The Ultimate Concern Spirit In Zhang Yimou's Filming-making

Zhang Yimou is the representative and leader of Chinese fifth-generation director, about the traditional movie-mode, he not only has made bold exploration and recreation, but also has made challenges and subversion on the performance of content. Zhang Yimou's film besides has the beauty of content and form, more importantly, it reflects the his ultimate concern spirit on human, human nature and the value of human life, which in today's economic market is valuable. He turned the film perspective toward all mortal beings, on a deep level to express the complexity and contradiction of human nature , the fundamental dilemma of human exitence, the ultimate value and significance of life and so on. These ultimate problems has been thinking about but not solving from the birth date of human beings. His films explored the common issues to all human beings, which improved the spirit quality and also deepened the ideological depth of films. He made Chinese films onto the world screen and opened up an effective"internationalization"road for Chinese films, which has a certain construction meaning for the national arts and cultural development.Papers combines the U.S. religious Tillich's ultimate concern theory to Zhang Yimou's film-making art, places the spirit of connotation of Zhang's films under the philosophical and cultural perspective to analysis depth and detailed. This papers writes in two ways, firstly, what's the performance of the ultimate concern spirit in Zhang's film-making. Secondly, what's the formation and the meaning of the ultimate concern spirit in Zhang's film-making. In the first part, the paper responded to this cultural phenomenon , this is the focus of this article. From Zhang's film-making, paper analyses and summarizes on human existence, the thinking of human nature, the plight of human discussion, the questioning the meaning of life. Then comes to the conclusion that Zhang put his subconscious of life into his skillful artistic expression, and made his films have the ornamental and commercial value. He tried to use films to explore the ultimate value and meaning of life on a universal philosophy value, which not only provides a wealth of material, but makes his films have a profound implication. In he second part, the paper answers the questions of why and how of this cultural phenomenon. With Zhang's film-making in the performance of the spirit of ultimate concern, the paper arrives at the reasons for the formation of this cultural phenomenon from the social background and family background, and also summarizes in the spirit of ultimate concern in Zhang's film-making in existence, from which we know Zhang Yimou plays a very important role in Chinese film industry and even the entire national culture to the whole world.The paper provides a new perspective from the philosophy and cultural studies, in which, the understanding of the spirit of ultimate concern is very meaningful. Though Zhang Yimou did not solve the basic problem of life and the inherent contradictions, he was able to consciously express the spirit of ultimate concern, which, after all, gives us a unique way of thinking perspective, and also opens up a broad field for our further questioning of human existence, the value of life. We can take this chance to expand the theory space for the future film-making, to awake people pay attention to the concerns of human existence and destiny. At the same time, it is no doubt that in Zhang's film-making, there are many shortcomings and flaws. It is hoped that in the future, Zhang can continually explore and forge ahead, and committed to the perfect unity of content and form, establishing an immortal monument for Chinese film industry in the history of the world film development.