Typical characteristics in Hollywood movies

1. Unrestricted narrative techniques: The most obvious tendency in the narrative techniques of Hollywood classic films is to adopt objectification, that is, to present a basic objective story, and on this basis, to intersperse the "perceptual subjectivity" and "psychological subjectivity" of the characters. Therefore, classic Hollywood narrative films usually adopt unlimited narrative techniques.

2. Dramatic story structure: The story structure and plot development of classic Hollywood movies are obviously based on drama, and the plot is full of dramatic conflicts.

3. Character structure spectrum: The characters in Hollywood classic movies often include: protagonist, opponent, supporting role and active role.

Passive characters, rigid characters, single string characters, round characters and flat characters.

4. Montage technique: American film director Griffith creatively switches a large number of scenes in films such as The Birth of a Country, directly deconstructs the drama space, and then reassembles it to adapt to the audience's thinking and emotional participation.

From this, a shooting and editing grammar that later became a classic Hollywood narrative was developed: the location of a story was established with the main shot or the confession shot, and then, when the action developed to the scene of the middle person or thing, the close-up shot was used to attract the audience's attention at the climax of the drama.

5. Omniscient narrative mode: When the camera adopts omniscient narrative mode, the audience's understanding of the plot is far greater than that of the people in the play, and the audience actually enters an unintentional plot with the director.

That is, both the audience and the director are "above" the characters in the play and look down on the plight of the characters like God. At this time, the audience's recognition of the characters in the play has shifted to the recognition of the director, and the audience has shifted from the participants in the plot to the bystanders.