The Chinese Western theme movie of the new generation refers to the films which the directors of the new generation produce and use the general western area as the story's background. The rise of the Chinese Western theme movie of the new generation is relative to the growth experience of the directors of the new generation, the social context which they have to face and the traditional art creation of the West China.The Chinese Western theme movie of the new generation use the country and the small town of western China as the narrative space to show the social features and the characteristics of the culture which are different from the city. Also, the directors of the new generation take the people who live at the social bottom as the main character to show the difficult lives of the people. Besides this, the films not only criticize the indifferent society, but also show the gentle care about the lives of the people who live at the social bottom. The aesthetic pursuit of films of the directors of the new generation shows the strong on-the-spot record style. Compared with the Chinese western films of the fourth and fifth generation directors, the films of the new generation directors don't take "the west" as the unique aesthetic value to show, but as the environment where the people live in. In the subject performance, the fourth and fifth generation directors mostly pay attention to the great social proposition, but the new generation directors pay more attention to the person itself. In the image performance, the directors of the fourth generation favor the gentle honest image expression, and the directors of the fifth generation continued this kind of esthetics idea, but the directors of the new generation favor "the image main body" esthetics principle. The appearance of the Chinese Western theme movie of the new generation has the vital significance for the new generation director group, the individual director and the development of the Chinese western film and television. But on the other hand, the western theme films of the new generation directors also have many problems in art and the trade. These problems limit the further development of The Chinese Western theme movie of the new generation in higher level. |