电影结构新论

A New View on the Construction of Film

传统的电影理论把电影结构等同于情节的结构。实际上,电影结构是由不同的一些要素、方面、层次和形态构成的复杂系统,毫无疑问是一个动态的系统。由于结构系统的整体性、转换性和自身调整性,不管内部结构发生怎样的变化,它作为电影的基本特性却一直保持住了。在整体规定的有力约束之下,各个区别系统此消彼长、互相替代,对结构空间展开争夺,对结构“权力”重新分配。电影结构的符合常规是艺术在创作和接受之间早已订立的一个契约,但突破常规则更是艺术在创作和接受之间所进行的一次新的谈判。正是在电影结构不断的调整和更新中,电影的艺术生命才不断获得重生。

In traditional film theory, the construction of film is considered as identical as the construction of plot. But in fact, the construction of film is a complex system consisting of various factors, aspects, levels and forms, and without question, it is a dynamic system. Because the system of construction possesses the specialties such as wholeness, convertibility and self- adjustability, it can be kept as the basic characteristic of film all along, in spite of the change of interior compositions. With powerful restriction of holistic prescript, every distinguishing system eliminates and replaces each other, scrambling for the room of construction and redistributing the power of construction. The construction of film is conventionally a contract concluded by artistic creation and acceptance for a long time, yet breaking away from convention is a new negotiation carried on by artistic creation and acceptance. The artistic life of films has always attained renascence just in the incessant adjustment and renewal of the construction of film.