Raise the Red Lantern Question: What ideas are conveyed in the film Raise the Red Lantern? Raise the Red Lantern is a movie directed by Zhang Yimou. The plot of this movie is that an educated young woman named Songlian marries a wealthy man as a concubine and the experiences she is having in this household. This movie provides a valuable insight into China’s culture and history. It shows the lives of the rich noble class in the 1920s and portrays the lives of the concubines in a Chinese household
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Raise the Red Lantern is a movie that kidnaps you to a foreign place and immerses you completely with new traditions. The story follows young Songhian whom is forced by her mother to get married to a rich man. In his household‚ she becomes the Forth Mistress‚ and the youngest among her husband’s wives. Songhian and the audience quickly learn the rules of the Master’s beautifully designed compound‚ whichever wife the Master currently favors is graced by his attention‚ lavish foot massages‚ and many
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Raise the Red Lantern offers a view of life within a closed‚ dictatorial social community. Much of the film deals with the ever-shifting balance of power between the various concubines. Beauty and sexual appeal are secondary attributes in a battle of wits that demands guile and duplicity. Bearing a male child is more critical to each woman’s standing than possessing a pleasing countenance. While the master’s favor determines which of his wives commands the most power‚ Zhang illustrates how easily
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In ¡§Raise the Red Lantern¡¨‚ the symbolic implications of the ancestral altar in the central reception hall go beyond the family walls‚ because it displays the portraits of all the powerful officals in the Chen family‚ thus suggesting the entire patriarchal tradition and its political power. In ¡§Raise the Red Lantern¡¨‚ the red lantern‚ an invented icon here (and one accused of being a fake cultural signifier used merely for sensational purposes)‚ is the film¡¦s central symbol and most important
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Noted as one of the most beautiful Chinese films created‚ Raise the Red Lantern (1991)‚ directed by Zhang Yimou‚ presents a clear parable in which women are dominated by both men and traditions in a hierarchical society. Set in China in the 1920s‚ the film depicts the struggle and competitiveness between the mistresses to receive attention from the Master. Zhang uses Songlian’s story as a veiled allegory against Chinese traditions and to deeply criticize Confucian teachings. As such‚ the narrative
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Raise the Red Lantern (1991) directed by Zhang Yimou was based on a novel called Wives and Concubines by Su Tong. This film takes place in the early 1900s which tells the story of a woman named Songlian (played by Gong Li) who was struck by the harshness of reality. Her father died during the Chinese Civil War when she was nineteen. Facing the death of her father and the severity of the family financial situation‚ she was left with no choice but to marry the wealthy Chen family. Upon arrival to the
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RAISE THE RED LANTERN SCENE ANALYSIS Raise the Red Lantern directed by Zhang Yi Mou is a movie that is set in 1920’s china. It tells the tragic story of 19 year old University student Songlian who becomes the fourth mistress in the wealthy Chen family after her father’s death. The opening scene shows the process from Songlian’s marriage discussion with her mother to the moment she steps into the life of being the puppet of the Chen household. In the opening scene we are introduced to the protagonist;
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Impression of “Raise The Red Lantern” The film “Raise The Red Lantern”‚ directed by Zhang Yimou‚ is set in 1920s China during the Warlord Era. It takes me enter into the sealed world of an emblematical wealthy man’s house in China. Nineteen years old Songlian‚ whose father has recently died and left the family bankrupt‚ is betrayed by her stepmother and is sold as a concubine of the Chen family‚ becoming the Forth Mistress of the household. Arriving at the palatial abode‚ she is at first treated
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allowed the family to flourish as a group. In the movie Raise the Red Lantern‚ many types of customs and rituals were shown. For example‚ according to the master’s tradition‚ lanterns are lit outside the house of which the master chooses to join for the night. Each night the wives wait to be honored with his presence‚ bowing in resignation when they aren’t chosen‚ often scheming to be noticed next time. The women soon begin to compete for the lanterns. They are jealous of one another and double cross one
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Color Emphasis in Raise the Red Lantern Chen Ning (Jenny) Yen 58935107 ASIA 355 Professor Rui Wang 23/11/2012 Scholars and film critiques have often regarded the fifth-generation film Director‚ Zhang Yi Mou’s films as a visually sensual feast (Zhu 26). The predominant use of the color Red in his highly stylized films: Red Sorghum (1988)‚ Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern (1991) are evidence of his trademark visual style thus leading scholars to critically
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