| The "box-office-star" Feng Xiaogang has directed at all 8 Near Year celebrating films which were well commented by audiences in 11 years from 1997 when his first film Jiafangyifang was presented in mainland China and created the exceptional myth of box office.His movies have become a miracle in the Chinese culture market in the latest decade for their influence on the movie industry,and as a result received broad concem and academic attention.Based on this situation and from the aesthetics perspective the author has analyzed the characteristics and success of Feng's New Year celebrating films by taking focus on three aspects of the "Feng-style New Year celebrating films" of content,style and combination to social psychology and mentality.The author has made a summarization of Feng's celebrating films from the following five aspects after reading his films thoroughly.Introduction part has mainly discussed the following points:first,the birth of New Year celebrating film abroad and its concept;second,the general situation of the domestic celebrating films and Feng's one;third, the life experience of Feng Xiaogang and his career of movie-directing; forth,the current research on Feng's celebrating films.Chapter one has mainly analyzed the content of Feng's New Year celebrating films.On one hand,these films are of obvious realistic caring spirits,which embodied in the film which has described the hot topic of society from the view of "grassroots" and the daily issues about love of common people.On the other hand,they have the ridicule of mundane existence and make a mockery of the moral decline,the power to suppress as well as other sick social phenomenon dramatically.Chapter two has analyzed the characteristics of Feng's New Year celebrating films from the art style and aesthetic characteristic.In form, the writer emphasizes the artistic practices from the following three questions:"parody","pastiche" and language "game".It is a large number of "parody","pastiche" and language "game" that make up the distinctive aesthetic style of Feng's celebrating films:"the Feng humor", that is,the characteristics of Feng's amusing comedy.Chapter three has further explained the success of Feng's New Year celebrating films from the aspects of social psychology and mentality. First,the author analyzes the "daydreaming","happy ending",resentment of the rich and psychological burden to illustrate that Feng's New Year celebrating films and people's contemporary psychology are very compatible.Then the author analyzes Feng's utilization of the Chinese traditional cultural factors on his New Year celebrating films to show his skillful ability in guessing social mentality from three key words "neutral","kind" and "tolerance".Conclusion part is briefly about the author's imperfections in this article. |
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