Question:

After watching Yao's All in a Cold Dim Night(《秋燈夜雨》), answer the following questions:

What are some film techniques in "All in a Cold Dim Night" that impressed you the most? And what

effects or messages are achieved by these techniques?

Answer:
高野千尋、李芃瑩
Q1. There’s a storyteller at the beginning and the end of All in a Cold Dim Night. Who is he? In your

opinion, why does the director put this character in the movie?

We consider that he is the writer. The director quotes the storyteller to tell the audiences that this

is only a story written by someone. Do not be so superstition.

Q2. What are the themes of the movie?

Choose your lover carefully. And don’t be a jerk or you’ll deserve for what you've done.

Q3. What are some film techniques in All in a Cold Dim Night that impressed you the most? And what

effects or messages are achieved by these techniques?

Sound effect: Add extremely tense into the plot.

Make up: The difference between the living and the dead.

Lighting: when something horrible is appearing.

Q4. What are the similarities and differences between All in a Cold Dim Night and Dracula?

Qiu E is a kind ghost, she only kills someone who has harmed her before.

Dracula is a cruel vampire. He kills people randomly just because he’s hungry or lonely.

簡昕平,洪于甄,黃聖渝
1.是一位作者，因為當時是戒嚴時期，需要一個類似旁白的角色，在開始和結束時出現，解釋來龍去脈，

減少一些新聞局的人過度的聯想。

2.social hierarchy , gender hierarchy , moral lesson , patriarchy .

3.sound effect ,close up.

4.the similarities is they also adapted from literary texts.

the differences is cultural.