A Comparative Study Of The School Education-themed Movies Between China And France Since The New Century

From ancient times, writing are for conveying truth, people write articles in order to explain reason and promote spirit. Literature has become a tool that carry and spread the truth, so as the movie. School education-themed movie carries the weight of education and enlightenment. The essence of education which is impart knowledge and educate people has become the theme of education-themed movie, and the way to convey it also became the movies’narrative technique and strategy. The comparison with French school education-themed movies can help Chinese school ;ducation-themed movies absorb experiences and get development.Due to the influence of culture, mainstream social phenomenon, education mode and film theory.Chinese and French school education-themed movies show difference in themes and characters since 2000.Chinese school education-themed movies tend to tell performance-based surface educational stories, most of them praise the great achievements of teachers and their selfless dedications to education. It emphasis more on students as a member of society to learn under the exam-oriented education teach from teachers, the character of teachers and students are mostly abstract. French school education-themed movies explore more essence of education from the movie story and focus on students’ independent study as an individual. They showed us vivid specific figures of people. On the use of film language, Chinese school education-themed movies use more touching details and vivid dialogues to portray the classic story of education, but the composition and scene scheduling show a little deliberate and contrived. French school education-themed movies use more creative and flexible film language to reveal artistic and educational value in the movie.By contrast, we can summarize the advantages and disadvantages of Chinese school education-themed movie and hope it can continue move forward and explore. From the development of French school education-themed movie to see Chinese school education-themed movie, and explore a road that suit Chinese school education-themed movie to develop in the future.