The Aesthetic Transformation, From Martial Arts To The Martial Arts Film

With new century beginning, the ancient costume motion big piece pattern which "Hero" opened by Zhang Yimou becomes general model for Chinese-language movie to obtain influence and higher tickets sales. However during harvest enormous benefits, variety of questions also gradually come out, which initiate people's widespread debate and discussion. The influential movies in the past decade are most ancient costume movies, motion movies and knight-errant movies, and so on. The reason for this situation on the one hand is the wuxia complex rooted in Chinese. On the other it is because of the movie's manufacture pattern. The movie pushes market reorganization. The principle of"survival of fittest"of market and the instinct pursues of box office by movie maker, all make the knight-errant movies widely accepted, which have simple plots, stimulating motions and magnificent pictures.The first chapter specifically elaborates esthetic characteristic of the chivalric fiction novel and the knight-errant film and television, compares the differences and similarities of the two, which provides the theoretical support for the transformation of the two and provides the breakthrough point on the level of operation. The key point of novels is scenes, with characters at its core. The main features of characters lie in Kongfu. All of these contribute to story, which is the highlight of novels. However, the key point of film and television is pictures which are formed with light shows interweaving with motions. Pictures are static, while scenes are full of motions. But scenes are intuitive, contagious and striking. Therefore, the film and television do not only tell a story, but also express feelings.The second chapter explains the esthetic transformation of chivalrous story and knight-errant movies from the perspectives of image, linguistic environment, status, ideal condition, type, style, humane spirit and so on. From a play to a movie, characters become actors, narration becomes performance and the third persons become one selves. In this process, the ideal condition becomes reality, with diverse types and styles, full of changes and possibilities. Especially regarding plot processing, the adding, deleting and employing are not easy to handle. Both novels and movies tell stories, but with different ways. To be exact, novels often tell complete stories, while movies pay more attention to important plots. This is because of the different capacity of novels and movies. All of these are important questions to be solved during adaptation.The third chapter analyzes the principle and question during adaptation. Whatever methods to be employed, the principle of"the quality is coordinated"must be one of the important standards to comment the adaptation of knight-errant films.