Abstract: The history of film performance in any country starts with the inheritance of drama. However, as
film performance develops to a certain maturity, cognitive diversities will arise concerning similarities and
differences between film orientation and dramatization, to the extreme of“de-dramatization”trend. The
formation of the first round of“de-dramatization”in Chinese films’conceptions towards film performance,
together with attendant offensive and defensive viewpoints, constituted the basic ways of thinking and
approaches in the game between cinematic and dramatic performances. Instead of a zero-sum game, it was more
of a complex entanglement. In spite of antagonistic positions, they absorbed each other’s beneficial“nutrients”
in practice, indicating a relationship of two-way penetration and transformation.

Key words: Chinese films;“de-dramatization”, the first round of thoughts, analysis and discrimination