原始意象的喜剧性改写与时代价值——周星驰喜剧电影“再生”母题的多维意义

Comic Rewriting of Original Imagery and Its Current Value——Multi-dimensional Meaning of the Motif of“Regeneration”in Stephen Chow’s Comedy Films

周星驰作为中国香港地区喜剧电影的标志性人物,由其主演和导演的影片常被作为后现代文化表征的典型文本。然而,全面考察就会发现,其作品具有较为传统的叙事内核。较具代表性的就是“再生”母题的反复出现,这已成为周氏特色的叙事模式。该母题是对传统文化原始意象的现代化改造,在周星驰影片中表现为呼唤人性复归、重塑自我梦想、闪现神性光辉等多重主题。它既具有一定的自我指涉与文化象征性,又从底层叙事角度满足受众心理期待,更是人类命运的原型写照。考察与论析该母题对于当下中华优秀传统文化的创造性转化和创新性发展具有一定的启示意义。

Stephen Chow is an iconic figure of comedy films in Hong Kong,China.The films starred and directed by Stephen are often used as typical texts of post-modern cultural representations.However,a comprehensive investigation will find that his works have a more traditional narrative core,the most important of which is the repeated appearance of the motif of“regeneration”,which has become a narrative mode with Chow’s characteristics.This motif is a modernization of the original imagery of traditional culture,and has multiple themes in Stephen Chow’s films,such as inspiring the return of human nature,reshaping the dream self,and flashing the brilliance of divinity.It has a certain self-referential and cultural symbolism in the cultural sense,and also meets the psychological expectations of the audience from the perspective of the narrative of the underclass,and the motif is,all the more,an archetype portrayal of human destiny.The investigation and analysis of this theme has certain enlightenment significance for the creative transformation and innovative development of China’s excellent traditional culture.