Research On Li Bihua's Novels And Film Adaptations

The film adaptation of Li Bihua's novels was a typical case and phenomenon of the adaptation of popular literature.It influenced and enriched the golden age of Hong Kong films and represented the representative aspects of Hong Kong culture.After entering the new century,literary adaptation films have continued to develop.The development trend of new film markets such as IP heat and eyeball economy have given literary adaptation films a typical characteristic of diversification and spectacle.However,in the new context,Li Bihua's market-oriented novels have adapted to the film but gradually faded away from the continuous upsurge of literary adaptation of the film,being ignored by the current film market,presenting a slight trend.This study reviews the case of classic film adaptation of Li Bihua's novels,by analyzing Li Bihua's novels and the adaptations,sorting out the different directors' extended expression of the theme of literary.And then figure out the features of film adaptation in that period,and also make a comparison to other types of the same period as well,which has showed that the film adaptation of Li Bihua's novels has actually followed a certain pattern and formed an unique adaptation strategy.First of all,there is a prominent imagery narrative foundation of Li Bihua's novels.The split mirror narrative language,recurrent narrative structure,critical narrative content,and inward-focused narrative perspectives provide great possibilities for text transformation of film adaptation.And it also used the audience base of literary works to conduct a differential transformation to attract the audience.In the media conversion process of the text,different directors invariably expressed the core cultural themes of Li Bihua's novels in an extensible way and based on their own living environment and cultural cognition,interacting with the audience while seek for personalization,gaining cultural as well as emotional resonance and the recognition of the audience.In addition,the film adaptation of Li Bihua's novels also explores the film market through a typed creation way,which makes a difference from the same type of spectacle in the theme of crossing,historical,and horror.It follows the trend of the film market while emphasizing differences and forming a typical way.This adaptation process eventually formed a specific film adaptation model and was successful in the filming market.However,facing the current cultural context and film market environment,several key success factors in the adaptation of Li Bihua's novels have changed,which leaded to the breaking of the already-adapted adaptation model,and it was unable to adapt to the new literary adaptation film environment,especially the turning to the creation of short stories and prose,losing the imagery narrative basises.Also,the deepening of Li Bihua'snovels' creation deepened the extension of the director's thematic expression and weakened the plasticity.In addition,the IP-heating market,the “ post-emotional ” crisis and the“eyeball economy” threat also make the film adaptation of Li Bihua's novels face a more fierce and changeable market environment,which shows that we need to be alert to passive market pursuits and actively open up market space,re-exploring the possibility of film adaptation of Li Bihua's novels.