Bazin's Filmic Theories And Chinese Documentary Movies

As the second milestone in the history of world filmic theories, Bazin has made profound influence around the world. Concreted to Chinese, the fourth generation and the sixth generation of directors to documentary movies esthetics pursue is an evident proof. This paper inspects the changes which occurred under Bazin's influence by one kind of historical perspective, what I pay high attention to is that the Chinese movie circle as well as the Chinese society under Bazin's depth influence. In the transformation process of Bazin's theory, it also reflects some characteristics of the intrinsic production mechanism. This paper takes Bazin as a breakthrough point, to inspect the Chinese movie in the developing process, what has inherited, and what has lost, to find out what kind of energetic quality that the Chinese movie should have in the present age.This paper has four parts, First is gives the simple explanation to the Bazin's filmic theory, Its including the Bazin's primary coverage, different with the montage, historic importance and the theory inherent contradictions it selves exists. This paper attempts to explain the Bazin's film theory existence some inherent contradictions in details, like the obvious metaphysics it has in one side; Bazin lacks the correct opinion to the debate between long shot photo and the montage ; Bazin knows so ambiguously regarding concepts as well as relations between deep photographic and realism .Second part analyzes China's historical environment when Bazin had been introduced and being misunderstood in China. That closed union the Chinese fourth generation of director to Bazin's absorption at the beginning of it introduced, to discuss the misregistration of that situation, As well as deep subjective and objective causes after the misunderstand , also inquires rich significance . When the nation seted, the request literary arts serves for the political utilitarianism guidance, the mostly mainstream of movie is the beautified real life, but person's inner world maintains the distance with the objective world. The transformation idea of new time movie prominently displays in main body consciousness awakening, the movie starts express society by the honest manner. That Bazin's movie theory could esteem doubly in China for that Chinese movie need to develop at that time actually. Stemmed from urgent need to the authentic, and agree with domestic restores to the realism tidal current simultaneously, thus formed the Chinese characteristic esthetics. Bazin has conformed anticipated field to the movie documentary style's pursue of vision for the fourth generation of directors exactly, behind this choice, it being full of person's intense social responsibilities and the historical sense of missions of the fourth generation directors. Says from the way that spiritual inheritanced, documentary movies initiative also inheritance from realism spirit of 30s-40s Chinese movie vigorously. The fourth generation of director has not paused to imitate the reality machinery, but penetrates into the inner feelings. This misregistration has contained one profound unconsciousness political motive, only then sets at the form above the content, sets at the style above the indication, the fourth generation of director can escaped safely.Third, returned to the original state of the early 80s historical environment, Bazin has made a significance at the beginning of the new time, regarding the Chinese movie and even the Chinese society. This part have discussed the Bazin's film theory in China, specifically manifests in these parts: Affected the Chinese movie researcher's thinking mode; Changed traditional play type of Chinese movie structure; Changed the Chinese audience's view pattern; Refurbished screen view of Chinese movie; Promoted the popularization of Chinese domestic democratic idea.Finally, because of Bazin's affects, Chinese documentary theory have different shapes in different time, we excavate the fourth and sixth generation of directors in artificial details, will discover that fourth and sixth generation of directors are most likely on use of documentary method . The intense humanitarianism spirit passes through movies of fourth and sixth generation directors, in different historical situation, fourth and sixth generation of directors have had deep transformation to person's understanding in the movie creation. The fourth generation of director pays great attention to community's attention, it waits and sees the posture has certain historical altitude, what they are more focused on is nationality, regard national members as a collective , pay attention to person's dignity and value. But the sixth generation of directors has actually sinked their postures, pay more attention to the object aims at society's marginal population, its foothold is the individual emotion: private sentiment is the key. At the same time, Chinese movie faced with the similar history environment between late 70s and today, like counter-human nature of movies in the Great Cultural Revolution, and unhumanitarianed commercial films produced domestically in today, Reviews endeavor which the fourth generation of director once made, may let today's Chinese movie go out of the difficult position. On the one hand is the authority esthetics of commercial films, on the other hand is the value nihility of movies, this involves to the difficult position of immediately Chinese movies. Therefore, documentary esthetics recovery in Chinese movie is by no means of coincidental. When the history causes the Chinese movie to fall into once more difficult position by its astonished similarity, it is inquires Chinese films to learn from history immediately.