Curse of the Golden Flower (2006)
Directed by Zhang Yimou · Cinematography by Zhao Xiaoding
R114 min40 frames
ActionDramaFantasy
Unspeakable secrets are hidden within the Forbidden City.
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What is Curse of the Golden Flower about?
During China's Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as his wife. She has borne him two sons and raised his eldest. Now his control over his dominion is complete, including the royal family itself.
Curse of the Golden Flower (满城尽带黄金甲) is a 2006 Chinese epic wuxia drama film written and directed by Zhang Yimou. The Chinese title of the movie is taken from the last line of a poem by the Tang dynasty rebel leader Huang Chao.
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What does the cinematography of Curse of the Golden Flower look like?
Sampled across 40 frames, the coverage of Curse of the Golden Flower leans on wide compositions (65% of the sample) and medium shots (15%). The camera returns again and again to high angles. Cinematographer Zhao Xiaoding keeps 43% of it in soft, high-key light. Night and dusk account for 50% of the frames. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 78% of the frames.
What is the color palette of Curse of the Golden Flower?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Curse of the Golden Flower (2006) are #0c0b0b, #302d2c, #d4ac34, #d4ae4d, #8d6e2f, #4c4c4c — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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