The High Concept Movie Of Action: The Inditing Trend Of The New Century Chinese Mainstream Commercial Movies

Along with the Chinese movie industry's speeding up its industrialization, thebeginning of the 21st century witnesses the movie industry's recovery from its depressionof 1990's. The movies' quantity and box office receipts are increasing significantly.During this period, the domestic "high concept movie of action", which highlights visualand aural effects, becomes the mainstream commercial movie, e.g. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hero, The Promise, Curse of the Golden Flower. Although there areonly a few, they are huge box office hits, and achieve great social effect, which attractsnationwide attention.This paper systematically analyses the "high concept movie of action" from the angleof commercial movies' genres. With detailed reference material, it probes into thecharacteristics of the "high concept movie of action" from the fields of visual and aurallanguage, narration, producing and marketing, putting emphasis on the reason why the"high concept movies of action" become the mainstream of Chinese commercial movies, as well as their future producing trend and effect on Chinese movie industry.