Research On Arts Of Costume In Zhang Yimou’s Movies

Film language is rich and colorful, and film costume is one of the languages. Zhang Yimou, as the acknowledged leaders of China’s fifth generation of directors, the costumes in his films have won the best costume designs of many international film festivals many times. Study on the artistry of Zhang Yimou’s film costumes, has the individual significance as well as the universal significance which is worthy of borrowing and learning of films and TV. What’s more, it can be summarized to explore the general rule of movie costumes. The basic method of this study is “based on the movie, using the costume and emphasizing the motion expression.” With the help of movie, amplification to metaphysical artistic view is the main characteristic of Zhang Yimou’s film costumes. The study holds that heavy agitation of Northwest culture, focusing on the lower class, the evolution of the film market from the reality to the entertainment have formed the basic theory of artistic view of Zhang Yimou’s film costumes.Zhang Yimou has combined the symbolism and expressionism of Western art, emphasizing the motion expression of film costume through metaphor and symbol, to highlight the individualism of film style. Therefore, based on this, the general characteristics of Zhang Yimou’s film costume are as follows: the fusion of realism and exaggeration, the fusion of tradition and rebellion. The specific manifestations focus on following aspects: the ultra strong chromatology, forming a big contrast; various styles, displaying diversified beauty and fabrics; perfectly combining the era with characters. All these aspects reflect the aesthetic function via visual impact and connotation, the narrative function via shaping the characters and developing the plots, the ideographic function via building atmosphere and revealing the theme, which enables Zhang Yimou’s film costumes to own new characteristics with a fusion of realism and exaggeration, a fusion of tradition and rebellion.The connotation of Zhang Yimou’s early works was rich. The clothing’s color was gorgeous and the picture had a strong visual impact, making the audience find everything new and fresh. While reflecting the national spirit by the films, Zhang Yimou also paid attention to the common human nature problem, cultural issues and historical tradition. In his movies, the costumes’ color, texture and style displayed the national style.But the Outstanding problems of Zhang Yimou’s film costumes, such as too costly, vulgar, pornography and meaningless, also damage the artistic charm of his films. At present, the meaning lacking of film costume is not a single phenomenon. The meaning lacking of Zhou Yimou’s film costume has universal enlightening values, they are as follows: the film costume shall own both the national and international style; the film costume shall have the view of life consciousness; Film costume shall seek balance between the reality and entertainment.