Accidental Meet And Inevitable Agreement

Gu Hua’s novel Hibiscus Town has received extensive attention and it has been awarded for many times since its publishment. After Xie Jin made it into a film, the novel created greater glories. Since ancient times,"love" has been reflected in many works. As time goes on, the public give more definitions to it. That love between men and women, love for the country and love among friends are clearly expressed in Hibiscus Town. Therefore, the comparative study of love narration between the novel and the film in Hibiscus Town becomes a outpoint and feature in this thesis.In those years, many people were persecuted. The contradiction between revolutions and love affairs, state politics and affections, the smaller self and the larger self, the majority and the minority was a complicated existence at that time. Both in the novel and in the film, we can find this kind of expression. However, novels and films are different kinds of media, love narration becomes the common point between the novel and the film. Gu Hua and Xie Jin, they both expressed living predicament in the age of revolution and told us their attitudes towards the occupation of private space through different media. Xie Jin preferred to express his political fable by immediate love or emotion, while Gu Hua expressed the political changes of the small southern towns in a more direct way. They both put the theme, the ethical dilemma and the complex of humanity in the Great Cultural Revolution into the dimension of the history. At the same time, they both believed that only families, women and children can bring an end to the sufferings.In Hibiscus Town, the author shows us the love characters, the love space, the love viewpoint and the love symbols. The specific expression in the film and the abstract description in the novel are in vivid comparison and complementation in this thesis. It extends the narrative content of the text in the novel as well as promote the depth and breadth of the narration in the film. The editor did some desalination and innovation during the adaption process, which reflects the unique intertextuality between the novel and the film and makes it possible for novels and films to learn from each other and be in co-prosperity.