The Recurrent Legend

The hero theme in movie production since the foundation of new China always deserves a deep exploration.The existence the hero theme always brings the movie art to its charming best either in mainstream movies or rnovies of other paradigms. Through a review of the past sixty years of China's mainstream movie production,we can see clearly the evolution of the heroes at every stage of time,and the inner evolutionary track of the mainstream movie value structure which is formed during the development of the hero theme.Concerning the current situation of Chinese movies,the strategies and faith for the protection of national culture is,in essence,becomes the central issues of the consolidation of the mainstream values in the movie thought logic.Compared with the simple analysis of the current cultural reality of the mainstream movies and industrial dilemma,the inquiry of history will enable us to grasp the rules of values choice of the new China mainstream movies.The analysis of these rules may be of slight help in knowing and presenting the cultural soft power of mainstream movies.The hero theme,as one of the media of values expression,successfillly makes an important thinking source of "modernity of Chinese discourse ",which is not only the spiritual wealth of political and social practice at the level of discourse,but also a nature extension of macro-history.