A Study On The Adaptation Of “The Journey To The West”

The novel "Journey to the west" is very popular and loved by millions readers and attractive the attention of literary critics ever since its publication.People research on it has never stopped.With the film and TV-series boarded on the stage of history,The adaptation to the "Journey to the West" has emerged in an endless stream.From the first film “Monkey King Conquers the Leopard” about the "Journey to the west" which released in 1926 so far more than 90 years.Since the founding of PRC,the development of “journal to the west” has been divided into three stages,"Seventeen years" period,1980 s and after 1990 s.Each stage has its own different characteristics.But since the 1990 s,with the entertainment elements are introduced into the movies,and the film "a Chinese Odyssey" suddenly appeared,more and more films and TV series of "journey to the west" were adapted and starting to put to use this new concept.And let people see the different versions of the novel.But these new adaptation ideas involved in too much entertainment elements.This kind of adaptation has led to the academic thinking,over-entertainment phenomenon of film adaptation has become a problem cannot be ignored.From the content of the novel,although “Journey to the West” also has the characteristics of entertainment.But too much entertainment elements of the accumulation,exaggeration,the other elements of modern urban romance passed on to the novel in order to achieve the effect of entertainment and confuse right and wrong,black and white and tamper with the original cultural connotation,the art has already become entertainment.A variety of factors lead to such a situation.One is currently in the context of economic dominated market,followed by the impact of Western postmodernism.If we want to curb the phenomenon of excessive entertainment,we need to recognize the present situation.Giving the films and TV series which based on “journey to the west” correct guidance at the level of value.Meanwhile increasing the barriers to entry threshold of staff,and innovating in a reasonable framework.