Emperor's Elegy

Jalyn 2022-04-22 07:01:28

A good movie can soften people's hearts. What the film conveys to us is that the emperor is actually a sensitive and intelligent child who grew up in the harem, violent and charitable, vain and innocent. Like Guangxu, he wanted to reform everything but was born out of time. Tragic figure. He is not him, he is the emperor.

Love the last part, the Red Guards are justified in rebelling. Ying Ruocheng was beaten into a monster. The naive emperor went up to argue. There is also the emperor buying a ticket to the Forbidden City. This kind of fiction is very comfortable, and it is a privilege only for movies. The whole film maintains the prudence due to history, and it is not offensive after watching it. The emperor died in 1967, childless, and ascended the throne at the age of three. Johnny is a good actor. I hate the Cultural Revolution.

So far, I have seen three of Lao Bei's films, The Last Emperor, The Last Tango in Paris, and The Dreamer. The content and style are completely different.

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  • Gayle 2022-03-28 09:01:03

    One of the rare Chinese epic films with deep reflection, from an Italian director, how sad, what are we doing? forgetting? In addition, it is quite rare to see my hometown Fushun in the movie.

  • Monserrate 2021-12-08 08:01:48

    As a foreign director, it is impossible to shoot better, but I am a Chinese.

The Last Emperor quotes

  • Chang: [to Reginald] The Emperor awards you with the order of the Ruby Hat Button, and with the right to be carried in your own chair, with four bearers.

  • Reginald Fleming 'R.J.' Johnston: It would be conveniently sad if he becomes blind. To the expense, Your Excellency. To the cost of maintaining one thousand two hundred eunuchs, three hundred and fifty ladies-in-waiting and one hundred and eighty-five cooks to buying a hundred and twenty sable furs a month and three thousand chickens a week. To the fact that eight hundred and forty guards and employees of the household department, plus one Lord Chamberlain, care only about one thing! Filling their own rice bowls!