摘要：“暴力美学”是有约定俗成的特定涵义的，指在中国香港电影界发展成熟的一种艺术趣味和形式探索。吴宇森的电影就是典型的“暴力美学”风格的电影。因此，对吴宇森电影风格的探析对于我们认识和评价“暴力美学”的合理性及内涵是非常重要的。本文先阐明了“暴力美学”的产生及主要特征，然后将吴宇森电影作为典型个案进行了分析。文章重点分析了吴宇森电影对角色的刻画和对影像的处理，认为在吴宇森电影中暴力是诗意化的暴力：它的影片不但合乎伦理，还把社会正义理论化，并且吴宇森电影体现了英雄主义的情结，电影中出现了大量的殉道式的宿命角色；影片中的暴力常常在美的背后或场景中体现，而且早已经不是对暴力的简单体现，不仅仅追求感官上的快感，还让观众体会到了一种邪不胜正的美。

关键词：吴宇森；暴力美学；角色；影像

Abstract："Aesthetics of Violence" is the specific meaning of the convention, which is indicates an exposure of a mature and interesting art form developed in Chinese Hong Kong. John Woo’s movie is a typical "aesthetics of violence" style of the film. Therefore, the analysis of the style of John Woo is very important for us to understand and evaluate the rationality and meaning of "aesthetics of violence". This paper explained how the "aesthetics of violence" come into being and its main features, then take John Woo film as a typical cases to analyze. The article focused on the analysis of John Woo film, which depicts the role and image processing, the John Woo film violence is the violence of poetry : the film is not only ethical ,but also social justice theory, moreover, John Woo film embodies the heroic emotions, the film revealed a large number of martyrs - destiny role; the film violence, often appeared behind the scenes or beauty, it is not a simple reflection of the violence and not only in the pursuit of sensual pleasure, but also let the audience come to a kind of cult, 

Key words: John Woo; Violence aesthetics; Role; Imaging