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动画电影:叙事与意识形态

  

  • 收稿日期:2010-06-16 出版日期:2010-09-15 发布日期:2010-09-15

Animated Films: Narrative and Ideology

  • Received:2010-06-16 Online:2010-09-15 Published:2010-09-15

摘要:

无论是动画电影,还是通常意义上说的故事电影或纪录电影,叙事都成为其基本的核心范畴之一。叙事艺术与叙事技巧的发展,往往从一个重要方面折射出电影发展的历程。对于中国电影界来说,叙事问题以及电影作为文化软实力的体现而呈现的意识形态问题,值得从创作与研究两个层面来共同研讨。就动画电影而言,艺术创作的本质问题就是想像力,以及将这种想像力通过影像方式呈现出来的叙事能力,还有不可或缺的童心和童趣。动画电影的想像力更接近于儿童的非逻辑、非常规、非线性思维,或者也可以说是反成人常态逻辑的思维。这种思维方式在一定程度上决定了动画电影的外在形态与叙事特征。动画电影在意识形态诉求上显然更着意于人类共性的文化内涵,因为作为动画电影主体观众的孩子,与成人世界相比,其意识形态呈现出更少的差异性和更多的普泛性特点。动画电影比起常规的以成年人为基本受众对象的故事电影,更需要“寓教于乐”,更需要通过影像和叙事形象来有效地完成意识形态的传达,而不是借助简单的说教。确立一个可以被认同的价值观也许没有那么困难,但要提升和强化价值观传播的有效性,却并不是一件容易的事。过于强烈的教化欲望,直奔主题的叙事方式,其最终结果往往会走向它的反面。这恰恰是困扰着国产动画电影,也是困扰着整个中国电影界的一大问题。

关键词: 动画电影;叙事;意识形态

Abstract:

Either for animated films or for usual story films or documentary films, narrative is one of the basic, kernel topics. The development of narrative arts and techniques, often from an important aspect, reflects the course of film development. As far as China' s film is concerned, the issues of both narrative and ideology that is embodied as a cultural soft power, are worthy of discussing from these two levels of creation and research. But for the animated film, the nature of artistic creation is imagination, and is the narrative ability reflected in imagination by way of images, and essential innocence and child' s interest. The imaginativeness of animated films is closer to children' s nonlogical, nonconventional, nonlinear thinking, or, in other words, antiadult logical thinking. This way of thinking, to some extent, determines the external forms and narrative features of the animated film. In ideological demands, the animated film is clear to focus on the cultural connotation of common humanity, because children are main audience of the animated film, characteristic of less difference and more universality if compared with adults. The animated film needs more "edutainment" than the story film that takes the adults as the main audience, and, therefore, more effective expression of ideology through video and narrative images instead of simple moralizing. While it is not difficult to establish a view of value that can be recognized, it is also not easy to improve and strengthen the effectiveness of this view of value. If the desire to instruct is too strong and the mode of narrative is too straight to the theme, things will ultimately go to their opposites. This is just a big problem, which not only trouble the domestic animated film but also torment the whole Chinese film industry.