陈忠实的代表作《白鹿原》是一部长达近50万字的长篇小说,自从1993年出版后,就广受海内外读者欢迎。该书1997年荣获第四届茅盾文学奖,这已是中国长篇小说最高荣誉。小说诞生后,有多位导演试图将其搬上荧幕,然而均未能如愿。时至2012年9月,将近20年之后,这部杰出的文学作品终于被改编成了电影《白鹿原》。把经典文学名著改编成电影是一个世界性的难题。文学作品是语言的艺术,它以语言为载体来塑造艺术形象,反映社会生活。其含蓄隽永的特点使得其意义空间在一定程度上需要靠读者发挥自身的幻想和现象来填补;电影则是一种视觉艺术,具有直观性,并且 Chen’s true masterpiece “White Deer Plain” is a novels nearly 500,000 words in the novel, published in 1993, it is widely welcomed by readers at home and abroad. The book won the fourth Mao Dun Literature Award in 1997, which is already the highest honor of Chinese novels. After the birth of the novel, many directors tried to put it on the screen, but failed to do so. As of September 2012, almost two decades later, this outstanding literary work was finally adapted into the movie “White Deer Plain.” It is a worldwide problem to make classic classics a movie. Literary works are the art of language, which uses language as the carrier to shape the artistic image and reflect the social life. Its implicit and meaningful features make the space of its meaning to a certain extent need to rely on readers to play their own fantasies and phenomena to fill; the film is a visual art, intuitive and