The Return And Reconstruction Of Ethics

As a main type of Chinese traditional movie, ethics drama movie has all along been the favorite of Chinese audience because it carries on the moral wishes of the audience and reflects the social hot issue and mass psychology of a certain period. In the 1990's, confronting the globalization, it undergoes development and changes by surmounting tradition pattern in narration. To undo the knot of present works, the paper puts forward the future development strategy of the movie by combing and analyzing the movie which were created in the 1990's and afterwards.This paper consists of 3 parts, that is, introduction part, body part and conclusion part.The introduction part defines and combs the origin and connotation of the movie and looks back to the works before 1990's. Furthermore, the introduction also points out that the movie is the product of the integration of Chinese and Western cultures, as such, it combines the narration skills of Western film and the traditional culture of our nation. It reflects the social reality on family and moral conflicts. From Zheng Zhengqiu, Cai Chusheng to Xie Jin, their movies are transmission from generation to generation which play an important part in Chinese film history.The body part is made up of 4 parts. Firstly, the reasons of the reprosperity of movie in 1990's are analyzed. The social issues brought by social transformation, the policy's direction on films of our country, together with the artists'active participation in creating works on reality subject matter. In this part, the movies of this period fall into 4 categories according to its themes and contents: the sing of affection among family members, reflection on traditional culture, the conflicts between the traditional values and modern values and the care for the disabled. Secondly, it summarizes the aesthetic features of ethic movie of this period, that is, the focus of theses movies is on the common people's ethic sensation and humanity features, emphasizing the authenticity and austerity of their emotion which is the heredity development of tradition. Thirdly, the paper points out some problems in the movies. The creation of present movies sticks in the dilemma because of the limitation in theme, narration, and the delivery of traditional ethics. At last, the paper puts forward some feasible strategies. In the writer's opinion, the lucubration of traditional culture should be strengthened, the educating function of traditional culture should be recognized, level of production of movies and arctic taste of movies should be improved in order to put the ethic movies into international market and optimum development.The conclusion part confirms the achievement and puts forward the deficiency.