In terms of history, the Qing court at that time was really blind and incompetent towards the international pros and cons (either blindly compromising in the previous decades, or declaring war on the foreign powers and attacking the embassy area at the same time); in terms of tactics, it was not. The trained rabble must first have strong command and cooperation if they want to defeat the regular army; as far as the film itself is concerned, the early 1960s was a period when the Western world was frightened, afraid, hostile and wanted to understand the red China behind the iron curtain. As shown in the movie, the interpretation and depiction of the Boxer League.
The subsequent atrocities of the Eight-Power Allied Forces in occupying Beijing were completely ignored. The main thrust was on the fearlessness of the American military major and the strategizing aura of the British envoy. The Russian Baroness and Rong Lu actually had a leg...The Russian baron committed suicide! I don't know if this setting is based on history, but it opened my eyes.
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