现代化进程裹挟下的英雄成长叙事——重读电视剧《士兵突击》

Hero-growth Narrative in the Process of Modernization:Re-interpret the Soldiers Sortie

在主导文化、大众文化与精英文化多元互渗的当代中国文化语境中诞生的《士兵突击》,呈现出国家意识形态传达、批判现实与迎合大众审美的多重面目,实现了中国军事题材电视剧的类型突破。从表层叙事来看,许三多的成长,是一则从讽刺类型人物成长为高模仿类型人物的英雄成长叙事。其成长背后,有着深厚的中国家族成人传统,将其与阿甘进行比较研究,能看出两者的成长模式背后中西文化精神的差异性。如若立足21世纪中国社会语境对该剧加以观照,许三多这一人物身上还凝结了创作者面对被现代化进程所裹挟的当下中国时,对传统文化与精神的一种由衷的怀想与思慕。

Born in a contemporary Chinese cultural context of diversified mutual permeation among dominant, mass and elite cultures, Soldiers Sortie realizes the breakthrough of the existing categories or genres of Chinese TV series of military subject matters by conveying state ideology, criticizing reality and catering the aesthetic taste of the masses. From the perspective of surface narration, the mature of Xu Sanduo, its leading character, is hero - growth narrative, in which Xu grows into a character of the high mimesis type from one of the ironic type. His growth is supported by the tradition of Chinese family adulthood from behind. Therefore a comparative study on Xu Sanduo and Forrest Gump will eventually reveal the difference between Chinese and Occidental cultural ethos. If this TV drama is to be contemplated in the 21st -century social context of China, what is condensed on Xu is the screenwriter＇s heartfelt nostalgia and admiration for traditional culture and ethos when faced with the present China in the process of modernization.