Abstract: Under the situation of the ethnic globalization1; the movie, as a way of media, is just about the quick-launched bridge between the two edges in international social communication. The Hollywood toon movie-Kung Fu Panda2, a action comedy movie entitled with Chinese Kung Fu, shows the earth the allure of Chinese culture. Within the angle of social globalization, this article forms a final result of the revelations people can get by demonstrating the facts of Chinese elements and culture embodied in the film Kung Fu Panda.
Key words: ethnic globalization, Chinese language culture and elements, Kung Fu Panda
Kung Fu Panda is another cartoon film based upon the Chinese language culture following the movie Mu Lan that draws people' s focus on the Chinese traditional culture. Certainly, people can easily see the Chinese elements obviously from the name of this movie-Kung Fu Panda. "Kung Fu" and " panda", the two words are too important although they are not difficult nearly known by everybody. At first, Kung Fu is the quintessence of Chinese language culture; and the panda is the nationwide important treasure of China. If they are combined along as Kung Fu Panda has already been attractive enough to bring the people's attention. During the live show of the movie on earth, it has stirred a strong craze of learning Chinese culture in the whole world. The movie instructs a story of the fat lazy large panda that changes himself into a great a great Kung Fu get better at - a "Dragon Warrior". This dragon warrior grew up by a duck, and coached with a great Kung Fu master, WuGui ( a turtle). Although he lives a regular people's life, he has achieved a great fantasy by conserving the Tranquility Valley from the bad villainous snow leopard-Tai Lung. Within the ancient China, a standard panda, Po, eventually becomes a hero along with his strong will and unwavering faith-A real warrior never quits.
In this film, we can easily see lot of Chinese language cultural elements all over the place. Initially, what draws people's attention firmly would be that the distinctive creature panda. Although the panda, Po, in this film is a clumsy, nave and excess fat a pet. But beyond that, we can easily see the motivated and faithful features as well. The film manufacturer makes the panda, Po, a Kung Fu lover who's always dreaming to be always a warrior. The thought of letting a huge panda turn into a Dragon Warrior allows audience to give free rein with their imagination, which tightly keep audience's attention. As being a ambassador, the panda make s people far away more considering China and Chinese cultures.
Like the movie to create Kung Fu Dream, the Chinese Kung Fu in this film is also a typical symbol of Chinese language culture. The Chinese Kung Fu is said to be the most great point that push so many people at home and in another country to see Kung Fu Panda in cinemas. Absolutely, since Li Xiaolong, the first one who introduced the Chinese Kung Fu to the people on earth on screen a long time ago, more and more people have been keen on the powerful Wu Shu. In the movie, we can easily see all kings of Kung Fu, such as Tai Chi, the five elements boxing, 12-designed boxing, etc.
Although this can be a toon movie, the scenes in the animation film also show the Chinese Elements. All the props, sceneries and architectures in the film were created carefully in Chinese style. Firstly, the views in the animation film visually look like the Chinese language Monochromes. Besides, the mountains, rivers, old temples and residences altogether with all the other beautiful natural sceneries somehow remind the audience of the image of early China.
There is without doubt that the music is the Chinese element that go through the entire movie. What comes first is the starting melody -Hero, and then comes the sound of gongs performed by Qiang Di and real wood flute with graceful and restrained speech, each one of these things distribute a strong sense of Oriental attraction. The lively audio of Gu qin and XianZi, connected by a small section of the solo audio of the Duduk, makes people feel just like hearing the Chinese classical music. Although each one of these songs are sung in British, yet people can also sense the Chinese style in the music.
In spite of the whole history of the panda and how he defeat the bad, the Chinese language philosophical thinking is also embodied in a few sentences. In this film, the directors implicate Chinese language philosophical thoughts in some simple lines. For example, the professional Wu Gui in the film is a smart man. One of the most famous words distributed by get good at Wu Gui is the fact that "Yesterday is history; tomorrow is a puzzle; but today is something special. That is why we call it the present. " The term "present" has two meanings-"gift" and "at present". Here, the words are smartly used in order to a smart truth. In the movie, enlightened by the dragon scroll, the panda -Po also finally understand that he should be his own hero. Once someone is empowered to achieve anything he wishes, he has to set his head on it to be able to achieve his goals.
Also, there are still many other Chinese language cultural elements which are embodied in the film. For instance, the Chinese human relationships between your apprentices and masters in the Kung Fu Panda.
Above all, Kung Fu Panda is embodied with the typical Chinese language culture which comprises of a lot of things such as Chinese language people's diets, Chinese people's life styles, Chinese traditional medications and so on. What folks can study from this phenomenon? And just why the Kung Fu Panda isn't made in China ?
Cultural globalization is going on in today's world. As the social globalization spreads worldwide inevitably fast, countries are met with the clashes. If you are walking in the pavements, you will get the KFC and the McDonald's restaurants at nearly every corner of the street in most of the modern cities in China. You can even start to see the Starbuck located at the bottom of several office properties in big locations like Shanghai and Beijing in China. We can find some of foreign movie stars using the Chinese-style dress and celebrities wearing Chinese language Tang suit to wait the important meetings. To some extent, the Chinese festivals, food, music and art are also influencing the entire world. Therefore, it isn't surprised by any means for us to find a Hollywood Kung Fu Panda. From the Kung Fu Panda, the Hollywood DreamWorks successfully opened the largest market with never-ending business opportunity. Today, cultural globalization provides people a level to provide our Chinese language culture to depends upon. As we all know, there are so many Confucius Institutes in many countries where foreigners are learning Chinese culture, Chinese language and Chinese custom well. From this perspective, it could be seen that the cultural globalization can be an inevitable trend. Behaving rationally towards intercultural communication is the only real correct attitude towards cultural globalization. In the age of the fast spread of cultural globalization, the introduction of national culture more and more relies on other countries and the campaign of the other countries' cultures. Thus we Chinese language people should not only inherit our ancestors' valuable fortune-Chinese culture, but also make it recognized to the people on the globe.
Notes:
Cultural Globalization identifies the transmitting of ideas, meanings and values across national borders. Through the procedure of showing the ideas and worth of 1 culture to another ultimately brings about an interconnectedness between various populations from diverse ethnicities.
Kung Fu Panda is a 2008 American computer-animated action comedy film made by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by John Wayne Stevenson and Draw Osborne and made by Melissa Cobb. Set in a version of traditional China populated by anthropomorphic discussing animals, the story revolves around a bumbling panda called Po who aspires to be a kung fu expert. When an bad kung fu warrior is foretold to flee from prison, Po is unwittingly named the chosen one destined to bring calmness to the land, much to the chagrin of the citizen kung fu warriors.
