Creation Of Peter Chan’s "Go North" Movie

Since the new century, in the environment where the mainland China film market rise and at meanwhile the Hong Kong film market decline, the Hong Kong film filmmakers "Go north" to seek new development. From their perspectives, it is not only an opportunity but also a huge challenge for them. Peter Chan arguably one of the best, successfully opened up the interior of the "Go north" development path.This article focuses on director Peter Chan to enter the mainland’s five films, namely "Perhaps Love", "The Warlords", "Swordsman" and "American Dreams in China" "Dearest".Five films from text analysis, analyzes respectively from the theme, type, character, narrative, audiovisual regard. The choice of the theme in the movie has gone from confusion to the mainland martial arts theme realistic themes breakout actively integration and innovation in the film type in order to break through the traditional type pattern, and in terms of characterization and the field of view through subversive way create a complex character in the play within the play of narrative structure and narrative structure of the main ring to enhance the viewing of the film, using a representative significance mainland pop music and nostalgia in contemporary visual highlight video aspect.Peter Chan use gradually mainland-based commercial means to ensure the market success for his northward strategy.And accordingly he also convey artistic expression of his films.Since Chan makes use of his prior rich movie experience,combining with his accurate positioning of the mainland movie market and consciously guiding the audience’s aesthetic,he was a great success according to the box office. More importantly,Chan insist on the artistic value of their creative ideas,concerned about the living conditions, the inner world and emotional entanglements, and reflection on the life of human respect for humanity, as well as on the mainland real concern and criticism. Chan became the moment "the most ground gas" Hong Kong director, he’s "Go north" of the road has a positive inspiration the for the other Hong Kong directors.