【正文】 f cartoon movies is a topic that bined practicality and interestingness. As a unique movie category, Cartoon movies are still widely spread with its cartoon image elements, childish emotion and fantastical imagination around the world. Nowadays, cartoon movie, as the important carrier of a society39。s munication, is an important form to propagandize culture thought and ideology. As for cartoon movies, there are a lot of differences between China and America in themes selection, character and action arrangement, which reflect different values and pursuits between China and America. The most important, as a kind of fashion presentation, cartoon movies explain different levels of national culture. At the same time, Chinese and American cultures also have obvious differences in animation industry, values and market demand reflecting the cultural differences between Chinese and American. 2. 1 The Cultural Differences in Cartoon Movies’ Components Selection Cartoon Movies’ Theme Chinese cartoon movie themes are quite unitary. Edutainment applied to the head of the cultural spirit to Chinese cartoon movies. China is the birthplace of Confucian culture, as a traditional spirit of Chinese cartoon movie, edutainment has its inevitability and rationality. Under the Confucian culture, Chinese traditional writings are conveying truth, and the way of thinking and aesthetic expectation imply the strong demand for edutainment. Regardless of the early story Princess Iron Fan, Proud General, Little Tadpole Looking for Mom or later story The Tales of Avanti, Big Head Son and Small Head Father and Lotus Lantern, all embody the strong spirit of Edutainment. Whatever darling animated characters or legendary heroes they are, the themes of the Chinese cartoon movies have embodied the profound influence of the traditional Confucian culture (Li Sanqiang, 2021:1113). In most cartoon films, the themes all e from the adaptation of fable stories, myths, legends and historical stories, which are lacking of imagination and creativity. It is more oldfashioned. In the development of animation industry, we can’t have been holding the civilization of five thousand years, so it is hard to go out of the cage of its own. Our animation master Wan Laiming once recalled that Chinese cartoon movie is different from the western in 商丘學(xué)院本科畢業(yè)論文 3 subject choosing. We have no time to joke on the Chinese hard time, and we want to make people wake up. Chinese animations blindly focus on young children, and more audience just can accept such a concept that animation should be like a nanny to care for their children. We need to correct all these ideas, and its overall narrative strategy requires us to consider. Chinese cartoon movies need to absorb and draw lessons from other culture. Chinese should explore the regularity and seek cultural personality and creativity. Only finding out the right narrative strategy and the way, it really can create independent Chinese animation, and Chinese cartoon movies can really go to the world. As an immigrant country, the important features of the American culture are inclusive, diverse and open. A large number of immigrants from Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America, came to the dreamy America with a dream. They brought local tradition, religious customs, and habits and so forth to the United States, which became the foundation of America’s diversified development. In the United States, it is able to find the shadow of any nation’s culture. American can fuse all national culture, because it does not have its own traditional culture, thus they created the new culture that has attracted the attention of the whole world. American cartoon movies are based on a wide range of contents, like Arab story One Thousand Nights, the German fairy tale Snow White, Chinese history story Hua Mulan。 animal stories The Lion King, Finding Nemo, Baby in Vegetables。 Small Mount Tai Series about the relationship between man and nature and science fiction film Transformers. All kinds of subjects can be found in American cartoon movies, so we can always see cartoon movies constantly, which are leading the world cartoon movie trend. Changing themes and jumping plots of the story are not restricted to its culture. It is just a kind of repacking. In other words, the local culture has been tampered pletely by American culture. We once again fell into a deliberate manipulation of narrative trap. We see Disney the cultural industry roller crushed the local culture and customs, and overturned its intrinsic values to ensure the boxoffice ine, but it turns other countries’ cultures into the American themes, and vividly explained the American dream and the strong individualism (Shi, 2021:353354). For example, the Kung Fu Panda shows the Chinese elements everywhere, such as Chinese music, panda, Chinese traditional food dumplings, steamed buns, steamed bread and special beef noodles with soup, 商丘學(xué)院本科畢業(yè)論文 4 which all embody the Chinese flavor (Shi, 2021:353354). American applied the Chinese elements and the Chinese culture to this film, so they subtly used the traditional Chinese culture and Chinese martial arts in the film to show the world. National heroism and individualism can be found behind relaxing and happy American animation contents, and in their opinion, the hero is not only the hero of the United States, it is also the hero of mankind, and he has a responsibility to protect and save the mentality of mankind (Li Hong, 2021:2224). Individualism has its profound historical background. Actually, individualism can be traced back to the l4th century, when the earliest sprout of individualism emerged during the Italian cultural Renaissance movement. Later, after the argument and spread