The Study On The Science Fiction Stories Of Your Life’s Film Adaptation

Ted Chiang is one of the most famous Chinese sci-fi writers in the world,whose works have been highly sought after by many publishers and readers due to their high quality and low output.He often uses natural science as a metaphor in his novels,creating a sense of wonder and a unique non-linear narrative.These three characteristics make the Story of Your Life completely different from the previous science fiction.In 2016,the Story of Your Life was adapted into the film Arrival,which was released worldwide and nominated for several awards,including the Venice Golden Lion and the Academy Awards,and won best sound editing at the 89 th Annual Academy Awards.In this paper,the film text and the novel text as the main research object,combined with text close reading and narratology theory and film-related theoretical knowledge,analysis of the film adaptation of the novel in the process of problems,look for the root cause of these problems and the real motives behind them.First of all,focus on the adaptation process,the novel of the original narrative features of the changes,including the narrative features of the summary of the film,the narrative features of the distortion of the show and the negative impact of this destruction;Secondly,it compares and analyzes the differences in the plots in the process of adaptation,including the reduction,increase and modification of the plots in the novel,and then,based on the differences in the characterization in the adaptation of the novel,represented by the image of a soldier and the image of a scientist.The reason why there are great differences between film and novel in narrative features,plot and characterization is that the film need to transform the opposition of in novel so as to conform to the narrative program of Hollywood movies,play the role of propaganda hollywood-style ideology.Arrival’s adaptation of the Story of Your Life is intended to better convey hollywood-style worldviews to the weak in antagonistic relationships,it completely disobeys the author’s intention of creation and obliterates the creation characteristic of Ted Chiang’s science fiction.From the point of view of commercial value,the film isundoubtedly a great success.