Feminism Interpretation of the Adapted Film from Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Abstract: This paper aims to explore the adapted film of Lady Chatterley’s Lover from the perspective of feminism. Feminist films start with women’s liberation movement and become popular in the 1960s. The purpose of producing feminist films is to upset the former patriarchal order and to bring females to the center of the society. Many of these films are adapted from novels written by different authors in different periods. In the adaptation of these novels, the producer keeps consistent with the original thought and tries to reflect the modern ideas in them. The French film Lady Chatterley’s Lover was adapted from the second script of D. H. Lawrence’s novel with an alternate name as John Thomas and Lady Jane. The film tries to show that women want to be equal with men both mentally and physically, instead of being an innocent and pure angel needed by men. The film describes vividly the change of this status through its artistic production.

Keywords: film adaptation; feminism; D. H. Lawrence; Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Keqi Xu: Southeast University, Email: xukechi@hotmail.com

*Corresponding author, Jianming Xie: Nanjing University of the Arts, Email: xjm@seu.edu.cn