The Study Of Violence Aesthetic In Siu-Tung Ching's Movies

Siu-Tung Ching is one of the extraordinary Violence Aesthetics masters in Chinese film industry.His film-works express his unique personal aesthetic on movies when he began to debut into Hong Kong film industry.He changes the inherent expression of violence themes in film-works.Under his lens,violence become beautiful,romantic,gorgeous,magnificent,and majestic.He keep innovating this kind of aesthetic in his film-works along his later career.Siu-Tung Ching's film-works have profoundly influenced Chinese audiences' aesthetic tastes of violence.This essay takes the Violence Aesthetics in Siu-Tung Ching's film-works as the cornerstone,analyzes the manifestations and artistic skills of the Violence Aesthetics,and interprets the aesthetic values and cultural connotations contained in his films.This essay mainly discusses the Violence Aesthetics in Siu-Tung Ching's film-works from the following five parts.First of all,the introduction.This part mainly summarizes and concludes Siu-Tung Ching's life,film-works and his works-related studies.This part briefly introduces the research object,key points and methods.This essay mainly focuses on Siu-Tung Ching's own film-works for the whole discussion,and partners with the movies that he participated the filming as the director of action.The Violence Aesthetics is being as the cornerstone for studying and analyzing his aesthetic pursuits and value orientation in the direction of being a film director.Secondly,the origin of Violence Aesthetics in Siu-Tung Ching's film-works.Based on Siu-Tung Ching's personal experience and the development of Hong Kong martial arts movies,this part analyzes the internal and external causes of Violence Aesthetic in his film-works.Thirdly,the expression of violence themes in Siu-Tung Ching's film-works.According to the different manifestations of violence in his film-works,this part discusses Siu-Tung Ching's interpretations and reflections among different movie themes,such as humanity,power and love.Criticizing violence and slaughter for demonstrating the struggle of good and evil in humanity;standing at a peaceful position for examining the national disputes and political conflicts brought about by power races,and contrasting the distortions of power to human order and psychology;interpreting love for expressing his praise for the fearless spirit of rebelling against tradition and self-sacrifice.Fourth,the artistic skills and expressions of violence in Siu-Tung Ching's film-works.This part is the focusing point and innovation of this essay,and it analyzes Siu-Tung Ching's exploration on violence expressions and formats from the three outstanding characteristics in his film-works.Siu-Tung Ching adopts different styles of martial arts to match the logic of the movie stories in different movie themes.He uses Contrasted-Lens-Editing methods when shooting different styles of martial art movies to show the various forms of beauty,and making the violence scenes look more pleasing and meaningful at the same time.Siu-Tung Ching also makes a huge innovation and exploration on Violence Aesthetic by creating the ingenious plastic arts,such as stage properties and colorings.Finally,the cultural connotation of Violence Aesthetics in Siu-Tung Ching's film-works.Movie is a kind of visual culture,and Siu-Tung Ching sets up a kind of visual symbol that carries a special meaning of “anti-symbol" in his film-works.The characteristics of Post-Modernism possessed by the Violence Aesthetics makes it inevitably bear the cultural connotation of consumerism,while the commercial films directed by Siu-Tung Ching have achieved a win-win situation in promoting the development of Violence Aesthetics and consumer culture.The unique female image in Siu-Tung Ching's violent film-works also implies his exploration and reflection on gender culture at the same time.