Update August 5, 2021:
The transition design of "The Last Emperor" can be called a classic, and the call for a hundred years runs through our modern history:
open the door!
Update April 2018:
To the effect, Lao Bei is not sinister.
Update in December 2017: I went to the Forbidden City again on a sunny day in February this year. It was the first time I saw Lingzhao Xuan, Baoyun Tower and Changyin Pavilion. Changyin Pavilion reminds me of the scene where Cixi died in "The Last Emperor". In my impression, the zombie-like Dragon Lady is like a corner from an unearthed and mixed scene. The dark rooms of all silent Chinatowns such as "Old San Francisco" and "Splendid Blood", from the big pickle jar stage of "Bastard" and "Once Upon a Time" with the end of Prohibition in 1933. . In the early morning of a Walanwalan in February 2017, with the mood of admiring specimens, I visited the Changyin Pavilion leisurely, forgetting that the Dragon Lady will always be resurrected. Update April 2017: I remembered the 2016 Civil Servants Ramen Festival and saw the 3d version of the 4k restoration. highly recommended. —————————————— February 24, 2008 1. The film museum has become an unlisted Beijing elderly activity center. Many elderly people know each other and greet each other with a smile: here it is ? There are so many people today. Hall 1 where public service movies are shown is full. After the opening, the late people stood and wandered for a while and could only walk away. 2. The dvdr I watched last time was a director's cut version of more than 200 minutes, and the picture was beautifully repaired. At that time, it felt so long, with some plots, such as the memory of Puyi's nanny entering the palace in her early years, and Wanrong dancing with Wenxiu, a little procrastinated. In the 156-point Mandarin cinema version, the two plots are clicked, and there are many paragraphs that the stars are shortened, and the rhythm of the narrative is relaxed, and overall it is slightly faster, which really strikes my heart-I have been silent since last year. The literary film is getting farther and farther. 3. The old copy is badly worn, and there are many jumps in the film. Often the next game is switched to the next scene without finishing a sentence. 4. I watched a little bit on TV when I was young. I only recognize Chen Chong (Wan Rong); watching the dvdr, I saw Zun Long (Pu Yi), Ying Ruocheng (Director of War Criminals Management Office) and Peter O'Toole (Johnston). This time I also saw Wu Junmei (Wenxiu), Sakamoto Ryuichi (a Japanese official who monitored Puyi from Tianjin to Manchuria, and forgot his name), and Chen Kaige (a guest captain of the Meridian Gate). 5. Puyi Oedipus ostentatiously exaggerated. The nurse was breast-feeding the eleven or twelve-year-old in the Huxin Pavilion; a zombie-faced imperial concubine sat on the painting boat and took out a telescope to peek. At the beginning, I also wanted to cut some points in the version that was publicly screened in China, but the truth is that there are almost no cuts. Pu Yi said that the nanny is not only a nanny to him, but also... I forgot the Chinese lines. It probably brought him up. The English lines are very different. He said: She is my butterfly. The butterfly is not just an animal, but the unconditional sacrifice and love of a woman for a man in the Eastern fantasy of Westerners. 6.1959 Pu Yi received an amnesty, the director of the management office said with a smile: You have gone out, I have to stay in prison. A prophecy. In 1967, the trembling Pu Yi rushed into the parade of the Red Guards and defended the old director with a high hat: You are mistaken, he is a good man. We can clearly tell that this scene was shot near the square. In the "Plainclothes Police" filmed in the same year, the scene in which the male protagonist ran to "raise the eyebrow and the sword out of the sheath" and got into prison was completed in front of a large group of extras holding the Monument to the People's Heroes. This is an impossible task today. Bertruchi's shots are extremely attached to the high walls, barbed wire and steel gun sentry of the war criminals management office, and there is no lack of sinister intentions to compare the red China before the opening to a large prison. 7. Every time from reality to memory, I cut in with the call of "open the door". History is an inescapable prison. Lao Bei and others want to open the door of this old prison and take a peek at it with a Western binoculars. Looking through his eyes, Pu Yi is pitiful and Johnston is perfect. Pu Yi needs to be saved. Of course Johnston alone can't help him too much, but Johnston represents a better civilization. Lao Bei thought this way, and so did the intellectuals and ordinary people in China at the same time. It's harmonious inside and out. 8. Ying Ruocheng suspected of dubbing himself. I'm not familiar with Chen Chong, so I can't tell. Zunlong is not the original sound. In the extended English version, he only spoke Chinese in one place. In 1967, he became an old gardener. After get off work, he said goodbye to his colleagues, saying that I was leaving and I would see you tomorrow. This paragraph is also in the Mandarin version screened, and that is his voice. 9. Knowing when, where and how to cover up is art. For example, Suzhou Gardens. "The Last Emperor" vs. "Atonement" (watched at the Film Museum on the same day), both were specially cooked for Oscar, and the judgment was made. Johnston entered the palace to see Puyi when the May 4th crowd swept the capital. He was blocked by the willing crowd on the road. He saw soldiers lined up with live ammunition, inserted bayonets, and aimed at the crowd. It's about to happen. The audience is "looking forward" to the blood and screams of the crowd. As soon as the camera turns, Johnston has arrived in the Forbidden City. In the next paragraph, he and Pu Yi were in class, and faintly heard gunshots and screams. Pu Yi listened on the ground, hearing more clearly. This detail can't stand scrutiny, but the effect at that time was very good, and it was much better than just shooting it. 10. The details are the worst, and the details are not as good as none. But there are always special cases. The audience does not blame the guilt, but is also a treasure for the unreasonable details. Such as the end of "Shawshank's Redemption." Pu Yi, who was about to die, bought a ticket for a dime, walked lonely and contentedly into the Forbidden City that was empty during the Cultural Revolution, crossed the "no entry" sign, and wanted to step onto the dragon chair of the Hall of Supreme Harmony again, but was broken behind her. Stopped, it turned out to be a red scarf, and asked who he was. He said he was once the emperor and had sat there. The child said, prove it. The old man smiled and sat on the dragon chair, took out a grasshopper box from behind the dragon chair, and handed it to the child-it was clearly the one he asked for from an old minister on the day he enthroned the throne. The child looked at the box questioningly. Look up and see that the old man is gone. The child opened the box, and a grasshopper crawled out alive. The details are the worst, and the details are not as good as none. However, there are always special cases. The audience will not only blame the guilt, but also get a treasure for the unreasonable details. Such as the end of "Shawshank's Redemption". The dying Pu Yi spent a dime to buy a ticket, walked lonely and contentedly into the Forbidden City that was empty during the Cultural Revolution, crossed the "no entry" sign, and wanted to step onto the dragon chair of the Hall of Supreme Harmony again, but was broken behind her. Stopped, it turned out to be a red scarf, and asked who he was. He said that he had been the emperor and had sat there. The child said, prove it. The old man smiled and sat on the dragon chair, took out a grasshopper box from behind the dragon chair, and handed it to the child-it was clearly the one he asked for from an old minister on the day of his ascension to the throne. The child looked at the box questioningly. Look up and see that the old man is gone. The child opened the box, and a grasshopper crawled out alive. The details are the worst, and the details are not as good as none. But there are always special cases. The audience does not blame the guilt, but is also a treasure for the unreasonable details. Such as the end of "Shawshank's Redemption." Pu Yi, who was about to die, bought a ticket for a dime, walked lonely and contentedly into the Forbidden City that was empty during the Cultural Revolution, crossed the "no entry" sign, and wanted to step onto the dragon chair of the Hall of Supreme Harmony again, but was broken behind her. Stopped, it turned out to be a red scarf, and asked who he was. He said that he had been the emperor and had sat there. The child said, prove it. The old man smiled and sat on the dragon chair, took out a grasshopper box from behind the dragon chair, and handed it to the child-it was clearly the one he asked for from an old minister on the day of his ascension to the throne. The child looked at the box questioningly. Look up and see that the old man is gone. The child opened the box, and a grasshopper crawled out alive.
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