The Last Emperor (1987)

I loved this movie. A few memorable scenes:

Pu Yi making love to his wife (concubine?) in the Forbidden City as the curtains breeze about his bed.

The Eunuchs leaving the Forbidden City in a procession...each carefully carrying their privates.

The scenes of Japanese Occupation in Manchukuo, the banquet after his installation and the controlled chaos leaving Manchukuo ahead of the Chinese Communists and Russian with Pu Yi's drug-addled empress returning in the midst of that chaos.

The scenes at the beginning with the courtiers/physicians peering over Pu Yi's poo and at the end with the commandant of the prison prompting Pu Yi to pee on the side of the bowl so as not to disturb his cellmates.

R1 The banquet sequence is great. When she is eating the flowers and the crying all over the Emperor Waltz by Strauss

It IS The Last Emperor!

It looks sumptuous

R4 Now streaming on HBO Max. I highly recommend, it was worth it

British costume designer James Acheson won his first Academy Award for this. The other two: "Dangerous Liasons", & "Restoration". I highly recommend all three.

Terrific movie. Elegant, while still packing a punch.

Why did it take a recommendation for you to watch? Do you not have your any of your own knowledge or taste?

Peter O'Toole deserved an Oscar nomination

Gorgeous soundtrack which I still listen to.

[quote] "Do you not have your any of your own knowledge or taste?"

Puyi @R8 It goes without saying that your first language isn't English. And I acknowledge that you're the first Chinese Emporer to speak and write English...skills necessary for interaction on this platform. But it appears you need a few more lessons.

Bigot^

[quote] Emporer

[quote] to speak and write English...skills necessary for interaction on this platform. But it appears you need a few more lessons.

It appears r11 needs a few more lessons himself.

[quote] "Bigot^"

Ignorant.^

Have several seats, and read several books while you're at it. Unless you're R8. They're beyond help.

Chill, let's discuss the movie

Let's discuss The Last Emperor.

The scene when Joan Chen reveals her breathtakingly beautiful face.

Whatever happened to John Lone?

I haven’t seen it for decades. We lived in a town where the “Arthouse” movies would come to a cinema for the weekend. My parents went to see it when I was 6 and took me along. (Also in that era, we saw multiple Woody Allen movies, A Room With A View, Mask and a double feature of Jean De Florette and Manon Des Sources).

I have a memory of the wizened old Empress committing suicide by placing a poisoned marble in her mouth. Did this actually happen?

[quote] I have a memory of the wizened old Empress committing suicide by placing a poisoned marble in her mouth. Did this actually happen?

Not quite. She didn’t commit suicide. A eunuch puts a marble in her mouth once they confirm she has died.

Bellissima film. Still recall the scene where the empress starts eating the orchids.

A sad movie, too!

I love how flagrantly beautiful the movie is. That jarring sequence at the beginning that switches from grown-up Puyi looking in the mirror in the prison after slitting his wrists to all those warriors bursting through the gate to take baby Puyi to the Forbidden City for the first time is just stunning.

Love later in the movie when the secondary consort runs away too, in the rain!

Score composer Ryuichi Sakamoto also played Amakasu, the Japanese prick who ends up killing himself.

Puyi was a homosexual...

R25 proof?

Deserving of the Best Picture for sure.

[quote]proof?

Author/journalist Edward Behr wrote a biography of him in which his brother said that he was "biologically incapable of reproduction". Apparently that's a Chinese euphemism for saying that someone is gay.

Sum Ting Wong

Fuck you, R29.

I love the look of the villa they live in during the 1930s.

Saw this opening weekend at the Ziegfeld. Breathtaking visuals

I watched it young and knew the Chinese and the Japanese do not play around.