Metaphor Of Heroism And Collectivism

"Spy film" has a long association with audience. Since "Spy film" did not appear 28 years ago,18 Years in Enemy's Camp pioneered a new style of the spy films and set off societal alarms. After a generation, The Trick appeared as a great surprise and played a leading role. A great many people followed the fashion and stories just churns out the same stuff. Afterwards The Inside Story with the typical plots of spy films like assassination, aliases, kidnapping, code message, stealing the information, rescuing comrade, killing traitors, intrigue against each other, etc., created its own style. It portrayed a "fake revolutionary couple" with their common growth of affection and revolutionary belief and triggered a new upsurge rating of spy films. The hot rating of The Inside Story was not only due to its attractive spy story, but also the strong belief that humans should live with belief. It makes current audience realize that the heroes before not only have great ideal. They eventually became out of the common after overcoming commonplace and trivialize. It pushes ahead the meaning of life and spiritual pursuit. It is highly praised for its sing heroism of "dying for the people is weightier than Mount Tai" in the time of "amusing to death".Heroism and collectivism ideology are what the Chinese movies and TV Plays intend to express. In recent years with the transformation of cultural context in the new era, the esthetic sentiment of audience has changed. The political and ideology in the past always sticks to convention and is more and more difficult to adapt to practical demand. Movies and TV plays express author's thoughts and opinions though artistic images. First they can only play the role of educating audience by attracting audience and touching their heart, thus the establishment of images is extremely important. Formerly though heap praises and eulogies on the perfect figures in the way of setting out the weak patriotic slogans to express the ideologies can not be accept by people. The spy films with their special stories are superior to films with other themes in invisible way to publicize dominant ideology. They are more likely to be accepted by audience. In the theoretical circle some scholars focus on this topic, but most articles are just superficial description. There are rare works which analyze the spy films in depth. The Inside Story, as a model, takes over the success of narration and image establishment of the spy films, and is also creative in the strategy of narration, thus it is significant and valuable in research.There are four chapters in this article. Chapter 1 is the preface, introducing the research background, relevant research review, research value and methodology. Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 deal with how The Inside Story describes heroism and collectivism in an invisible way. The last Chapter discusses the relation of heroism and collectivism and reveals the belief of The Inside Story.