On The Performance Of The Traditional Aesthetic Culture In The Martial Arts Movies

Martial arts movie appeared at around 1920 from when it has more than 90 years of history, which shows that it is the earliest one to be mature. Martial arts movie reached climax for many times, and it is always the favorite of the audience.Since the new century, many of the martial arts movies have won the national prizes, which proved the powerful vitality of it. However, it is impossible for the unalterable things to be chased after all the time. It is because of the innovation that the martial arts movie can be always popular. From the perspective of the themes, it could be the praising of virtuous behavior,affection and humor.And from the perspective of the heroes,some are upright and some are dissipated. The themes are well-adapted which endeavor following the needs of the society and the audience. As a result, there are many variation. For example, action movies,t genie piece, detective movies and so on. Every time the martial arts movies drop into bottleneck, there will be something new come up.As a classic model of Chinese movies, the martial arts movies contain deep national spirit and long history tradition, which stands for the distinct national features. But the expression of Chinese culture mainly focuses on kung fu and wonderful acrobatic fighting movement.But from the new century, the martial arts movies begin to add national features into it. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon presents many classic fragments and won many prizes. The fact tell us that Chinese culture can be showed through movies and it will be popular. Since then, many directors such as Zhang Yimou, Feng Xiaogang and Chen Kaige begin to involve themselves into shooting martial arts movies.The Chinese nation has a brilliant civilization of five thousand years, it deserves to be able to provide materials for the martial arts movies. Except for Outlaw hero and kung fu, the world view and the aesthetic ideal can be included into martial arts movies as well. By summarizing the developing history and trend of martial arts movies and the uniquemanifestation mode of movie arts, this thesis hope to do some useful research on the expression of traditional culture in the martial arts movies.