Research About The Post-modernism Characteristics Of Zhang Yimou’s Films

In today’s film industry, film director Zhang Yimou has become an important cultural phenomenon (Beijing University Professor Xiaoming language).Since80s of last century, Zhang Yimou, a total shot18films. Video creation style in constant development and changes in each film is available will cause a stir. I will draw on Professor Wang Yichuan explore the tide on the activities of four of Zhang Yimou film director film aesthetic to classify, collate and summarize each stage of the film post-modernist features, and deep Causes of. Finally, Zhang Yimou by the modernism of the production line backward modern trade routes into the process in-depth analysis and reflection.The first part of the modernist features the works of Zhang Yimou film showing. First, the beginning of the1990s, native of realism, post-modern consciousness of the individual film is starting to show. The representative works are "The Story of Qiu Ju", the overall tone of the film’s realistic style, but also contains the post-modern self-ridicule, acts of deconstruction and other performance practices. This documentary style with self-consciousness marks a major turning point in the fifth generation of film language, the film’s post-modern consciousness is beginning to show. Urban theme of the film of the mid-1990s, post-modern style of the film characterization. Using the bumpy shaky shots of the film, showing the public the absurd exaggeration of the words and deeds of manners, will play down the left out of a sense of history and social responsibility, focusing on narrative-citizen complex emotional disputes, and successfully created the post-modernism"solution charismatic figure. Film modernism emotional impetuous, the main lack of the phenomenon to become the main sense of history disappear. Martial arts type of film in the new century, the postmodernism features vivid display. Begun to taste the type of martial arts films, Zhang Yimou tried to close the public side, converted to the market, the other side, but refused to give up his pursuit of personal style in art, and finally lead to the reconstruction of this martial arts film genre. Become the main content of the film’s grand and beautiful audio-visual landscape, Postmodernism empty, marginalization, plane, and other wonders characterized by the most. Fourth, it is absurd funny frolic play creation, post-modernist approach to production of skilled. The full closure of the theater of the absurd is a loop narrative structure, Zhang Yimou’s a combination of fashion elements, as well as the symbolic representation of the characters in the film, complete reflects the cultural patterns of post-modernism in the consumer age.The second part of the reason carding of postmodernism features in Zhang Yimou film. The first is the development and changes of the domestic film market. The nineties into the new century continues to open up film policy to promote the integration of domestic and foreign culture and the process of commercialization of the Chinese film. This is a prerequisite for the culture of postmodernism to enter the domestic film industry. The second is the breakthrough of the personal creative style. Zhang Yimou dare to innovation and breakthrough personality made him the times, a bold attempt to elements of postmodernism, and to get involved in the reconstruction of the martial arts film. This is the inherent power of the modernist characteristics of Zhang Yimou film. Third, the mass change of aesthetic consciousness. The psychological impact of contemporary culture with the overall trend in literature and art, and performance for the audience’s aesthetic orientation of the film industry, it affects the direction of mainstream film and television creative. This is the modernist features of the external factors in the Zhang Yimou film.The third part is a reflection of modernism in Zhang Yimou film. First, the modern and postmodern counter-balance. Representative works in four stages-the modern co-exist with the post-modern and modern status of the post-modern occupy. Post-modern contest between the outside to the inside, step by step, the intrusion of modernity from the narrative structure, visual language and gradually extended to the narrative text. Second, the unity of opposites of art and technology. Art and technology created by the former for the content go looking for fill in the form of content in the form of art and technology from cooperation to confrontation. The essence of art is science, rather than the shallow pleasure of consumption, should not be a real illusion of the use of high-tech produced; it should return to nature, return to humanity. Consumer desire with the dilemma of audience expectations. The consumer desires of the audience and filmmakers to promote the development of cultural industries, promote the prevalence of modernist culture of the wind; audience cherished Zhang Yimou’s "fifth generation" of his film The emotional sustenance and ideological resonance resulting in theater box office does not applauded "phenomenon. How the relationship between the choice and balance between commerce and art, film makers need to consider things.