An Analysis Of The Theme Of The Oscar’s Best Pictures Of This Century

Since the21st century all the Best Pictures persist in show the general topics of humanemotions. First, focuses on the traditional value concept: truth, kind and love. For example:the praise for love and goodness, for spirit of fight, for dream and for responsibility. Second,because of the influence of “9·11” and Iraq war, the Best Pictures of21st century show somenew feature. Firstly, they broke the model of justice defeat evil and blurred the boundariesbetween "good" and "evil" in the movies which talk about the problem of social reality.Secondly, in the film that talks about political sensitive topics tent to encourage to solve theproblems in the level of humanity. The war movie changed from show the cruelty of the warinto peoples’ abnormal dependency of the war to show the theme of anti-war in a differentangle. Racism movie start to solve the problem through talk about the commoncommunication issue.Under the influence of globalization the theme of the Oscar Best Pictures shows thevalue of America culture. There are two ways to express the theme of the movie. One is gainthe resonance of the audience by show the general topics of human emotions. The other one isopen the gate of oversea market through multicultural absorption.These two ways helpsshowing the culture hegemony.The reason we can’t win the price is not only that we don’t have good stories and humansolicitude, but also that the judges of the award tend to choose the movie which shows thevalue of American culture.Refusing to participate the Oscar cannot protect our own culture. On the contrary we willlose the opportunity of building our national image. Therefore, criticizing American’sbehavior of cultural hegemony cannot help the development of Chinese movie industry. Weshould take the initiative of step on the international stage and lead the world to know Chinain a proper way.