Narrative Research Of The21Stcentury Hollywood Science Fiction Movie

The first part of this paper is to comb the concept, the historical changes, and the general development situation of science fiction movies; to give a brief summary of subject classification and main types of the21st century Hollywood sci-fi movies; and to trace the research status of the21st century sci-fi movies; to clear out the research purpose and research value of this paper; to clarify that the main research methods of the paper are narrative study and type study; And to interpret the text and analyze culture of the21st century sci-fi movies by widely combination with a variety of research methods.The second part of this paper analyzes concretely the narrative theme and aesthetic characteristics of the21st century Hollywood sci-fi movies among the five relationships of person and surroundings. On the relationship between human and society, the21st century Hollywood sci-fi movies are boosted by the post-industrial Social civilization, In the field of thought, they are influenced by the post-modernism, and embodied in the fairy tale and anxiety of a post-modern industrial civilization. On the relationship between man and self, they contain the projections of the human self, and the reflections of the post-humanism to the anthropocentrism. On the relationship between human and nature, they present the attention of the ecological criticism to the nature, and they give environment Warnings to human with doomsday image of ecological destruction. On the relationship between human and technology, they cheer for the development of science and technology, and may also bring negative effects on science and technology; they express advanced computer virtual people while also express anxiety and concern of the Virtual people. On the relationship between human and "the other", they present the heterogeneous including aliens, mutant, etc. by singular imagination and colorful visual, and also predict the future of the human world, including the social development form of a utopia and dystopia/evil utopia, dystopia.The third part of this paper quotes the concept of classic, modern and post-modern narrative, and mainly analyzes the different forms and its evolution of the21st century Hollywood sci-fi narrative mode. Specifically, in the21st century, Hollywood sci-fi moves most use classic type movie narrative tradition; they have specific background setting, structure and plot clues and also follow a certain Character spectrum and type element. As a product of type "boom replacement", outside of the classic science fiction movie narrative mode, the Hollywood science fiction moves’narrative pattern makes new changes and evolutions in the21st century. Among them, some science fiction moves, adopting the modern narrative, which modernity is mainly manifested in the space-time polyphonic narrative in the modern context, and also manifested in the multi space-time clues forward together in the parallel universe. At the same time, as the product of the post-industrial culture, the21st century Hollywood sci-fi movies are influenced by the postmodern culture. Some productions try to manifest the post-modern narrative by the booster of technology. They explore the relationship between real and unreal by the combining of nihility and reality in the diagrammatic space. And they have many more new features with "image(effect) narrative"、the post-modern gaming, and fragmented narrative.The fourth part of this paper focuses on both virtual reality and digital aesthetics and describes the aesthetic characteristics of Hollywood science fiction movies. Specifically, with the progress of technology, the reforms of society, the variation of culture and the development of film art, movie makers try to use the way of Individualization to subvert and break through the various established models of traditional Hollywood movies, and constantly open up new aesthetic and narrative areas. Many of the twenty-first century Hollywood science fiction movies, as products of the post-industrial era, reflect the post-modern narrative means pushed by technology. Those movies are used to explore the connections between reality and illusions through simulating the virtual existence of two. Meanwhile they also have some new characteristic such as narrating in image (effect), games and fragmentation. At the same time, science and technology make the film narration from the contents to visuals and scenes, creating a visual spectacle and presenting digital aesthetics special features such as interaction, openness, multi-direction and freedom. Technologies make the creators have more space for free creation and emotional expression, truly liberating the script writing and offering the viewers a unique aesthetic feeling.