ABSTRACT:Metaphor, as one of the important literary expressions, has been employed in the movie hundreds of times by film directors. Deciphering metaphors in film is special and it can make the movie have different understandings, although researches of metaphor are mainly studied on linguistics. This thesis takes the movie Life of Pi as an example to analyze metaphor on the aspect of language, picture and animal to restore the whole story. Besides, interpreting the reasons and functions of metaphor in the movie which translated by the author: when facing with great sorrow, people always choose an acceptable way to cover the pain. And rationality and belief are essential during the process of acceptance.
Key words: Life of Pi Metaphor Rationality Belief Animal
摘要: 隐喻，作为重要的文学表达方式之一，导演们在电影里的运用是屡试不爽。尽管隐喻多为语言学的研究方向，但从电影里面去解读隐喻又别有一番风味，使得电影的意义具有更多不同的理解。本文通过对《少年派的奇幻漂流》为例，分析电影中语言，画面，动物等隐喻还原了整个故事。通过自己对电影的理解加以诠释电影采用隐喻的原因以及作用：人们在巨大的悲痛面前，总愿意选择一种可以接受的方式来掩盖伤痛，理性与信仰在这个过程中都是必不可少的。
关键词：《少年派的奇幻漂流》 隐喻 理性 信仰 动物
In recent years, there are a growing number of excellent movies relying on a special expression to enhance the theme---- metaphor. The definition of metaphor is that a word or phrase used to describe sb/sth else, in a way that is different from its normal use, in order to show that the two things have same qualities and make the description more powerful.Metaphor is one of the most interesting modes of the human language. It’s the reflection of each language user's cultural background while it is a universal phenomenon of language. K·Visis, in the cognitive linguistic perspective along with Lakoff(1987), defined metaphor as a reflection of mental process by which we understand one conceptual domain in terms of another conceptual domain. The former is referred to as the target domain, which is to be understood as the metaphorical expressions of another domain, the source domain. The source domains of the metaphor are typically more concrete or physical and more clearly delineated concepts than the targets, as the target concepts are, in many cases, fairly abstract and less delineated ones.
