A Comparative Study Of The Narrative Of Chinese And American Holocaust Films

During World War II, there were tow human disaster happened in the world —the Nanking massacre in China by the Japanese made and the Jewish Holocaust in Europe by the Nazi Germany. This provides a rich creative theme for the post-war film worldFilm can be better realistic representation of the national memory means.After the war, the West began to create the Holocaust films, such as "Night and Fog", "Shoah", " Sophie’s choice", " Schindler’s list ", "Life is Beautiful ", " the Pianist ", " The Reader " and so on. The United States of the Holocaust film production mainly in twentieth Century after the seventy’s, so far,nearly 200 of the Holocaust theme of the film creation. Films not only from the aspect of human existence and human nature distortion, the salvation of humanity and expressed criticism of Nazi Germany and expose, with strong reflection in color and the ultimate concern to human humanitarian grounds.The theme of the Nanking Massacre films production until the 1987 began. Since 1990 s with the countries on the right of the discourse of the Nanking Massacre liberalized, and the cognition of the historical event of Nanking Massacre in the world, the Nanking Massacre theme image also appeared constantly on the screen. There are many theoretical studies on this subject,and many scholars have begun to study the image of the Holocaust.So far, China had about 10 stories of the Nanking massacre. Can be seen by comparing the creators of Chinese film in the artistry of the Nanking Massacre films, theme and narrative point of view has great progress, but we also see in the Western movie imitation marks the gap, such as the theme of the movie phase of single, mostly is the realistic style of film, emphasis in history tells, these are difficult to and the degree of development of the Jewish Holocaust image mentioned in the same breath.Based on China’s production of the Nanking Massacre film’s story and the American story of the creation of the Jewish Holocaust narrative film comparative analysis, discussed from the theme of the film, characters, plot, narrative time and space and visual modeling to describe demonstration, the Nanking Massacre Movies existed numerous deficiencies thinking, in the hope of providing reference to the future of the Nanking Massacre film studies.The main content of the first chapter is: one is overview of the Nanking Massacre and the Nanking Massacre theme of film production, second is the Jewish Holocaust and the United States on the Jewish Holocaust theme of the film production history are summarized. Three is to cause the gap between China and the United States Holocaust themed drama production carried on the reason analysis.The second to the fifth chapter of the Nanking massacre/Holocaust made a comparative study, respectively from the temporal and spatial narrative theme, character, plot, image, sound painting combined with the summary of the case analysis and discussion. The theme is something that requires the expression of all movies, movie themes directly determines images of expression of the film, the subject matter of the Holocaust films complaints mainly in the crimes committed against the aggressor, expression and reflection on humanity and war against fascism; Characters and plot are the center of the story of the film, whether characters shaped a direct impact on the success or failure profound theme of the film, the characters in the movie by shaping the main action figures, as well as psychological aspects of a specific language, the image displayed, the paper through Holocaust Movies comb, will shape the characters in the movie were compared and analyzed; the film’s narrative often determines whether the film has attracted the audience effect, and wonderful stories of key plot that good or bad, if the film’s conflict are appropriate, suspense story of ups and downs, fine detail and delicate, so the film’s plot usually better. Film, one of the basic elements is, pictures, sound, time and space, interaction of the four elements, and ultimately determines the narrative structure and the theme of film, is also a test of a Movie Creator professional quality is excellent.The third chapter gives aesthetic inspiration made by comparing the narrative of the Nanking massacre in China and the film of the American Jewish Holocaust. Mainly from three aspects: the summary: movie narrative theme, the theme of the Nanking Massacre films need deep mining, types of diversification development; the second is put forward their views of the creators of the film culture and professional quality; three is from the renewal of creation idea and the application of digital technology are summarized.