Research on Animated Films Incorporating Elements of the Folk Myths and Legends in Screen Adaptations and Audience Experience
Abstract
Folklore and mythology film adaptation is a common theme for animation films, and audience experience is an important part of the modern movie evaluation system. In the commercial movie market, movie evaluation is regarded as an important indicator that affects the word-of-mouth and popularity of a movie. At the same time, studying audience experience can also help us study the psychology of moviegoers and explore the relationship between the subject matter and audience experience of folklore and mythological film adaptations in depth and differently. This paper will use online review data as a research method to summarize the audience experience data of folklore and mythological film adaptations by analyzing the existing online review data and its emotional tendency. By sampling online reviews to collect audience reviews of folklore-mythological film adaptations, the audience experience of folklore-mythological film adaptations is analyzed by linking the online review data. This study aims to obtain the relationship between the folklore myth adaptation movie and its audience experience from the study, to provide a reference sample for the study of folklore myth adaptation movies, and to provide a reference for the study of audience experience of animated movies in the specific topic of folklore myth adaptation movies.
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