# Wong Kar-wai style rainy phone booth scene

- Model: Seedance 2.0
- Creator: [Library Cinema (@library.cinema)](/@library.cinema.md)
- Label: AI-generated
- Use cases: Seedance 2
- AI keywords: portrait, video still, photo
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- Published: 2026-11-01
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## Prompt

```text
[Film Style]: 90s Hong Kong Art Cinema style, retro film feel, high ISO grain, ambiguous yellow-green tint, frame stepping effect, melancholic atmosphere.

[Core Dialogue (for emotion control)]: "If memories were canned food, I hope they never expire."

[Video Duration]: 10 seconds
[Script]:

[00:00-00:04] Shot 1: Through the Glass Peeping.
Scene: A rain-covered red public telephone booth.
Character: A man (or woman) in a khaki trench coat holding the receiver tightly, not speaking, just listening.
Emotional Performance: Through the glass refraction, see his/her eyes hollow yet deeply emotional. Rain flows down the glass, distorting his face like an oil painting.
Subtitle/Narrative sense: The picture seems frozen, only the sound of rain.

[00:04-00:07] Shot 2: Extreme Close-up & Micro-expression.
Scene: Focus on the character's lips and half face.
Action: He/She whispers softly into the receiver. Lips tremble slightly, seeming to want to say something but swallow it back.
Lighting: Street neon bokeh flows across his face, bright and dim alternately.
Dialogue Emotion Mapping: Shows the ultimate restraint and loneliness of "wanting to touch but drawing back".

[00:07-00:10] Shot 3: Signature Slow-shutter Drag Shadow.
Scene: Character hangs up phone, turns around and walks into the rainy crowd.
Visual Effect: Using frame stepping effect (stop-motion feel), the character's back becomes blurred with trailing shadows (motion blur), as if the soul stayed in place while only the body walks away.
Environment: Background is flowing city car lights forming elongated light trails.

[Technical Parameters]: Simulated handheld camera, shallow depth of field, color shift, emotionally intense.
```

## About

A highly detailed, multi-shot cinematic prompt for Seedance 2.0 designed to emulate the style of 90s Hong Kong Art Cinema, featuring a melancholic scene in a rainy phone booth with specific instructions for visual effects, lighting, and emotional performance.

Prompt from YouMind OpenLab (github.com/YouMind-OpenLab). Prompt by anand mekala.

## Credit and licence

Prompt by @library.cinema on Promptclay, https://promptclay.com/prompts/wong-kar-wai-style-rainy-phone-booth-scene-wqtxbv
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