The Native And Transmutation Of Hollywood’s Chinese Plot Archetype

One of the specific given film culture archetype is Hollywood’s Chinese plot archetype which definitely dose not possess ontology. Even though it is under the Chinese signature,the Hollywood narrative plot archetype is summarised from Chinese traditional cultural produced by American film artists according to their own cultural concept. It takes a long time for Hollywood film to use Chinese plot archetype to express American Chinese cognition. the Chinese plot archetype in early Hollywood movies uglified and vilified the Chinese by the role- "Fu Manchu" and advocated the Chinese exclusion Act.That which is dominated by the US policy of "yellow peril".Since it came to 21 century,the development of Chinese cultural competitiveness and the subtle changes of US-China relationship had influenced several generations Hollywood’s directors to change their Chinese plot archetype. That is why it could not dominate the film making thinking anymore, so the history where Hollywood conquered Chinese had been changed. In this background, writer trying to explore some ideas.first of all,to sketch out ”Chinese Narrative”in early time of Hollywood,and then searching the flowing deformation of Hollywood’s Chinese plot archetype in 20 centuries from “Fu Manchu” movies to “Bruce Lee” movies,and focusing on cross-century transformation in Hollywood’s Chinese plot archetype,which discussed from Disney’s Mulan and DreamWorks’ s Kung Fu Panda.In the last,forecasting the The development opportunities and future fate of the "Chinese plot Archetype" in twenty-first Century,they are discussed in two aspects,both between the prospective of the fate of the Hollywood’s Chinese plot archetype and the Sino US co-production Chinese plot archetype.