(<The Great Wall> with all the famous movie stars)
“The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility” firstly narrates the history of technological reproduction of artworks. Photography which the sound film latent in is the first way to free hands from Lithography and devolve to the eyes. The appearance of these reproductions challenges the artwork’s authenticity and authority because it breaks the physical duration and historical testimony of the artwork. Walter Benjamin then mentioned that what withers in the age of the technological reproducibility of the work of art is the latter’s aura which could be considered as the unique apparition of a distance. The withered of aura actually is in the process of the alignment of reality with the masses. As the artworks’ auratic always relates to the ritual, the technological reproducibility makes the mass to rethink about the function of artworks. Later, the exhibition value which is more for human itself appreciates replace the cult value. With the development of photography and film, people need to give up the aura and began to think about how to makes the actors express themselves out in front of the apparatus, how to let the audiences influenced by the scene without in the middle of it. To make up the deficiency of aura, film capital creates the movie stars as the cult of the audience.
Though Walter Benjamin didn’t mention much about the craze about the movie stars, I have a lot of resonances when reading about these parts. Nowadays, in the film industry especially in China, the star effects are serious, Lots of people give a mark of one movie is not mainly focus on the story it tells or the scenes it creates, but based on whether it uses the famous star, To meets the needs of the market’s desire, lots of humdrum fast-food style movies are made with the ones who are hot recently. I still remember an interview of an old artist, he said it is harder and harder for them to make the money because no one wants to see them no matter how devoted they are when acting.
It is really a pity for us of losing the true artist and real art.
By Yao Dongni (UID:3035447350)
You have interesting arguments, yet I would recommend you to be more careful on punctuation and sentence length. If a sentence is too long, or complex, it becomes hard for your readers to follow your train of thought. Additionally, please mention your sources. If you want to quote a famous actor or artist, you need to find his name, and use his words directly; this makes any argument stronger.