颠覆与重塑:国产动画电影的神话英雄再造

Subversion and Reconstruction: Reshaping of Mythological Heroes in Domestic Animated Movies

神话是一个民族的共同记忆,是文化基因的重要组成部分。近年来,国产动画电影提取中国传统神话元素,创作出一系列优秀作品,其中《西游记之大圣归来》《哪吒之魔童降世》和《姜子牙》三部动画影片对神话英雄形象和身份进行颠覆性重塑,并使用了跨媒介叙事手段,将影片叙事主题置换为对英雄成长的展现和对公平正义的追求,体现了侠义精神、反叛精神和问道精神等民族精神特征,扩大了传统神话英雄的内涵,使其更加符合当代价值观和审美取向,能够在新时代焕发新生。

Myths represent memories of a nation and makes up important part of cultural gene. In recent years,domestic animated films have taken in many traditional Chinese mythological elements and with them created a series of excellent works, among which Monkey King: Hero Is Back, Nezha: Birth of the Demon Child, and Jiang Ziya reshaped mythical heroes′identities and images, and by Transmedia Storytelling method, changed the original themes into a demonstration of the growth of the heroes and pursuit of fairness and justice, which embodies chivalrous spirit, moral spirit, rebellious spirit etc., and enriches the connotation of traditional mythological heroes, and thus makes the films themselves more in line with contemporary values and aesthetic orientation, and revitalized in the new era.