在“政治化”与“电影化”之间的艰难抉择——新世纪以来中国战争片的几个新变化

A Hard Choice between the Politicized and the Cinematic: New Changes of Chinese War Films in the New Century

新世纪以来,中国的战争片创作呈现出新的变化,体现在这样几个方面:宏大叙事的野心逐渐消退;戏剧式结构渐成潮流;个人英雄主义的情怀开始逐渐凸显;对爱情戏的处理更加坦然和从容,并视为情节发展的一部分,视为刻画人物的一种手段。但是,从当前中国战争片的现状来看,整体态势并不理想,仍然存在以下几个明显的缺陷:儿童题材战争片的幼稚化;情节线索缺乏凝练集中性,导致情节内部缺乏张力,情节主线不明;对人物的塑造仍然显得比较外在,未能真正深入人物内心深处去表现其心理机制和行为动力。因此,中国战争片的创作者要避免对“政治化”的机械追求,而应遵循电影编剧的基本规律,在主题表达、人物塑造和情节设置等方面追求“电影化”,让观众在一种艺术的情境中体验观影的愉悦,进而理解并接受其中的“政治表达”。

Several new changes has occurred in Chinese war films since the new century that are embodied in the following aspects:the fading ambition of grand narrative,the gradually trendy dramatic structure,the emerging personal heroism and a more calm and detached dealing with love scenes which are regraded a part of plot development and a means of characterization.However,the overall state is not ideal in view of the current situations of Chinese war films and there still exist several salient defects.For instance,there is a certain childishness in children-subjected war films;The lack of conciseness and concentration in plot clues leads to the lack of tension within the plot and ambiguous plotline;The characterization still seems relatively external that does not display characters’psychological mechanism and behavioral motivation,failing to probe into their inner world.Therefore,the producers of Chinese war films should avoid the mechanical pursuit of“politicization”and follow the basic rules of scriptwriter that are oriented for the“cinematic”pursuit in subject expression and characterization and thus they can let audience experience the pleasure of watching movies in an artistic ambience and figure out and accept the“political expression”within the movies.