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Open Access This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license ( ). In 1920s China, an educated woman (Gong Li) adopts the lifestyle of a concubine when she becomes the fourth wife of a wealthy patriarch. Raise the Red Lantern won a Silver Lion for Best Director at the 48th Venice International Film Festival in 1991 and was nominated in the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 1992 Academy Awards.
In this paper, comparison and analysis will be made between literary language and film language of Wives and Concubines and Raise the Red Lantern from 7 aspects covering scene, symbolic image, plot setting, narrative, etc. Through creative adaptation, the director constructed the bizarre folk custom in the East at perceptual level and national allegory at rational level, to display the inborn hostility and furious struggle among women in a big traditional family with wives and concubines in flocks and to express reflection on traditional culture and attention to human nature. Success of this film not only lies in the connotation provided by the original work, but also in the director's keen perception for cultural context as well as the accurate audience and theme positioning. The 1990s film Raise the Red Lantern is a tale of hidden romance and tragic endings. According to the adaptation principles of creativity and allegorization, Zhang Yimou dissociated the narrative time and space from the background of social history, constructed a close and stable space-time cage, and completed allegorized rewriting for the original work under post-colonial context. In the gambling match when the woman looks under the table the other woman is flirting with a guy with her foot. The film was shot in 1991 in the Qiao Family Compound, which made the compound well-known by lots of people.Wives and Concubines, a novel written by Su Tong, expresses the tragedy of a woman, the corruption of a system, and the struggle for some desires. It has been converted into a museum and has many period furnishings. Each night, servants raise a red lantern in front of the door of the wife.
The estate covers 9000 square meters and has 313 rooms with 4000 square meters within 6 large courtyards and 19 smaller courtyards.Īrchitects consider it to be one of the finest remaining examples of imposing private residences in northern China. Raise the Red Lantern - watch online: streaming, buy or rent Currently you are able to watch 'Raise the Red Lantern' streaming on FilmBox Live Amazon Channel, FilmBox+ or rent it on Amazon Video online. The teenage Songlian (Gong Li) marries the fiftyish Chen (Ma Jingwu), a rich and ruthless man who already has three wives. It is the residential compound of well-known financier Qiao Zhiyong (乔致庸/喬致庸, 1818-1907), who was the most famous member of the Qiao family.Ĭonstruction began in 1756 during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor in the Qing dynasty and was completed sometime in the 18th century. An extraordinary tale of a chokingly claustrophobic household in historical China, in which four women (wives and concubines) jealously vie for attention and. The Qiao Family Compound, originally the Zaizhong Hall and officially Qiao's Grand Courtyard, is a courtyard house located in Qi County, Jinzhong Prefecture, Shanxi Province, China, approximately 30 kilometers (20 mi) northeast of Pingyao.
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