The Evolution Of Image Of Wu Song:from Literature To Film And Television Study

Shuihu story is the most compelling story of the four greatclassics in ancient China. WuSong, as a key figure in the Shuihu story,is quite popular both in the literary works and film works. JinShengtan said,"Among the one hundred and eighty people, Wu Song isthe greatest. Shi Qian and Sun Jiang are first-class, but be settleddown the test".The image of Wusong appears in the southern song dynastystory-telling scripts, and the book"Sun Jiang36people praise"described Wu Song like this "your best woman plug, the five precepts.Colour type, more to kill people." Then have the broadcasting DaSonginformation description of shuihu stories, and the book is called" thefirst sound of shuihu " by Lu Xun,having the name “traverler WuSong”.In the Yuan dynasty, has a large number of Shuihu play,concluding three kinds of wu song stories. The great heros legendshuihu is on the basis of folk artists’ shuihu stories, and in it there aredetailed descriptions about wu song.Due to the progress of The Times, new technologies are used tothe life. Also supported by the photoelectric technology, film andtelevision technologies are changing people’s life habits and way oflives. In the process of ancient literature and art and the emerging of movie and TV arts learning from each other, literary classics haveconstantly adapted to film and television works. Wu song story wasoften made, because it have the natural advantages, for example itsindependence, suitable for a single character writing and independenthero legend. Chivalrous peculiar to hero legend, the valiant ones,such as character, let the audience feel the pleasure of life. Wusong’scharacter is precisely matched to what these characteristics.Wusong tend to support the weak, the image of violence withviolence, these conform to the audience’s psychology. So, through thelateral migration type, the plot to add and subtract, imagereconstruction methods, such as represented by Wusong, shuihustories have been adapted for film and television works. Since1927,according to the collected data, a total of25films about Wusong.Due to the different priorities of different film and televisionworks differently to the image of wu song shaping method, the imageofWusong is gradually stereotyped into a kaleidoscope. According tothe changes of different period, the image of Wusong, film andtelevision image can be roughly divided into three stages, in the firststage, single image of Wusong, depicting simply; In the second stagethe image of Wusong becoming more "faithful", recreating the originaldescription, Wusong begin to have a brave image; Third stage, imageof Wusong gradually diversification, former Wusong is theembodiment of brave, after many changes of Wusong more modern,editor of filling the more humane spirit to the Wusong.With adapted works, commercial breath is more and more clear,good or bad adapted film and television works are intermingled. Howto evaluate the success of the adapted works or not, has become a new topic. Facing too much commercial film and television market,violence, sex in them. We must clearly recognize that part of theadaptation of the film and television works not only from the spirit ofthe original, after adaptation of bad influence on the original works.While good adaptation of the film and television works tend to be bothcontent and form, cultural and spirit.