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* TheRival: Meishan is this to Songlian at the beginning. [[spoiler: Later they become firends.]]
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* TheRival: Meishan is this to Songlian at the beginning. [[spoiler: Later they become firends.friends.]]
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->'''Songlian, Fourth Concubine:''' ''"The difference between people and ghosts is only a gasp of air. People are ghouls and ghouls are people."''
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->''"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."''
-->-- '''Meishan''', Third Concubine.
->''"The difference between people and ghosts is only a gasp of air. People are ghouls and ghouls are people."''
-->-- '''Songlian''', Fourth Concubine.
-->-- '''Meishan''', Third Concubine.
->''"The difference between people and ghosts is only a gasp of air. People are ghouls and ghouls are people."''
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-->-- '''Meishan''', Third Concubine.
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->'''Songlian, Fourth Concubine:''' ''"The difference between people and ghosts is only a gasp of air. People are ghouls and ghouls are people."''
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->''"The difference between people and ghosts is only a gasp of air. People are ghouls and ghouls are people."''
-->-- '''Songlian''', Fourth Concubine.
-->-- '''Songlian''', Fourth Concubine.
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''Raise The Red Lantern'' is an award-winning 1991 film directed by ZhangYimou and starring Creator/GongLi, in the role that brought her to international attention. It is set in the early 1920s, well before the [[MaoZedong rise of communism]].
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''Raise The Red Lantern'' is an award-winning 1991 film directed by ZhangYimou and starring Creator/GongLi, in the role that brought her to international attention. It is set in the early 1920s, well before the [[MaoZedong rise Communist Party's conquest of communism]].
the country]].
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* PillowPregnancy: Songlian fakes a pregnancy to gain power over Master Chen and the other wives. Exposed by the averting of NoPeriodsPeriod.
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* FakePregnancy: Songlian fakes a pregnancy to gain power over Master Chen and the other wives. Exposed by the averting of NoPeriodsPeriod.
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* PekingOperaUsefulNotes/PekingOpera
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* DrowningMySorrows: Songlian does this at one point, with disastrous consequences.
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* DrowningMySorrows: Songlian does this at one point, with [[InVinoVeritas disastrous consequences.consequences]].
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* InVinoVeritas: [[spoiler: Songlian gets drunk and exposes Meishan's affair with Doctor Gao.]]
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* ThePrimadonna: Meishan often acts like one probably because of her past success.
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* EatingLaunchAlone: At some point, Songlian pretends to have launch in her own room.
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* HiddenDephts: Meishan is nicer and deeper than she looks.
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* HiddenDephts: HiddenDepths: Meishan is nicer and deeper than she looks.
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* EatingLaunchAlone: At some point, Songlian pretends to have launch in her own room.
** [[spoiler: Zhuoyun secretly hates Songlian, obviously because she's younger and more beautiful.]]
* HiddenDephts: Meishan is nicer and deeper than she looks.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The First Mistress is this in Master Chen's absence. She also manages to hold the Mistresses' tongues.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The First Mistress first wife is this in Master Chen's absence. She also manages to hold the Mistresses' tongues.tongues.
* TheRival: Meishan is this to Songlian at the beginning. [[spoiler: Later they become firends.]]
* TheRival: Meishan is this to Songlian at the beginning. [[spoiler: Later they become firends.]]
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* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Zhuoyun. As Meishan [[LampshadeHanging points out]], she has a Buddha’s face, but a scorpion’s heart.
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* YamatoNadeshiko: The First and the Second Mistress are a classic example. As [[LampshadeHanging pointed out]] by Meishan, a singer and a student are "different".
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* YamatoNadeshiko: The First and the Second Mistress are a classic example. As Songlian and Meishan are a subversion, as [[LampshadeHanging pointed out]] by Meishan, a singer and a student are "different".
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* Jerkass: Chen, definitely.
* JerkWithAnHeartOfGold: Meishan isn't that bad.
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* Jerkass: {{Jerkass}}: Chen, definitely.
*JerkWithAnHeartOfGold: JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Meishan isn't that bad.
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** Yan'er is bitchy to Songlian from the beginning because she wants herself to be a Mistress.
* Jerkass: Chen, definitely.
* JerkWithAnHeartOfGold: Meishan isn't that bad.
* JerkWithAnHeartOfGold: Meishan isn't that bad.
* NightmareFuel: [[spoiler: Meishan's execution]]
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* SanitySlippageReasonableAuthorityFigure: The First Mistress is this in Master Chen's absence. She also manages to hold the Mistresses' tongues.
* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler: Songlian]]
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* SecretRelationship: [[spoiler: Meishan and Dr. Gao]]
* SnowMeansDeath
* YamatoNadeshiko: The First and the Second Mistress are a classic example. As [[LampshadeHanging pointed out]] by Meishan, a singer and a student are "different".
* SnowMeansDeath
* YamatoNadeshiko: The First and the Second Mistress are a classic example. As [[LampshadeHanging pointed out]] by Meishan, a singer and a student are "different".
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Zhouyun has the face of the Buddha and the heart of a scorpion.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Zhouyun has the face of the Buddha and the a heart full of a scorpion.scorpions.
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After the death of her father, 19 year old university-educated Songlian is left destitute. She marries wealthy Master Chen, becoming his fourth and youngest wife. Upon arriving at his palatial estate, she is greeted with a massage, and her private room is decorated with brightly lit, red paper lanterns preceding a visit from her new husband.
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After the death of her father, the family of 19 year old university-educated Songlian is left destitute. She marries wealthy Master Chen, becoming his fourth and youngest wife. Upon arriving at his palatial estate, she is greeted with a massage, and her private room is decorated with brightly lit, red paper lanterns preceding a visit from her new husband.
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* PillowPregnancy: Songlian fakes a pregancy to gain power over Master Chen and the other wives. Exposed by the averting of NoPeriodsPeriod.
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* MarriageBeforeRomance: An example of how this sort of trope does not necessarily result in a happy ending. Songlian marries Chen as his fourth wife. Although she is initially indifferent to him, she soon becomes embroiled in the competition between the wives to seduce him and gain his undivided attention.
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* TheOphelia: Songlian at the film's end.
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* Green-EyedMonster: Master Chen finds a flute in Songlian's bags and burns it without telling her anything, thinking it was a present from a boy at her former university. Turns out it had belonged to her late father.
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* Green-EyedMonster: GreenEyedMonster: Master Chen finds a flute in Songlian's bags and burns it without telling her anything, thinking it was a present from a boy at her former university. Turns out it had belonged to her late father.
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* AccidentalPublicConfession: [[spoiler: A drunken Songlian accidentally reveals Meishan's infidelity.]]
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Zhuoyan has the face of the Buddha and the heart of a scorpion.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Zhuoyan Zhouyun has the face of the Buddha and the heart of a scorpion.
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->"''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''."
-->-- '''Meishan''', Third Concubine.
RaiseTheRedLantern is an award-winning 1991 film directed by ZhangYimou and starring GongLi, in the role that brought her to international attention. It is set in the early 1920s, well before the [[MaoZedong rise of communism]].
After the death of her father, 19 year old university-educated Songlian is left destitute. She marries wealthy Master Chen, becoming his fourth and youngest wife. Upon arriving at his palatial estate, she is greeted with a massage, and her private room is decorated with brightly lit, red paper lanterns preceding a visit from her new husband.
Songlian soon discovers that this treatment is not regular. Every evening, the four wives (Yuru, Zhouyun, Meishan and Songlian herself) are made to stand before their doors in their shared courtyard while their husband decides who he will sleep with that night, announced by the placing of [[TitleDrop the eponymous red lantern]] in her doorway. That woman alone receives regal treatment, while the others are left alone. Trapped in the largely empty but claustrophobic estate, the four wives are locked in a constant power struggle for Chen's attention.
The film is an adaption of the 1990 novel ''Wives and Concubines'', by Su Tong. It was temporarily BannedInChina, until the film gained international praise and was shown to have a positive impact on tourism. The film was later adapted into a ballet.
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!!This Film Provides Examples of:
* BannedInChina
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Zhuoyan has the face of the Buddha and the heart of a scorpion.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: The Second Wife is probably one of the most triumphant examples of this.
* BlackAndGrayMorality: Beyond the two very young children, there are almost no innocent characters. The cold-hearted protagonist and her fellow wives scheme until they destroy each other. [[OldRetainer The servants]], who seem pathetic in their adoration of the noble Chen family, take a sudden turn into NightmareFuel when Songlian discovers how seriously they take the old family traditions...
* BuildingOfAdventure: The film takes place almost entirely within the wives' rooms and the courtyard of the walled estate.
* CompositeCharacter: There are three wives in the ballet instead of four and each take elements from at least two of the original four. The third wife is a combination of Songlian and Meishan, the second wife is a combination of Zhuoyun and Songlian, and the first wife is mostly like Yuru with hints of Zhuoyun.
* CostumePorn: The fine textiles of the wives especially stand out against the dull beige brick of the estate.
* DownerEnding
* EnvironmentalSymbolism: The film starts in Summer and reaches its emotional climax in Winter.
* TheFaceless: Master Chen's face is never seen clearly except for at a distance.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Early on, Songlian finds a locked building with an [[spoiler: abandoned pair of woman's slippers.]] This is where [[spoiler: Meishan is taken to be excuted]] later.
* GoodOldWays: "''The Chen family's [[NightmareFuel customs]] go back many generations. It is important that you obey them''."
* IceQueen: Songlian
* KarmaHoudini: Zhuoyun
* LawOfInverseFertility
* MayDecemberRomance
* NoHeroToHisValet: Songlian is cold to her servant Yan'er from the beginning, and Yan'er wastes no time in ratting her out once she gets the chance.
* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted.
* OldRetainer
* PekingOpera
* PrettyInMink
* SanitySlippage
* SceneryPorn
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[[caption-width-right:330:''Let me be a concubine. Isn't that the fate of a woman?'']]
->"''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''."
-->-- '''Meishan''', Third Concubine.
RaiseTheRedLantern is an award-winning 1991 film directed by ZhangYimou and starring GongLi, in the role that brought her to international attention. It is set in the early 1920s, well before the [[MaoZedong rise of communism]].
After the death of her father, 19 year old university-educated Songlian is left destitute. She marries wealthy Master Chen, becoming his fourth and youngest wife. Upon arriving at his palatial estate, she is greeted with a massage, and her private room is decorated with brightly lit, red paper lanterns preceding a visit from her new husband.
Songlian soon discovers that this treatment is not regular. Every evening, the four wives (Yuru, Zhouyun, Meishan and Songlian herself) are made to stand before their doors in their shared courtyard while their husband decides who he will sleep with that night, announced by the placing of [[TitleDrop the eponymous red lantern]] in her doorway. That woman alone receives regal treatment, while the others are left alone. Trapped in the largely empty but claustrophobic estate, the four wives are locked in a constant power struggle for Chen's attention.
The film is an adaption of the 1990 novel ''Wives and Concubines'', by Su Tong. It was temporarily BannedInChina, until the film gained international praise and was shown to have a positive impact on tourism. The film was later adapted into a ballet.
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!!This Film Provides Examples of:
* BannedInChina
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Zhuoyan has the face of the Buddha and the heart of a scorpion.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: The Second Wife is probably one of the most triumphant examples of this.
* BlackAndGrayMorality: Beyond the two very young children, there are almost no innocent characters. The cold-hearted protagonist and her fellow wives scheme until they destroy each other. [[OldRetainer The servants]], who seem pathetic in their adoration of the noble Chen family, take a sudden turn into NightmareFuel when Songlian discovers how seriously they take the old family traditions...
* BuildingOfAdventure: The film takes place almost entirely within the wives' rooms and the courtyard of the walled estate.
* CompositeCharacter: There are three wives in the ballet instead of four and each take elements from at least two of the original four. The third wife is a combination of Songlian and Meishan, the second wife is a combination of Zhuoyun and Songlian, and the first wife is mostly like Yuru with hints of Zhuoyun.
* CostumePorn: The fine textiles of the wives especially stand out against the dull beige brick of the estate.
* DownerEnding
* EnvironmentalSymbolism: The film starts in Summer and reaches its emotional climax in Winter.
* TheFaceless: Master Chen's face is never seen clearly except for at a distance.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Early on, Songlian finds a locked building with an [[spoiler: abandoned pair of woman's slippers.]] This is where [[spoiler: Meishan is taken to be excuted]] later.
* GoodOldWays: "''The Chen family's [[NightmareFuel customs]] go back many generations. It is important that you obey them''."
* IceQueen: Songlian
* KarmaHoudini: Zhuoyun
* LawOfInverseFertility
* MayDecemberRomance
* NoHeroToHisValet: Songlian is cold to her servant Yan'er from the beginning, and Yan'er wastes no time in ratting her out once she gets the chance.
* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted.
* OldRetainer
* PekingOpera
* PrettyInMink
* SanitySlippage
* SceneryPorn
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