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Future Development Direction of Chinese Musical Film-By Comparing with the American Musical Film

Xinnian DuanCollege of Visual and Performing Arts, George Mason University, Fairfax Campus, VA, USA, 22032*

* Corresponding author: [email protected]

Abstract

With the emergence of musical films in mainland China in recent years, the narrative logic, story, song and dance of musical films cannot attract audiences. This paper is to discuss the future development trend of Chinese musical film. This research compares the advantages and disadvantages of the Chinese musical film The Day We Lit Up The Sky and the American classic musical film Chicago via case studies and literature review. Aiming at the aesthetic analysis of these two musical films, this paper discusses the content, theme, song and dance, awards, box office, audience analysis and so on. The research results show that the development of Chinese film industry is later than the United States and Europe, so there is still a lot of room for progress. This paper only analyzes two musical films with different area styles. Chinese musical films should break out of the conventional plot and use a lot of star cameos to attract audiences. The use of truly high standards of music, high quality dance, high level of art and unique film content to produce Chinese song and dance film, but also need to integrate its unique Chinese characteristics, culture and thought. The development trend of Chinese musical films in the future is to walk out of a road belonging to Chinese characteristics and find a positioning and direction that belongs to China, so as to make them different from Hollywood musical films and Bollywood.

Keywords: Musical films; aesthetic analysis; Broadway; Narrative; Audience
Published: May 17, 2023
DOI: 10.54254/2753-7064/3/20220108
Volume: CHR Vol.3
pp. 9-14
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