Comparison Of Performing Arts Between Maggie Cheung And Kate Winslet

In an age dominated by visual culture, film actors who create screen sensory stimuli for people obtained more attention. Maggie Cheung and Kate Winslet are the most famous film stars emerged from this background. Maggie is the first Chinese film star who have awarded the best actress in the three International Film Festivals, She is the combination of Chinese tradition and Hong Kong characteristics in the film culture.As the most outstanding English—language film star in her generation,Winslet integrate the distinctive cultural characteristics of British theater and cultural characteristics in Hollywood style. With the high artistic achievements. They are the important representatives as a film star in their own country and having been the shine examples in the international film industry.Cheung and Kate Winslet have similarly experienced from the muddled period for stage and screen to the mature character performances and the sublimation of realism performances. both of them are not just only a “vase actor” but having finally grown into the international actress.They have the unique artistic personality and preference for the pursuit of art films. They are always sticking to professionalism and constantly striving for perfection.At the same time, Both of Maggie Cheung and Kate Winslet have these aesthetic qualities of ”life, characterization, emotion” and have flexibly mastered the performance skills of body language. But their art performances influenced by film trends, historical background,cultural tradition and personal accomplishment are different in characteristics of nation, period and personality. Their roles on the stage and screen are very changeable, such as Maggie's role are more delicate and subtle in oriential style, and Kate Winslet trends to western-style enthusiastic.Through comparing the performance art development of Maggie Cheung and Kate Winslet and the characters they created, combining relevant film theory and performance theory and exploring the characters' type and features, the paper analyses and summarizes the change of different period performance style and the similarities and differences between characters, to compare two film performance art style and excavate deep reason of impact on its performance art style.