Rebirth Enchanted Xiangjiang

The last emperor told the story of Puyi, but not the true historical story of Puyi.

Although this film is based on Pu Yi's autobiography from the first half of my life, since it is an adaptation, it will inevitably be fabricated, otherwise it will not be called a feature film but a documentary.

Even documentaries are made up.

If you want to understand real historical events through movies, there must be deviations, because a movie will have some joking elements. And a good movie must have the director’s personal emotions and private interpretation. This perspective and viewpoint are standpoint and biased.

The original version of The Last Emperor is a Chinese historical movie filmed by Italian director Bertolucci, and it is aimed at Western audiences. Therefore, this movie is naturally interpreted from the perspective of a Westerner to understand Puyi's extraordinary life.

I have beautified and sympathized with Pu Yi, but my position will be relatively objective. This is qualitatively different from the fire dragon shot by Li Hanxiang.

It is impossible for Chinese people to talk about Chinese affairs objectively, especially in an era like 1986 and 1987.

Especially in the mainland, the audience at that time could not accept the sympathy of a Manchu emperor like Puyi.

So even if the last emperor won nine Oscars in 1988, there were still very few viewers in the mainland who actually saw it.

However, when this film was released in Taiwan, it was a mess. The box office exceeded NT$100 million, making it the first film in Taiwan to exceed NT$100 million.

In Hong Kong, the film scored very well. It won the tenth place at the annual box office that year, with a box office of more than 10 million.

Just to win so many awards, Qiao Feng has never been interested in art achievement high enough. Because I have never heard of a movie that has a profound and huge impact on the film industry because of high artistic achievement.

The only thing that has an impact on the film industry is the box office. Without the box office, movies can only be self-entertainment for a few people.

From Star Wars to the beginning of the special effects era, to Jurassic Park, the big ship opened the doors of film markets around the world, and then to the release of Avatar, which ushered in the 3D era of movies. It is all huge box office revenue that is driving the revolution of the movie. development of.

If the box office of more than two billion dollars is not for the bottom line, 3d technology may only be used in a few documentary movies.

But it is Avatar’s $2 billion box office that makes 3d technology a standard feature in subsequent movies. Whether you need it or not, if you don’t have a 3d version, you are embarrassed to say that you are making a movie.

The artistic achievement of the last emperor is high, but the key is to make money. This is why Qiao Feng wanted to shoot him.

Taiwan received more than NT$1 billion in the box office, Hong Kong received more than 10 million in the box office, and in North America another more than US$40 million, plus more than US$10 million in revenue from Europe and other markets, as well as the video tape market. , Although this film does not make a lot of money, it is definitely a profit relative to the investment of 25 million US dollars.

Since there is money to make, there are still prizes, of course, it doesn’t matter if you don’t have any prizes. It’s a good thing for Chinese movies to be nominated at Oscars.

Why not do such a good thing.

The last emperor is a story about "blocking and confinement", and a metaphor of "door" runs through the entire film.

The door, as the most common signifier, points to the connecting passage of the space boundary, implying the barrier between the inner and the outer, and contains the function of blocking and closing.

The film looks at Pu Yi, a victim of the feudal system, and a "war criminal" from the perspective of a "person", trying to restore Pu Yi to his historical moment and to interpret his plight surrounded by "doors".

The movie begins after the arrest of middle-aged Pu Yi in a flashback.He was escorted back to the railway station on the Sino-Russian border as a war criminal.The screen is full of smoke, and the war criminals and the soldiers escorting them are all uniform iron gray.

In this depressing atmosphere,

Hot water flowed from the old-fashioned water bottle in the net bag, and the steam curled up. Pu Yi decided to end her life in this almost romantic scene. So, the scarlet blood in the hot water in the washbasin gradually bloomed and dyed red This narrative environment is wrapped in iron gray and dark green.

In the almost silent layout, the escort's hammer yelled to break the calm.

"Open the door!"

This familiar cry, this familiar voice aroused Pu Yi's memories of her own experience.

Therefore, a cry of "open the door" brought the reality picture before him back to the beginning of the story, and Pu Yi's childhood became the throne.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, when Guangxu died, the three-year-old Puyi was forced to leave his mother and enter the palace to succeed.At the ceremony of enthronement, the young Pu Yi had no mind at all to change his identity. His eyes were attracted by the yellow curtains blowing in the wind on the palace: the thin yellow curtains were covered with delicate royal totems. The silk danced like a butterfly with the breeze.

This door curtain as light as a cicada wing is the first door in Pu Yi's tragic life, and it is also the most important door.Outside the door, a hundred officials of civil and military affairs, and the emperor's land, all this must be borne by this naive child.Through the perspective of a child, thousands of heads outside the curtain of the door smashed down, accompanied by the sound of "kneel-one bow -", sentient beings worship, the visual impact of this lens is huge.

The main line of the story is told under the director's ingenious scene design: Pu Yi, before he could understand the truth, walked into the door of the emperor's identity and walked into his imprisoned life.

If the yellow curtain is a hidden gate in Puyi's life, then the gate of the Forbidden City is the most familiar hard gate in his first half of his life.

He was trapped in the door since he was three years old, and didn't have to leave until 1924, "Open the door!" This cry from the heart has been with him almost all his life.

When his nanny was suddenly sent out of the palace, Puyi's psychological and physical attachment to her was instantly cut off.

Puyi screamed the name of the nanny while running, and was eventually blocked inside the imperial city. This time the failure of "opening the door" was the first lesson of the Qing Dynasty widow’s growth to the young emperor trying to make him immature. The heart is withdrawn from dependence on breast milk, and the pain of separation teaches the emperor the taste of growth.

After Pu Yi's biological mother committed suicide by taking opium outside the city, he came to the city gate and hoped to go out to visit. Through layers of guards, Pu Yi saw the lively streets and crowds outside. He deeply felt his trapped situation, so he went to The guard shouted angrily "Open the door! Open the door!"

But the emperor's words are of no use here.Anger and sorrow poured into my heart, and the young Pu Yi slammed the pet white mouse in his arms to death on the vermillion gate. The white mouse was like his symbol, trapped in the sachet all day long. At this moment, he shattered the prisoner’s head, as if he had made an extreme end to the trapped self in his mind.

Later, the cry of "open the door" occurred in the Puppet Manchukuo decades later. After giving birth to a child, his wife Wanrong was forcibly transferred to a lunatic asylum by herself. The royal descendants were poisoned and the queen faced persecution.Pu Yi flew downstairs when she learned, and followed to the gate.

History is staged once again, and Vermilion's gate is closed again.Facing the life and death separation from her family, Pu Yi was already overwhelmed, but she just tremblingly said to the guard, "Open the door--" and gave up.

This scene was too familiar to Pu Yi, and it was so familiar to him that he was scared.He knew that no matter what fierce struggle he made, this closed door would not be opened to him.He is just a puppet emperor inside the city wall, he can't even control the power of opening and closing doors.

This is the first half of a poor, hateful and helpless man's life.

Puyi has lived in the interweaving of the pictures of memories and what he sees in her life. Especially after ten years of prison life, under the communist labor reform, Puyi has been criticizing and denying her first half of her life in the way of memories. .

The ending of the movie is moving: Pu Yi, who became a citizen of the Republic, spent a dime to buy a ticket to enter the Forbidden City to visit his former home. Facing the new era of red scarf, he began to confide in his heart. The elderly Pu Yi hid in the dragon chair many years ago The grasshopper who came down was given to the child, but his face was filled with a relieved smile.

Because at this time he was already like grasshopper, crawling out of his emperor's identity from the gate that closed him in the Forbidden City.

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Free at last.

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