Development Of Local Films In China Western Movies

The creation of Local Films in Western China Movies can be tracedback to1980s. Like The Life, Wild Mountain, Old Well, they are allmasterpieces during China Reform Era. yellow earth, Red Sorghum, bothof them can be called art models and based on the unique western Chinaregion style and historic culture. Meanwhile a great deal of China westernlocal films which shows deep human inside information have wonworldwide attention. It can not be denied that the reputation of Chinawestern movies started to be famous as well as movies inspired bywestern life and culture.The western region society, located next to the Yellow River and theLoess land, is the birthplace of China agriculture. Due to the traditionalfarming culture and patriarchal clan and ethical system of western regionsociety, it has became the most blocked area in China. In1980s, it wasReform Era in China, and western countries became “the mainbattlefield” for Chinese filmmakers to express their art emotion andculture introspection via movies. The desolate and poor western countriesbecame the theme and focus in that period. In the90s, the time changingbrought new impact to Chinese film industry. With the trend ofurbanization and marketization, the creation of local films based oncountry life shank. Both the quantity and quality declined heavily. In thenew century, local theme-based China western movies came back to bepopular. It makes breakthrough in curing authoring mode and showsmore lively country life stories. However, it still faces an embarrassingsituation as the reality is that most films will supposedly lead to "thecastle in the air". In this paper, it takes the local theme-based Chinawestern movies sprung up in1980s as the reference and digs themedevelopment, storytelling style, aesthetic pursuit and typical charactersfrom the last30years creation deeply. What’s more, we would study thedevelopment of its history and changes of its style of local films inwestern movies. Then we will discuss the extension of national inheritance and national prey in the western local films from manyaspects, especially from social culture to explore its development ofvitality and influence.