两种说谎的艺术——欧美影片主体定位比较

Two kinds of art of telling lies: the subject orientations of Europe's and America's movies

由电影《铁皮鼓》和《阿甘正传》可以看出,欧洲电影在理智主义哲学和高级宫廷气派中成长起来,贵族传统和贵族心态源远流长,具有一种精英式的审美奢侈;而美国作为一个没有多少历史旧梦的世俗共和国,其文化形态是去中心的,平等主义和自由主义使得通俗的大众心态在好莱坞占据了强势位置。

This paper compared the subject orientations between Europe's and America's directors through analyzing Die Blechtrommel and Forrest Gump, and from which started to ascend their aesthetics traditions. Europe's movies developed in the atmosphere of intellectualism and royal court, and had a royal tradition and royal attitude, thus having aesthetics attitude of elite style. However, as an secularism republic without any historic glory, America has an eccentric culture, egalitarian and liberalism cultivated the populace attitude dominating Hollywood. Both elite attitude and populace attitude have their own advantages and disadvantages. This kind of comparison' aim is to seek for the possible development for movies in the broad area between extreme characters of the two kinds of movies.