i.
Before the 1980s, there were basically two ways for foreign companies to shoot films related to Chinese themes in Hollywood studios or in the colonies of capitalist allies at that time (for example, a 007 film related to China was shot in Hong Kong, the Commonwealth of Nations). , and since the Opium War, residents in the Pearl River Delta have moved to Hong Kong one after another, and most of them are near Foshan and Panyu. Those people in the play speak the Shunde accent, which is obviously different from Cantonese, which is now dominated by the Guangzhou accent.
ii.
The translation of the place names in the play is called Weima spelling:
Peiping Beiping = Peking Beijing
iii.
ps. The film won two Academy Awards that year
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