Theo Angelopoulos Film Studies

Theo Angelopoulos not only is the most famous Greek director now, also is one of characteristic directors in the world. His movie has the large characteristic on the world film circle because of the fable body content, the sparse narrative technique as well as the obscure symbol and metaphor. Theo Angelopoulos'works transmit Greek history and historical Greece and display the strong tragedy connotation and the sincere humanities concern. Studying Theo Angelopoulos'movie has the certain inspiration significance. It may help us to realize how creatively digs this national huge history resources into the Chinese movie, how creates the outstanding works that are rooted in the national culture tradition and have the national culture moral character. This paper will analyze his artistic creation from four aspects.The first part is the background of Theo Angelopoulos'movie. A director's movie language and the movie idea have the inseparable relation with his historical environment, the cultural environment, the educational background as well as the personal experience. Theo Angelopoulos pondered life significance quite early because of personal experiences of growing in the chaos caused by war dispute and drifting in the shadow of death. The ancient Greek culture, the philosophy and the religion are Theo Angelopoulos'spiritual origin. So, Theo Angelopoulos'movie has one kind of distinct individual style and national characteristic.The second part is the travel of thought of Theo Angelopoulos'movie. Theo Angelopoulos unceasingly explores time, history and life using movies .This kind of exploration has experienced gradually in and the mature process. Along with Theo Angelopoulos'movie idea gradually improving, politics and history is attenuated slowly, becoming the background of the human unique life experience and the inner feelings. It further bulges the life'helpless and nothing that may depend upon. Theo Angelopoulos frames history, politics, individual and group in the survival field with the aid of the"frontier".So the reality and psychological life tribulation that the history and politics exert to presents above the image by one kind of unique artistic form. The transformation from "outside universe" to" in universe" is a process that an artist unceasingly matures and forms the unique value judgment and the artistic style.The third part is the poetics character of Theo Angelopoulos'movie. Theo Angelopoulos has one kind of artistic self-consciousness in probing film language poetics thought. He attempts to apply the some poetry rhetoric ways in order to form the distinctive ideographic film language system. Theo Angelopoulos uses a few comparative fixed images to construct a poetics world of the symbolic and metaphor. In the poetics world, physics space-time and mentality space-time have fused each other. This causes the film picture to demonstrate the multiple echelons and increases the width and the length of time. Moreover, the embodiment space and time idea have one kind of abstract psychological significance and the rich significance space.The fourth part is the tragedy analysis of Theo Angelopoulos'movie. An atmosphere of tragedy fills the Theo Angelopoulos'movie. Gloomy and wet picture composition, full/long/medium shot system produce one kind of strong tragedy connotation. Besides the picture, the music utilization also promotes the movie tragedy in the certain degree. It initiates the people to ponder the time, the history, and the life from the sense of hearing aspect. So the sense of hearing aspect and the visual aspect form one kind of tragedy consciousness together. This kind of tragedy consciousness lays out for the picture composition and the music utilization and appears intrinsically in the repetition and unceasing variation of the ancient Greek mythology and the tragedy prototype. The myth and the tragedy prototype constitute the bottom narrative space of Theo Angelopoulos'movie as a recessive existence. It refers to the history self-examination and national memory of the Greece.