文化先锋与大众神话--张艺谋电影艺术论略

张艺谋十余年间执导的电影总是能够与时代文化语境构成互文和对话关系,这与他求新求异和对存在、人性的关注分不开.正是这种文化先锋意识,在不同阶段的不同文化语境中,使张艺谋的电影呈现出不同形式、不同风格,加之张艺谋对大众心理及时代语境的体味和认知,他在电影实践中民间身份的确认,使他能够成功地在祛除遮蔽的同时建构起不同的大众神话,以引领大众的心灵,摆脱各种意识形态的束缚.这种大众神话是一个具体可感的感性世界,在不同时期具有不同的内涵,前期为生命感性本体的释放,后期是生活内蕴的诗情.

Cultural Pioneer and Popular Myth --Sketch of Zhang Yimou's Cineturgy

The films directed by Zhang Yimou in this decade could always constitute the relationship of co-text and dialogue, and that co uldn't be separated from his pursuit for freshness and strangeness and also his attention to existence and humanity. It was just this cultural pioneer conscious ness that ma de Zhang's films emerge in different forms and styles in different phrases and c ultural language environments. In addition to that, Zhang's appreciation and co gn ition to popular psychology and epoch language environment, the confirmation of his folk identity in film practice made him successfully build the distinct popu lar myth while dispelling obstruction so as to guide the public mind in getting rid of various fetters of ideology. This popular myth is a concrete perceptual worl d with different substances in different periods. In the early stage, it's the r eleasing of original perceptual life; in the later one, the poetic flavour accum ulatted within life.