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 eva luate 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
