Parse American Animated Film Chinese Background Elements

The animated film has been easy to understand the subject matter, rich colors,sounds soundtrack won audiences of all ages. Today, social competition increasinglyincentive, people’s increasing pressure to survive, more people to see the animatedmovie as a preferred recreational way relieve the pressure of work and study while.The animated film in the United States have been developing more stable, and put itfirmly in the world of animated film pioneer status. With China’s comprehensivenational strength, the rich history and rich connotation of Chinese culture gradually bythe people of all countries of the attention and popular worldwide. The innovativeanimation always pay attention to the outstanding foreign cultural resources to thecreation of animated film in the United States, of course, keen Americans will notmiss the popular elements of the Chinese culture. After that, they began in the creationof animated film Chinese background elements applied to them.From1998, first with the creation of the background elements animated film"Mulan" was born, to2008’s "Kung Fu Panda",2011’s "Kung Fu Panda2", the UnitedStates use background elements created animated movie made was a great success,attracting the attention of audiences around the world, American animated film in the Chinese the wind more scraping the more Lieqie Yu scraping taste more authentic.However, we should also clearly see that the of Chinese background elements in theAmerican animated film just play the role of icing on the cake, from film culturekernel, the Chinese background elements at best, is the film’s superstructure.American animated film to use a lot of Chinese background elements, but hisanimated film with China in the use of Chinese background elements of the same anddifferent. From different aspects: First, their use for different purposes. The mainreason is not because American animated film background elements more and moreattention to Chinese culture, and cultural invasion imply. In addition, China’s filmmarket is vast, enormous potential audience, the animation movie backgroundelements want to narrow the distance with the Chinese audience through this, madethe Chinese audience the intimacy and identity, in order to open the door of theChinese market, and access to the lucrative box office return to complete the goal ofmaking a profit. Secondly, the angle of the American animated film selection in theuse of Chinese background elements with significantly different. Furthermore, theAmerican animated film with Chinese background elements reflect the values of themainstream of American values instead of traditional values. Finally, in character asthey exhibit the same story there is a tremendous difference; same terms: these Chinese background elements animated film with Chinese animated film to reflect acommon taste of Chinese culture the profound Chinese culture unique regional.Animated film animation filmmakers still using background elements of the Americanculture and Chinese culture, a clever blend. They will "Mulan" adaptation became theAmerican version of the story of China,"Kung Fu Panda" creation became theChinese background story of "Kung Fu Panda2" in the image of China roleperformance became an authentic American character of people.China’s animation people of Chinese culture osmosis, more profound thanforeigners to understand China’s local culture, but China’s animation film sometimesnot even the Chinese themselves do not like, resulting in the most fundamental reasonfor this phenomenon is that we lack of innovative ideas. We should reflect on theirown, while the United States to learn from their successful experience. Based on theuse of Chinese background elements of the American animated film studies, summedup the following points we should learn from the U.S. animated film’s innovativethinking: This is the first, to be the tradition, beyond the traditional; this second, youcan creation of animated films to add some playful, composition, rigorous style, sweetand playful, coexist; this Third, to break the constraints of national geographical andcultural importance of the inclusion of different cultures. As long as the joint efforts of China’s animation, others by taking long to make up our own short animated filmcareer then our revitalization around the corner.