Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Chinese Cinema v.s. American Cinema

American Cinema has five different types of film styles, you have The Hollywood Style, The Western, Romantic Comedy, The Combat Film, and The Horror
The Hollywood Style is basically structure, narrative, and visual. Western films are shooting and control power. Romantic Comedy is the I Love You, but also have drama that make everybody laugh on life's reality. Combat Films are on WAR, government and political views. Horror films are the nightmares that you'll get, and stupid myths.
As for Chinese Cinema its all base on their tradition and fighting technique such as martial arts.
Style of making films are very much different. Even though there are similarities such as cut and paste. But Chinese filmmakers seldom use computers, they would usually shoot at three different angles and then combine them. While American filmmakers would shoot scene A and then scene D and go back to scene B to collaborate. Also American filmmakers would use computers to generate special effects.

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