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** Overall, Pu-Yi is given a HistoricalHeroUpgrade and made less abrasive and volatile. The real Pu-Yi's tormenting of his servants went far beyond forcing them to drink ink, he would order floggings and beatings for his own amusement, and as an adult was prone to outbursts and domestic violence.
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** Overall, Pu-Yi is given a HistoricalHeroUpgrade and made less abrasive and volatile. The real Pu-Yi's tormenting of his servants went far beyond forcing them to drink ink, ink; he would order floggings and beatings for his own amusement, and as an adult was prone to outbursts and domestic violence.
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** In the film Pu-Yi maintains romantic relationships with his consorts. In reality, Pu-Yi was notoriously sex-averse, referring to his consorts as "wives in name only" and leading to long-standing rumors that he was gay or even asexual.
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** In the film film, Pu-Yi maintains romantic relationships with his consorts. In reality, Pu-Yi was notoriously sex-averse, referring to his consorts as "wives in name only" and leading to long-standing rumors that he was gay or even asexual.
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This film proved very successful at the UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s, winning all nine of its nominations, including Best Picture, tying the record set by ''Film/{{Gigi}}'' nearly thirty years earlier.
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A 1987 film directed and co-written by Creator/BernardoBertolucci, ''The Last Emperor'' was the {{biopic}} of Pu-Yi, [[TitleDrop The Last Emperor]] of China. Music/DavidByrne, Music/RyuichiSakamoto and Cong Su composed the soundtrack. Sakamoto also had a role in the film.
The story, based on Pu-Yi's autobiography, tells how he ascended to the throne at the age of three. In his brief reign, he was confined to the Forbidden City, not knowing of the world of his people. When he is forced to abdicate at nine, the rest of Pu-Yi's life is one of desolation and impoverishment. After serving as the ruler of a [[UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan Japanese puppet government of China]] during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, he becomes a political prisoner of the Soviets and then of the Communist Chinese. When finally released in the 1960s, Pu-Yi dies in obscurity.
The story, based on Pu-Yi's autobiography, tells how he ascended to the throne at the age of three. In his brief reign, he was confined to the Forbidden City, not knowing of the world of his people. When he is forced to abdicate at nine, the rest of Pu-Yi's life is one of desolation and impoverishment. After serving as the ruler of a [[UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan Japanese puppet government of China]] during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, he becomes a political prisoner of the Soviets and then of the Communist Chinese. When finally released in the 1960s, Pu-Yi dies in obscurity.
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A 1987 film directed and co-written by Creator/BernardoBertolucci, ''The Last Emperor'' was the {{biopic}} of Pu-Yi, [[TitleDrop The Last Emperor]] the last [[ImperialChina emperor]] of China.UsefulNotes/{{China}}. Music/DavidByrne, Music/RyuichiSakamoto and Cong Su composed the soundtrack. Sakamoto also had a role in the film.
The story, based on Pu-Yi's autobiography, tells how he ascended to the throne at the age of three. In his brief reign, he was confined to the ForbiddenCity, City in UsefulNotes/{{Beijing}}, not knowing of the world of his people. When he is forced to abdicate at nine, the rest of Pu-Yi's life is one of desolation and impoverishment. After serving as the ruler of a [[UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan Japanese puppet government of China]] during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, he becomes a political prisoner of the Soviets and then of the Communist Chinese. When finally released in the 1960s, Pu-Yi dies in obscurity.
The story, based on Pu-Yi's autobiography, tells how he ascended to the throne at the age of three. In his brief reign, he was confined to the Forbidden
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** Years later, now a forgotten nobody, when Pu-Yi tries to object to the way the Red Guards are treating his former prison overseer, the Guards dismiss Pu-Yi as a crazy old man and only shove him aside. Had the Red Guards known who he once was, Pu-Yi might've ended up being included with his former overseer in the prosecution procession.
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** Years later, now a forgotten nobody, when Pu-Yi tries to object to the way the Red Guards are treating his former prison overseer, the Guards dismiss Pu-Yi as a crazy old man and only shove him aside. Had the Red Guards known who he once was, Pu-Yi might've ended up being included with his former overseer in the prosecution procession.parade.
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* KarmaHoudini: After encountering some of his former ministers from Manchukuo in prison, Pu-Yi realizes that their seeming "re-education" as loyal Communists is an act, and are instead planning on doing the same things they had done under the Japanese once they're free.
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** After encountering some of his former ministers from Manchukuo in prison, Pu-Yi realizes that their seeming "re-education" as loyal Communists is an act, and are instead planning on doing the same things they had done under the Japanese once they'refree.free.
** Years later, now a forgotten nobody, when Pu-Yi tries to object to the way the Red Guards are treating his former prison overseer, the Guards dismiss Pu-Yi as a crazy old man and only shove him aside. Had the Red Guards known who he once was, Pu-Yi might've ended up being included with his former overseer in the prosecution procession.
** After encountering some of his former ministers from Manchukuo in prison, Pu-Yi realizes that their seeming "re-education" as loyal Communists is an act, and are instead planning on doing the same things they had done under the Japanese once they're
** Years later, now a forgotten nobody, when Pu-Yi tries to object to the way the Red Guards are treating his former prison overseer, the Guards dismiss Pu-Yi as a crazy old man and only shove him aside. Had the Red Guards known who he once was, Pu-Yi might've ended up being included with his former overseer in the prosecution procession.
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* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: As Pu-Yi grows older, he begins making more ill-advised and outright foolish decisions, much of which come back to haunt him while in captivity.
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* HypercompetentSidekick: Pu-Yi's brother, Pujie, is revealed to be the more astute and competent of the two. Historically, it's also in part because of him that Manchukuo didn't fully collapse or lose what little "[[PuppetState sovereignty]]" it had.
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* MoodWhiplash: The Cultural Revolution procession, where the public humiliation of people judged as undesirables/enemies of the state is immediately followed by a peppy song and dance routine by Red Guard girls.
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* RecurringRiff: In addition to the movie's main theme, another recurring musical motif is the myriad renditions of "Without the Communist Party, There Would Be no New China" in the prison sequences. First sung haltingly and half-baked, by the time Pu-Yi is reformed, the song comes across strong and bombastic.
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* RecurringRiff: In addition to the movie's main theme, another recurring musical motif is the myriad renditions of "Without the Communist Party, There Would Be no New China" in the prison sequences. First sung haltingly and half-baked, by the time Pu-Yi is reformed, the song comes across strong and bombastic.
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* TranslationConvention: The majority of on-screen dialogue from Chinese characters is in English, while text and background chatter is in Mandarin.
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* TranslationConvention: The majority of on-screen dialogue from A very complex example:
**Inverting JustAStupidAccent, in his early life when Pu-Yi speaks accent-free English, it means he's speaking Chinese (since he would be speaking Chinese without an accent); when he speaks accented English, it means he's actually speaking English in-universe (since he would speak English with an accent). ''However,'' at times he speaks with his wives in ''accented'' English, even though he would be speaking Chinese with them, presumably because it would have looked ludicrous for the actor to switch rapidly between accented and unaccented speech.
**By contrast, most other charactersis in English, while text have a light accent when speaking English (because it would be jarring for them to sound like a native English speaker), and background chatter we're meant to understand they're speaking Chinese in-universe.
**That said, characters are often seen speaking Chinese, usually in ensemble shots where we're not meant to focus on the dialogue (singing, aside comments, etc.) As soon as we need to understand what a speaking character is saying, though, they're speaking English (to represent Chinese), even if they were speaking Chinese moments before.
** The convention inMandarin.this film is so complicated (and yet basically intuitive to viewers) that philosopher and computer scientist Douglas Hofstadter singled it out for discussion in his book on translation, ''Le Ton beau de Marot.''
**Inverting JustAStupidAccent, in his early life when Pu-Yi speaks accent-free English, it means he's speaking Chinese (since he would be speaking Chinese without an accent); when he speaks accented English, it means he's actually speaking English in-universe (since he would speak English with an accent). ''However,'' at times he speaks with his wives in ''accented'' English, even though he would be speaking Chinese with them, presumably because it would have looked ludicrous for the actor to switch rapidly between accented and unaccented speech.
**By contrast, most other characters
**That said, characters are often seen speaking Chinese, usually in ensemble shots where we're not meant to focus on the dialogue (singing, aside comments, etc.) As soon as we need to understand what a speaking character is saying, though, they're speaking English (to represent Chinese), even if they were speaking Chinese moments before.
** The convention in
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* UnreliableNarrator: Pu-Yi himself comes across as one when trying to recount his crimes and life story before his Communist captors, thanks to his self-serving memory. This comes back to bit him when the prison governor notices discrepancies between his testimony about being dragged to Manchukuo against his will and Reginald Johnston's account of what really happened.
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* UnreliableNarrator: Pu-Yi himself comes across as one when trying to recount his crimes and life story before his Communist captors, thanks to his self-serving memory. This comes back to bit bite him when the prison governor notices discrepancies between his testimony about being dragged to Manchukuo against his will and the account from Reginald Johnston's account memoirs of what really happened.
