Alan Parker Films Study

Alan Parker, one of the most famous film directors in contemporary Britain,like most British directors, he also went to Hollywood for the development of his film career when he made certain achievement , and then his career has been very well and very successful .But in his Hollywood commercial movie contexts ,he expressed their elite intellectual deep thinking; he explored the development of film art with rich more possibility. Alan Parker went out a unique successful film creation path with his good artistic quality.Alan Parker painted pictures with the image of life that is full of helpless , although the picture is the individual emotional experience, but carried a universality of human general etiology, displayed the human destiny fatalism: hope and despair coexist and indifference awareness of death .He presented scenes of subjective change in compassion with his sincere humanistic spirit and public endorsement for responsibility consciousness for people, smoothed the illusion of mirror feelings concerned the world's struggling and the generality of suffering pain.In Alan Parker's movie world, behind the story that people struggle for lives and dreams, always have a clear social and historical context, while the latter is causing the roots of the tragic destiny. Alan Parker pointed the critical spear at the world itself: the war, the racial discrimination, the social order of powerful boundless and post-industrial era soul of alienation, etc.When Alan Parker critics the social problems, he also attentions to human survival experience, trying to explore how to establish and maintain personal some spirit characteristics in the realistic society, which is his movie's deep theme -- the warm pursuit and extreme thirst. Alan Parker tells stories of freedom chase in his every film. Follows the track of the heroine, we can found Alan Parker's ideal journey for pursuit freedom. Alan Parker practices the theme expression of attention to life, reality and freedom endlessly in his movies. But the expression is not talking to him in the ivory tower. Most of his movies are produced in Hollywood, distribute in commercial system, and he has been arrived a huge success on the market. But he is a Hollywood free person; he never gives up the exploration of development on film art and cares for human survival circumstances.Alan Parker's every movie has distinctive style characteristic, but take all his movies put together we can't accurately summarizes the overall artistic style of Alan Parker films. Because he was deliberately pursuing change, not only pay attention to the social life with the different aspects of problems, but also explore the possibility of the film developments tirelessly. Alan Parker was never abandoned by viewers in the exploration of film art, or followed postmodernism ethos or sucked British realism traditional nutrition or conformed to the popular image of narration. Seemingly only taken forward a small step, but it is a big step in the development of film arts.