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* YellowPeril: Surprisingly averted, despite the use of YellowFace.
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* YellowPeril: Surprisingly averted, despite the use of YellowFace.YellowFace.
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* ItIsPronouncedTroPay: Throughout the film, Megan's name is pronounced [=mee-GHAN=], as opposed to the alternative pronunciation, [=MEG-en=].
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* YellowPeril: Averted in this film.
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* YellowPeril: Averted in this film.Surprisingly averted, despite the use of YellowFace.
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* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: General Yen keeps a vial of poison for this purpose. [[spoiler: He ends up using it once he realizes that Megan won’t overcome her prejudices, and even with all her talk of Christian values of love, respect, and redemption, she won’t show him any of this.]]
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* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: General Yen keeps a vial of poison for this purpose. [[spoiler: He ends up using it once he realizes that he's abandoned by all his underlings, with only Megan won’t overcome her prejudices, and even with all her talk of Christian values of love, respect, and redemption, she won’t show him any of this.at his knees pledging to never leave him.]]
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* BilingualBonus: InUniverse, a plot point on a couple of occasions.
** Early in the film, Bob asks Yen for a safe conduct pass so he can rescue the orphans. Yen, who is contemptuous of missionaries, writes out a "pass" in Mandarin that actually says "This fool prefers going to war rather than the arms of his loving wife. General Nobody." This gets Bob and Megan into a lot of trouble.
** Later in the film, Mah Li asks Megan to take her to the Buddhist temple to have her prayers read by the monk. The "prayers" are, in fact, the secret intelligence that Mah Li is passing to Yen's enemies, intelligence that is written down by operatives hidden behind a curtain as the monk reads them out. Megan doesn't speak Chinese either, so she stands there dumbly unawares.
** Both of these scenes underline the missionaries' utter ignorance of Chinese culture.
** Early in the film, Bob asks Yen for a safe conduct pass so he can rescue the orphans. Yen, who is contemptuous of missionaries, writes out a "pass" in Mandarin that actually says "This fool prefers going to war rather than the arms of his loving wife. General Nobody." This gets Bob and Megan into a lot of trouble.
** Later in the film, Mah Li asks Megan to take her to the Buddhist temple to have her prayers read by the monk. The "prayers" are, in fact, the secret intelligence that Mah Li is passing to Yen's enemies, intelligence that is written down by operatives hidden behind a curtain as the monk reads them out. Megan doesn't speak Chinese either, so she stands there dumbly unawares.
** Both of these scenes underline the missionaries' utter ignorance of Chinese culture.
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* BilingualBonus: BilingualBonus:
** In the beginning of the movie, a woman says she can hardly wait to see the bride and groom at the wedding kiss. The man beside her scolds her by saying "Amelia! Skäms du inte?"[[note]]Swedish, meaning roughly: "Amelia! Have you no shame?"[[/note]]
** InUniverse, a plot point on a couple ofoccasions.
**occasions. Both of these scenes underline the missionaries' utter ignorance of Chinese culture:
*** Early in the film, Bob asks Yen for a safe conduct pass so he can rescue the orphans. Yen, who is contemptuous of missionaries, writes out a "pass" in Mandarin that actually says "This fool prefers going to war rather than the arms of his loving wife. General Nobody." This gets Bob and Megan into a lot of trouble.
** *** Later in the film, Mah Li asks Megan to take her to the Buddhist temple to have her prayers read by the monk. The "prayers" are, in fact, the secret intelligence that Mah Li is passing to Yen's enemies, intelligence that is written down by operatives hidden behind a curtain as the monk reads them out. Megan doesn't speak Chinese either, so she stands there dumbly unawares.
** Both of these scenes underline the missionaries' utter ignorance of Chinese culture.unawares.
** In the beginning of the movie, a woman says she can hardly wait to see the bride and groom at the wedding kiss. The man beside her scolds her by saying "Amelia! Skäms du inte?"[[note]]Swedish, meaning roughly: "Amelia! Have you no shame?"[[/note]]
** InUniverse, a plot point on a couple of
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*** Early in the film, Bob asks Yen for a safe conduct pass so he can rescue the orphans. Yen, who is contemptuous of missionaries, writes out a "pass" in Mandarin that actually says "This fool prefers going to war rather than the arms of his loving wife. General Nobody." This gets Bob and Megan into a lot of trouble.
** Both of these scenes underline the missionaries' utter ignorance of Chinese culture.
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* EroticDream: Megan has this at her stay in Yen’s summer palace while watching officers and their lovers frolic outside her window. It consists of Megan trapped in her room, and having someone trying to break down her door. The camera pans and viewers see an awful LooksLikeOrlok caricature of an Asian man: long nails, pointy ears, and ready to prey upon Megan. The camera then pans to her window, where viewers see a masked man, ready to save her. He kills the caricature, and embraces Megan. He takes his mask off, and it’s General Yen. They kiss, and Megan’s world seems to be spinning. It’s necessary to point out that the 1930s had miscegenation laws, so this would have shocked viewers (and did!).
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* EroticDream: Megan has this at her stay in Yen’s summer palace while watching officers and their lovers frolic outside her window. It consists of Megan trapped in her room, and having someone trying to break down her door. The camera pans and viewers see an awful LooksLikeOrlok caricature of an Asian man: long nails, pointy ears, and ready to prey upon Megan. The camera then pans to her window, where viewers see a masked man, ready to save her. He kills the caricature, caricature and embraces Megan. He takes his mask off, and it’s General Yen. They kiss, and Megan’s world seems to be spinning. It’s necessary to point out that the 1930s had miscegenation laws, so this would have shocked viewers (and did!).
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* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: Megan is sent to General Yen’s room. She's frightened as General Yen plays music, makes small talk, trying to see what interests her. She bursts into tears, because unfortunately, she thinks Yen is going to rape her. Yen is deeply hurt by this since he had no intention of doing something so vile. He realizes that Megan still thinks of him as some savage.
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* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: Megan is sent to General Yen’s room. She's frightened as General Yen plays music, music and makes small talk, trying to see what interests her. She bursts into tears, because unfortunately, she thinks Yen is going to rape her. Yen is deeply hurt by this since he had no intention of doing something so vile. He realizes that Megan still thinks of him as some savage.
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* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: Megan is sent to General Yen’s room. She's frightened as General Yen plays music, makes small talk, trying to see what interests her. She bursts into tears, because unfortunately, she thinks Yen is going to rape her. Yen is deeply hurt by this, since he had no intention of doing something so vile. He realizes that Megan still thinks of him as some savage.
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* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: Megan is sent to General Yen’s room. She's frightened as General Yen plays music, makes small talk, trying to see what interests her. She bursts into tears, because unfortunately, she thinks Yen is going to rape her. Yen is deeply hurt by this, this since he had no intention of doing something so vile. He realizes that Megan still thinks of him as some savage.
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* GoodIsDumb: Yen is about to execute Mah Li for spying against him. Megan the naively idealistic missionary successfully begs him for mercy, promising that she'll be responsible for Mah Li and that Mah Li won't betray them. Mah Li promptly betrays them, leading to Yen's destruction.
* HaveAGayOldTime: "I had visions of making General Yen the biggest thing in China. But you sure queered that beautifully."
* HaveAGayOldTime: "I had visions of making General Yen the biggest thing in China. But you sure queered that beautifully."
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* LoveMakesYouDumb: "I say, ever since this American girl came here, you've been off your nut."
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* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: Megan is sent to General Yen’s room. She's frightened as General Yen plays music, makes small talk, trying to see what interests her. She bursts into tears, because unfortunately, she thinks Yen is going to rape her. [[spoiler: Yen is deeply hurt by this, since he had no intention of doing something so vile. He realizes that Megan still thinks of him as some savage.]]
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* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: Megan is sent to General Yen’s room. She's frightened as General Yen plays music, makes small talk, trying to see what interests her. She bursts into tears, because unfortunately, she thinks Yen is going to rape her. [[spoiler: Yen is deeply hurt by this, since he had no intention of doing something so vile. He realizes that Megan still thinks of him as some savage.]]
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* BilingualBonus: InUniverse, a plot point on a couple of occasions.
** Early in the film, Bob asks Yen for a safe conduct pass so he can rescue the orphans. Yen, who is contemptuous of missionaries, writes out a "pass" in Mandarin that actually says "This fool prefers going to war rather than the arms of his loving wife. General Nobody." This gets Bob and Megan into a lot of trouble.
** Later in the film, Mah Li asks Megan to take her to the Buddhist temple to have her prayers read by the monk. The "prayers" are, in fact, the secret intelligence that Mah Li is passing to Yen's enemies, intelligence that is written down by operatives hidden behind a curtain as the monk reads them out. Megan doesn't speak Chinese either, so she stands there dumbly unawares.
** Both of these scenes underline the missionaries' utter ignorance of Chinese culture.
** Early in the film, Bob asks Yen for a safe conduct pass so he can rescue the orphans. Yen, who is contemptuous of missionaries, writes out a "pass" in Mandarin that actually says "This fool prefers going to war rather than the arms of his loving wife. General Nobody." This gets Bob and Megan into a lot of trouble.
** Later in the film, Mah Li asks Megan to take her to the Buddhist temple to have her prayers read by the monk. The "prayers" are, in fact, the secret intelligence that Mah Li is passing to Yen's enemies, intelligence that is written down by operatives hidden behind a curtain as the monk reads them out. Megan doesn't speak Chinese either, so she stands there dumbly unawares.
** Both of these scenes underline the missionaries' utter ignorance of Chinese culture.
