Observing Martial Arts Film From The Duality Of Confucianism And Taoism

As the unique genre of Chinese films,martial arts film keep developing with the Chinese traditional cultural,and it nearly going with the whole development history of Chinese film.Keeping the traditional ethics ideology as the spirit core,which is the key point of the genre's long lasting,expressing a national spirit of fearlessness,responsibility on the country and people,and freedom.This kind of value,which is build with the influence of Confucianism and Taoism from generation to generation inseparably.It is because of this elegance eastern spirituality that full of the temperament of literati,no matter Chinese audience or western audience,can accept and enjoy the martial arts film,and keep remembering in mind.But now,the fast-food culture of entertainment first becomes the mainstream of Chinese film market,martial arts as a theme that can offer variety of visual element,is also being the basic of many film's creation.Compare with the martial arts film of the last century,these kinds of similar martial arts film in the new age have more fresh and bold trying under the development of technology and so on,becoming increasingly “looks good”,earning the commercial success.However,certain films like that are not so good at the exportation of martial culture,making audience difficult to resonate with.This thesis is meant to discuss the fundamental reason of this kind of regrettable dislocation,analyzing Confucianism and Taoism,the component of martial arts film and current situation of martial arts film by three parts,elaborating the center value of being forward or being withdrawal reasonably,arriving the conclusion of knowing about the duality of Confucianism and Taoism can control the martial arts film making more accurately.