Motion Pictures That Head To North

Hong Kong was once claimed as Oriental Hollywood. It has a mature film production system with genre films’creation experiences. Since its first cooperation with mainland movies in1980, Hong Kong movie had a significant change in last32years, so did the mainland movie. However, Hong Kong’s movie’s fading from glory and the mainland’s is going oppositely.The thesis elaborates from three aspects about the Hong Kong and Mainland co-produce movies and their category change history. In last30years, under the dual compact of both politics and market, Hong Kong has been changing from the leading role to an equal co-producer; The Mainland has had its commercial movies and also expanded its categories, in which the Hong Kong movies contributed a lot. They are mostly the commercial ones in these co-productions and with target to market profit. With the deepening of cooperation, the co-productions demonstrate different features than original Hong Kong movies that the previous ones are mixing and presenting new aesthetics styles.Meanwhile the Hong Kong movies’advanced industry experiences are widely absorbed by Mainland movies. The genre films not only refer to text of script but also the production system. By the powerful influence of Hong Kong movies, the mainland movie industry’s unbalanced pyramid structure becomes more rational under the cooperation. Due to the easy policies to Hong Kong movies, its capital can enter into Mainland movie industry too. The investment in film and cinemas are being widely introduced now.The point of the thesis is to summarize the aesthetics characteristics of Hong Kong and Mainland Co-produced movies and to elaborate the influence of Hong Kong movie to Mainland movie, then to provide reference for Chinese genre films’further development.