Chinese Disaster Movies:Localization Development Of The Disaster Type

Disaster and disaster scene had became an important part of the film since the first silent film from Hollywood, the creation of a disaster film first appeared in the beginning of20th century,"disaster film" this terminology in the1970s began to popular, and became a new successful type of style. Stewart M. in book "the term graphic film" classed disaster film as a division in the feature films. Domestic "disaster film" at least the name of it is exotic, looking in the history of Western disaster movie, the development of domestic disaster film has obvious local characteristics into the process.In this paper, the local disaster film into objects is discussed, using a comparative study of the local community between the domestic disaster film retrospective conversion and the West. The performance of local transformation, localization features, and the resulting bulk of the background reasons for the disaster. The creation of a domestic disaster film based on ideas and innovation and look forward to the development prospects of a disaster film. For the research, firstly define the meaning and scope of a disaster film, different from some of the confusing type. Secondly, through the diversification of disaster film development status can see a disaster film has been dissatisfied with the current development status, new breakthroughs and innovations (or such a change has quietly begun), we can continue to improve the development of a disaster film. Then, for domestic disaster film is a retrospective history of the local transformation, the establishment of national disaster film of expression and localization features, mainly in the arrangement of contents, creation point of view, theme, etc. To express the transformation of these to a large extent proposed for the development of a disaster film with innovative ideas and direction, which leads to the main background of these factors of different cultural backgrounds, different traditions and different levels of creative film production technology. Through the analysis and discussion, we can see a disaster film is currently in the development of a bottleneck. The localized disaster film is in early stage of development, but the localization of a disaster film for different interpretations of the theme of disaster and innovation, it is valuable for us to trace on the development prospects of a disaster film and gain something.