ABSTRACT
The reason why the peoples of our country and the world love cinema is because it can, in a meticulous and subtle way, reflect every kind of life picture and complicated emotion accurately, distinctly and vividly. It not only possesses the great artistic ability, the equal of literature and drama, to depict and express characters and their surroundings, but is also rich in the lucid, concrete visible characteristics of sculpture, painting, architecture and other plastic arts, as well as music’s particular power to excite and affect the mood. These words come from the foremost academic treatment of cinema to emerge from China since the death of Mao and amply explain the importance of the motion picture industry there. Theatre films are simply adaptations of operas for the cinema. Theatre films are not simply screened performances. They make use of cinema techniques such as close-ups and the increased flexibility of scenery.
