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1、<p><b> Contents</b></p><p> Abstract.....................................................................................................2</p><p> Introduction3</p>
2、<p> I. The Origin and Development of Individual Heroism4</p><p> A. The Origin of Individual Heroism4</p><p> 1. The Frontier’s Time is the Key to Individual Heroism4</p><
3、p> 2. The Religion is the Reason4</p><p> 3. The Transcendentalism is the Guiding Thought5</p><p> 4. The Westward Movement is the Highlight5</p><p> 5. The “American Drea
4、m” is the conductor6</p><p> B. The Development of Individual Heroism6</p><p> 1. In Cultural Development6</p><p> 2. In Terms of Economic development8</p><p>
5、3. The Influence from Politics9</p><p> II. Individual Heroism in the Character of Taken10</p><p> A. Brief Introduction about Taken10</p><p> B. Justice12</p><p&g
6、t; C. Bravery12</p><p> D. Kinship12</p><p> Conclusion13</p><p><b> Notes15</b></p><p> Acknowledgements16</p><p> A Brief Analysis
7、 about American Individual Heroism from Taken Movies</p><p> Abstract: The movie is a cultural carrier of a country, which propagates the national culture and reflects the dominant value of whole nations. T
8、he United States is a warm worship personal heroism country. With the core of the superheroes in Hollywood movies, it has the responsibility to promote the major value throughout the country and the world. This paper is
9、going to discuss the origin and the development of the individual heroism, and at the same time, expounds the American individual heroi</p><p> Key Words: Hollywood movies; American individual heroism; just
10、ice; bravery; kinship</p><p> 簡析美國電影中的美國個人英雄行為</p><p> 摘要:電影是一個國家的文化載體,宣傳其民族文化及其主流價值觀。美國是一個及其崇拜個人英雄主義的國家。所以以超級英雄為核心的好萊塢電影有責任將這一價值觀傳播給全美國及世界觀眾。本文將在分析個人英雄主義起源及發(fā)展的同時,以電影颶風營救出發(fā),從個人主義,勇敢,親情三個方面來闡述美
11、式個人英雄主義。</p><p> 關(guān)鍵詞:好萊塢電影;個人英雄主義;正義;勇敢;親情</p><p> A Brief Analysis about American Individual Heroism from Taken Movies</p><p> Introduction</p><p> Movie is a very
12、 popular form of art that are approved by people widely. Meanwhile, it is also an very effective way to disseminate the national culture and values to the audience and impact their behavior and thinking. Tian Wei pointed
13、 out that movie is not only as an entertainment at all, but surpasses the amusement and profit. In addition, he also suggested that the culture and main values of a country can be depicted in its movie.1 In America, the
14、individual heroism is admired by most of peop</p><p> For the American individual heroism, different assessments, which are not only all good but also bad, held by different scholars. On the one hand, high
15、proportion of people are in favor of this value, because they think under this value system, the human’s personal character will be fully respected. Lu Qian figured out that the superheroes were messenger of justice in v
16、ast majority of Hollywood movies and guardians of conscience. Besides, they fought against the evil and pursued the bright futur</p><p> This thesis is going to focus on the origin and development of indivi
17、dual heroism and from the perspective of Taken to explain the American individual heroism based on the three areas, embodied justice, bravery and kinship.</p><p> I. The Origin and Development of Individual
18、 Heroism </p><p> It is well known that any doctrine has its own origin and development. Thus, the individual heroism also originate from some important events that may give the great influence to America.
19、As for the development, many reasons can be taken into consideration, such as culture, economic, politics and etc. For the origin and development, different scholars hold different views. Therefore, the origin and develo
20、pment of individual heroism of America are going to be discussed below.</p><p> A. The Origin of Individual Heroism </p><p> 1. The Frontier’s Time is the Key to Individual Heroism</p>
21、<p> America is a emerging nation that are made of by immigrants who were from all over the world. However, the first settlers were from Europe mostly and they are almost all puritans who were persecuted for religi
22、on in Europe. Zhou Xiaoxin believed that because of these nonsense oppress, they had a strong desire to go to a new continent to seek the new life. Yet when they had arrived there, they found it is very difficult to recl
23、aim this undeveloped land. Under this kind of circumstance, a superhero</p><p> The Religion is the Reason</p><p> Based on the above mentioned, the first emigrants were mostly puritans. As th
24、e pathfinders of American history, they proved that the human can save themselves through the hard work and fighting continuously. Wang Xiaojun revealed that the puritans demonstrate their principle that people can rescu
25、e themselves by their endeavor to the world from their own example. Although this thoughts had been praised excessively by the modern Americans and even came out a trend that they will force others to ac</p><p
26、> The Transcendentalism is the Guiding Thought </p><p> The Americans hold the very strong individual personality, they think that they are quite unique and most important. As for the reason of this
27、thinking, the transcendentalism maybe is a very leading factor. The transcendentalism is a philosophy and literature movement, sprang up in the late 1820s and the 1830s at the New England Region and led by Emerson and Th
28、oreau. According to WIKIPEDIA, the disciple of the transcendentalism believed that when they are truly self-reliant and independent, they</p><p> The Westward Movement is the Highlight</p><p>
29、 The Westward Movement can be defined as the movement that start from the independence of America to the Civil War and is a colonial expansion from the East to the West along the Atlantic Ocean. It is a great factor to A
30、merican history and not only has huge influence on the extension of the territory of this country, but also play a leading role in the culture. Deng June Pointed our in the process of Westward Movement, the individual he
31、roism had been developed tremendously. At first, when people</p><p> The “American Dream” is the conductor</p><p> It is hard to give a clear definition about “American Dream”. Actually, this
32、 concept may could be explained as a principle that human must strive by themselves all the time whatever there were any hardships or difficulties on condition that they want to achieve their own dreams. In addition, Ada
33、ms and James Tmslow set a conception about “American Dream” in their book at 1931, it is elaborated in this way that in fascinated America, everyone would live a better, richer and more comfortable life. </p><
34、p> B. The Development of Individual Heroism</p><p> After an value was formed, it must go through a series of developments and changes. Then it will become a mature value and be accepted by the people.
35、So does same as the individual heroism, it is not be admired by the Americans as it turn up at the very beginning. As the core value of a country, its influence not only reflected in a single aspect, but in every field t
36、hat may play a decisive role in a country. Individual heroism as the main value of American, its impact has permeate various domai</p><p> In Cultural Development</p><p> As a national thought
37、, its essence is a kind of culture or it can be said that involved in culture. And the culture also is a very wide concept and it contains abundant aspects. However, it is cannot be denied that the individual heroism did
38、 bring great influence to the culture and it also received the enormous development from all aspects of culture. Because this thesis is going to focus on the individual heroism from the Hollywood movies. Therefore, for t
39、he development of this thought in the c</p><p> The movie, as a form of entertainment, has been accepted largely by the public in modern society. The modern people mostly have a lot of pressure whatever in
40、works or life, even study, especially the young generation. So, it is inevitably that they need find a place to relax themselves and release the stress. Apparently, the cinema has became the very perfect place for them t
41、o go. Because in the cinema, they can throw them into the atmosphere of the movies and even become another man following t</p><p> In recent years, Hollywood movies has swept over the globe. As mentioned be
42、fore, the movie has obligation to show the value to the viewers. And the individual heroism is the one of the core values of America. Hence, this value became a trend in the Hollywood movies. Yet it is not a new trend in
43、 the Hollywood movies, it came out early in the movie. As time goes by and the movie become more and more popular, this trend recognized by people little by little. Liu Jieliang indicated that the superman</p><
44、;p> In Terms of Economic development</p><p> Since the first World War, the American economy was gave the rapid development and often rank the first place in the world. That’s the reason why the America
45、n people feel proud of their country. However, the American economy not always so strong that cannot be shake, it also has the difficult times. For example, the Great Depression and the period about the Economical Crisis
46、 in 2008 both gave the huge attack to America. Because of these strikes, the order of the American domestic economy has bee</p><p> Next is the Great Depression, the very difficult time for the Americans an
47、d also the era that the individual heroism grew rapidly. The Great Depression happened in the 1930s, at that time, the people’s life was dispute by the Economic Crisis totally. They have no job, no money to let them get
48、a comfortable life as before and their heart had been shocked tremendously and lost the faith to the life and need a hero to help them to get out this difficult situation. As a result, in order to alleviate</p>&l
49、t;p> Then, the period after the second World War also have to mentioned in the development of the individual heroism. After the second World War, the American Economy began to revive, but influenced by the war, the p
50、eople’s heart feel empty and they need some external stimuli. Hence, a lot of heroin movies came out, such as the most presented Superman which has impacted several generations. Besides this typical times, there’s also r
51、epresentative era that the individual heroism has grow rapidly, inclu</p><p> The Influence from Politics</p><p> Since the disintegration of the Soviet Union, America has became the single su
52、perpower in the world that no country can compete with. So, the American’s political position has promoted a lot than before. But if America wanted to consolidate it’s position, it needed to convinced the world to recogn
53、ize its political value and accept it. As for political values, the America has kinds of values for different countries and regions, but the one of the main values still should be the individual heroism</p><p&
54、gt; In Hollywood movies, the heroes who can save the world were all from America and only them can save the earth and protect the people. There are a lot of examples, the most obvious is in American Captain and The Amaz
55、ing Spider-Man, the hero represented America by wearing the red and blue suit. Hence, in the movies, it is also implicated that the magnificent feat that the hero save the world just can be done by America. Meanwhile, al
56、l the plots, such as disasters appeared in the movie or event tha</p><p> In fact, some big event had been mentioned in the economical development, such as two World Wars, the Great Depression and the disin
57、tegration of Soviet Union. These political event did bring the first hand material for the movies and also give the huge space for the development for the individual heroism. The most significant matter should be the Fir
58、st World War, because America as the victors received reparations of war and sold many munitions to other countries. Through such kind of way, this </p><p> II. Individual Heroism in the Character of Taken&
59、lt;/p><p> A. Brief Introduction about Taken</p><p> From 2008 to now, three Taken movies have been produced. They are Taken I, Taken II and Taken III which all wrote by Luc Besson who is the dir
60、ector of The Professional, which is the very famous individual heroism movie. Besides, they are all stirring by Liam Neeson who is the heroin in lots of action films that including large number of heroic movies, such as
61、Darkman, Battleship and etc.</p><p> In Taken I, it told a story about the a retired agent saved his daughter from the kidnapper. Bryan is a retired agent and he wanted to become a qualified father to his d
62、aughter, named Kim and his ex-wife. Because his daughter wanted to be a singer, so he bought karaoke machine to her and took the job as guardian for a singer to help his daughter to achieve her dream. However, his daught
63、er who was just seventeen wanted to go Paris with her friend and ignored his father’s objection. It made Bryan </p><p> In Taken II, in last episode, In order to rescue his daughter, Bryan killed a lot of m
64、ember of the criminal gang from Albania who decide to revenge. Therefore, when Bryan and his family went to Turkey for vacation, they ready to kill them both to revenge. And the first victim is Bryan’s wife, they wanted
65、to kidnapped her to force Bryan to give up. But they underestimated the ability that Bryan have, for the sake of saving his wife, Bryan fought against with these monsters again. Finally, he resc</p><p> In
66、Taken III,Bryan and his wife were back together. Unfortunately, his wife was murdered and he was set up by the real murderer. All the police were called together to after him, so he had to run and figured out who set him
67、 up. Meanwhile he also had to protect his daughter. In the process of escape, he depended on his strong capability and the love for his family and bravery that the normal people may not able to think, he captured the rea
68、l killer and proved his innocence.</p><p> The above is the brief introduction about Taken, and the obvious characteristics of individual heroism that presented in the movie will be explained in the below.
69、In fact, in this movie, a lot of characteristics had showed, such as individualism and etc. However, there are three most obvious characteristics are going to be discussed in the below, they are justice, bravery and kins
70、hip.</p><p> B. Justice</p><p> When mentioned individual heroism, the justice is a feature that have to come up with to discuss. Justice, as the most symbolic characteristic, almost showed in
71、 every Hollywood heroic movie, no exception in Taken. From Taken I to Taken III, Bryan always fight with the criminal gangs or the evil power. For example, in Taken I, Bryan gave a lesson to his friends who try to far aw
72、ay from the criminal gangs to keep his officials. In addition, Bryan also fought with the evil power, which is a very da</p><p> C. Bravery</p><p> Bravery is same as the justice that is a ver
73、y obvious characteristic in the heroine movies. In Taken, there is a large number of plot, in which showed the hero’s bravery. For instance, In Taken I, Bryan took his daughter out of the danger by himself. In the proces
74、s, he met many unimaginable difficulties that the normal people may couldn’t overcome. It is believed that he fought with the entire criminal gangs by himself alone. Though he was injured, he still not give up until save
75、d his daughter. </p><p> D. Kinship</p><p> Different from other traditional individual heroism movies, kinship is a very clear feature in Taken and even can be regard as the key of this movie
76、. Although in most Hollywood heroic movies, the hero usually alone and no family or friends, he fought for all the people or protected the whole world. Alternatively, he had someone closed, but he would hide them very ca
77、utiously and didn’t let them become the weak points, which maybe were threaten by the evil power. However, there was always a belief</p><p> From this plot, it is not hard to see that kinship is a very stap
78、le feature that the director want show to the viewer. Meanwhile, the director may also like to tell the audience that heroes also are normal people at some time. They also need the care from family and support from the f
79、riends. Maybe that is the reason that kinship as a clear feature was put in this movie. </p><p> Conclusion</p><p> Individual heroism is a cultural phenomenon praised highly by Americans and
80、also is one of the traditional main values in America. Although it was not accepted by everyone, there’s one point that cannot be denied that it has became a relatively mature after continuous developments and changes. M
81、eanwhile, as a mainstream cultural value of a country, it needs platform to transform to the citizens and persuade them to approve. Therefore, Hollywood movies were selected as an very effective means to </p><
82、p> This thesis started from the origin and development of individual heroism, discussed Taken surrounded the individual heroism embodied in the characters, which are justice, kinship and bravery. From these presented
83、 features, this article intends to help people better understand this classical idea at some extent, though there still exist some weak points.</p><p><b> Notes</b></p><p> 1. Tian
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85、萊塢大片折射出的美國價值觀.[J]電影文學(xué), 2013(12)</p><p> 4. 周曉昕. 美國人的個人主義價值觀. 教育界, 2014(10)</p><p> 5. 王曉俊. 試論美國個人主義價值觀的根源. 河南商業(yè)高等??茖W(xué)校學(xué)報, 2010(2)</p><p> 6. Carl N.Degler, Out of Our Past, 3rd ed
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89、achers in the Foreign Languages Department of Neijiang Normal University, to whom I owe much of my knowledge in the English language. However, my most sincere gratitude goes to my tutor Liu Zhiqun for her insightful crit
90、icisms, invaluable help and constant encouragement throughout the composition of my paper. This paper would never have been finished without her gracious patience and conscientious guidance. </p><p> I also
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