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Chinese Martial Arts Movie and Religious Ethic

Leilei Jia

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Dissimilar to Hollywood movie, Chinese martial arts movie adheres to traditional dualistic contradictory narrative structure of movie. Due to intervention by religions, the third power emerged in narrative system of Chinese movie, which has changed dualistic narrative pattern, as well as spiritual mode of martial arts movie. Chinese martial arts movie subtly combines religious ethic with narrative scene, and religious ethic, showing reasonable moral grounds for justicial power, indicates complex of stand aloof from worldly affairs against violence by converting, resulting in cultural spirit of Chinese martial arts movie developing a school of its own among history of International action movies.

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Dissimilar to Hollywood movie, Chinese martial arts movie adheres to traditional dualistic contradictory narrative structure of movie. Due to intervention by religions, the third power emerged in narrative system of Chinese movie, which has changed dualistic narrative pattern, as well as spiritual mode of martial arts movie. Chinese martial arts movie subtly combines religious ethic with narrative scene, and religious ethic, showing reasonable moral grounds for justicial power, indicates complex of stand aloof from worldly affairs against violence by converting, resulting in cultural spirit of Chinese martial arts movie developing a school of its own among history of International action movies.

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Dissimilar to Hollywood movie, Chinese martial arts movie adheres to traditional dualistic contradictory narrative structure of movie. Due to intervention by religions, the third power emerged in narrative system of Chinese movie, which has changed dualistic narrative pattern, as well as spiritual mode of martial arts movie. Chinese martial arts movie subtly combines religious ethic with narrative scene, and religious ethic, showing reasonable moral grounds for justicial power, indicates complex of stand aloof from worldly affairs against violence by converting, resulting in cultural spirit of Chinese martial arts movie developing a school of its own among history of International action movies.

Key concepts: Martial arts, Narrative, Hollywood, Aesthetics, Sociology, Power (physics), Mode (computer interface), The arts

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