The Public Aesthetic Paradox About The Hollywood Highest-grossing Commercial Filmsin The New Century

Since we entered the new century, Hollywood commercial films make a continuous shock to our visual and auditory nerve and establish the record of billions of dollars box-office, which make deep impression to us and also cause ceaseless debate about these phenomena. This is a valuable research topic. So this thesis is focused on the following aspects :Chapter Ⅰ In this chapter, we review the origin of Hollywood commercial films, and introduce a selection of papers and research methods.Chapter Ⅱ In this chapter, we analyze the commercial, artistic and social value of Hollywood commercial films. Highest-grossing Commercial Films can create tremendous commercial value. Excepting hundreds of millions or even billions of box-office revenue, these films can bring other revenues, such as developing related products, employment of staffs and traveling. Highest-grossing commercial films has become a huge business empire. At the same time, highest-grossing commercial films are also the contemporary art of vision and auditory. It is an integrated art of tragedy, comedy, literature, drama, photography, painting, music, dancing, characters, sculpture, architecture, etc. These films also have some artistic standards, but most of them didn’t get high artistic evaluation. For their large audience, these films cause great social influence that we should think highly of this point. It’s a paradox of their social value that they should take some responsibility of leading morality and value as they meet the public interests and requirements.Chapter Ⅲ This chapter discuss the public aesthetic paradox of public highest-grossing commercial films and trace the essence of public aesthetic features. For the highest box office, commercial films must meet the needs of public aesthetics. These films are the best finders for the need of public aesthetics. They seize the constantly elements of public aesthetics, that is legend, stimulation, money and beauties. Changing with the times, commercial films also try to explore the new public aesthetic flavor, which makes these films show the aesthetic feature of inheriting tradition and seeking difference and new. It has become the basic way of highest-grossing commercial films that pursue constantly strengthening sensorial stimulation. But by simple sensorial stimulation, people should fall into the aesthetic fatigue soon. The bizarre stimulations of acousto-optical films are constantly strengthen and get to the acme, which cannot keep up anymore and will walk into a dead end.Chapter Ⅳ We discuss Chinese greeting films and commercial films in this chapter. Although heavily Influenced by the model of Hollywood commercial films, our copycat blockbusters are not satisfying.It should combine traditional culture to develop our Chinese model if our film industry want to go to the world.