Zhang Yimou

Introduction “Ju Dou” (1990), a Xi An Film Studio movie by director Zhang Yimou, is a tragic story of spousal abuse, adultery, lust and filial piety. The young, strong, and beautiful Ju Dou (Li Gong) becomes the third wife to her much older, physically and sexually abusive husband, dye mill owner Yang Jinshan (Wei Li), whose goal in life is to fulfill his filial piety by having a son, Tianbai (Yi Zhang). The couple live and work with Jinshan’s nephew, the younger, physically more attractive, but…

16. In The Mood For Love (Wong Kar Wai, 2000, Hong Kong) In this film, Wong Kar Wai cooperated with the two, probably best, contemporary cinematographers in Asian cinema, Christopher Doyle, and Mark Lee Pong Bing, resulting in a true visual masterpiece. The three of them used the camera in a way that gives the audience the sense that they are picking in on the action while focusing on the protagonists every move and look, through the extensive use of slow motion. These two tactics are…

When the CCP came to power in 1949 after the end of the civil war, it enjoyed a remarkable popularity among a population suffered from frequent regime changes and foreign occupation for half of a century. The Party vowed to build an egalitarian modern society and to offer better life for the people, which appealed primarily to the working class and the 1 “Constitution of the Communist Party of China”, Revised and adopted at the Eighteenth National C o n g r e s s o f t h e C o m m u n i s t P a…

China in many centuries regarded itself as self-sufficient and a country that is more superior than other countries. China is a feudal society where it does not associate nor trade with other countries; therefore, this isolation with the outside world indirectly led to fail of the Qing Dynasty. China is transition from a traditional society to a modern one and transformation from the Kuomingdang to the Communism; where under Chairman Mao Zedong’s ruling, people have to get rid of the old and…

The film Raise the Red Lantern (Da hong denglong gaogao gua) is a film directed by Zhang Yimou in 1991. The film starring actress Gong Li, is an adaption by Ni Zhen of the novel, ‘Wives and Concubines’ by author Su Tong. The film set in the 1920s China during the Warlord Era. This film accounts the tale of a young, teenage woman named Songlian, who becomes one of the concubine of a wealthy man during this era. This narrative is based on a society years before the Chinese Civil War, it is shot in…

How many ways can a person describe color? If someone were to ask you that, what you would say? How can you describe what turquoise or maroon feels like? There are many ways you can answer this. Colors can change the way people visually perceive an the environments that surround them. After harnessing the power of sound in our film, film editors then find ways to apply colors on film. Innovators like Thomas Edison and George Mellie would painstakingly paint on film to give them color and to…

An assassin or a hero It is always about the perspective, the way people look at the matter defines how people judge the character involved under every circumstance. One character in question will be judged differently from the opposite perspective of people, one side says an assassin and the other says a hero. Some stories tell the sacrifices made by determining individuals in history to pursue a cause, although they must surrender their life to the hands of death. Nevertheless, the…