Culture Connotation Of Zhang Yimou Film And The Modernity Question

Zhang Yimou film is not only the symbol that the Chinese film globalizes, but alsobecome the globalization code of Chinese culture, even represent destiny and predicament of thethird world culture. Zhang Yimou film—The epitome in the world of a Chinese culture, become andattract attention and cause and comment on the focus of difference both at home and abroad atpresent naturally. Choose " modernity " as the visual angle of understanding Zhang Yimou, thereason has two respects: On one hand from the viewpoint of film text, the modernity of the filmshould be interpreted as a double concept including formal modern thinking on the aestheticcharacteristic and culture intension at modern times, and the latter is the real key element of themodern film, understand the key to the modern film. Because it was always the shock of the aspectof ideology that form aspect upgraded reflecting aesthetically. On the other hand from the viewpointof view shadow person, should surmount a scattered one those, lack a systemic one, one-sidednetwork, newspapers and periodicals, expert refer to "he person" way that theory talk about thenextempore, return to the Zhang Yimou's thought world, systematic, overall understanding ZhangYimou's film real value and meaning on the Chinese film development history from a deeper level.So, this text passes the exposition of the modernity to the cultural connotation of Zhang Yimou film,speak to Zhang Yimou's film culture connotation modernity ins and outs out, thus the one that helpour clearer text intension of holding Zhang Yimou film is excellent Tendency and deficiency,understand destiny and predicament of the Chinese film clearly.This text is divided into four seals altogether:The first chapter Zhang Yimou's film culture connotation and modernity. This part carries onthe meaning to explain to "modernity" at first: Three of "modernity" link bread and draw togethertimeliness meaning, era meaning, value meaning. Have further explained "modernity" subjectconsciousness and aesthetics and behaved on this basis. The complexity of the meaningcharacteristic of "modernity" causes the "modernity" understanding mode to have much kind,because of the special account of the history in China, China has chosen the radical modern thinkingmode, the major tradition taking national entity as China's modernity, the modernity of the Chinesefilm is influenced by this too. Zhang Yimou looks for "individual entity" lost for a long time againunder the background of fact that the new period "subject consciousness" awakens gradually.The second chapter the modernity of Zhang Yimou's film culture connotation traces to thesource. Part this analyze Zhang Yimou film culture modernity of connotation to receive western modern film idea view of "what kind of art should" to modern film at first Influence. Then hasanalyzed Zhang Yimou's film modern thinking origin is formed in the introspection of the experienceof the Culture Revolution: Hit the identity and approve the question in the Culture Revolution, there-recognization about "individual" in the Culture Revolution, the another narration about "history"in the Culture Revolution, the beautiful new discovery to life in the culture Revolution.The three chapter the modernity of Zhang Yimou's film culture connotation traces to the source.Part this think under "entity" shine upon, modernity of film appear for individual consciousness,life consciousness and review consciousness in creator. First of all, the individual consciousness ofZhang Yimou film is a kind of abstract "individual", i.e. melting to think deeply abstractly tohuman nature, such words of abstract "individual" evolves from the conflict of two kinds of internalwords of "entity" of new period. Then has explained the intension of such words of abstract "individual" and narrated and stated the way. Secondly, Zhang Yimou life consciousness of filmmean Zhang Yimou life value and meaning conscious reviewing in people (individual and society).Concern of the existence state to ordinary people. According to Zhang Yimou's creation experience,we can divide this kind of modern thinking which pursue "life" of his into three developmentperiods: Publicize one, gentle one and adjustment period. Finally, Zhang Yimou reviewsconsciousness in film, mainly reflects and has in Zhang Yimou's essential acumen insight of cultureand era to era, no matter tells the story of that times in his film, all only content of new era ofsplendid attire comes through this container, so his stories are full of metaphor and introspection ofculture to era everywhere.The forth chapter modernity predicament of Zhang Yimou's film culture connotation. This partis mainly to pass and compare with Fei Mu and other "spring of the small city", to announce theweak point of the modernity of Zhang Yimou's film culture connotation, point out that is that eraculture linguistic context and films used in him display the restriction of the way, determine becauseof his personality, mode of thinking, culture background in term of oneself.