Hollywood's "Arabian Nights.

Shared global cultural resources makes the world appear the adapted boom about “Arabian Nights”, Hollywood have already adapted35times and formed the most influential image on “Arabian Nights”. Hollywood’s industrial operation makes the Arab culture break the limit of the geographical environment, cultural ideas and religious, participating in the global cultural exchanging. To some extent, the adaptations promoted the inheritance and development of Arab culture.In order to promote the image of “Arabian Nights” spreading worldwide, Hollywood adopted a series of measures. By the independent choice (“The Adventures of Sinbad”、“Aladdin”、“Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves”), mode of narrative, shaping heroes and curing image style, the story of the Arab get the new packaging. The story of “Arabian Nights” enriched the Hollywood’s story models on treasure hunt(Ali Baba), adventure(Sinbad) and wonderful experience(Aladdin).The films narrative on “Arabian Nights”experienced a process of “pioneer‐test‐revise‐mature‐stable”, establishing a legendary Arab audiovisual language system, including the conversion of the space environment, the context of the story, characters, the way to resolve the conflict, and a series of ideographic symbols group, etc. It cultivated audience fixed consuming taste and stereotype. Hollywood’s “Arabian Nights” successfully replaced the native images and become the spokesman of the Arab region.In contrast, the Arab world, facing with the rich cultural resources, is not formed influence of the image. Arab film industry is so weak that become an important consumer market for Hollywood, Hollywood movies get huge profits. Meanwhile, by use of the Arab resources, Hollywood produced the cultural influence, from market profit to culture endorsement.“Arabian Nights” images is full of American ideology, we should think these image if association of the Arab culture. After all, Hollywood is the product of American culture and spirit, Hollywood films have enormous cultural influence. It is visible that Hollywood used the exotic、Allah、sailing legend to attract viewers. In fact, Hollywood doesn’t intend to explore Arab cultural, just using the element’s surface meaning to attract audience. Because of the Hollywood’s business operation, Arab culture lost its richness and become a series of symbols. This situation influenced outside world on Arab World, also affecting the Arab national identity of their own culture. The weakness of Arab’s film industry and the successful of Hollywood cultural strategy contributed to the enormous influence of Hollywood’s adaptation, to a certain extent, it also depends on the successful of a series of cultural policy. Hollywood’s “Arabian Nights” is only a part of the exotic culture exploitation. In the future, there will be more national and regional cultures are faced with “new interpretation” by Hollywood.