The Artistic Characteristics Of New Hollywood Film

There is no country except America that occupies the international film market for so long a time. Nowadays, a half or more of the film market in the western countries is under the control of America movies which often have the highest attendance. Because of the differences in culture, ideology and political system, Hollywood movies are usually criticized by critics from other countries. However, that has no effect on the Hollywood movies being famous all over the world.The system of Hollywood is so intricate, that the studies on it are mostly unilateral and unsystematic. The innovative point of the paper is that on the basis of previous researches, a clear clue is found and the characters and its performances are also clarified. Comparative method is used in the paper. Compared with Classical Hollywood, New Hollywood's great differences on subject, structure, and style of molded are summed up. Moreover, being inspired from this, Chinese movies are also discussed.Different from the classical'Dream Screen', more and more New Hollywood Films make reflections on society, history and our human beings. On structure, New Hollywood is more open and polynemic compare to Classical Hollywood. By inheriting the experience, some directors try to break the classical rule of structure and find a new path. But the eternal principle in Hollywood is box office first, so most of the attempts finally subside. However, the exploration on new film structure has never been stopped. Since the 1990s, a lot of works such as Pulp Fiction, Natural Born Killers and Kill Bill have subverted the classical mode. Compared with Classical Hollywood, New Hollywood has made great strides on editing, modeling, photography, lighting, audio and so on. As the rising of postmodernism, postmodernist characteristics appear in the style of New Hollywood Films inevitably.The style forms naturally. It's difficult to define Hollywood Films because of its strong inclusiveness. As time goes on, the characters of New Hollywood Films change constantly. There's no need for us to enjoy its every single film or to ignore all works made in the'Dream Factory'. What we should do is to analyze the works from the view of aesthetics and literature science. By rejecting the dross and assimilating the essence, a path must be found for the development of Chinese film.