Essay On The Adaptation Art Of Zhang's Film

It's well-known that Zhang Yi Mou has been working on the job adapting novels for films. His art of adaptation in film plays the main part in his art of director. Nowadays, many researches mostly concentrated on the style of film picture in Zhang's film, Zhang Yi Mou and the Fifth Generation Directors, the characteristic of art in Zhang's film, the style of narration and comments on Zhang' works. Although, there are some articles talking about adaptation art of Zhang's film, they are not comprehensive and systematical, they only talked about Zhang's earlier works. So, this essay tries to analyze Zhang's all film works adapted novel for film from the point of view of film works he had. It wants to analyze the novel works before Zhang Yi Mou adapted it and the film after he adapted from the novel, According to the choice of adaptable novel, transformation of topic, change of narrative mode and addition of style of visual sense and sense of hearing, so that we can master the.adaptation style about Zhang's film on the whole.The choice of adaptable novel expresses Zhang's conscious sense of "culture goods". In the process of adapting novel for film, he usually uses the style by emphasizing on the common thing, not the special thing. He uses the style of narrative adaptation by using one line to say a story, adding dramatic color. What's more, he makes use of many units of hearing and watching to add the form sense of film. This article thinks Zhang Yi Mou has formed a complete and special adaptation art, however, he has to face the challenge from the limitation of the depth of his thoughts.