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are good advertisement for films. Lasting attention can give success on the box office of the film.

On the other hand, stars can also bring capital to the productions of films. The production of film needs a lot of capital. Making a film need combine labors, technologies and other tools. These all need money to operate. In general, without thinking about other factors, more money can give a movie better result in imagines, music and so on. For example, the most operating method of Hollywood is that invest a large amount of capital to promote the making of a movie. So, capital is important to a movie’s making. And stars can bring capital to a film. “A star becomes a form of capital because in the commercial film industry, he or she is a valuable asset for a production company. Stars are a form of investment, employed in film productions as a probable guard against loss.” (McDonald.2000). The joining of stars can give investors confidences and attract more investors to invest to the movies.

Jean de Florettecan also prove this influence of stars. Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu and Daniel Auteuil and the famous director attract huge investment for this movie. This movie belonged to the leading French movies who invest a lot to ensure the success of movies.

The best representation of the stars importance on attracting attention and investment is Belphégor - Le fantôme du Louvre. Sophie Marceau is the leading lady of this movie. Sophie Marceau is famous for her beauty and elegance in the world. She has good reputation and fame in most area of the world. And she join Belphégor - Le fantôme du Louvre when she step into cinema world (Vincendeau. 2000). In fact, Belphégor - Le fantôme du Louvre is not a perfect movie. It has some weakness such as VFX, sound track and the story plot. However, because of the great influence of Sophie Marceau, this movie is paid attention by media and publics all over the world. And it also attracted huge investments. This movie firstly stepped into Louvre. These all can own to the influence of Sophie Marceau.

Other movie leaded by Sophie Marceau—Les Femmes de L'Ombre—is also a good evidence of the influence of this beautiful woman. This movie attracted 50 million dollar investment and became the largest recipient of investment in French movie by 2009.

Stars are living under the focus lamp. Their every movement can attract the attention of public. Movie can give stars fames and also earn profit from movies. This can be embodied from the French film stars.

2.2 Stars Can Improve the Quality of Films and Shape Better Characters.
In fact, a movie star is an actor who is famous for his or her starring or leading roles in a film. From the definition of “movie star”, it is easy to find out that one factor of making a star big is this star have enough acting skill to attract audiences’ attention. In general, the joining of stars can in some way increase the level of movies. And they can also make the characters more vivid.

The three top stars in Jean de Florette embodied these functions of stars. Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu andDaniel Auteuilare the leading men of Jean de Florette. Yves Montand is a French famous actor and singer. He started to act roles form 40s of 20 century. When he joined the movie Jean de Florette, it was 40 years since he started to act. He can act roles perfectly. Gérard De