中国神话题材电影的原型批评

Archetypal Criticism of Chinese Mythological Films

神话既涉及各种学科,又涉及在历史长河中流传嬗变下来的不同的文艺载体,"幻想性""故事性""原始性"等都是神话的重要元素。与神话一样,电影也是一种言说方式,并且与神话共有"奇观""造梦"以及"历史性"的属性。在对中国神话题材电影进行原型批评之后,我们发现,将"神话"和"电影"相结合而产生的"神话电影",理应在遵循神话原型意指的同时,更充分发挥电影叙事功能方面的优势。

Mythology involves not only various disciplines,but also different literary and artistic carriers,such as"fantasy","story"and"primitive",which are all important elements of mythology.Like myth,film is a form of speech and shares with myth the attributes of"spectacle","dream-making"and"historicity".After archetypal criticism of Chinese mythological films,we find that"mythological films",which combine"mythological"and"cinematic",should not only follow the meaning of mythological archetypes,but alsogive full play to the advantages of film narrative function.