Research On The Marginal Narration Of Cao Baoping’s Films

In the gradually developing and growing Chinese film industry,Cao Baoping has been active with his unique film concept and artistic style.Although not many films have been successfully released at present,Cao Baoping’s films are still independent from the world with marginal narration,which is different from that of directors of the same generation.Besides,Cao Baoping integrates his thinking on human nature and concern for society into the production of mainstream commercial films,achieving both good reputation and market success.From the perspective of marginal,narration and description of marginal are the biggest characteristics of Cao Baoping’s films.As a famous academic film director,Cao Baoping holds his own ideas about the appreciation and ideological nature of the film,and pursues the expression of the continuous explosion of humanity in the narrative tension.In order to pursue the sense of reality of the film,Cao Baoping pays special attention to the audio-visual design of the characters in shaping the marginal images.While giving the audience a real viewing experience,he also creates more three-dimensional images.The extremely depressed narrative atmosphere also strengthens the plot tension in Cao Baoping’s films.In addition,in Cao Baoping’s film works,the narrative tension,the shaping of humanity and his unique narrative style are all achieved through the unique film language,which not only enhances the appreciation of the film,but also enables his works to walk on the road of mainstream commercialization.At the same time,the exploration of human nature gives Cao Baoping’s films a unique artistic pursuit and completes the control of the balance between commerciality and artistry.This paper is divided into five parts,including the introduction,three chapters and the conclusion.The specific content is as follows:The introduction gives an overview of Cao Baoping’s film production and awards,briefly introduces the research status and significance of Cao Baoping’s films,and defines the core concept of "the marginal group" in this paper.The first chapter mainly discusses the construction of Cao Baoping’s film theme.The marginal narration perspective of Cao Baoping’s films is firstly reflected in the choice of the marginal theme.Cao Baoping,who refused the label of underground film director,chose to integrate the theme of marginal with various types in the construction of the film theme,so as to distance himself from the literary films and underground films that the directors of his generation expressed their personal feelings.On this basis,in order to relieve the anxiety of life and get close to the center,the marginal groups wandering outside the main body take searching as a natural way of life,which has become the core of Cao Baoping’s film.In Cao Baoping’s film,the marginal groups are constantly searching in vain for justice,love and redemption,and their constant "searching" also separates them from the center,becoming the marginal that can only wander.The second chapter analyzes how Cao Baoping shapes the marginal image under the camera in the narrative pursuit of tension.In the framework of the theme of the marginal,different types of marginal images are the focus of Cao Baoping’s performance.The film production starting from the image building of the marginal also reflects Cao Baoping’s film concept.In terms of identity shaping of marginal images,male as the main body is the main gender characteristics of Cao Baoping’s film group image shaping.Male groups with gender tension and power sense are more in line with Cao Baoping’s pursuit of visual effects and narrative tension.The huge aura of the male characters eclipses the female characters who are also marginal and become simple back-up characters.On the whole,Cao Baoping’s visual design of marginal images and the use of dialects not only restore the real sense of life of the characters,but also better fit the identity design of the marginal characters in the film.The third chapter grasps Cao Baoping’s unique artistic pursuit through the marginal environment shown in his films and the humanity expressed in the marginal world.As the background of the film,the choice of marginal environment highlights Cao Baoping’s preference for marginal narrative perspective.As the stage where the marginal characters live,the towns and villages with rich cultural atmosphere complement each other and the marginal images in Cao Baoping’s shots,supporting the sense of reality in Cao Baoping’s films.Under the focus of the interpretation of the marginal image and the marginal world,the individual choice of the marginal people deeply trapped in the extreme environment exposes the real appearance of human nature.The speculation on the good and evil of human nature not only became the focus of discussion in Cao Baoping’s films,but also made Cao Baoping’s films complete the construction of artistic marginal narrative perspective in the commercial atmosphere.In the conclusion,this paper makes an overall grasp of the marginal narrative in Cao Baoping’s films,and systematically considers the construction of the marginal theme and narrative framework,the shaping of the marginal characters and the unique marginal narrative style in Cao Baoping’s films,hoping to have a new understanding of the characteristics of the marginal narrative in Cao Baoping’s films.This paper sorts out Cao Baoping’s five films,finds out their characteristics and deficiencies,and systematically discusses the marginal narrative of Cao Baoping’s films,hoping to generate some new understandings of the construction of the theme of "searching",the shaping of the marginal image and the artistic characteristics rich in personal thoughts.