An Analysis Of Chinese TV Series Remake

Chinese TV series remake has become popular since 2000. With more and more investors and producers interested in TV series remake, majority of the audience lanched a heated debate on TV series remake. Thiking about the audience debate, with the guide of the deconstruction theory and the audience's acceptance theory, this paper, through the comparative study between TV series remake and ordinary TV series production, intends to analyze the reasons and the main characteristics as well as the implement methods together with the effect of Chinese TV series remake. Based on the above understanding, this paper attempts to explore recommendations to improve Chinese TV series remake.In the course of analysis, this paper concludes that, there are four reasons to explain why producers like to remake TV series from the perspective of market, culture, and production conditions. These reasons include audience demands, reinterpreting the original text, inheriting the classical culture and both adapting and making use of the production conditions. Besides, there are four main characteristics making TV series remake different from ordinary TV series production by comparative studing. The four main characteristics include guaranteed profit, deconstructing content, the complementary strengths for different epochs and public discussion. Furthermore, there are four implement methods available for producers to remake TV series from the aspect of writing scripts, directing, performing and disseminating. The four implement methods include taking account of both deconstructing text and maintaining the traditional values in the process of a screenwriter's writing, giving consideration to both learning from experiences and exploring new style in the process of a director's directing, paying attention to both reshaping the characters and evoking the common emotions in the cource of an actor's performing, concerning both taking advantage of the original TV series and creating the expectation of the audience in the cource of a propagandist's disseminating. Moreover, this paper analyzes the effects of Chinese TV series remake from the aspect of quality, business and culture. Then, through explaining the new version of "dream of the red mansions", this paper sums up its advantages and disadvantages, hoping it woud make contribution for other Chinese producers of TV series remake.From what have studied above, the author comes to three conclusions:Firstly, inheriting and revising old story is a contradictory task that should be taken into account for TV series remake. Secondly, the TV series remake puts focus on the personality of the audio-visual effect, but, to cater to the audience's demand of "pastime cultural consumption", the new version TV series tends to grandstand, making the familiar audience resist accepting the new versions. Thirdly, TV series remake is provided with propaganda advantage based on the pulic discussion, but, pulic discussion can also intensify and expand the audience's aversion to the works of TV series remake. So, the author believes that, it is helpful for Chinese TV remake to achieve a better effect that by following these three principles:selecting story text with abundant interpretation, chasing trendy with conservative attitude and pursuing profit with culture care.