当代中国科幻电影中的外国人形象

The Image of Foreigners in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction Films

当代中国科幻电影中的外国人通常都不是创作者精心刻画的中心人物,而是作为次要角色发挥功能性作用。他们更像是当时社会中的集体观念的无意识流露,因而是考察当代中国社会中的世界观念和自我观念变迁的窗口。在1958年的《十三陵水库畅想曲》中,世界被想象为“两大阵营”,中国在其中的位置明确而坚定。到了1980年的《珊瑚岛上的死光》中,外部敌人被做了模糊化、去政治化的处理,体现出改革开放初期中国积极拥抱世界的姿态。而在2019年的《疯狂的外星人》和《流浪地球》中,美国英雄成为被明显或隐晦地调侃和解构的对象,这表露出当前中国社会中普遍存在的对现实和文化领域中由美国主导的“强势规则”的不满,以及试图打破这种规则的冲动。

The foreigners in Contemporary Chinese science fiction films are usually not the central characters depicted by the creators,but play functional actions as secondary roles.They are more like the unconscious revelation of the collective ideas in the society at that time,and provided a window to investigate the changes of world concept and self-concept in Contemporary Chinese society.In Ballad of the Ming Tombs Reservior(1958),the world was imagined as“two camps”,in which China’s position was clear and firm.In Dead Coral Island(1980),the external enemies were blurred and depoliticized,reflecting China’s active embrace of the world in the early days of Reform and Opening-up.In Crazy Aliens and The Wandering Earth released in 2019,American heroes have become the object of ridicule and deconstruction,which shows the widespread dissatisfactions with the“strong rules”dominated by the United States in the real and cultural fields,as well as the impulses to try to break these rules.