A Double-text Dialogue—From the Novel of Picking Mulberries to theTelevision Drama of Picking Mulberries: Wife and Children

Abstract

The film and TV adaptation of the famous novel has become a popular trend.However, a good novel may be adapted to a bad film or television drama. The TV series of Picking Mulberries: Wife and Children adapted from Ye Guangcen's novel Picking Mulberries seems to be fragmented and chaotic. Based on the contemporary narrative theory, this paper compares the novel and TV series from the plot, characterization and narrative perspective in order to find the win-win model of novel adaptation. The adaptation from the famous best-selling novel to the film or television dramas is a popular trend in the film industry. Especially in the rapid development of China's film and television drama creation, the adaptation of the novel is an important source of production inspiration. The popularity of the original novel brings good attention to issue creation of drama of movie. If the creators follow the objective law of the corresponding adaptation of creation, they will produce audience loved the film and television dramas. Novel in 1999 by Beijing October literature and Art Publishing House Publishing, is published by the 1990s who turn Yuefu sad melody 9 novella anthology. 2009 was adapted into a TV drama mulberries -- a wife and children, the plot and the mulberries novels consistent. But the fates of the two are different: the picking first published to great acclaim, in 2001 the second printing anecdotal soon out of thunderbolt. According to its adaptation of the TV series has attracted controversy. It is generally believed that the TV drama is not the original, from the original cultural heritage, the circumstances of confusion, as a loss of culture. Regardless of the structure or characters on the TV drama is in a mess with the original. The TV dramasare difficult to bear the heavy history of decades.