Hollywood Mafia Movie Research

"Mafia" was born in Italy, made its fortune in the United States, and as triad criminalorganizations, can be described as notorious. But in the fields of literature, theater, film,animation, games, it was a frequent topic for artistic expression. From the thirties of the lastcentury, Hollywood began the cinematic adaptation and creation of Mafia theme, and reflects theunique artistic charm.This paper is divided into five parts. The first part is sort out of the mafia movie’s creationoverview. Define the concept of mafia movie, determine the main object of study; and make adeep exploration for the causes of the mafia movie from the psychological and subject-matter.Then focus on combing mafia movies’ creation overview. Through the summary of creativefeatures of the different development stages, attempt to summarize the common elements areavailable to repeat the operation of Mafia movies.The second part to explore the characteristics of the Mafia movie characters. Respectively,from the character archetype explore, role shape analysis, show of the image charm, the role ofwomen in settings, four be analyzed. This article mainly retrospect the Mafia movie characterarchetype from the intrinsic continuation of the spirit of the west, and the real Mafia reality map.And through discussing the movie character realistic vividness, to summarize different mafiacharacters’ super charismatic-charming, scilicet, charming black heroes and uninhibited grayheroes.The third part is the in-depth analysis of the cultural elements of the Mafia movie. Mafiamovie was hitted by the double impact of the Italian immigrant culture and American culture. Inthe long-term creative process of this subject matter, contains a wealth of Mafia culture, religiousculture, immigrant culture, the concept of family culture, regional culture, and so on, theseelements are effective intervention for improving the aesthetic implication of the film greatly.The fourth part is to summarize the mafia movies’ narrative characteristics. As a specialmovie theme, Mafia film carry the dramatic conflict by violence presentation as the main form;And focus on the rhythm of the story and the control of the characters’ fate toward in thenarrative perspective and narrative structure, so that the movie has multiple interpretationpossibilities. Mafia movies’ effective juxtaposition of reproduction space and spiritual space, provides a virtual and real, cross-echoes carrier for the show of the film’s story and the audiencespiritual sustenance.The fifth part, eventually rise to the exploring about the aesthetic value significance of themafia movie. Hollywood Mafia Films meet the public’s curiosity and watch desire about thismysterious organization system, and create the psychological satisfaction of the audience herodreams and desire for power through the hybridity show of Fascist aesthetics and violenceaesthetics, so it has distinctive dramatic embodies. Excepting appreciate and experience, Mafiamovie also pay attention to describe their romance story, at the same time, more humanisticconnotation and speculative color reflect the deep examine and reflect on the relations of powerand evil of human society.Finally, the epilogue remarks the negative misleading of Mafia Films on the same face, andalso affirms its effectively circumvent in this regard, scilicet, the practical significance of themafia movie. Combined with pop culture trends, conclud that the Mafia Films adhere to bothcommercial and artistic development strategy, and the good reference and enlightenmentsignificance for the development of contemporary movies. The theme style has both the spirit ofrealism and romanticism feelings.This is the key for the film arts’ inheritance and development,also is the power of world cinema to continue to imitate and surmount in innovative road.