Choice Of Theme And Aesthetic Pursuit: Studies Of Ang Lee's Film In Chinese And Western Cultural Concept

Since 2008, the Chinese film has entered the fast lane of the "golden decade" That year China's movie box office first breakthrough 40 billion yuan, in 2009 breakthrough 60 million yuan, in the past 2010 Chinese movie box office exceeded one million mark, the "blowout type" growth of the Chinese film let the world amazing, But compared with the rapid development of the Chinese film industry, the pace of Chinese films towards international is still slow. In 2000 Ang Lee's "crouching tiger, hidden dragon" get good grades,from then on, China have few film both applauded and attracted a large audience in the world in the nearly ten years. As the leader of Chinese film, Ang lee earned Oscar awards twice, earned Golden Lion awards twice, earned Golden Bear awards twice. In the history of film no one has got such grades. More important is that most of Ang Lee's film not only maintained its artistic ideal, but also achieved commercial success. Ang lee merged Chinese and western culture, combined the film's "artistic" and "commercial", created the "perfect" movies. Ang Lee's success in film-making worth to learn.Based on the perspective of Chinese and Western culture, using the methods of cultural study and film theory, I want to give a comprehensive interpretation of Ang lee's film. With the discussing of the theme options and aesthetic pursuit as the main line of this paper, I hope to grasp the rich content and aesthetic expression of Ang lee's film, and further discuss why Chinese and western audiences can understand and accept his film, and how to get communication and recognition in the collision of both Chinese and Western culture.This thesis mainly consists of four parts in structure. In the first part, I analyzed and sumed up the theme choice of Ang lee's film, and discussed the theme of oppression and break of human nature in ethical dilemma in "sex ethics" and "family ethics" spectively.In the second part, I mainly discussed the cultural connotation of Ang lee's film. Diversity of cultural identity makes Ang lee's film demonstrate the rich cultural connotation in discussing the theme of "ethical dilemma", Not only displayed on the inheritance of the traditional Chinese Confucianism, Taoism culture, but showed on the acceptance of western individualism, pragmatism. In the third part. I mainly analyses the aesthetic pursuit of Ang lee's film. Ang lee made neutralize beauty and artistic beauty of Chinese traditional aesthetics in his film creation, which made his work displayed different Oriental aesthetic characteristics compared with those western movies. Meanwhile, Ang lee implanted the "type films" and "classic narrative framework" of Hollywood's commercial aesthetics in his film-making, catering to the public's psychological expectations, reducing heart obstacles to heterogeneous culture,so the audience are more likely to have cultural identity. The fourth part is the epilogue. I focuse on reading realistic enlightenments of Ang lee's film. It has important realistic significance to explore the deep reasons behind Ang lee's success for contemporary Chinese movies better integration into the world:In the choice of the film theme, Ang lee focused on the common "ethical dilemma" of human, and present repeatedly and dug deeply; In the subject's performance, Ang Lee combined art and technology, made the traditional Chinese culture and Western cultural integration, achieved a good interaction between art and commerce, created perfect movies which were acceptable for both Chinese and western.