Narrative Research On Xu Jinglei’s Film

Once upon a time, Xu jinglei is as well known as Zhang Ziyi, Zhao Wei, ZhouXun as a famous actress. Today, mentioned of her, more people will call her “DirectorXu Jinglei”. Literary and art circles in China, a successful transition from outstandingactress to excellent female director is unusual.As a excellent female directo evenscarcer, while Xu Jinglei is one.of them.She as a Cutting-edge “The sixth generation ofdirector”,who had been made five moives in which she was both the actor and thedirector.These works falls into earlier stage<My Father and I><A Letter from anUnknown Woman>and<Dreams May Come>;Later stage<Go LaLa Go!><DearEnemy>. Of course, whether it is from the view physiological age or artistic life, XuJinglei’s Film Art also have great development space and style evolution.Xu Jinglei is a director of a creative personality and strong performance, especiallyin the area of film narrative a distinctive artistic features. Including narrative motif,narrative feature, narrative style of the pre-and post restructuring, all have left a certainspace. This paper tries through a close reading of the film, its film narrative system, anoverall evaluation and summary of Xu Jinglei’s film works.Xu Jinglei five films have a common theme, is concerned about the growth ofwomen. However, in the not long process of artistic creation, few works, Xu Jinglei’smovie style exist an obviously shift from traditional narrative art films into commercialfashion films, this trend of the times the art of transformation, her films got abox-office hit.This article Introduction shows the significance of the topic, and Xu Jinglei ‘s filmworld factbook. From a young actress to an Independent producer, which is extremelyrare in China. Xu Jinglei’s film, with "Xu Jinglei" distinctive personal traits. Especiallyher movies’ narrative motif about the growth of women.The first chapter analyzes the narrative motif in Xu Jinglei’s films. Although thestories take place in different eras and between the different characters, but in themovie she wanted to express a common concern, that is standing on the women’sperspective about the growth of women. Xu Jinglei’s five movies, like a woman growth system, return from the fatherly affection to the love moths to the self lookingafter the self-affirmation, the gradual awakening of feminist consciousness.Chapter Two from the perspective of narrative perspective, color, composition,music on her film’s narrative features. Xu Jinglei’s movie pre-and post-significantlydifferent narrative style and narrative rhythm changes, she embodies the concept of thefilm on the art of the film properties and commercial properties coexist, with a deeperand more practical understanding. With a pre-like petty female soul monologue movies,late to adapt to market commercial movie overall transformation process.The third chapter analyzes the transformation of Xu Jinglei’s film narrative style-from the “author movie” to the “workplace movie”. Xu Jinglei go and did not seem toeffortlessly conversion in the path of this art, and successfully entered "BillionDirecters’ Club”. Lead to the Xu Jinglei’s film art style specially the narrative styletransformation, on the one hand, is the widespread influence of the post-modernconsumer culture in promoting the film industry, market-oriented; On the other hand,Xu Jinglei’s movie concept art values change. Insiders after the transformation of hermovie The Cultural Meaning of superficial trend, as well as too much productplacement phenomenon is quite critical, but this shift is nonetheless Hollywood’smodel in the Chinese market, a successful test.