比较中美电影中英雄主义的特点

Comparison of Heroism Features in American and Chinese

Movies

——In cases of Iron Man and Hero Introduction

Hero worship exists in almost every culture. Corresponding to the hero worship, heroism represents the pursuit of particular social culture ,and to a certain extent,it affects the development of the society. Different cultural definitions of heroism, definitely, vary from one another.About American hero films, audiences are very familiar with Iron Man,Spider Man ,Bat Man and so on. Chinese films also has a lot of films, such as Crouching Tiger, Hidden

Dragon ,Hero. These shaped heros all hold the same characteristics of great spirit, courage and keen insight. However, virtually, different heroic images of the films of Chinese and American embody the views on the diversified definitions of hero and two kinds of culture.

Comparison of Heroism Features in American and Chinese Movies Heroism Features in American

American movies show a unique attractive personality in all characters of hero. Owing to desire of freedom, which origins from western sense of liberal values,Ameracan stress individuals and personal values. For example, in Iron Man , Tony Stark in front of all the members of congress with a victory gesture says “Because I’m your nuclear deterrent. It’s woking. We’re safe. Ameracan is

secure.You want my property?You can’t have it. But I did you a big favour.I’ve successfully privatized world peace.”So American heroes represent saviors, born in order to save the world, but they only do matters with their own will, not considering secular views. Therefore, American hero is apt to individualism.

In addition, the hero of the American film has the following four characteristics.

To begin with,Ameracan heroes are ordinary people having common feelings. They aiso would suffer from failure in love, as well as lose their temper,and sometimes even be embarrassed. No matter how hero he is,firstly, he is a person who keeps some shortcomings. As an old saying goes "No man is perfect".From Iron Man,we can see that Tony Stark in the beginning of the movie admited that: "I mean, let ‘s face it, I’m not the heronic type.A laundry list of character defects. All the mistakes I’ve made,largely public.The truth is I am iron man.”

It is that because characteristics of the heroes are very close to ordinary people, which makes them more real.

Further more , hero in the bottom of American hearts should cherish both his spouse and friends. Americans are not fond of the people who lack of the sense of responsibility to family and friends. This reflects the American damand of harmonious family. Tony Stark only love Pepper potts,a charming lady, even surrounded by all kinds of betiauful women. To his friends, he respects and trusts them, even as his one friend ,Rhodey,misunderstand him that leads