The Chinese people today are paying more attention to the Hollywood and British movies than their own movies. Especially since China opened international gate to the world, many Hollywood and British movies have been imported in China. Not only the government but also the teenagers of Junior and Senior High School can employ different means to enjoy the movies. People in China can be easier enjoy the cinema from their home without going out. Beside that, the teachers and students of English major can utilize this facilities such as the countless western newly produced movie. Watching English movies is an effective way of improving our listening skill and also to get knowledge about western culture from that movies directly. This is the best chance for both teachers and students by taking the advantages of studying and teaching English.
The Hollywood movies have aesthetic function which give much effects to the audience.British and Hollywood movies have the positive effects for the Chinese people. The English movies, especially Hollywood movies have the aesthetic function. It is the products of multi-media, can give people a kind of audio-visual shock. For example the famous Hollywood movie is titanic. This movie is very great. All people can not refuse to enjoy the aesthetic feast. All people have to admit it. They were shocked and moved by the love story. It also provides us with a beauty with the help of the latest technology.
Today, the effects of Hollywood and British movies have been felt by all people in China.The British and Hollywood movies tell the audience about the different aspects than the other movies in the world. These movies contain the western life style and have conveyed their ideas and values to all people in China. Hollywood and British movies give big effects to all Chinese audience, as the cultural career, many aspects have been given by those movies. The western life style is more and more widely accepted by Chinese people, especially the teenager and it also affects our daily life a lot.
The Chinese people prefer consume the western food than the Chinese food.Today, most of teenager in China like to go to KFC of western food than go to Chinese food restaurant. This is one example of the effects of western culture in China. In china, many western food such as fast food like hamburger, sandwiches, and chips which have considered as junk food in the west, have become the most delicious and favorite food for Chinese people. The most life style has been imitated by most Chinese intellectuals. They change the Chinese culture for example, hen they want to meet their old friend, last time they met at home or in restaurant, but today, they like to meet their friend in bar or in a club. They like better enjoy the kind of atmosphere and taste than keep they own culture.
The Hollywood movies can change the culture of Chinese people in several aspects. The Chinese people leave their old clothing and now pay more attention to the west life style such as brand, fashion, trend and etc. it is so different with twenty or thirty years ago, Chinese people dressed in blue or grey which is their own culture. When we watch Hollywood movies, we know more political ideas belong to USA and Great Britain. Beside that, these movies act as bridges between the east and the west which Chinese people can know and understand the different aspects of their cultures. They are also a means of communication.
Historical function of Hollywood movies tell the audience about the western culture. When we see the Hollywood movies, we will know the western cultures and the fact without realizing it, we are copying some of their life style. We should see from different sides, when we saw difference ofthe blue and the graymovies,we got to know the period of time in American history. The Chinese people indirectly learn more about the history of Great Britain and the other western histories.
The Chinese people can get the advantages by learning the social and moral function of Hollywood movies. These movies tell their ideas and values to the audience. They are paying more attention to give the story about individual. They tend to tell us the life of individual and way of his living. The Chinese people can know about democracy, freedom, and universal love from watching Hollywood movies especially in the United States. Beside that, they can learn about the history and the know more about the American society and the world. Beside that, the Chinese people can differentiate between the social and moral function of the Hollywood movies.
The violence scenes influence the character of Chinese people in many aspects especially for children. The Hollywood movies give the negative effects for Chinese people which can not be denied. For example, the violence become the most serious social phenomenon that reflected in Hollywood movies. In reality, the spread of western cultures have been coming with violent scenes together. Those are shown in the Hollywood movies of “007” when one of the students said that although he got the information from that movie but he had said that 007 was the most typical violent movie. So, the Hollywood movies give the bad values for the audience. Besides, those are shown in the cinema of China, more and more violent scenes, terrorist scenes, and the movies of violent crime have been crammed before the eyes of Chinese audience. In the Hollywood movies show the bad characters to the audience such as killing, murdering with shotguns, and extremely cruel mean. Those condition make us unable to continue seeing them because the children usually will behave like that even their doll and toys and learn to solve problem by violence after seeing such movies.
The bad cultures of western movies have changed the Chinese people’s behavior in several aspects. The western movies make the Chinese people’s moral declined because they are full of sexual scenes such as bareness and sex. It can not be denied moreover recently condition, more and more young people in China begin to pay less attention to their sexual behavior. The sexual relationship has been common culture before getting marriage. Absolutely it does challenge the Chinese tradition moral and values. Besides, the western movies had brought the freedom of the sex to China. There are some Hollywood movies that have many problems such as porno, coprology, canals, and one-night love emerged and became prevalent.
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