First of all, the original film is 160 minutes long, and the domestic version is 154 minutes in total according to the next episode. If you consider the difference in the length of the subtitles at the beginning and end of the original version and the domestic version, then a few minutes are deleted. Overall, it has little effect on the film, at most it is that some shots are cut a bit abruptly.
Most of the deletions are related to sex scenes: on
Puyi's wedding night, the process of taking off the queen's clothes was deleted; the
3P sex scene was deleted. I remember when I saw this scene, the quilt covered the body and only left the curve The endless imaginings really made the oriental subtlety home.
The scene of the eunuch being sent off seems to have been deleted;
in the puppet Manchurian palace, the physical contact between the queen and Puyi sister on the bed was deleted.
In addition, I remember one place in the original version that the newly appointed minister mentioned Wang Jingwei in the dialogue with Pu Yi, but the domestic version did not hear it, which is probably politically incorrect. (Falsified)
The rest of what I want to say is that the film environment in the 1980s was still very loose, so this film retained several breasts. The dubbing is very bad. If the original version looks a little awkward when the ancient Chinese speak English, the dubbing actually makes the Chinese spoken by the ancient Chinese full of foreign flavors according to the idea of general translations. Round mandarin. And the dubbing doesn't even have a word like "Zhen", which is a little sweaty. The film was in disrepair and had lost all sense of Bertolucci's bohemian royal demeanor through tone.
Speaking of which, the biggest influence this movie had on me back then was that, as a Western director's work, on the one hand, it was relatively unscrupulous, and on the other hand, it was able to shoot such a subtle 3P sex scene. There is also the director's attitude of not getting involved in Chinese history, he just wants to tell the story of one person. Of course, what will never be forgotten is the super invincible and beautiful soundtrack.
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