摘 要

《加勒比海盗》最初只是迪斯尼的一个主题公园，然而在迪士尼将海盗传奇搬上银幕后，却在全球掀起了一股观影热潮。该系列共有五部电影，陪伴观众长达14年，对观众来说这是一部很好的娱乐作品，对制片方而言是高票房的收入回报。针对这样一部口碑与票房起飞的系列电影，本文将运用场景理论和后现代主义相关特点理论对电影加勒比海盗进行分析。

本论文主要由五部分组成。在第一部分，本文梳理了有关电影加勒比海盗的现有研究成果，对研究目的和研究方法进行了陈述。在第二部分，本文对场景理论和后现代主义理论相关特点和运用进行了阐释和梳理。在第三部分，本文对电影加勒比海盗播出情况，该电影诞生的社会文化背景，人们的审美倾向进行了阐述，指出了该电影的火热是因为契合了当今后现代的社会文化氛围和审美偏好。在第四部分，本文通过场景理论分析了电影加勒比海盗场景建构的后现代主义特点，得出在这样的场景建构下，电影加勒比海盗的对其他电影文化产品的启示意义。第五部分为文章最后的结论。

关键词：电影加勒比海盗；场景构建；后现代主义

Abstract

“Pirates of the Caribbean” was originally a theme park at Disneyland with only a few familiar pirate stories. However, the film sparked a wave in the world of cinema craze after Disney made the pirates saga into movie. The series has five films in total and accompanied the audience for 14 years. It is a good entertainment work for the audience and a high box office return for the producer. This paper makes a systematic analysis of Pirates of the Caribbean based on scene theory and postmodernism theory.

This paper consists of five parts. In the first part, this paper reviews the existing research results on Pirates of the Caribbean and states the research objectives and methods. In the second part, this paper explains the characteristics and application of scene theory and postmodernism theory. In the third part, this paper elaborates on the broadcasting situation of Pirates of the Caribbean, the social and cultural background of the birth of the movie, people’s aesthetic preference and points out that the popularity of the movie is due to the social and cultural atmosphere and aesthetic preference at present. In the fourth part, this paper analyzes the postmodern characteristics of the scene construction of Pirates of the Caribbean through scene theory and finally draws enlightenment of the movie Pirates of the Caribbean into other film products under such way of scene construction. The fifth part is the conclusion.

Key Words: Pirates of the Caribbean; scene construction; Postmodernism

Contents

1 Introduction 1

2 Concept and Theoretical Basis 4

2.1 Connotation and application of scene 4

2.2 Connotation and characteristic of postmodernism 5

3 A Post-modern Aesthetic Carnival 7

3.1 Broadcast of Pirates of the Caribbean 7

3.2 Socio-cultural background of the creation of Pirates of the Caribbean 8

3.3 Post-modern aesthetic preference of audience 9

4 Imperfection: Postmodernism Strategies of Scene Construction in Pirates of the Caribbean 11

4.1 Deconstruction of scene 11

4.1.1 Captain Jack: illegitimate justice……………………………………………………..11

4.1.2 The navy: orthodox hypocrisy………………………………………………………...13

4.1.3 Noblewoman Elizabeth: gentle wildness……………………………………………15

4.2 Absurdity of Scene 17

4.2.1 Tortuga: rough and amused……………………………………………………………17

4.2.2 Isla Cruces: erratic and harmonious………………………………………………... .18

4.2.3 Shipwreck Cove: chaotic and magnificent.................................................................18

5 Conclusion 20

References 22

Acknowledgements 24

Scene Construction of Imperfection: Pirates of the Caribbean

1 Introduction

The film series Pirates of the Caribbean begins its journey in 2003 with Pirates of the Caribbean1: The Curse of the Black Pearl. The series has five films in the past 14 years, with Pirates of the Caribbean2: Dead Man’s Chest and Pirates of the Caribbean4: On Stranger Tides grossed more than 1 billion. The series is obviously a good entertainment work for the audience and high box office return for the producer. At the same time, it has also attracted the research attention of relevant scholars:

Wang Kun and Xu Ying (2007) analyzed the reasons for the movie’s popularity from the perspectives of pirate culture, magic elements, comedy elements, protagonist charm and special effects (Wang amp; Xu, 2007). The mainstream American values hidden behind the film was analyzed in Pirates of the Caribbean and the Cultural Hegemony (Liang amp; Zhang amp; Bian, 2009).

Cai Ling (2010) looked in to the film dialogues and its practical effects from the perspectives of speech act theory, cooperative principle and politeness principle (Cai, 2010). Yang Fei (2011) studied the commercial success of the movie from grand scene setting, star effect and suspense setting (Yang, 2011).

In Interpretation of Magic Realism in Pirates of the Caribbean4, Li Chun (2013) revealed the realistic nature under the surface of "magic" (Li, 2013). The research focused on essence of humor elements from the perspectives of plot, subject and object of the movie was by Que Lei and You Longpian (Que amp; You, 2013).

Zhou Hui (2014) explored qualities conveyed in the film from the aspects of ideal and reality, freedom and responsibility (Zhou, 2014). Guo Lina (2014) analyzed the hero image construction in The Analysis of Addition kind of Hero in American Movie Pirates of the Caribbean (Guo, 2014).

Liu Xiaorong (2016) interpreted the movie from the perspective of magical realism that reflects human nature of contemporary society (Liu, 2016). Sun Hongyuan (2016) analyzed the narrative structure of Pirates of the Caribbean4 by Greimasin model and semantic square model (Sun, 2016).

As to research on Pirates of the Caribbean5, Sun Zongjian (2017) carried out aesthetic analysis from the aspects of character composition, background setting, theme, story interpretation, historical research and multi-level art design (Sun, 2017). Zhou Zhou, Wu Weifeng (2018) analyzed the creative features of Hollywood movies from the mature and serialized production of Hollywood movies, the compromise between individual works and series works, the compromise between art and business (Zhou amp; Wu, 2018). Wang Ying (2018) interpreted the aesthetic appeal of film from legendary language, narrative baseline of justice and humanistic standpoint of embracing truth (Wang, 2018).

It can be concluded from the above research results, the academic research in Pirates of the Caribbean largely focuses on the study of aesthetic construct, value orientation, characteristics of commercialization, analysis of the content, mainly based on magic realism, pragmatics and semiotics. The characteristics of postmodernism in films are not analyzed from the perspective of scene construction. This paper will make a systematic analysis of Pirates of the Caribbean based on scene theory and postmodernism theory, so as to make up for the deficiency of research in this field.