Background Music In Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club

The novel The Joy Luck Club(1989) which written by Amy Tan has got a big success at that time, in the novel, it has vividly shown the difficult relationship between mothers and daughters and the life of the immigrant families. After that, the novel The Joy Luck Club has been remade the same name movie and released in 1993, which also got big succeed in this movie version. In comparison research on an individual’s preference, more audiences will prefer the movie version, because the tone, background music and the visual impact are better than the book version. During the time that I’m reading the novel, there is abundant of psychological descriptions and conversations, but it is hard for novel readers to see and feel directly what is happening except for imagination. First, by observing the tone of the novel, the text can’t pass the difference and the changes

But in the movie because of the background music, it will be easy to bring the audience in. What I am here saying is that by following the background music, audiences would easily get themselves into the story and thoroughly understand the ups and downs of the plot as the background will change as the plot change. The background music can be also shown that the disposition of the character, that could help audiences get to know more about the character and to make the audiences understand the situation of the character. The purpose of the background music was to communicate the theme, create the character image, promote the development of the plot, connect video and images, describe the time and culture background and enhance the sense of the audience. The background music is one of the most important tools of foil film effect. In the movie The Joy Luck Club, they have to change the background music during different place(China/America) and different time period(When mothers were young and when they get