现代电影的城市书写——从伍迪·艾伦电影看城市影像符号

Modern Film City Writing:from the Woody Alan Movie Watch City Image Symbosl

电影取材于生活,而作为现代生活主要方式的城市生活则成为电影的主要表现对象。电影所表现的生活总会涉及城市的部分,其中包括城市历史、城市风俗、城市文化等。电影中的城市形象,一是作为风景和单纯故事背景的影像;二是作为情感倾诉对象寄托的意象;三是作为现代生活寓言的象征。伍迪·艾伦作为电影表现城市文化和城市生活的典型代表性导演之一,他的四十多部电影中有一半以上都是在他出生和成长的纽约拍摄的。纽约既是伍迪.艾伦电影的主要背景,也是伍迪·艾伦的电影标志。在伍迪·艾伦的电影中,城市形象是相同的,而导演运用多种表现手法,不仅展示出城市这个单纯的电影影像所显现出来的不同意象和象征意味,而且达到表现城市、剖析社会的目的。

Movie is based on the life.The urban life as the main way of modern life has become the major object of movies.The life involved in a movie always comes to aspects of a city,including urban history,urban customs,and urban culture,etc.The city＇s image in the movie is triple,one as the scenery and the simple story background,second as the sustenance imagery of a confidant in the emotional talking,and third,as the symbol of a fable in the modern life.Woody Allen,a typical representative director using movie to perform urban culture and urban life,shot many films in New York where he was born and raised,more than half of all his movies.New York,as the major background of his movies,also became the logo of Woody Allen＇s movies.Though the image of the city is the same,Woody Allen,as a director,used a variety of performance practices to reveal different imageries and symbolic of the mere city,and achieve the purposes to perform the city and dissect the society.