The Helpless Of NanKing——an Video Presence Of Chinese Movie About Nanking Massacre

Nanking Massacre is a ethic problem between China and Japan that do not be touched for a long time. Academic discuss entered in the early80century. With the development of time, the art create of Nanjing Massacre is more open and advanced, but the movie create also can not be compared with the Western countries. This paper focuses on Chinese films themed in The Nanjing Massacre. After the interpretation and analysis of each film, the author would provide a systematic discussion on the visual presentation methods of Chinese films which targeted on the national tragedy of the Nanjing Massacre. It would answer the question why there are no landmark films as<Schindler’s list> in China, and therefore it would make some contribution to the future creation of films which would theme on the Holocaust.This essay can divided into three parts, namely introduction, body and conclusion.The introduction indicates the motivation of this essay and sum up the analysis of related areas, then present the research idea and research methods. The body part divided into three aspects which are history, art and business consumption to analyse the characteristic and the creating imitation. Take one sentence of<A Sunshine Day>: Memory can be changed by emotion. Though the way that analyse the movies about Nanking Massacre, it is easy to find that the attitudes about the movies is changeable. This kind of change can be find in the essay. In the early stage movies, people always talk about the crime, such as<The evidence of Nanking>(1987) and<The black sun>(1995). These two movies guide the history into the art area.<Nanking1937>,<Temple Qixia1937> and<May August> all talk about the massacre and rethink about the history. However, these three movies are hold up by people’s memory, the influence are small. After enter into the21century, with the developing of economy, Chinese movie product also speed up the progress of magnetization and internationalization.<Nanking! Nanking!> and<The flowers of War> are two movies which put up high production value, however they miss the ways in the business consumption of movies. In the conclusion part, the author would summarise the analysis of texts, horizontally compare themed movies of the Nanjing Massacre with Western themed movies of the Holocaust, and furthermore propose some recommendations for the creation of themed movies on the Massacre.