【英文摘要】
"Cape No. 7" - a movie without big production, released in August 2008, and then caused a high degree of attention and broke billion box office in Taiwan. Regardless of whether the film’s success is due to the commercial success or the identity of the history in Taiwan, "Cape No. 7" did hit some amazing record. This paper aims to observe the reason how "Cape No. 7" symbolizes the "Taiwanese image"? What is the symbol of "Taiwanese image" in the text of the film? It is noteworthy that the director, Wei De-sheng , after the great success of "Cape No. 7", put more effort on cost and time to shoot "Saideke Bale", a local anti-Japanese history as the background of the film. This paper will construct a comparative study of these two films to observe the image of "Taiwan-ness".
On the basis of forth mentioned, it is important to rethink: what is "Taiwan-ness"? This issue started from the 1990s, scholars began the discussion to define “Taiwan”. Through the perspective of these films for observing, which show the most vivid, historical factors of Taiwan. Which is, Taiwan was colonized by the Japan once. This colonial history triggers Taiwan's sensitive issue of identity, thus, this paper will try to examine that what kind of effect of the historical element used to show “Taiwan-ness” in the film.
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