A Study Of Chongqing Image In New Century Urban's Film

The urban movie is a type of film whose photographic context is based on the urban region cultural geography, and whose content is non-uniformity resident's daily life and work.After entering the new century, with the development of city economy and cultural life,the urban movie also presents an impressive sight along with it. Beijing and Shanghai, as China's no substitute for the political, economic and cultural center have always been loved and appreciated by Chinese cineaste; however, Chongqing also has been favored by domestic film directors. In the near future with its unique geography style and the individuality humanities, the image of Chongqing will get people's more and more attention; and Chongqing image's aesthetic analysis and scientific theory research have a vital practical significance.This article has selected some representative films from 2001, Good Night, Chongqing (2001, Zhang Ming),Life Show(2002, Huo Jianqi),Zhou Yu's Train (2002, Sun Zhou),Crazy stone (2006, Ning Hao),Curiosity Kills the Cat (2006, Zhang Yibai),The Gate (2007, Li Shaohong),Double Food Records (2008, Zhao Tianyu),The Peru Shore (2008, Zhang Yibai),Chongqing Beautiful women (2009, Yang Ziting) and so on, These nine movies are mainly about the images of Chongqing, though not exactly the same as what is in Chongqing. But a series of films produced in Chongqing can really reflect the reality of the city, a certain temperament and character, thus, highlighting the city of Chongqing movie images and other cultural differences.Analyzing the urban space, the citizen, and the civic culture of Chongqing's images carefully chosen from the nine movies, can make people understand Chongqing disposition characteristic and the artistic charm; although they cannot equate completely the reality of Chongqing, they truly can reflect its realistic appearance and the energetic makings.Urban space can display regional differences of urban movies mostly; therefore, the first part of this article from dynamic and static aspects, discusses the three-dimensional physical state and the flowing landscape spatial characteristic of Chongqing, the gap angle of "Mountain City", and the hydrophilic region of "River City" as well as the special atmosphere by "Fog City" which have provided films with rich changing urban landscape and the unique city identity. From the car, cable car, light rail, ferry and other major modern transportations composed of network type space area, extend and expand the depth and width of urban space, thus, providing a rich narrative scenes for the film. Partâ…¡of this article analyzes the citizen's vivid characteristics, the disposition characteristic and the emotion performance in Chongqing, In the characters'aspect, the beauty, Bang Bang, who has Chongqing local characteristics in the main research. The analysis of the impulse and force of the people in Chongqing, increases the expression of action films, but also presents the special taste by Chongqing. The innermost feelings of the character has highlighted the wretched urbanite memory. The third part analyzes Chongqing image from the civic culture to display inclusive thinking way and fraternal loyalty, as well as to reflect the Bayu-style food culture.Urban movies reflect and record the bizarre modern urban life, but also affect and enrich the memory of the modern urbanite's esthetic memory and cultural structure. This article combs Chongqing city movie image's, urban style and the cultural implication intending to compare it with the Beijing style and the Shanghai style. In this way, Chongqing's urban charm, urban life, and urban culture aware the audiences'attentions; at the same time, thus they enrich audiences'vision and sight.