希望是人间至善,而美好的事物永不消逝——《肖申克的救赎》如何成为电影经典

Hope is the Best in the World yet Good Things Never Die——How The Shawshank Redemption Became a Cinematic Classic

好莱坞电影《肖申克的救赎》在IMDB(互联网电影数据库)的电影史250部佳片中,一直稳定地排在前三名的位置。在中国的豆瓣网上,《肖申克的救赎》高达9.7分,这是剧情电影很难超越的高分。但电影在诞生之初,其影响力并非如后来那样获得广泛的赞誉。这与艺术的趣味、审美潮流、读者反映以及文学文本与影视文本的交互影响都有关系。换言之,经典艺术文本的形成往往是诸多媒介促进和影响的结果。在此层面,《肖申克的救赎》可以作为一个具有现象级效应的、恰当的艺术个案。

The hollywood movie The Shawshank Redemption has consistently ranked in the top three of IMDB's 250 best films of all time.On China's Douban network,The Shawshank Redemption scored 9.7 points,a high score rarely surpassed by feature films.But at the beginning of the film,its influence was not as widely acclaimed as it would later be.This has something to do with the interest of art,aesthetic trend,reader's reaction and the interactive influence of literature text and film text.In other words,the formation of classical art text is often the result of the promotion and influence of many media.In this respect,The Shawshank Redemption can be regarded as an appropriate artistic case with phenomenal effect.