The Criticism Of Confucius' Image In Chinese Film Media

Confucius was a famous thinker and educator in the history of China, he is the founder of Confucianism, which is the feudal society orthodox thought. His thought influenced China and even the whole world for thousands of years. Therefore, Confucius as a literary figure widely appeared in the poetry, prose, fiction, drama, film and television and other kinds of genres works of art, but due to various reasons, presented in the works of Confucius image always differ. This paper takes the film-the mass media as the breakthrough point, and analysis the three Confucius as the main character’s film works-"Confucius" (1940), "Confucius" (2010) and "Confucius’ Secret files" (2008), due to factors such as complex historical era, the image of Confucius of the three films work have their own characteristics, cause different responses in different periods, to study Confucius image shaping in the medium of film and communication is very helpful.This thesis mainly divided into the following several parts:The first part is introduction, mainly discusses the research purpose of this thesis and significance, research status, research ideas and methods, in order to clear this paper discusses the related problems, the foundation of the study and research value.The second part is an overview image of Confucius, mainly analyzes the image of Confucius in the book, Confucius’s historical image, the relationship between Confucius’s history image and film image.The third part is to analyze the image of Confucius in the film, by combing "Confucius" (1940), but "Confucius" (2010) and "Confucius’ Secret files " (2008) image of Confucius, This paper concludes "patriotic feelings of teachers", "feelings of fullness military commanders politicians" and "Silly people of this era".The fourth part is the analysis of the cause of the difference of Confucius image. The three films are produced three different kinds of Confucius’s image to a large extent by the director’s own factors and different history background.The fifth part is to analyze the defects of Confucius’s image in the film media, the author thinks that mainly focused on the sanctification of the tendency, the creation of the male supremacy and the malpractice and the historical context, star system choose the omission.The sixth part is the film media optimization strategy and the significance. In the spread of Confucius images of the film media, the author thinks that should pay attention to deep inner characters, shaping characters, film adaptation strategy and the strategy of market.