An Analysis On Environmental Thinking In American Movies

As the acceleration of global environmental pollution and ecology damage more serious, people start paying attentions to environmental problems. They hope all their posterity have great environment and live on this planet healthily, as well as themselves. Therefore, more and more people are concerned with environmental protection and take efforts for it in many different ways. For such an outstandingly environment, movie makers also start expressing their concerns of environmental protection in their own ways with their unique weapon-moviesMovie, as a mass media which is more multifunctional and more popular, by its unique artistic charm, it has born a responsibility of promoting environmental idea, and it exerts an influence on spreading environmental knowledge and idea of environmental protection, promotes environmental protection project. American Movies, which are always keeping ahead on the stage of international movies, pay attention to this domain early, and shoot many classical movies about environmental protection. Many famous movies relate to environmental problems.This paper can make environmental thinking and movies together, explain movie concept and its social effect, and then this paper can analyze the American environmental movie development, talk about the environmental thinking in order to supply a gap about the movies and environment. Concerning the connection between American movies and environmental thinking, this paper wants to classify American movies from time and content, expatiates on the connections between American movies, and then finds the environmental thinking on movies and environmental consciousness of American movie makers. It is very important to discuss the characteristic and important influence on American movies' environmental thinking, and the producing guidance on environmental problems in it. This paper can probe into value of American environmental movies by Chinese movies actualities.