A Study On The Suspense Narrative Of Denis Villeneuve’s Films

Mystery color has always been the suspenseful emotional style used in Denis Villeneuve’s films.The theme of searching for the truth accompanied by fascinating suspense narration is written by him with heavy colors,and Denis Villeneuve’s film art is endowed with unique personal aesthetic reference and artistic pursuit,creating screen classics in the complicated film world.Therefore,the topic of "A Study on Suspense narration in Denis Villeneuve’s films" has important research significance and value.This thesis takes Villeneuve’s ten feature films as the research object,and divides two distinct periods of Villeneuve’s film creation according to the director’s creative experience in geographical space,namely,the French film created in his hometown of Quebec,Canada and the expatriate film created in exotic Hollywood,and summarizes his ten feature film creation process.On the premise of film suspense theory and suspense narrative theory as the theoretical basis,in order to maintain the standard of academic research and the visual field of theoretical application,the concept of "film suspense" is defined and the research domain of this thesis is clarified.Focusing on the research focus,this thesis systematically expounds the artistic and creative features of Denis Villeneuve’s films from three aspects: narrative logic of suspense design,narrative technique of suspense and value evaluation of suspense narration,sorts out Denis Villeneuve’s narrative style of suspense in films,and points out the profound connotation of suspense narration.Aiming at the narrative logic of suspense in Denis Villeneuve’s films,this thesis focuses on the setting mechanism of suspense in narrative.As far as film narration is concerned,suspense itself is a kind of narrative technique,and the director also follows the internal logic of suspense technique when telling suspenseful stories,that is,the narrative logic of suspense in films.Therefore,the first chapter focuses on the common design and application of suspense itself in the film,and divides it into the generation,maintenance and disclosure of suspense,thus revealing that one of the characteristics of the director’s film creation is his preference for puzzle stories.Whether it is science fiction,drama or thriller,he can use these suspense techniques to serve the narrative.Any film has more or less suspense,but Denis Villeneuve’s film suspense has a strong and unique author’s temperament,which can add an artistic and romantic atmosphere in the cold and desperate suspense film keynote.If the first chapter focuses on the research Angle of "suspense technique" itself,then the second chapter focuses on the elaboration and summary of Denis Villeneuve’s narrative processing of film suspense information,which is summed up as the strange and cold distance technique,the suppressed and restrained white space technique and the dream-like technique of unreal and real.These suspense narration techniques become the author’s representation,style orientation and aesthetic purview of director’s film creation.Thanks to Denis Villeneuve’s excellent narrative art of suspense,his films extend from the narrative technique of suspense to the sombre poetic beauty and the sad beauty of human predicament,and achieve the effective integration of aesthetic value beauty of form and beauty of content.In terms of practical significance and enlightenment,Denis Villeneuve was able to stick to his own style under the circumstance of excessive consumption of attractive elements,and create high-quality commercial films with his own practice that put author first and audience first.However,it is also noted that the director’s suspense narrative deficiencies,one is the excessive delay of suspense resulting in slow narrative pace;Secondly,the unclear suspense spread makes part of the narrative plot weak and empty,and the content lacks of basic persuasion.Generally speaking,Denis Villeneuve,as the leader of the Mesozoic directors in Hollywood,gave other film practitioners and creators broad space for thinking by his attempts to integrate multiple genres and the stylized exploration of suspense narrative art.