On Chinese Western Film And Western Spirit

Chinese Western Film created in the1980’s is the origin of both Chinese film revive and internationalization in the new age. During the age, the unification of western space, western culture and western spirit in the Chinese Western Film not only revealed its essence, but also reflected the ultimate differences between Chinese Western Film and western minority film or American Western Film. Because of the impacts on social politics, economy and cultural situation, Chinese Western Film in the1980’s founded its early aesthetic features. The features lied on its enlightenment theme, realistic style and the westerners’ spirit of tenacity and honesty which were showed in the conflicts between human and nature, tradition and modernity, conservativeness and openness. However, the aesthetic futures collapsed with the Chinese film’s globalization, mercerization and industrialization process since the1990’s. And in the1990’s, the Chinese Western Film set the stories’time in the blurry "past" and the space in abstract desert, castle and ancient Yellow River roads to tell the folk legends or ignored the narrative uniqueness on time and space to tell personal living experience instead of general social problems. The aim it ignored those things was to satisfy more audience on their entertainment to rescue the market crisis. But at the time when they took the market as their fist consideration, and the western space and western culture as selling points, they ignored the importance to succeed the western spirit created in the1980’s ones. As a result, the Chinese Western film fell into crisis since then on. Thus, confronting the situation of the collapse on spirit and dissolve on uniqueness in the current western films, only insist on the realistic style and the unification of western space, western culture and western spirit in Chinese Western films, can the Chinese Western Film be industrialized and revived as soon as possible.