Raise The Red Lantern
Directed by Zhang Yimou · Cinematography by Lun Yang, Zhao Fei
PG125 min65 frames
Drama
China, 1920. One Master, Four Wives.
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What is Raise The Red Lantern about?
In 1920s China, 19-year-old Songlian becomes a concubine of a powerful lord and is forced to compete with his three wives for the privileges gained.
Raise the Red Lantern is a 1991 period drama film directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Gong Li. It is an adaptation by Ni Zhen of the 1990 novella Raise the Red Lantern by Su Tong. A Chinese-Hong Kong co-production, the film was later adapted into a ballet of the same title by the National Ballet of China, also directed by Zhang. Set during the Warlord Era in the 1920s, the film tells the story of a young woman who becomes the fourth wife of a wealthy man. It was the fourth of nine collaborations between Zhang and Gong. The film was shot in the Qiao Family Compound near the ancient city of Pingyao, in Shanxi Province.
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Sampled across 65 frames, the coverage of Raise The Red Lantern leans on wide compositions (52% of the sample) and medium shots (15%). Cinematographer Lun Yang keeps 45% of it in soft, naturalistic light. Night and dusk account for 54% of the frames. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 75% of the frames.
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The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Raise The Red Lantern are #2d130f, #352c2b, #51362f, #0c0f2d, #8e7566, #8f0605 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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