Red Lantern and Golden Armor

Ayden 2022-03-20 09:02:55

Yesterday I re-watched Zhang Yimou's 'The Red Lanterns Are Hanging High' in 1991.
I can't help but sigh for 'Golden Armor', which is now being released hotly.

Looking at the whole film of 'Red Lantern', I feel that the color of the picture is heart-burning when it is red, and it is desolate when it is cold.
Especially near the end of the film, when the fourth wife finds the body of the third wife who was forcibly executed in the
snow, the dazzling white in the snow and the blue cheongsam on Gong Li's body form a sharp contrast with the thick orange-red layout of the wives' house.
The colors in the film directly represent the ups and downs of the characters' status in the film.

Gong Li's immature acting skills in those days, or a kind of lucky young feeling, played a college student who had just dropped out of high school but was dazed, fearless but out of control.
In the film, the intrigues of the women in the gloomy and lonely mansion are unavoidable and regrettable.
It is interesting that these women are complaining about the red lantern hanging in front of her door, and they
are also being scorched by the dispute over land rights. Desires control the fate that no longer belongs to them.
It's like an imprisoned water tower, when people come in, it's hard to get out.
Even if you want to go out at that time, materially and spiritually will no longer allow it.

At the beginning of the chapter, I saw the name of the film's producer and 'Hou Hsiao-hsien'.
Later, after watching the film carefully, I found that the scene of 'Red Lantern' in the house does have his style of filming.

The color of the interior is red and orange,
the space is tight and suffocating,
the scene of the family sitting around the dining table to eat and talk and his
several scenes in 'Sad City', 'Flowers on the Sea' and the new film 'Beautiful Times' All have the same.

Come to think of it, I have missed the 'Golden Armor in the whole city' this year, and I won't be able to do it next year.
Because the 'red lantern' is still hanging high, lit, burning.

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Extended Reading
  • Letitia 2022-03-25 09:01:21

    It focuses on the stylized and symbolic features of Zhang Yimou's creation. The overhead shot of the eaves of the Qiao family's courtyard and the deep scene in the deep house are symbols of the feudal order, and are the landscapes of the oriental era that are rarely seen in the current film themes. Perverted depression, mysterious chill. The big red lanterns, the red lighting, and the huge and grotesque Peking Opera masks in the second wife's house are all symbolic, and later became Zhang Yimou's Chinese red label. In the film, red is a sexual metaphor and a symbol of inheritance. The fourth wife played by Gong Li has completely lost the revolutionary character of progressive women as soon as she entered the business marriage from a female student, and became a pawn in intrigue and favor. Two lives were indirectly killed by her, and she was involved in the murder of a feudal clan and an accomplice without blood. character, which eventually leads to madness. The chapters of the four seasons become a reincarnation at the end, which is now a common narrative technique. The emphasis is on the sense of ritual, and the overall strength is not as good as "Judou".

  • Rasheed 2022-03-21 09:03:16

    The big red lantern is hung there, and the master will go to this house to rest at night! Oh, what a pity! The sorrow of polygamy! If you figure it out, you can entertain yourself, if you don't figure it out, you can only be buried by the world

Raise the Red Lantern quotes

  • The Third Concubine: Good or bad, it's all playacting. If you act well, you can fool other people; if you do it badly, you can only fool yourself, and when you can't even fool yourself, you just can fool the ghosts.

  • Yan'er: Who are you?

    Housekeeper: Fourth mistress, please come inside.

    Yan'er: [losing her cool] So you're the fourth mistress!

    [Yan'er rudely pulls the water bowl away from Songlian and puts clothes in it]

    Songlian: Yes! I am the fourth mistress. Bring my suitcase inside please.