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The brief introduction of Kung Fu PandaKung Fu Panda is a 2008 American computer-animated action comedy Chinese kung fu film directed by John Stevenson and Mark Osborne. The film is based on the background of Chinese ancient, the landscape, scenery, costumes and even the food are full of Chinese elements. The film is telling us a story about a clumsy panda determined to become a kung fu master. The Kung Fu Panda is a Hollywood blockbuster with excellent box office favorable reviews from critics and much of the movie-going public all over the world. Meanwhile, it has also received over a dozen world-class awards, so we can say that it has win double bumper harvest of box office and public praise.The analysis of Chinese elements in Kung Fu PandaThe main line of the story revolves a fat, clumsy but smart panda who names Po, and he is a kung fu fanatic who idolizes the Furious Five—Tigress, Monkey, Mantis, Viper, and Crane—a quintet of kung fu master. Accidentally, Po becomes the dragon warrior, who needs to shoulder the responsibility to against Tai Lung and protect the Valley of Peace. At the very beginning, nobody believes that Po could do that, Shifu, however, discovers that Po is capable of impressive physical feats when motivated by food. Using food as positive reinforcement, Shifu successfully trains Po to incorporate these feats into an effective kung fu style. Finally, Po saves the Valley of Peace. Through a humorous way, the film shows a ordinary people become a savior, in the film wooden home furnishings, antique flavor Shijing street, fairyland scenery, Chinese elements can be found everywhere, which has undoubtedly made audiences around the world witness a perfect merge of Hollywood movie and Chinese culture. From the name of the film, Kung Fu Panda has revealed the strong Chinese culture, the author employs his unique perspective and approach to connect two seemingly unrelated names together. Kung Fu is a special term created by Bruce Lee, while mentioning this term, westerners tend to associate Chinese warriors’ flying up and down fighting scenes, admire and worship them most of the time. Panda, as is known to all, is our national animal, which can be seen in both Olympic mascot and Chinese brand trademarks. Panda has even become a diplomatic mean and played the role of peace ambassador. Westerners are obviously very familiar with the two elements, and this is also the box office guarantee of Kung Fu Panda.Although it is the familiar Chinese element, it seems not easy to make Westerners who are accustomed to using thermal weapon understand how Chinese Kung Fu can turn a simple weapon into a sharp weapon. Kung Fu Panda is the film which leads those who do not understand Kung Fu experiencing how Po becoming a kung fu master who does not know kung fu at all at the very beginning. To make audience better understood, and also in line with the position of comedy animation. This film has weakened some substantive parts of Kung Fu, which has become a very broad concept of symbol. However, Po, ultimately becomes a panda who gains kung fu and always fight with others from a clumsy fat image. In the film, kung fu and flexible cuff and kick are equated, instead of reflecting the true meaning of Chinese Kung Fu, we could see that the Chinese element Kung Fu has already westernized.In addition, about this China’s native panda, both his act and speak are full of American humor in this film. For example, there is a scene in the film, Po is attempting his effort to climb up to the top of the mountain, when he says that he is almost there, The camera then panned out to show that he is just not very far away from the starting point. In the film, we can see multiple processing methods to successfully shape Po and Shifu’s characters, which has reflected typical American humor. China’s native panda ultimately becomes an American character. Of course, the figure processing is required, because Kung Fu Panda is a cartoon, its protagonist must be cute and adorable. While, in China, the interpretation of Panda is always a simple and honest precious national treasure. National treasure is the key point, strict protection and the panda's significance has risen to the diplomatic level, which making Chinese to treasure panda and also create a sense of distance to it. This film has simplified panda as the China’s characteristic symbol and weakened its definition of national treasure. Po, a fat panda, who is a noodle seller, will not generate a sense of distance. We could see that Po is not a China’s characteristic symbol, but a real American lineage panda that could speak English, has a sense of American humor.If you observe Po carefully, you could even find out that the China’s dragon warrior has a pair of blue eyes.The westernized essence of Kung Fu PandaKung Fu Panda is based on the background of Chinese ancient, which is full of strong oriental flavor and the ancient oriental charm. In fact, Chinese elements in the film have only retained its outer form, while the spiritual connotation of this story is the production of Hollywood westernized interpretation. This description is just like a Chinese who is born in America, even he has the Chinese appearance, but with American thinking.We could see the essence through the surface of the story, Kung Fu Panda, in fact presents an American heroism story, which shares the similar essence with Superman and Batman, all of these films are showing that heroes have extraordinary ability, finally the justice side save the world by using his own power. The ending of Kung Fu Panda is that Po ultimately defeats Tai Lung without any help of Shifu and his friends, and finally attains inner peace with the valley safe once more. This is the marrow of American heroism, there are always have the justice and the evil, when the evil will overwhelm the justice, there must be someone assuming responsibility to against the evil, and in the final battle the justice side will win the evil. A lot of Hollywood scifiaction films have the conclusion. Nevertheless, these are not coinciding with the thought of China’s traditional martial, which pursues self-cultivation rather than victory in the confrontation.In conclusion, Kung Fu Panda has shown Chinese elements, yet it is still the image built by Hollywood. Specifically speaking, Po accords with the film protagonists are always with not excellent character in the beginning, while Kung Fu can be treated as the China oriented super capacity, which is hero out of ordinary nature, just as Spider man could spin and Superman could fly. However, both Kung Fu and Panda are all the Chinese representation affected by Western values, the real connotation is American personal heroism.。