An Analysis On The Top10Sports Movies In Hollywood

This paper uses the methods of literature, text analysis and logical induction, and takes the top10sports movies selected by the AFI(American Film Institute) as samples to analyze by cutting from the topics of the movies, the different style of movie languages, the conflicts of the stories and cultural characteristics, looking deeply into the American sports movies.Sports movie is one of the most important themes among the movies. Through shooting the sports, people who take part into it could reflect the spirits of the persons and social realities. It spreads the culture over the world by using sports as a media. Hollywood makes the earliest sports movies in the world, not only the number but also the quality is on the top of the movie circle around the world. Doing research on this article means a lot to the development of our country’s sports movies.Seeing from the history, the movies being discussed in the article belong to different times of Hollywood called Classical Hollywood, New Hollywood and Digital Hollywood. Each period has its special social economy and sports culture that influence the topic and the character of the movies.Seeing from the movies’themes, the sports events are all picked from the daily life of the audience. Taking the normal sports as the topic of the movie could use it to encourage the people to work hard on their own or saving their soul.Seeing from the characters and the conflicts, there are always two persons or classes stand in an opposition side. The hero may get help from others around or from the society to win the game between the two sides.Seeing from the movie languages, when the heroes come out, it always use the close-up, close shot, panorama and so on. When it comes to the shot edit, they use montages a lot to switch the scenes from the protagonist to the spectators in the play to make the game seems more real, In this way can make the audiences around the screen feel of be personally on the scene.Seeing from the cultural characteristics, the mass culture plays an important role in these10movies. Also, there are many other cultural characteristics which take part into them, such as post-modern cultural characteristics and youth subcultures, etc. That may enrich the movies’ content expression.Through the10movies in the article, it can be told that the Hollywood sports movies have already grown maturity. But we can also see that, as the pattern of sports movies have formed already, the narrative mode seemed unified, and always follow the time to organize the story with less imagination.As a result, when learning to follow the mode of sports movies taken by Hollywood, it should be discarded the dross and selected the essential. Only in that way can the sports movies of our own country go further.