浅谈对电影《阿甘正传》人生观的分析

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摘 要

本文主要在于研究分析《阿甘正传》所折射出的人生观。在很多人眼里近乎“愚笨”的阿甘的行为当中,人们看到了一种久违的独立的人格,自由的精神,坚强的性格和现实的人生态度等诸多美德。透过欣赏电影、了解整个故事、借鉴前人对电影主题的研究,本文旨在根据电影里3个主要人物包括阿甘、珍妮和丹中尉的不同的生活方式和他们对待生活的态度,加上主人翁阿甘守诺和奉献的人生信条,以及通过对羽毛和巧克力的象征和隐喻反映出的人生信仰,从而分析《阿甘正传》这部电影所反映的人生主题:学会坚持,永不放弃。

关键词:《阿甘正传》;人生态度;人生信条;人生信仰

Contents

1. Introduction 1

2. Literature Review 2

2.1 The Introduction of Forrest Gump 2

2.2 Preview Study on Forrest Gump 4

3. The Reflections of Life in Forrest Gump 6

3.1 The Life Attitude in Forrest Gump 6

3.2 The Life Credo in Forrest Gump 9

3.3 The Life Faith in Forrest Gump--Never Give Up 11

4. Conclusion 13

Works Cited 15

1. Introduction

Since the late 1980s, people’s living standard has improved, recreation and leisure are also continuously enriched. With the further development of globalization and the deepening of international cultural exchange, the movie has become the most important tool to spread the culture, lifestyle and values, which is an important way for people to learn the foreign culture. Forrest Gump is very successful and it is the first English movie that college teacher recommended. Everyone can learn a lot from the main character—Gump. This thesis about the view of life in Forrest Gump tries to give some reference about the outlook on life and lay the foundation as future study and research of life theme.

Movie reflects the culture. It is a container of life. Movies can summarize the day of past, understand the day of now and look to the day of future (Ou Yangmin,2009:16-17). A good film, without any exception, is the mirror of a specific culture. From a movie, people can learn about the character and spirit of a country. Usually, what a film tries to express is more than the story itself, but the cultural messages reflected in each plot. The characters and their stories create a cultural scroll which can be perused from various aspects.

The thesis is divided it into three parts. The first is the Literature Review of Forrest Gump. On the review of the film, it simply and generally narrates the story of Gump. At the same time, summarizes the Preview Study on this film Forrest Gump.

The second part is about the reflections of life in Forrest Gump. It is manifested itself in three ways. It shows the life attitude of the main character. The life credo in Forrest Gump is also a term of it. “Life is like a box of chocolate, you never know what you are going to get”. What metaphor and symbol about faith it reflects?

The last part concludes the theme of Forrest Gump and tries to understand the influence of cultural values on language learners’ intercultural communicative awareness and competence through this film Forrest Gump and to learn how to develop cross-cultural awareness and further broad our international horizons.

2. Literature Review

All people who have watched this film may think that they never met anyone like Forrest Gump in this movie before, and never seen a movie like Forrest Gump. Any attempt to describe him will risk making the movie seem more conventional than it is, maybe it’s a comedy, or a drama, a dream.

2.1 The Introduction of Forrest Gump

The successful film Forrest Gump which is made based on the homonymy novel. The author of the novel is Winston Groom. Only the original work is that one is full of fantastic novels with a satiric flavor, but the film modifies and beautifies the story. Have abandoned the absurdity of the original work and revealed that satirizes meaning, have added a kind of tender feeling for the film. In the contention of the best picture of the 67th Oscar Award in 1995, the film Forrest Gump got six Awards , such as the best picture, the best actor , the best achievement in directing, adapting drama, the best achievement in film editing and the best visual effect, etc.

In 1994 the USA Paramount Pictures company produced the movie Forrest Gump is honored as one of the greatest films in twentieth Century by the Times magazine. The film that is also known as the fable of America reality, describes a story about a mentally retarded person made an amazing success on the road of life, which is a typical American personal struggle inspirational movie. The author thinks, this movie is a successful symbolic image work, it is not only a fable of American reality, and more is the fable of social life. Through the symbolic events and classic lines, the film completes the pondering and discussion on life and fate.

2.1.1 Plot Outline

Forrest Gump who is unfortunately to be born with a lower IQ and the muscle problem, usually, people always think this kind of person can’t be successful in doing anything. But, Gump has his own perseverance and keeps on running without any reason, JUST RUN. Instead, this unlucky man has achieved lots of incredible success, he is a football star, a war hero, and later a millionaire! Forrest Gump in movies is shaping as the incarnation of virtue, honesty and trustworthiness, conscientiously, a brave paying feeling, who knows only pay for not repay, also never mind other people refuse. He is open-minded, intimates facing life.

Family love, friendship and love is always the eternal topic in human history. The film just tells the things happened in Forrest Gump on the family love, friendship and love story around the background of the folly culture. He is handicap and has a low IQ, so people living in the town all are in the eyes of the strange look at Forrest Gump except Jenny who take care of him and love him by his side and who has warmed his heart by her pure girl feelings. Although Forrest Gump’s IQ is low, but he is so simple and with firm faith that he accomplished many things which normal people have never thought to do, and at last, he made remarkable achievement in sports, battlefield and market. Mr. Gump has his own perseverance and keeps on running without any reason, JUST RUN. He said: “Man has to look forward, and never encumbers by foretime. Maybe that is the meaning of running.” Say goodbye to foretime and don’t stay in-place. Although so many people in the world are used to following others and few people can stick to one thing, Mr. Gump does and becomes “GOD”. There is another character Lieutenant Dan. Dan lost his legs in Vietnam War. He said that his fate was death in war. However, Mr. Gump saved him and let him be alive. After losing legs, Dan was decadent and disgusted with life, complaining that Gump shouldn’t save him. When he adjusted his mind, living on fishing with Gump, he started to enjoy the wonderful life and thank Gump’s help.

2.1.2 The Related Characters

Gump represented the male main people of public toward and pray for all of the mainstream culture. Forrest Gump’s life is legendary. He does not complain that their mentally retarded, but the gift of God his talent on its head. In fact, Forrest Gump wants to tell us only cherish the loved ones around, lovers, and friends and care for each need a warm spirit soul. The fate drifts, but everyone can draw life curve. Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what to eat next taste road. Things change, but that everything is the fate of the arrangements.

Jenny Curran later becomes Gump’s wife. The name Jenny means the gift of God. Ironically Significance: Jenny movie hypocritical, rebellious and infected with all sorts of bad habits, such as alcoholism, drug abuse, sexual promiscuity, and finally died of AIDS. They can not find the value of life and Health the significance of the deposit. She worked hard, struggling, but later she began to give up their own selves, into for prostitutes. When Jenny finally found the true meaning of life suffered a lot has do not have the opportunity to enjoy all this, she was going to leave this world. Jenny is the era of the United States victim.

Lieutenant Dan is a military family, he is Gump’s comrade and even the best friend, he was rescued by Forrest Gump from a war, because of the heavy injuries, his legs were amputated, and he once lost confidence in life for a long time. Later, he became the mate of Gump’s Shrimp boat.

2.2 Preview Study on Forrest Gump

Thanks to the publication of the MOVIE LITERATURE, from the study, people find in the film, the protagonist Gump’s life course from 1950s to 1980s, reflecting the change America social trend of thought: from the fight against racial discrimination to the civil rights, from the antiwar movement to hippies, from woman’s liberation to feminist criticism and questioning racial discrimination. Thus, the American social values experienced unprecedented shocks and evolution. People began to pay attention to psychological factors, emphasizes the common values. In the movie, Forrest Gump seemingly “extraordinary,” but his perseverance, optimism, dedication and loyalty are recognized as virtues and mainstream consciousness by the American society. He is just an “ordinary” American, but every audience can see his shadow from his body (Sun Peng 2008:105-105).

According to the study of Journal of Henan Radio amp; TV University, Gump’s image successfully portrayed on the screen, his low IQ is highlighted his innocence and perseverance, which let the audience feel the warmth of the sunshine and rain in this turbulent era. The characters have experienced different misery and confusion, some even in the face of the spirit of collapse, but finally he returns to the normal track of life, and gets the perfect ending, and the story illustrates America the value of traditional culture (Chen Jing 2010:52-53).

On Li’s point of view, Forrest Gump is rightly famous for its use of digital technology to insert images of Gump into historical footage of real historical events. This allows the producers and directors to alter “history” as it is perceived and understood by the audience. At the same time as whitewashing the history of the American South and exculpating the reactionary Southern male. Forrest Gump attributes the troubles of American society to the radical movements of the 1960s. “People went to see it as a reaffirmation that the counterculture destroys human beings and basic values. Maybe being simple but good, and decent and romantic, is a lot better” (Li Nan 2012:180-181).

Form Tian’s research, she tries to call people’s attention to Gump’s spirit that people could learn through analysis about the character in the film Forrest Gump, and to illustrate that his spirit is still required nowadays. One of the most obvious and important characteristics of Forrest is his persistent attitude towards life. And just do it with a simple mind. Presently, most people may hear too much complaint but see less action. Someone may argue that Forrest did everything unconsciously since he didn’t have normal-level intelligence. But in spite of his low IQ, his simplicity, honesty, and integrity are no worse than any wise man (Tian Miao 2010:172-173).

Roger Ebert (1994) describes the reason why Forrest Gump is so magical .The movie is ingenious in taking Forrest on his tour of recent American history. The director, Robert Zemeckis, is experienced with the magic that special effects can do (his credits include the “Back To The Future” movies and “Who Framed Roger Rabbit”), and here he uses computerized visual legerdemain to place Gump in historic situations with actual people. As Forrest’s life becomes a guided tour of straight-arrow America, Jenny goes on a parallel tour of the counterculture. Eventually it becomes clear that Forrest and Jenny have covered all of the landmarks of recent cultural history, and the accommodation they arrived at in the end is like a dream of reconciliation for our society.

3. The Reflections of Life in Forrest Gump

Man can be destroyed but can never be defeated. Forrest is an ordinary man who makes series of extraordinary wonders. His secrets lie in firm confidence, strong determination and remarkable persistence, which is worth being learned from. Forest Gump’s story will forever inspire people on their way to success!

3.1 The Life Attitude in Forrest Gump

It is commendable that life does not fall into despair, but to guide people to think about how to establish a correct life attitude towards highly variable and unpredictable life course, and thus to grasp their own lives. Facing the vagaries of life, the movie has three types of representatives’ presage for three different attitudes towards life: as the recipient represented by Gump, Lieutenant Dan represented with suspicion, as well as a rebel representative to Jenny.

3.1.1 Forrest Gump’s Acceptance and Protest

Forrest Gump is the unperturbed recipient of fate. Forrest Gump’s success or that the most important factor of his peace life, lies in his overall attitude towards life is so safely: he was always able to calm embrace all the gift of fate, whether good or bad. Forrest Gump almost has no choice to obey all the rules, and he accepts all reality and just perseveres to do what he wanted. In the childhood, when he was bullied, he ran if he can not beat others and did not do unnecessary struggle.

“You do your very best now, Forrest.”

“I sure will, Mama.”

“What’s your sole purpose in this army?”

“To do whatever you tell me, Drill Sergeant!”

“Listen, you promise me something, O.K.? Just if you’re ever in trouble, don’t be brave. You just run, O.K.? Just run away.”

“O.K., Jenny.”

Forrest always follows someone else’s orders to do something, he remembered her mother’s teachings, obeyed Jenny’s exhortations, obeyed executive’s orders, he was often in a state of obedience, obey the fate of all the arrangements. He always put all the difficulties taken for granted, embrace that, but to gave him more courage and survival of life force, the result is that he is always better than others to live well.

Facing the Changeable life, the unpredictable fate, perhaps the most correct approach is to adapt to variable. He follows all that fate gives him, does not be discouraged, does not complain, does not insist, does not extravagant hope, puts everything taken for granted, readily accepts and does whatever things that he can do. Forrest Gump’s mother spoke some words before dying: “there is something in our lives that is destined to do, I do not know what it is, but I was destined to be your mom, I have done my best. “Actually, this is the best comment on Gump’s life: I do not know what fate is, I only do the things that I should do, and do my best. This idea is very similar with our traditional Taoist’s “inaction”. Gump like the Taoist sage is calm and quiet living in the chaotic world.

Forrest Gump generally shows the fresh and clean image, when he fights with a storm at sea, he appears indomitable rebel image, although he was a very unfortunate person. Usually, people always think that such a person can not be successful in the process of doing anything. However, on the contrary, it is because of his revolt against destiny, not yield that this unfortunate man made a lot of incredible success, he became a football star, a war hero and a millionaire!

Forrest Gump isn’t destined to an outstanding person. However, we believe that, God is equal to everyone. In early years, due to physical disability, Gump was often laughed at and played with. Jenny Curran, Who later became Gump’s unique lover, shouted to him that: “Run, run quickly!” At that time, no on knew that this simple sentences changed Gump’s life to a large extent. With amazing running speed, Gump joined in the football team and later the university. Eventually he graduated from the university successfully. Soon after that, he registered to take part in the Vietnam War. In the battlefield of Vietnam, Forrest Gump ran from danger to a shelter with his fast running. Surprisingly, when he realized that his friends were still in danger, he turned back to the battlefield to save them without hesitation. He not only saved his best friend Bubba, but also some other soldiers, which made him the distinguished guest of the president.

Gump is example-after returning home, he was met by President brings exploits. He then became a table tennis shoot spokesman, with the money earned from the start of the shrimp business. Many people say he is lucky, god sent a storm, the damage to peer shrimp boat. God is always preferred clinging person.

3.1.2 Jenny’s Treason

Jenny is a rebel. She has been in revolt against the fate of being an ordinary person, she is the true epitome of America Beat Generation. Sixties, Under the dual pressures of domestic and international, social conflicts is increasingly acute, people generally lost confidence in the government, lost their judging criteria to the value, and Spirit fall into extreme emptiness. People vent their inner anger to the society through their unique “hippies” way, away from family and the existing social system and went to an extreme that is why it is defined as the “Beat Generation” or called the “Lost Generation” by historians.

Jenny’s life is the true reflection of the American sixties rebellion thought. Her nude photos published on the “Playboy” cover; she became a striptease showgirl wandering with hippies, she participated in anti-war rallies, Her Sex life is so chaos including drug abuse, suicide. Finally, she got AIDS, even the doctor of that time didn’t know the name of the disease. The intent of her deviant behavior is to contend the inner psychological that not be accepted by society, against the society, against the fate this society imposes on her. In fact, at the every crossroads of historical changes, there are countless young people who want to grasp their own destiny attempt to find a breakthrough in rebellious life; however, the results after the hurt, the pain is to lick their wounds and return to that treason lives that now desire to own. Jenny ultimately, only back to Forrest’s arms, to get warm embrace from those who follow the fate before dying.

3.1.3 Lieutenant Dan’s Suspicion

Lieutenant Dan seriously doubts about the fate at the beginning. He believes he will be killed in battle like his grandparents. Unexpectedly, the fate play a joke on him: He could not be a martyr. Unfortunately he has to lose both legs. Dan was very ashamed and angry about he should survive with the disability body, but also violent and decadent because felt he did not get fair treatment. His vent strong dissatisfaction through all sorts of different forms: on the road, he cursed to passing vehicles; in the bar, frenetic alcoholism, smoking; in the red-light district, Free to play with a woman; in the storm, he shouted to God and directly denounce the injustice of God. Which shows the human that Gump as the representative confused mind - do they have their own destiny? If God dominates everything, but why let people has a personal will? People should follow God’s arrangement or let their willing work?

Without the Gump’s impact, he could really be so confused, amused, degenerate until he wasted his life. Then he joined the shrimp fleet, he rekindle enthusiasm for life, until succeeded in finding a life partner. Lieutenant Dan learned to calm from Forrest Gump eventually enabled him to smile in the face of God, swim in the sea calmly. Forrest Gump is the fate skeptics’ spiritual mentor, guide the skeptics towards the correct life path.

By contrast Forrest Gump and Jenny’s life, career, and by the change of Lieutenant Dan’s fate, director tells us that such a philosophy: facing the unpredictable future, the best attitude is indifferent face, resign oneself to adversity. Only in this way, everyone can afford the treacherous variation blow of fate and put the fate into own hands. Otherwise, everything just breaks against. But if you give up, God will not bless oneself. In face of the fate of God, people can only obedience, accept and pay all efforts.

3.2 The Life Credo in Forrest Gump

If say, Forrest Gump’s basic life attitude is indifferent facing all the hardships of life and the unpredictable future. Integrity and perseverance are the fundamental life credo of Gump’s. Because of the calm life attitude, Gump bravely walked on the precarious life road; And precisely because of two magic integrity and dedication, he can get the patronage of luck repeatedly.

3.2.1 Integrity

Integrity is a good quality of being honest. It is a fine virtue for everyone. A world without integrity is apathetic, as long as everyone is honest with people and pay sincere, and trust, friendship and respect will be harvested.

Forrest risked his life many times to return fire swirling battlefield and he rescued multiple comrades, as is to find “my best friend” Babu. Eventually, Babu still died in the battlefield. Later Gump retired and began to concentrate on the completion of Babu’s wish. Although encountered obstacles on the shrimp road, he still voyages everyday; although suffered hurricane, he also firmly rejected return. He chased the shrimp between life and death and eventually makes a big success. However, Forrest gave all the obtained to the Babu’s mother. All of this is for what? Just in order to achieve its commitment to Babu. Similarly, Forrest also keeps Lieutenant Dan’s promise. If the promise between Forrest Gump and Babu was solemnly, then, the promise between Forrest Gump and Lieutenant Dan even a little too casual. In Times Square, Forrest Gump relished his plan with depressed Lieutenant Dan: Once have money, he will buy a shrimp boat. Lieutenant Dan listened to scoff. Unexpectedly When the Forrest has boat, he really wrote to Lieutenant Dan, and let him a legless person to be his boat mate. For Lieutenant Dan, it is just a joke, however, Gump insist it is a solemn promise. A joke even created a new life for Lieutenant Dan just because of Gump’s trustworthiness.

Integrity always gives a miracle. This is the copies of intangible wealth is accumulated in the course of history many of man under the true meaning of life is good enough. Let’s integrity as a foundation to carry on the road, life journey will be more exciting. There is a good old saying “Life is a road good faith for the track, Oliver knows no boundaries repent and be saved.” Body aside deceit, hypocrisy, people will get back their dignity; polished gem of good faith, life will be full of glory; body Phi dressed in bright, a dedicated heart, with integrity of the road, will take all the way to Mars, to kindle a Star; with integrity, with great fanfare!

3.2.2 Dedication

This is a mutual world. People are getting help from each other and vice versa. Therefore, the spirit of dedication is not a rare thing in the world. People devote their time, money and even life to the cause, which is worth to sacrifice.

Forrest Gump’s run running through his whole success road has become the highest repetition rate lenses of the whole film. Regardless of how the time and space replaced, regardless of where all people are going, Forrest always concentrate and even desperate to run: from the discriminated against childhood to the talented university football field; from the war-torn Vietnam War to the ping pong diplomacy stadium; he was only running until enjoyed the human wonders of golden desert and the rosy clouds, Forrest Gump ran a success. “Run” has become the behavior throughout the film and as an important factor in building and promoting the development of the plot. Running is a symbol of Forrest Gump’s perseverance. The film is full of such deep structure: dedicated to detail, he set a firearms handling record; dedicated to diplomacy star; clinging to promises, he became a successful catch shrimp captain; Similarly, He is also obsessed with love. In order to realize their vision of a better freedom life, Jenny left him several times, however Forrest still never changed love for Jenny. It is Forrest Gump’s consistent pure love that let Jenny finally wake up to realize that the life I have been persuading is love with Forrest Gump.

From the film’s plot point of view. Run is also the synonym of Forrest’s life. Run is both a behavior and a way of thinking, it is a symbol of mankind’s positive behavior ability and a kind of initiative, perseverance spirit.

3.3 The Life Faith in Forrest Gump--Never Give Up

Life is just so uncertain, full of unpredictable changes. You never know what the next moment would be. So everyone should have a faith. Movies through metaphor and symbolism describe this world irregularities, and the situation of human existence is difficult to grasp. Fate relies on one’s own efforts. From this film, Gump shows his faith: never give up and stick to it.

3.3.1 The Symbol of A Drift Feather

Life is as a feather floating on the sky, how people arrange their life by their own way to grasp the fate. Movie digs out this grand theme-thinking of life through a symbol of wind drift feathers. At the beginning of the movie, a white feather floated from the distant and unknown sky, it waft over the city, drifted across the roof, over the trees, across the road, slowly over the surface of the car, and gently landed the protagonist Gump’s feet. This feather is a symbol of the fate of Forrest Gump. Forrest Gump’s life, like the feather, ups and downs, ebb and flow. Because of the physical and intellectual reasons, Gump suffered discrimination and ridicule from childhood. However, disability teenager finally became famous Scud, mentally retarded children actually grow as a business genius.

Forrest’s love life is also full of unexpected changes, like the feather, ups and downs, Jenny suddenly left the Forrest Gump, which sounds sad endless. When people almost desperate, but Jenny appeared again, and brought back a smart and lovely child-little Gump; happy ending let everyone excited, but Jenny suddenly was sick and then died. Through watching the movie, with the time streams of Gump’s growth, the living conditions are so unpredictable, changeable. Life is so erratic, full of unpredictable variables and miracles. But everyone still should try to insist on, once choose to give up, even a little chance does not exist.

It seems that this feather was associated with Forrest Gump’s son. In the film’s final, Forrest Gump’s son was also going to school; the scenario of going to school is exactly the same with Forrest Gump’s: the same school bus, the same driver. Even the driver’s action is also the same. At this time, the feather caught in the book that Gump handed to his son unexpectedly slide the book outside, drifting into the sky. Which can not help but make people think: the fate of the child will be going? What kind of variables his life will experience?

Movie used this piece of feathers throughout, tail echo to explain the contingencies and uncertainties of people’s life fate. Today is a repeat of yesterday, and tomorrow is a replica. Person’s life is always experiencing this repeat. So that we can understand what meaning of life in the Forrest Gump is worth to explore. Movie makes people confused, but also gives the impression of endless thinking. So if only can insist, all things will get better.

3.3.2 The Metaphor of Chocolate

Everything as Forrest Gump’s mother often nagging: “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what will savor the taste.” This is a very unique metaphor and also the most exciting and a well-known line in this movie. Its profound meaning is life. People never know what the next moment would be.

At the final of movie, Forrest Gump muttering at Jenny’s grave: “I do not know if we each have a destiny or we drifted like wind, I do not know where will be floated to, but I think maybe both, maybe both will co-exist.” This is a common question and sigh of human: everyone is all Forrest Gump. A tiny one of Human River can not know the fate of what is not fated. But there is no doubt that the fate always so unpredictable, life is always so confusing. Vicissitudes of life arises. In fact, if never give up and persist forever, fate is in everyone’s own hand.

Through feathers, chocolate, Forrest Gump strongly suggests to people the chance and unpredictability of life fate so as to explore the possibility to grasp fate. And this is a common feeling of humanity since ancient times, but is also a difficulty that people quest to answer. Because of the various ways that solve this problem, thus build the world’s numerous types of religious systems. This is the eternal topic of human beings, how to answer. Never conclusive, one can only go to practice with action and to explore and stick to it.

4. Conclusion

Forrest Gump expresses many different themes, and among these is “never give up” which is repeated by the director. The movie is intended to tell people that life is wonderful by this character. Rainbow is always after clouds. The key point is that positive attitude and perseverance are indispensable to change the unfavorable situation. The movie also sends such a message: do well what should do, and life will return us well. There will be a miracle if there is perseverance.

In this thesis, it focuses on exploring Gump’s philosophy of life from different aspects of the film (Xue Yuemin and Guo Jian 2004:59-63). It includes three angles: the life attitude, the life credo and the life faith. The life attitude that reflected in Forrest Gump is indifferent facing all the hardships of life and the unpredictable future. From Forrest Gump’s acceptance and protest, Jenny’s treason and Lieutenant Dan’s suspicion, it is not difficult to find that life does not fall into despair, but to guide people to think about how to establish a correct life attitude towards highly variable and unpredictable life course, and thus to grasp their own lives. Integrity and perseverance are the fundamental life credo of this work. Movies through metaphor and symbolism describe this world irregularities, the situation of human existence is difficult to grasp. Through the metaphor feathers and the symbol chocolate, Forrest Gump strongly suggests to everyone the chance and unpredictability of life fate so as to explore the possibility to grasp fate. It is because of this life attitude, Gump bravely walked on the precarious life road.

Films can provide the necessary learning motivation to the learners, encourage them to get more focused on the desire to learn the language of knowledge, and improve the learners’ interest and the practical ability of application of a foreign language. Through contacting with a large number of languages and communication morpheme of cultural values, it is advisable to be fully prepared to enter the real communicative environment.

In the era of globalization, English is the world’s most popular and influential language used in cross cultural communication. The classic English films provide viewers with an understanding of language and images. Therefore, learning Western culture by watching English original sound movies, this is not only a good way to improve English language learners’ communicative competence, but also an effective way to improve their cross-cultural communicative competence.

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