Fletcher, who is used to lie, got into unpredictable chaos -- he acted like a fool in the court, almost lose the lawsuit, and offended his coquettish female boss. But in the end, he won back the family, affection and trust.

   Lying or frank, each of us has ever had a difficult choices. “All people is struggling between the lies and honesty in the world.” the producer of the film Liar,Liar Brian Glazer had ever said, “this will be a great and special film material.”  A classic movies was born.

    In the film Liar,Liar, whether the exaggerated body language of Jim Carry or American style humor lines is an amusing point that can not be neglected. And more, this style of performance can be find everywhere in American comedy film. More interestingly, American comedy movies love to reproduce the real life with the means of satire and humor and exaggeration(Fang 24). Hollywood, which is the most famous film industry, is good at using the most popular elements of art to make the film more meaningful, and also make the film achieve the best results.

Therefore, in the films of Jim Carry, we can learn a lot of elements of postmodernism, which is the most required source material for making comedy films in the United States. A lot of plots are in Jim Carry’s films, and what we can learn is the the living conditions of the ordinary people in the middle and lower level in his films. Most of the characters played by Jim Carry are very ordinary people, which are common in the comedy movie the usual performance.They used a variety of humor, even absurd ways to fight against their fate. And that form is used regularly in American comedy. However, the behavior patterns of the characters in the comedy reflect a fact that the social contradictions are really existing. We can learn a common nature attribute which the comedy movie reflected: caring for the fate of the ordinary guys，paying attention to the dark side of capitalist society, analyzing the relationship of the commercial society’s competition between people and people, and fighting against unfair social behaviors. This kind of post-modern art form has broken the boundaries between art and life, emphasized the transformation from subjective feelings to the objective world, payed a hostile attitude to personality and style, and advocated the art being accepted to the public. All these developments have a profound impact on the American comedy films.

II. Development History of Chinese and American Movies

    To understand the similarities and differences between Chinese and American movie culture, it is necessary to learn the history of the development of their films.

2.1 Development of American Movies

  2.1.1 Era of American Silent Film

    In 1893, Thomas Edison invented kinetoscope and created photography field which was named “Black Maria” by the man in the later ages. That was regarded as the beginning of the history of American movies. In 1896, Verite movie projector was launched, which means the beginning of the mass screening of American films.     The film was shown in the song and dance playground at the first time. Then it entered a small theater and played after the performance of the theater. In the early ages, the film was a high-end entertainment which the senior people and the nobles could enjoy (Mclaughlin and Parry 6). At the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century, film gradually evolved into an entertainment that all the public could accept because of the urban industrial development, the fast speed growth of the middle and lower class residents and the downturn in the development of the film industry.