Zhang Yimou’s Film Anaylsis

Zhang YiMou’s Film Anaylsis Introduction First of all, our group had chosen Zhang YiMou’s films in our analysis as he is one of the famous directors who produces artistic films. We would like to analyze base on his three films that he produced in the early, middle and the recent stage as we want to compare and look for the similarities, differences and improvements that he had made. They are “Raise the Red Lantern”, “The Road Home” and “House for Flying Daggers”. All these three films were being nominated and awarded. Therefore, they are the suitable and worthy films for us to analyze.

Themes Feminism The themes that we can see from Zhang’s films are feminism and colors. First, we would like to discuss and analyze about feminism in his films as woman would be the main key in his films all the time. For example, he chose Gong Li as his protagonist in “Raise the Red Lantern” while Zhang ZiYi in the other two films “The Road Home” and “House for Flying Daggers”. “Raise the Red Lantern” is mainly talked about a woman’s fate where she is unable to decide her own future or happiness as in marriage and force to obey her stepmother to marry with a rich old man and become his fourth wife. This film shows how she has been through all the unfortunate matters in her marriage and gone crazy in the end. “The Road Home” is mainly talked about the romance of a young lady in a village with a

young man who comes from the city and become the teacher in the village. This film shows how she gets the attention from the young teacher and overcomes all the obstacles just to wait for her true love. The story of “House for Flying Daggers” happens in the Tang Dynasty where many secret associations are fighting against the government. The main actress in this film is a secret agent from the association while another two main actors are the real policeman and a secret agent under covered as a police. This film shows the romance between these three people and how they fight for their