A Study Of The Musical Style In Peter Chan’s Films

As a special music form combining vision and hearing,film music is one of the important parts of film art.In the early days,music did not have a high position in films,it was only a way to compensate for the audiovisual imbalance.With the passage of time,people find that music can not only promote the development of the movie plot,but also deepen the connotation of the movie and highlight some situations and connotations related to the movie plot.Generally speaking,music can survive without film,and films have also experienced the age of silent film,but for modern films,without music,the film would be fragmented.Therefore,music plays a crucial role in movies.Among many film directors,there is a director who is good at constructing the atmosphere of the film era with his music.He is Peter Chan,now known as the "ghost director".His films not only contain a certain humanistic spirit,but also maintain the pursuit of their own artistic personality.Peter Chan’s works subject coverage is very broad,with early to staple music as the theme of the story the twins,with golden melody of era "sweet honey",named for the film after transformation to singing and dancing for the kernel,perhaps love,also have ended in a bloody violence about "the warlords",there are legal game,which can reflect the social problems about human feelings and "dear" and so on.These films and TV programs are enough to prove that Peter Chan is an indispensable excellent director in China in recent years,and his creative use of music in films has also become an issue worth discussing.This paper takes the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997 as the time axis to analyze the changes in film music of Director Peter Chan before and after his transformation.In most of Chan’s film works,Jin peida participated in the design and post-production of film music as his film music supervisor.Therefore,this paper also focuses on the analysis of the relationship between Jin peida’s music supervisor status and Chan’s film music style.After the return of Hong Kong,due to the great changes in the cultural and political structure of Hong Kong,a large number of Directors from Hong Kong entered the mainland for film creation,among which there are manypopular film works.As a late comer,Peter Chan won the recognition of mainland moviegoers within a short time.This article will also Chan films and "north China" Hong Kong director of the film works,analyze its style characteristics,and combined with the connection between the film and music,on the basis of the theory of film and music theory study again the Peter Chan film music style,found him having a unique style of the film music.