Analysis Of The Image Of Hollywood Asian Martial Arts Stars

The 21 st century is an era of great cultural integration.The cultures of all countries in the world have realized their mutual exchanges around the globe with the help of various media.With the progress of social civilization,the form of cultural exchange has shifted from one-way to multi-direction,and the cultural hegemony of the western society represented by the United States has been shaken.As the west has forced the export of its culture and values to the east,more and more eastern elements have begun to pour into western society.Hollywood films,as one of the most important media of mass culture,are inevitably influenced by this wave of the east,and they have all kinds of manifestations in the film.Martial arts are an important part of eastern culture,and Bruce lee took Chinese martial arts to the Hollywood screen and brought it to the world.The craze for martial arts in western audiences has prompted Hollywood to produce more martial arts films to meet the needs of the market,and hence the birth of more martial arts stars.After Bruce lee,Jackie chan,Jet li,including Michelle yeoh,are in a whole new way of showing the charm of Chinese martial arts in Hollywood,and led to the attention of the whole Asian culture,western Thailand actor Tony jia also became a Hollywood emerging Asian martial arts star.In the martial arts films,the body presentation and action design of martial arts stars are the main ways in which they shape characters.Hollywood films as an art product,represents the mainstream values of American society,its production of Asian characters under the influence of orientalism,and Asian martial arts star in Hollywood movies for identity.In this paper,the action of the martial arts film narrative,identity and orientalism as theory premise,using the text study,comparative study,case study,the method of analytic Jackie chan,jet li,Tony jia and michelle yeoh in Hollywood movie body and motion design,summarizes their shape in identity,personality and other aspects of the role of different qualities.Jackie chan's movie scene full of life and human nature of humor,he used his own body to challenge the limit,his shape into the image of the western society of Asian middle class,there are many little weaknesses,and his words of "no interest in sex" also made jokes to entertain,and the tradition of the western "clown",so he is in Hollywood comedy "kung fu" in the embodiment of "clown".Jet li's determination in Hollywood to be a "fighters",carry forward the Chinese traditional wushu spirit,but he is more of in the movie as a "fighting machine",Hollywood will be "apotheosis" Oriental he is jack,is a serious "asceticism" image.Tony jia in Hollywood success not only because of his return to true kung fu performance model,has also benefited from highly cognitive muay Thai,in the west of the crowd,and he is shaped by the full of fighting spirit,never lose the "civilian hero" image.And Michelle yeoh in one side is spirited fighting actress,has the independent modern temperament,and is difficult to get rid of the male attachment,and become the carrier of foreign culture in the Hollywood film,she is the modern spirit and the traditional constraints of Oriental female.