I'm curious, why is this movie so popular? Or how good is the movie?
1. Why this is a movie
"The Last Emperor" that can't pass the trial now is a complete mystery. The "Three Views" are neither popular nor special, and a large number of period features and metaphors are full of the danger of being cut in half. But at that time, the Chinese government approved the filming of the film without any restrictions on the content. Maybe because it was 1987, ten years earlier, two years later, it didn't work.
2. This is the first foreign film approved to be filmed in the Forbidden City.
Everyone knows that the current Qing Dynasty films are generally filmed in Hengdian Film and Television City. But this movie was shot in the real Forbidden City. There is a big panorama. The camera slowly goes up, and you can see the pavilion on Jingshan Mountain in the distance, and the scene is completely cleared and the guardrail is removed.
3. This is the first time a film about China has won the Oscar Gold Award.
The film won the Best Picture Award, Best Director Award, Best Adapted Screenplay Award, Best Costume Award, Best Composition Award, and Best Editing, Best Sound Effects, Best Cinematography, and Best Art Design, it's a grand slam. Starring Chen Chong and Zunlong also came to the stage to present the best documentary short film as guests.
4. This is a rare film that truly reproduces the Cultural Revolution and the Red Guards.
Frankly, this part of the show looks overly dramatic, a bit fake, and makes people laugh. But then horrified, this is perhaps the most realistic depiction or presentation of this era I have ever seen. It's restoration of details, and the strength of the pen, are amazing.
The disciplined cadres with oily face and stern face, the uniform but full of strange atmosphere of loyalty dance, the comparison between slogans and prisons from bottom to top, it is almost impossible to see in any film now.
5. This is the last dynasty of China in the eyes of foreign directors
The foreign director is Bernardo Bertolucci. It is worth mentioning that in addition to his apprenticeship with the French film giant Godard, he is also a member of the Italian Communist Party.
It's not that foreigners' perspectives are good or objective, but this movie, adapted from Puyi's foreign teacher Johnston's book "Twilight of the Forbidden City", looks at this story, which was later told by countless people, from a new perspective. It is true, but because it is another subjective perspective corresponding to the subjective, it is another objective.
Bertolucci doesn't care how an emperor descends, how a dynasty is replaced, and how people are saved. He doesn't even care about the fate of individuals in the big era and the love of small people. He is just fascinated by the absurdity in this big background. express himself.
6. This is a movie with no right or wrong. The
emperor, the warlord, Yuan Shikai, Chiang Kai-shek, the red power, the minister, no one is innocent, and no one is the source of evil. The only real thing is desire.
"Power is a man's aphrodisiac, and love is a woman's opium."
But the author's tendency is obvious. The metaphors that can be seen everywhere are especially obvious in the interrogation part. The actors do special make-up, which is clear at a glance.
I have seen a sentence before, "We have no history, only reincarnation." Enough.
7. Answered why Zunlong is the first choice in "Farewell My Concubine", why Chen Chong is regarded as a representative of beauty, and how Wu Junmei started the magnanimous starship
. Zunlong was really beautiful at that time, and it really played "Mr Butterfly" Yes, no wonder it was listed as the first choice for "Farewell My Concubine". That energy is different from his brother, he has a hypocritical sense of gentleman. You get a little, how to put it, wanting to be close to him and being afraid of him at the same time.
Wu Junmei hasn't bloomed yet, but the cowardly and coquettish manner is enough to perform Wenxiu. Because of this film, she became the first Asian actor to be nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the Italian Film Awards, and then went to the United States to study and later starred in many Hollywood films.
But Wu Junmei's charm was completely restrained in front of the young Chen Chong. I don't like Chen Chong's appearance very much, it's too fierce. But when she is young, she is so good-looking, pure and charming, a bit like Shu Qi, but with a little more coquettish air. Not only beautiful, but also good acting. In the scene where she and Kawashima Yoshiko wept together, the feeling conveyed was so complicated that it shocked me. Crazy drama is fine, there is no idol burden.
In the film, the three people hid in the thin quilt and contributed a wonderful three-person sex scene.
This is a video stage play.
The director used a narration to say that the Forbidden City is like a stage play, and those who are in it do not know it, and those who do know just gradually steal the curtain and props.
The big bed on which Cixi was sitting was pushed forward in the hall, and the lamas suddenly burst into the hall beating gongs and blowing suonas. The fake is so powerful, but I didn't dare to laugh in my heart, for fear that someone called God would look down on us and laugh like this.
There are ubiquitous mirror comparisons, and the most important line is open the door!
At the beginning, the suicide in the house was locked, and the door was opened; if he wanted to leave the palace, he fell to death, and the door was opened; the nurse was sent out of the palace, chased after him, and opened the door.
Always be on the side of the door, never catch up with the person you want to chase, or the times.
The sarcasm everywhere, the people singing the red song, and everything today. Times and modernity, images and reality itself, who is more like a stage play?
For 3 hours, there was a bit of a feeling of "a big show, people came on and off the stage one after another, the hula la curtain fell, and the dynasty changed in an instant".
The young Forbidden City, Shenyang and prisons are too illusory for the old Puyi.
Most people like that ending, Puyi buys a ticket to visit the Forbidden City. At this moment, this "fake" movie has real meaning.
At a certain moment, I suddenly felt that this was the Times version of "The Truman World".
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