Hou Hsiao-hsien's Self-discovery And The Formation Of His Film Style

As one of the representative directors of Chinese movie today,Hou Hsiao-hsien expresses his respect for life in his unique oriental deep implication.He keeps trying putting his own experience and feelings into his movie contents and forms,which makes his movies give out his personal disposition from within,though his exceptional oriental deep implication is part of oriental culture,it is produced by Hou Hsiao-hsien who has been deeply impacted by the oriental culture,is his personalized oriental form,and explored from his spiritual world in his self-discovery process.It is thus evident that self-discovery plays a critical role in forming his personal style,and the paper intends to expound on it with the interviews,lectures,creation essays and so on of Hou Hsiao-hsien.The paper consists of three chapters,namely: self-discovery of Hou Hsiao-hsien and formation of his personal style;establishment process of his personal style;and roles of illusion and restructuring in the formation of personal style.Chapter ? is the general overview,elaborates on the role of self-discovery in the forming the personal style of Hou Hsiao-hsien and then lays a foundation for the subsequent concrete elaboration.Firstly,the Chapter outlines the role of self-discovery in the forming the personal style of Hou Hsiao-hsien,and then further sets forth the relation between self-discovery of Hou Hsiao-hsien and his personal style from the two perspectives of self-illusion and experience restructuring,self-illusion enriches personal style with the illusion of self-discovery,and self-illusion makes personal style more mature,and restructuring presents the way that self-discovery plays the role in personal style.It is worth noting that personal style of Hou Hsiao-hsien contains establishment and enrichment of personal style.Chapter Two specifies the role of self-discover of Hou Hsiao-hsien in the establishment of his personal style.That is,to explain the roles that self-discovery plays on individual style from the process of its formation.In the entire process,self-accumulation,self-perception,and individual world outlook realize the roles of self-discovery in personal style through catalyzing restructuring,self-accumulation nourishes the unique soil for self-discovery to find personal style,self-perception activates the trigger point for self-discovery to find personal style,and individual world outlook regulates and sublimates the order and theories for self-discovery to find personal style,in order to realize the establishment of personal style.Chapter ? expatiates on roles of self-discovery in personal style by focusing on self-illusion and experience restructuring,and discusses about the role of self-discovery in personal style from a brand-new perspective.Self-illusion is mainly stated from two aspects of changes and steadiness of personal style illusion and role of self-discovery in personal style illustration,and experience restructuring is also explained from two aspects of self-discovery and life experience restructuring and self-discovery and art experience restructuring.