Mise-en-scene "The Last Emperor"

This shot from The Last Emperor manages to convey a sense of power and majesty, of an exotic culture, but also hints at an end to this way of life. It does this by the position of the characters that seem to do a reverence to the emperor, what represents respect, domination and discipline. All characters are separated in different sectors depending in the colour of their custome, they are all ubicated with the same position, what represents order. It seems to be a kind of ritual to the emperor because the set has objects and decoration that represents that. It can be noticed that is an asiatic country because they have an special culture and has a common temple of those countries. The photograph is a long-shot angle because it shows you the whole set without making any zoom in anything or anyone. Characters make a corridor with a large carpet in the floor for letting the emperor pass through and reach the temple. It has low lightening and the sky is grey and cloudy for create a sense of "the end" or that something bad it's going to happen.