Caught In The Bailout Youth

Youth movie has been one of the symbol of Taiwan movie. Since the new century, begin with the"The Blue Gate Crossing", there have been a lot of Taiwan youth movie with similar subject and style. These movies are totally different from the previous youth movie in both form and content, thus, they are called New Taiwanese Youth Movies. To some extent, New Taiwanese Youth Movie's success in commerce helps to save Taiwan's local movie market. Meanwhile, this is in sharp contrast to its simplicity and superficiality in art. With the growing number of New Taiwanese Youth Movie and its increasing box office returns, New Taiwanese Youth Movie has been an remarkable film phenomenon.In the foreword, the"youth movie"is defined clearly. The first part reviews the previous Taiwan youth movie and introduce the development of New Taiwanese Youth movie. In comparison with the youth movie of Taiwan New Cinema and Post New Cinema, the paper concludes the new features of New Taiwanese Youth movie in subject, theme, scene language and local characteristic. The second part tries to discuss the reason why makes those new features through film policy, production environment, training system, authors and social culture background. The last part analyzes what the mainland youth movie can learn from New Taiwanese Youth movie.