diversity of genres,director Cao Baoping’s keen and restrained gaze and passion for reality show his concern for the fate of the little people at the bottom of society today,and his concern and sympathy for the people at the bottom.The second chapter examines the narrative themes of director Cao Baoping’s films,presenting his thoughts on reality and human nature in his cinematography from the dilemma of survival under urban-rural imbalance and the entanglement of good and evil under human ethics,respectively.The third chapter focuses on the aesthetics of Cao Baoping’s films,analyzing his unique narrative strategy,localized audiovisual language and documentary camera language,and experiencing the aesthetic meaning and cultural connotation that he conveys through the language of images.Chapter 4 takes director Cao Baoping’s film works as an example to explore how director Cao Baoping achieves a perfect combination of commerciality and artistry in his creation.Finally,in the concluding section,the narrative characteristics and creative concepts of director Cao Baoping’s film works are summarized,and it is expected that director Cao Baoping will continue to explore new expressions and narrative modes on his film path and contribute to the development of Chinese cinema.Director Cao Baoping has created a new mode of genre expression.Through his individualized narrative and artistic means of expression,he presents a deeper social and aesthetic dimension in his unique style of film works,balancing the relationship between commerce and art in his creative practice and opening a new direction for the benign development of the Chinese film market.