Arts Studies and Criticism

The novel of Zhang Ailing — Lust﹒Caution was designed in 1953, and after almost 3 decades, until 1978, it was published. In 2007, Lee Ang' s film Lust﹒Caution was released, and achieved great fame at home and abroad, which again triggered the upsurge of Zhang Ailing. Lee Ang made the novel of 130000 words a film of two and a half hours, and you can imagine the differences between the novel and the film. This paper will compare Zhang Ailing's novel and Lee Ang's film Lust﹒Caution, and will analyze the differences between the two's understanding of the story plot and definition of the heroine Wang Jiazhi. Further, it will analyze the reason why Wang jiazhi came to different end in the film and novel.