Narrative Reaseach On Jiang Wen’s Movies

With box office being the appeal of movies, some facts like how Chinese movies break the bottleneck caused by the world’s movie commercialization, as well as how movies survive in the crack of commercials and ideology have been problems that Chinese directors are eagerly to solve. As one of the most influential directors in China, Jiang Wen gradually has new pursuits in his artistic creation. he insists on using anti-conventional narrative methods as rebelliousness of traditional conventional narrative, and realize outstrip and subversion on realistic standards with surrealist techniques, presenting tragic themes under comedy form, thus go out of the dilemma of current movies with the help of the individualized director’s narrative style in the movie Let Bullets fly.The paper is to introduce relevant theories of movie narrative structure and audio-video narrative, analyze movie texts of Jiang Wen, and finally get the surrealistic artistic pursuit in his movies. In part one, the paper is to analyze causal manipulation of the movie The Sun Also Rises, comparing with classical linear narrative in Jiang’s other three movies, and then get the featured of casual manipulation in Jiang’s movies. In part two, the paper is to discover thunderstorm scene design in Jiang’s movies, and to get strong personal characteristics on audio-visual style in Jiang’s movies. In part three, the paper is to introduce artistic theories of surrealism to compare with spirit realism in the movies, thus get Jiang’s movies’ tragic themes under comedy form.After analyzing the themes, the paper is to get surrealistic aesthetics in Jiang’s movies, as well as enlightenment to Chinese contemporary movies’ dilemma with Jiang’s perfect connection of art and commercials, using ’bullet’ sting the mystery of ’sun’. This is also the value of research on Jiang’s artistic characteristics in Chinese movie development.