Fanciful Characters: A New Exploration On The Construction Of Character Images In Road Movies

Road movie is a type of film which can highly reflect the social ideological and cultural trend of thought.It was firstly born in the United States in the 1960 s.In the American society where the civil rights movement was booming then,the highway films represented by Easy rider and Bonnie and Clyde laid the core of this type of films: the rebellion and confrontation against the traditional social culture.W ith the end of the civil rights movement in the United States in the 1970 s,the road movies no longer take the responsibility of resisting the social system,but constantly integrate with other types of films.With the weakening of road elements,and the strengthening of love,suspense and other types of elements,the commercialization of highway films is getting higher and higher.Since the 1990s,most of the road films have become the type of films targeting at the middle class both at home and abroad,and their core has changed from rebellious confrontation to healing wounded hearts.Since the beginning of the 21 st century,especially in recent years,the social form has changed greatly.Sociologists represented by Ziegmant ·Bauman put forward the characteristics of "liquid modernity" of the current society.In this social context,the type mode of road movies is no longer fixed,and the characters have also stepped out of the stereotyped middle class images.In this paper,combined with a large number of highway film texts,in accordance with the development track of highway film,the evolution of highway film characters and the reasons behind it are explained;on this basis,the creation problems exposed in the image-portraying in current highway films are analyzed;finally,combined with the script creation practice,specific methods to strengthen the social attributes and artistic quality of highway film characters are proposed.