Twenty-first Century, Hollywood Movies, Social Change

When the famous terrorist attack happened in America on Sep 1st 2001, it made a strong impact on American society. The Hollywood made some movies about terrorist attacks directly or indirectly after 9-11, and the focus of movies on terrorist attacks simply has changed to the deep cause of the terrorist event gradually. From the period of"Probation of speech"and the period of"a particular period of Exhibition"to the period of"a particular period of Accept"since 9-11, the Hollywood has showed the track of a great society event from its ideological point of view. On other hand, 9-11 broke the principle which the Hollywood try its best to reduce the politics in its movies, many long-standing problems of the United States have been into the Hollywood's vision, and the function to reflect the truth of the movie has been showed. At meanwhile, the United States started the global war on terror after 9-11, in 2008, the global financial crisis also broke out firstly in the United States. These series of great social transforms were not only displayed on the Hollywood screen but arouse quick changes of the movie sorts. In this interaction, some types of films have shown their characteristics only under some specific historical conditions. Through the study of Hollywood movies from 2001 to 2010, we could discover as a mature technique of the arts system, Hollywood movies showed amazing ability to adapt and self-adjustment capacity about the outer environmental changes .