“Cultural Revolution Movie(1966-1976)”Ethical Perspective Study

In 1966, the debate of re-editing "HaiRui Dismissed from Office" triggers the motion of the Cultural Revolution activities. In the decade of the "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution”, the family was destroyed, the lives were devastated and the ideological was subverted. And the " goodness and beauty " of traditional ethics which is gradually accumulated in thousands of ancient years, becomes a victim of this campaign.During the Cultural Revolution, the arts can be described as depression in everywhere,in addition to opera and other forms of film outside literary works hardly new creative development, “Literary revolution" is mainly composed of two forms of theater and film as a carrier. Among them, all the model operas made into a movie, and the movie has mass and is characterized by short production cycle. And then the presence of the majority of illiterate social reality consequential or incidental factors that determine the Chinese people it can produce agitation effect of other art forms cannot be compared. "Cultural Revolution film" has not only exist as a literary work, is more spread as a national ideology, it reflects the strong political will of the carrier. It can be said, "Cultural Revolution movie" establish a nationwide system of mass communication.In the view of ethics, this paper is divided into three parts to state the "Cultural Revolution movie”. The first part will describe the historical and social background of the Cultural Revolution. And the " Cultural Revolution movie " not only is impacted by a specific kind of factor like political influence, it is also generated by a complicated outcome that comes from internal factors of movie, such as theory and technique, and external factors of movie, such as politics, philosophy, economics, art, etc. In other words, the " Cultural Revolution movie” is the creature of cultural phenomena during particular period in the history. Therefore it cannot be denied that "Cultural Revolutionmovie” own its distinctive features.On the one hand, it is the reflection of the Mao Zedong’s " continuing the revolution under the dictatorship of the proletariat " theory. On the other hand, it is the core theory of art form in specific period of history, which can be called as the reflection of " three outstanding embodies principle " in literary and artistic creation. What is more, Cultural Revolution Movie" can be divided into two main types. The one is opera adaptation of the film, such as "Red Detachment of Women," "The White-haired Girl", "Modern Peking Opera", "Shajiabang" and so on.And the second is post-Cultural Revolution film, such as "Haixia" "Sparkling Red Star" and so on.With the political ethics perspectives, the second chapter will state the "Cultural Revolution film" is the reflection of malformed national will. First, watching the"Cultural Revolution film" is a national sport and whether the propaganda for the national "Cultural Revolution film" or the initiatives of people watching it is unprecedented. However it is worth noting that a variety of methods that country used make this watching behaviors have forced meaning. And for the commercialization of film is completely disregarded which means that it is the nationalized issuing system.Second from the view of collective creation mode, the "Cultural Revolution film"enables country to collect the efforts from the whole country, which calls on many excellent people from different aspects for collective creation. Moreover this way make creator own mobility and openness features in order to avoiding “personal qualities" of the "Cultural Revolution movie ". But this creation mode will inevitably have a stylized,homogenization features. Third from the state of the propagation mechanism of view,the political and social spreading demonstrate that "Cultural Revolution movie" under strong pressure of political ethics and become the machine of national mainstream ideology dissemination. During this period of the leftist radicalism, "Cultural Revolution Films" especially the "eight model operas" based movie, can be called the spread of "spectacle" in the history in terms of the scope of its spread, the spread of species and size of audients.The third chapter explains the replacement of the political culture of ethics.Specifically the political ethics replaced the traditional family ethics, political ethics cover the gender features and political ethics also shape characters. This chapter will prove the statement above form three parts. First, the "class hatred" replaces "ethnic hatred". The new social conflicts between Chinese domestic and international political situation as well as traditional family as "private ownership" in its socialist roots andpublic institutional will inevitably generate "Cultural Revolution Films". Second, with the "shaping technique," ’hero features " and “hero feature function”, it will state the hero which created by the" three outstanding embodies principle". Finally, form the aspects of "sexuality shadowing", "lack of sex" and "historical necessity", it will combine movie text to analyze the lack of gender features of the heroes in "Cultural Revolution Films". Through the movie, it shows the hidden state ideology machine that spreads the ultra-leftist political ideology of female sexuality and denies thel normal human nature negation of love concept. The conclusion will look to the future "theme"movies by leaning from the "Cultural Revolution film" lessons.