| There was a great development of the appraisal to Zhou Xing-chi's movies for more than 20 years. At the beginning, it was regarded as a representative of the low culture without any taste. Nowadays many people have realized that it is very difficult to describe the unique charm and the special role trait of Zhou Xing-chi's movies with the phrase "loony tone". More and more people heightened Zhou Xing-chi's movies to the level of cultural research and called him "a post-modernism master". Zhou Xing-chi has been invited to make a lecture tour by some universities and even become their specially appointed professor. He has become a new cultural icon under the consumer culture. Young people treat his movies as a Chinese unique black humor.Due to the exaggerate representation, Zhou Xing-chi's movies have satisfied people's higher demand of mass culture's entertaining, commerial and worth-seeing features. His movies are quite popular among the ordinary people, in which small potatoes with great themes and stories filled with stunts and gimmicks lead to joy and relaxation. Meanwhile, modern people under the heavy pressure of life appreciate the qualities like inspiration, optimism and perseverence that the small potatoes. Many people can remember the lines and the plots well and treat them as a driving force in adversities. More and more people, even highly educated people put them as the chicken soup for the soul on account of the needs of neozoic consumption and the development and novelty of the movies. People find some tacit agreements from his movies and seek for the power of progress. They have expressed modern people's choice of social life mode and the behavior orientation, reflected their puzzle and hesitation, released this kind of confusion through Zhou Xing-chi's movies. His technique of postmodernism representation, such as derogation to villians, subversion to classic images, shares more relief and less heaviness. All these meet the audience's instinctive needs and trigger their innermost feelings to create a sympathetic chord.Focused on the revelry theory of postmodernism, deconstruction theory, the spoof theory, and irony, this thesis first analyzes the character modelling, the theme, the subject, the overall artistic feature in Zhou Xing-chi's movies, then probes into the following reasons why he is popular among the young people. The article is composed of three parts:Chapter one:This part descrips Zhou Xingchi's experience and the movie road.Chapter two:This part analyzes the artistic feature of Zhou Xing-chi's movies from four aspects. First of all, analyzing the funny and the exaggeration in character modelling with revelry thought.Secondly, analyzing the humorous of deconstruction theme with deconstruction theory and remould theory. Then, Sarcastic utilization serious subject. Finally, analyzing practical joke school with spoof theory. Chapter three:This part mainly explains how does Zhou Xingchi's movies cater to the social psychology. Firstly, Zhou Xingchi's movies has restructured sacred love, let us review the happiness and the warmth in love, let modern people in emotion wilderness obtain emotion divulging. Secondly, adult's fairy tale in modern society. Finally, psychological adjustment, chicken soup for the soul.The conclusion part studies the trade and the cultural value of Zhou Xing-chi's movies, as well as the denouncing in his movies.Through the above interpretations, this thesis studies the function of Zhou Xing-chi's movies as the chicken soup for the modern people's soul and as the popular movie type under the consummer culture so that more textual works will be created to meet people's mental needs. It has the far-reaching significance for the theoretical research and practice of Chinese comic movies. |
