This scene gave me chills. Puyi, despite his immense wealth and status, was always a prisoner to someone or something. First a prisoner to the forbidden city, then a prisoner to the Japanese, and finally a prisoner to Mao’s Re-Education camps. It is ironic that at his lowest point status-wise and money-wise, he is the freest he has ever been. And the grasshopper finally escaping represents that.
@goldcanyon340.
Жыл бұрын
Very well said!
@poppymoon777
Жыл бұрын
Beautiful comment
@susfringgaming4018
Жыл бұрын
the grasshopper escaping onto the red guard boy is also a representation of the true giving up of the old age of China, which died with Puyi, and passed to the young boy, which represents the future of China, for better or worse, china is now no place for Puyi. very profound
@htf5555
Жыл бұрын
and a dying empire
@TheWazzoGames
Жыл бұрын
@No username It’s ironic that you say this but can’t even spell “really” right 😂
@euopaco
Жыл бұрын
Rest in Peace Master Ryuchi. One of the biggest soundtracks of all time.
@Chreeeis
Жыл бұрын
I re-visited this scene while listening to his music. This comment brought me to tears; people are leaving them on even old and obscure videos like this. I feel lost, I was proud just knowing I woke up under the same sun as him. One of the biggest musicians of all time. Rest in Peace Mr. Sakamoto.
@sdlock83
10 ай бұрын
Oh dang I didn't know Ryuichi Sakamoto passed away just 4 months ago! He was only 71 years old. No one deserves to die from cancer.
@mariakatagiri3736
10 ай бұрын
Yesss rest in peace great composer of beautiful music !!!
@SagePatrynXX
10 ай бұрын
yep. Didn't know he'd passed on :( still have the score. I was rather young when I saw the theatrical on videotape. Still have the Extended (the actual movie. the cut one makes no sense) on VHS double tape unique holder
@blaccdong7810
7 ай бұрын
He played the one arm Japanese minister.
@OperatorOscillation
10 жыл бұрын
The cricket was the emperor trapped in a prison, which is what he's been all his life. This is why the emperor disappears after the cricket is set free.
@nurval1093
7 жыл бұрын
puyi was a gardener in his last days. but he suffered as well.
@jsp7202
6 жыл бұрын
Actually I always thought it was the other way around. Puyi gives the container to the little boy, little boy opens it and turns around to find Puyi gone. Where did he go little boy thinks and then the cricket emerges, free of its imprisonment as much as Puyi is now free too.
@ladydark0120
3 жыл бұрын
@Fair_Exchange methapore
@saintgabriel790
2 жыл бұрын
You all probably dont give a shit but does anybody know of a trick to get back into an instagram account..? I was dumb forgot my account password. I appreciate any tricks you can give me.
0:10 Pu Yi: "As I stood before the throne that I had once sat upon as a child, worshipped and adored, I found myself looking back on my life and all the events that had led me to this moment. I realized that for all of the power I supposedly possessed as the Son of Heaven and the Lord of Ten Thousand Years, I truly had nothing and was nothing. From the moment I was taken from my mother to the Forbidden City, I had no control of my own life, no agency, no means by which I could chart my own destiny. I lived according to the whims and commands of others because I never had the chance to choose otherwise. But now, as I stand here, I feel this strange sense of inner peace which I have never felt before. I feel...free. Free to live my life as I choose to live it, answering to no one but myself. I only wish that I had discovered this freedom sooner. Who knows what I could have done and what I could have become."
@a2zadi
3 ай бұрын
Where is this line from ? His book or interview?
@SapphireCrusader1988
3 ай бұрын
@@a2zadi I made it up.
@rsheldon86
11 жыл бұрын
I thought it was interesting that the tour guide simply said of Pu Yi: "He was three years old. He died in 1967." and that's all the tourists would learn about him. I think that was the point of the movie, to inform Westerners and remind the people of China of this important forgotten period of history.
@OmegaTrooper
4 жыл бұрын
rsheldon86 that’s the fate of almost all humans in the world. Better than he fate of most, actually. Those two lines will be remembered longer than 99.99% of all lives ever.
@gianmarcusbarreto3267
3 жыл бұрын
@@OmegaTrooper Quite! Even Confucius, Alexander of Macedon, and all the other “greats” shall eventually be forgotten. Such is the nature of time. Rgds., G.M. Bar.
@angelusvastator1297
3 жыл бұрын
@@gianmarcusbarreto3267 That brought chills down my spine.
@johnkhoury1759
3 жыл бұрын
Excellent observation.
@adamjaxn3156
3 жыл бұрын
We're destined to be footnotes if we're lucky enough.
@adamsyed5535
9 жыл бұрын
"I WAS the emperor of China." Why does that make me choked up?
@edwardtang1977
8 жыл бұрын
+Adam Syed Fun Fact: Puyi is the direct descendant of Genghis Khan. His family tree is on wiki.
@kingofspades0188
7 жыл бұрын
That's true. In fact at least 15 million people in Asia and around the world can trace their lineage to Genghis Khan. He really 'got around' if you know what I mean.
@prissiananda1047
6 жыл бұрын
I know your comment is from 3 years ago, but Im gonna add: being emperor of China had various meanings throughout pu yi's life. Once, it means confinement, the other's acknowledgment and glory, but at some point he knows what it means to all China, and came to understand why court retainers lock him out of outside world, event though it's wrong. Who was once a cocky young man, now became a compassionate adult, taking blame for all horrible things that happened to manchurian and his people, as much as he's not solely responsible for it, and gain respect from prison guard, and then passing the legacy as spirit friend, even just for one witness
@dougr.2398
5 жыл бұрын
Prissi Ananda beautifully stated and rings true
@dougr.2398
5 жыл бұрын
Oddly, Kahn is a derivative of Cohen, Kohanim (in Hebrew plural) and Quinn in Gaelic. Other variant cognates exist as well
Struggente questa scena finale di questo meraviglioso film che questa sera rivedro' ....per emozionarmi come sempre fa!!!!!💟🎼👏
@user-wo9om2ec4v
Жыл бұрын
@@uncosmopolitana 年末時代劇シリーズをご覧になってましたか?
@shutterbugblues
10 жыл бұрын
This scene moved me to tears as a kid. By the end of the movie, I felt Pu Yi had become an old friend sharing his life's story with me.
@Dfathurr
8 жыл бұрын
it makes me deeply sad when remembering that once, he was revered as the Son of Heaven, and now, he became a simply humble old gardener, visiting his previous throne that he used to sit upon, becoming a museum artifact
@user-pk3gx2xb7f
5 жыл бұрын
สสจ
@dougr.2398
5 жыл бұрын
But we are all sons and daughters of heaven, and if we are lucky, simple gardeners, too
@dougr.2398
5 жыл бұрын
Anthony von Hughes it isn’t just Americans you prejudiced person. It is a rude but necessary attention getting mechanism. Perhaps you imagine all Americans are wealthy enough or don’t care enough about their pets to be disabled from travelling because their first priority is to a family member that may not be human. Perhaps you are jealous of those who have been successful enough to receive a very inadequate taste of what antiquity was like? I dislike tourism because it is as cheap, shallow and laughable as that silly « Yankee Doodle » Horn (which isn’t actually so bad, loud or blaring) though there are many places I would dearly love to see. My three dogs (formerly four) are enough for now. Go make fun of me, trolls, have your insensitive troll parties.... my dogs are more love than many people will ever know. (Perhaps I am the jealous one, perhaps not)
@dougr.2398
5 жыл бұрын
Anthony von Hughes you’ll never know, if you keep being rude! :-D
@dougr.2398
5 жыл бұрын
Anthony von Hughes whatever.... have a good life! I may be terminally ill.... forgive any outburst, please
@MartellMedia2
8 жыл бұрын
its impossible watch this scene without crying..
@Fanfiktion1988
8 жыл бұрын
+Requiem PorMi You're absolutely right any time i watch the Scene i Cry! The power of the film is the truth in it
@user-eo6fy5rl2k
7 жыл бұрын
Yes, for the SALVATION!
@athalaparlambang50
6 жыл бұрын
Кевином Martell yeah
@Emy-fv5ny
4 жыл бұрын
I watch this when I was a 15 and I cried without knowing exactly why.
@ShimonFukasaku
4 жыл бұрын
Where men cried
@user-ws8se6yb4d
3 жыл бұрын
坂本龍一の音楽がこの作品の心臓となって、壮大な生命を持った作品に仕上がったと思う。
@vincetang2198
9 жыл бұрын
This masterpiece never grows old. The grasshopper at the end, I think it was a metaphor of Puyi. The scene that the grasshopper jump out the wood container, means Puyi finally get rid of all the fighting and politics(明爭暗鬥), which as an emperor, it' s like a curse, especially for a child emperor in the end of a dynasty.
@nerthus4685
9 жыл бұрын
Another interpretation is the grasshopper represents the ancient undying power of the imperial dynasty, which was now passing in a peaceful and loving manner to the youthful Republic of China, represented by the young boy. In China grasshoppers are symbols of good fortune and abundance, a totem for the blessing of prosperity.
@YellowSubmarine9628
9 жыл бұрын
Another easily interpretation. China has been passedby to the hands of the children to take of it from generation to generation.
@shiz777
9 жыл бұрын
Feather of Truth I agree with this, but I think the grasshopper is the passing of the spirit of China, which is the center of the world. Just as before, China rises now to become the center of the world.
@vincetang2198
8 жыл бұрын
You can interpret whatever you want.. it' s a movie, no need to be rude *****
@jennybain5212
8 жыл бұрын
+Adam Sebastian or maybe a metaphor that he was finally free history was not nice to this man.
When this film was shot in the Forbidden City late in the 1980's, China was still poor and semi-isolated from the Western Countries included the USA. A sister of mine and her husband visited Beijing Shi, the capital of China, at that time and the hotel employees told her that a year or a couple of years before an Italian film crew headed by famous Italian movie director Bernardo Bertolucci had stayed in the same hotel. Crowds of Chinese people, not used to see western faces in their city, would gather on the sidewalk to catch a glimpse of the westerners. Bertolucci filmed on location and it was the first time that Chinese authorities allowed westerners to film in the Forbidden City.
@williamzhao2521
5 жыл бұрын
The irony is. I grew up even in 1998 it was isolated. I have never seen a foreign face. It's sad that China has changed. perhaps it could return to that past some day.
@FMHammyJ
5 жыл бұрын
@@williamzhao2521 Ignore the troll, Mr. Zhao.
@hughg.rection6778
4 жыл бұрын
@Dave chappelle the real Dave Chapelle would be ashamed to have a racist fanboy like you. PS Dave have an Asian wife
@kirra9152
4 жыл бұрын
@@williamzhao2521 if you want to see the old china. I recall from some mission impossible producer that they was using some chinese village for the movie shot. It was said that this village wasnt changed that much for centuries. Unfortunatelly I forgot the village's name. You may trace from there if you wanted too.
@harleyquinn5774
4 жыл бұрын
My grandparents were among the first wave of Western tourists to visit China after it had reopened itself to the rest of the world. They acquired a souvenir from the visit there: an ivory stamp of our family name in Chinese. We still have it.
@Winduct
10 жыл бұрын
One of the finest endings for a film I've seen.
@shinshinshinshin1452
3 жыл бұрын
🏍️🏍️
@user-nf3kz9ee2n
5 ай бұрын
The music is just... on another level. Thank you Ryuichi for blessing us with this amazing music. Rest in Peace.
@user-do9mj6yl1r
3 ай бұрын
何も言えなくなるくらい、深い意味を持つラストシーン。 泣かずに観られない……。
@pulunara8890
2 жыл бұрын
このシーン…何度観ても涙が止まらない…
@gewatzig123
7 жыл бұрын
This film is so underrated today because not that many people have seen or even heard of this film before. I'd call this film a "lost" masterpiece.
@thepianist7084
7 жыл бұрын
I have thought the same thing for years. How this one slipped through the cracks is beyond me.
@SycoticForeverNeverAF
5 жыл бұрын
The Pianist Slip through the cracks? This movie won 9 Academy Awards including Best Picture. God you people are dumb lol
@pola5392
4 жыл бұрын
@@SycoticForeverNeverAF ask random people on the street, and the pianist will be proven right probably
@pola5392
4 жыл бұрын
@Rusty it won those awards, and then was forgotten apparently... Terrible
@Medusa0999
4 жыл бұрын
It’s difficult to get on DVD now and nowhere does digital rents of it
This is the Hall Supreme Harmony where the filmmakers filmed his scenes The last filmmaker to have filmed here was italian Bernardo Bertolucci. He was 46 years old He died in 2018 2:53 RIP
@adamahmad1262
4 жыл бұрын
Ironic isnt it.Sad.
@Mybpeterson
4 жыл бұрын
Bernardo Bertolucci, was born in 1941. He was 77 years old when he died in 2018.
Love how the cricket symbolizes freedom at last when the cricket is set free from the container where it was lock away all those years in the final scene of the movie .
@InternetFamousYoutuber
6 жыл бұрын
An idea doesn't reach potential unless shared.
@sweetcandysugaarmy8480
5 жыл бұрын
Myron Martin How did the cricket survive being locked up without food and water for so long?
@beppe67
5 жыл бұрын
@@sweetcandysugaarmy8480 maybe it's a metaphor
@muneo0610nozawa
Жыл бұрын
This series is so mellow.
@edgelee84
8 жыл бұрын
Really love the expression of Mr.Puyi/Lone at 0:10. The look of content (his eyes and subtle smile) and peace after what he went through and experienced. I felt that he was actually finally happy, free from all the burden , duties and traditions that he needs to hold as the emperor. One of the best endings to a movie in my books.
@yytyytg
5 жыл бұрын
Once a emperor always a emperor. No one is obligated to free himself from who he is.
@jasonicgamer1683
5 жыл бұрын
Well sadly that he is born to a royal family which make him suffered so much
@Emy-fv5ny
4 жыл бұрын
I think he felt nostalgic...But in peace with his past.
@jeneceporee1401
10 жыл бұрын
This is one of the greatest movies ever made. I was far more moved and transcended by this masterpiece, than I was by Titanic.
@Vriappiopoi
4 жыл бұрын
Titanic is very over-rated....
@guslakis
3 жыл бұрын
This was a far grander film in depth and scope than Titanic.
@EternalEmperorofZakuul
2 жыл бұрын
The end of this film really put pain in my soul
@Chreeeis
2 жыл бұрын
Titanic is a great film, but you are not exactly reaching into the deepest well of comparison when you point to a single film, no matter how great it may be.
@Woozler554
2 жыл бұрын
Jenece Poree - I have to agree.
@user-is6yg1ud7w
11 ай бұрын
背景が真っ暗になっても音楽が流れ続ける演出ほんとに天才だと思う
@user-zn7yr3gg8n
9 ай бұрын
めちゃくちゃ分かります。音楽になお集中できて天才です。
@NierAutomata2B
9 жыл бұрын
The saddest ending of all movies I've seen
@joshualiu8551
7 жыл бұрын
It's not sad finally 溥仪 knows what's the most important things the childhood, the normal, pure heart, there is no war, no struggle, no desire,like at start a little children who has no idea what's emperor.
@InternetFamousYoutuber
6 жыл бұрын
Yes, that's exactly what it's about!
@dougr.2398
5 жыл бұрын
Sadness and beauty are always companion spirits
@adminomhfoz1908
3 жыл бұрын
Why sad? I think he was remarkable to accept and change, not get trapped by the ghost of grandeur. I think he is a symbol of hope
@meyou3566
3 жыл бұрын
The only thing really sad was the life of Wanrong in her final days, which wasnt shown. Puyi deserved her fate and the torture she went through for everything he put her through.
@TheSaneHatter
8 жыл бұрын
1:54 - "Yes, little boy: I was the Emperor of China. And now, my work is done here."
@InternetFamousYoutuber
6 жыл бұрын
His most important work was passing on his legacy and in having his biography published, he had done so by sharing his life's story.
@idyjohn
2 жыл бұрын
The world would be better off without emperors
@DarkOverlord96
2 ай бұрын
The sad irony of watching Puyi's whole life for over two hours only for a tour guide to sum it up with just two short sentences.
@HySipher
12 жыл бұрын
This is bringing tears to my eyes..I am Chinese and I always thought Puyi was an ignorant and arrogant coward. This movie changed my mind. He was just a normal person born in the wrong place and wrong time. He wanted to change, but it was too late. Bravo, to the crew of this incredible film.
@slmb_b
4 жыл бұрын
皇甫鹤 Chinese shill
@slmb_b
4 жыл бұрын
皇甫鹤 How much of your social credit score has increased?
@williverson3405
4 жыл бұрын
@@user-ym2zv5ou6i but Manchu is part of Chinese race. So you mean you want to fuck Chinese?
@sinoroman
4 жыл бұрын
@@slmb_b seems like CCP upholds manchu culture..
@sinoroman
4 жыл бұрын
@@williverson3405 the dude is pro-Han, anti-Manchu. the past could have been better, but really, no point in hating manchus of today. not much else to say.
little boy: who are you? Puyi: I was the Emperor of China little boy: prove it! Puyi: bigfoot! drink this ink!
@fernandoestebanzunigaandra8088
2 жыл бұрын
This last scene, is so touching. The last emperor of China, telling to a little boy that he used to be the emperor , who doesn´t belive it, untill the old man gaves him his pet grasshopper in a wooden box. It´s a clear metaphore of the real life of Pu Yi, and the grasshopper jumping out the wood container, is the Pu Yi´s soul final liberation, of his troubled existence. Bertolucci was such a genius. This is one of the greatest movies ever done, and this is the best ending scene ever. =( .
This is as close to perfection as you can get in a movie. 10/10 masterpiece and legendary ending
@alansmithee9435
2 жыл бұрын
So many emotions in this scene. When Pu Yi suddenly gets the mischievous look on his face and suddenly has vitality as he goes to retrieve the grasshopper and then disappears without a trace it makes life feel so circular
そもそも紫禁城はクビライが建設した城ですし、溥儀は"I was the emperor of China."と言ってるので、漢族も満州族も全部含めて中国の歴史です。 国そのものが多民族国家なのです。
@jamiehernandez4746
3 жыл бұрын
In the end of the film he lets the cricket free which symbolizes that he too is free that’s why he disappeared, his soul and spirit were free from his last life, his last visit to the forbidden city...
@NC-hu3ti
4 жыл бұрын
I have a strange connection to this movie. My mother was expecting me when this movie came out and she watched it in a theatre in India. For some reason I've always felt an inexplicable interest in Chinese history and even fell in love with a Chinese man exploring that interest. I was finally able to visit the forbidden City a few years ago and it was magnificent and my trip to China very enjoyable on the whole.
@TomKaren94
4 жыл бұрын
1:55 - The first time I watched this movie, when they panned up to the top of the steps and Pu Yi is gone, I lost it. This is my #1 favorite movie of all time. The soundtrack from Sakamoto and Byrne is genius.
@facelessmonk6640
3 жыл бұрын
Dont forget about Cong Su! He also helped with the soundtrack
@Chreeeis
11 ай бұрын
This is one of those endings that make the difference between a film and great film. I remember seeing The Last Emperor and feeling utterly drained, I struggled to find what made it any more than a sad autobiography. There is little emotion throughout the movie other than frustration- the man was born into a life that wasn’t his, but where is the meaning behind it? Why go through such grand efforts to tell a story like this? There's clear plot, no characters you can connect to, even the emperor is hard to like. This film isn’t a pleasant experience. But when he revisits his throne, the smile on his face can make you forget the 2 hours of pain you just sat through. As for the cricket being freed, it’s hard to describe what I felt. It was as if, for a few moments, I was relieved of all the stress in my life. I finally understood the point of the movie. I remember sitting in shock as the credits rolled.
@EternalEmperorofZakuul
11 ай бұрын
One of the few times it hits me in the feels. The music truly makes it great, but sad, and it touches my soul
@andrewberrocal2281
Жыл бұрын
I believe this scene takes place on the 17 October 1967. The Day Puyi died. He arrives at sunset (marking the end of life) and this is his spirit returning home and finding peace (symbolized by the cricket leaving its cage)
@kobatsuka
12 жыл бұрын
私の知っている映画で最も感傷的なシーン
@user-vh5kn5fg6c
3 жыл бұрын
good
@user-bj8df2nr3o
Жыл бұрын
R.I.P. 坂本龍一のエンディングテーマ曲なくして この映画の感動のラストは得られないでしょう。
@nurymas8034
8 жыл бұрын
Marvelous, a peace of art. Personally, I think is one of the movie you must watch before die. Regards from Argentina, everybody !!!
@AlexRodriguez-sr9oj
2 жыл бұрын
Saludos desde México 👋
@mtx1212
9 жыл бұрын
"I was the Emperor of China"... Emperor of all of f'ing China! Yet in past tense...THE line of the entire masterpiece...powerful, moving and tear-provoking
@adamsyed5535
8 жыл бұрын
+mtx1212 Yes. I saw it in the theater with my parents when I was about 6. I was too young to understand most of it, but even then, that line, in the past tense, made me teary.
@lagrangewei
Жыл бұрын
yet that doesn't make any sense, as there are no tenses in chinese language. it a good work of friction.
@margaretguildlambert9608
8 жыл бұрын
One of the best movies based on fact I've seen. What happened to the last Emperor was tragic - taken from his parents at such a young age to satisfy and aging Empress' desire to leave an heir on a decrepit throne was plain evil in my eyes. He led what some might have called a good life, but was it? In the end, he was just another old man with some good memories, and many terrible ones.My heart went out to him. John Lone played his role to the hilt - I would love to have seen him in similar roles.
@margaretguildlambert9608
8 жыл бұрын
+Mary Titus I agree - I too hope he found the peace he never had in life.
@InternetFamousYoutuber
6 жыл бұрын
I think he did, he saw the beauty of his power which is his story. In the original, there's a scene where he has an epiphany and he says they'll save China with a story.
@Emy-fv5ny
4 жыл бұрын
Why he was chosen in the first place, he was almost a baby?
@Zeruel3
4 жыл бұрын
@@Emy-fv5ny The old lady at the start of the film was the Dowager Empress Cixi, at that time she had held the real power in the imperial court for forty years and ruled through a series of puppet emperors. Puyi's dad Zaifeng was the brother of the emperor she mentioned as having died (who she almost certainly had poisoned), Cixi and Zaifeng hated each other but he was the senior male member of the imperial house. She picked Puyi over his father because then Zaifeng would have to share a long regency with his wife the Empress Youlan who was also Cixi's niece. If Zaifeng was emperor he'd have all the power and could sideline Youlan to rule on his own
@Emy-fv5ny
4 жыл бұрын
@@Zeruel3 Wow, she sounds like a nasty woman. She even used her last moment to screw ppl's lifes. Thanks for the information!👍
@bxs0099
10 жыл бұрын
One of the most beautiful crafted scenes in the history of film
@chrisl.7016
4 жыл бұрын
I saw this movie while in the Air Force and it left such an impression on me that two years later I took 2 semesters of Chinese history. All thanks to this wonderful movie who made me want to learn more about this fascinating country.
Gives me goosebumps every time I watch. He is finally free, relieved of all his responsibilities. No longer the emperor, just himself...
@michaelf4563
3 жыл бұрын
A sad ending that brings tears to my eyes. A mixture of reasons, thoughts and emotions. I stood in that very hall in 2005 when I was in the PRC, finalizing the adoption of my then 11 month old baby girl. Seeing this scene with the tour guides and the flags they carried for each group so no one would lose sight of them, and the brief story behind each location in the Forbidden City. China and its people are no different than we are here. The average person there has no more desire to rule the world than the average person here does. They want the exact same things we here do. A good and stable life, a good education and a secure future for their children, a comfortable retirement for themselves. There is no real reason we should be enemies or hostile to one another. They and their 6000 year old, continuous civilization and culture have as much to teach us as our young democratic experiment here has to teach them. Maybe that is why it makes me sad? I think about the commonality we share and how we should be trying to bridge any gaps that exist between us, not making them wider.
@oscarstrokosz2986
2 жыл бұрын
@lawrence rummerfield well done, you're drunk of the CIA's sloppy seconds.
@panisilino5704
2 жыл бұрын
u are right
@kennarajora6532
Жыл бұрын
spot on
@dchoi714
Жыл бұрын
Unfortunately the CCP has destroyed the 6000 years old Chinese culture
@pvtrichter8816
10 жыл бұрын
it's hard not to feel the swell of emotion from such a grand ending the cricket is obviously symbolic of the EMPEROR'S final freedom from his past and the end of an era to one of the great civilizations of the ancient world !! beautiful soundtrack!!
@hugocardona6762
8 жыл бұрын
I'm definetely not a royalty concept fan but I can't deny that the title of "last emperor of China" is definetely breath taking.
@419chris419
2 жыл бұрын
This movie's message wasn't about royalty being supreme. If anything it was showing the shift of power.
@espigeromaximo
11 жыл бұрын
"THIS IS THE HALL OF THE SUPREME HARMONY , WHERE THE EMPEROR WAS CROWNED , THE LAST EMPEROR TO BE CROWNED HERE WAS " aisin gioro PU-YI" ,HE WAS 3 YEARS OLD , he DIED in NINETEEN SIXTI Sevennnnnnnnnnn!!!! ..and then my tears come out!
@MohanaMShivashankar
8 жыл бұрын
Deeply poignant ending to a movie I first saw as an 8yo. The scene before this, isnt that the one where he buys a ticket to go inside this very palace he once ruled? Unforgettable!
@bbenjoe
4 жыл бұрын
The internet does say Pu Yi, in his last years, often visited the Forbidden City, telling tourists he had been the Emperor.
@tonyking7714
3 жыл бұрын
Wow
@usul573
2 жыл бұрын
@@tonyking7714 Can you imagine him sweeping the streets and doing gardening and saying he's the emperor and got lost in 1960....
@DwightKoh93
9 жыл бұрын
Puyi actually lived happier as a peasant in the end.
@AudieHolland
7 жыл бұрын
Brainwashing will do that to you. But in the end, the new (Communist) world he had been forced to adapt to and was familiar to him, was shattered when in the scene before this one, he recognized his old prison warden and teacher, the man who turned him from helpless (literally, because he couldn't even tie his own shoelaces, servants did all that) into a worthy citizen. And his old teacher, who had taught him that Communism was the better way, was now being dragged through the streets as a common criminal, worse, a traitor to the people. Many of these "traitors" were simply shot. Like the Stalinist purges in Russia, the Cultural Revolution in China was one of China's worst times.
@AudieHolland
7 жыл бұрын
Just reading up on IMDB. It says in the trivia: "The production tracked down several people from Henry Pu-yi's life, including the prison governor and his manservant, to unofficially advise the director." So I take it that was the man who was paraded around a traitor. So he must have survived the ordeal.
@AudieHolland
7 жыл бұрын
Wow, is this really true? From IMDB: Ruocheng Ying, playing the Governor in the film, was at that time, the vice president of Department of Culture in the People's Republic of China.
@davidw.2791
7 жыл бұрын
AudieHolland Yup. He was one of Red China's best cultural scholars who was fluently bilingual in Chinese & English, in fact another one of his most famous cinematic roles was the interpreter for Dr Norman Bethune in the 1964 biopic 《白求恩大夫》. He also translated a lot of Chinese literature into English, including the Lao She magnum opus play "Teahouse".
@davidw.2791
7 жыл бұрын
Oh, and in real life Pu Yo died of kidney failure in a hospital. The Red Guards harassed him a little bit, but he was among the 100+ people on the list of "Non-CCP Party Personnels Protection" drawn out by Zhou Enlai so he was escorted into a hospital pretty soon where he spent his final days under PLA military surveillance/protection - which was a great outcome in those days, all things considered.
@asagara34
8 ай бұрын
It’s such an interesting contrast when he’s walking through the forbidden city for a brief time he was the ruler of China and if things would’ve gone the dynasties way he would’ve still been the ruler of China and now he’s just a gardener having to pay his way into the forbidden city
@demihi9941
3 ай бұрын
久しぶりに泣きました こんなに短いシーンなのに...。
@mamc1986
11 жыл бұрын
The ending where the Emperor talks to that Red Guard kid, its one of the most touching scenes in the movie!
@kirra9152
4 жыл бұрын
That's not a red guard, probably some school children on a cultural visit.
@miguelsolis2974
2 жыл бұрын
Si me hizo llorar 😭
@miguelsolis2974
2 жыл бұрын
La escena final
@danielspark4916
2 жыл бұрын
I dont know what to say...it's simply a normal kid
@LAGERUNG3
9 жыл бұрын
The score is gorgeous.
@DarkeningSkies1
9 жыл бұрын
For so many reasons- historical, cinematic, personal- this is one of my favorite film endings of all time. The way it injects a hint of chinese mysticism into an otherwise straightforward history, the music, the timing... absolutely perfect. Right up there w/ "Gangs Of New York" for me as a tearjerker ending.
@DarkeningSkies1
9 жыл бұрын
***** No, I mentioned that it was also an ending to a film that was personally moving to me. Did my comment imply that I held the films in any way equal? Of course "The Last Emperor" is a superior film.
@DarkeningSkies1
9 жыл бұрын
In quoting my original comment, you left off the words "for me". These words were included to indicate the expression of a personal view. In this case, that personal view is that I found the endings to both films very moving. This was not a comparison of the relative merits of the two films, just as saying that I found a Mozart Sonata and a Pink Floyd song moving is not an attempt to place Mozart and Pink Floyd as artistically equal.
@DarkeningSkies1
9 жыл бұрын
Now, If I had said, "'The Last Emperor' and "'Gangs Of New York' are the the two most moving films ever made", I could understand your original gripe. Hell, even if I had said "'The Last Emperor' and 'Gangs Of New York' are my two favorite films" shouldn't bother you, because even if you disagree with my taste, who gives a crap if they are? I am giving you the benefit of the doubt and assuming from your user name that you are a fellow film buff. I'm sure a lively debate on the merits of our favorite or least favorite films would be possible if my assumption is correct.
@DarkeningSkies1
9 жыл бұрын
If my assumption is not correct, and you are simply picking a fight whilst bored or trolling, feel free to ignore all this. I suspect you will anyway! ;)
@jennybain5212
8 жыл бұрын
+Lou McGrizzy please shut up with your stupid mouth no one what's to hear it!
@iceberg23star
8 жыл бұрын
The suddest, but the most beautiful, ending of all time. As a lid of the cage was opened by the boy for releasing a cricket, the emperor was missing, i.e. he abdicated the throne. By a little boy, his reign got perfection at last.
@jinliangchen2757
2 жыл бұрын
It has to be the innocent child who showed up that such dialogue could take place. And then the weeping Erhu started when he found the emperor vanished into thin air.
@Rumptertumskin79
3 жыл бұрын
I feel like there should be an Academy award for "most satisfying last scene". If there were, this surely would have won. So much symbolism is crammed in, without being contrived, and it just flows beautifully into the end credits. I feel like David Lynch does this amazingly with the end of season 3 of Twin Peaks. And Silence of the Lambs is also awesome in this respect. Anyhoo, knowing how to wrap a movie/show is such an impressive skill!
@yama5182
5 жыл бұрын
I CRIED MY EYES OUT after this...This was huge at the time and the soundtrack was...OMG!!! So sad...so sad...the bubble...the death it caused because of the mental bubble he was raised in. Unforgettable shit...his reality check still could never erased the LIVES his ignorance cost. He knew it too...the sadness is overwhelming...BEAUTIFUL piece of work. 😢👏👏❤️
@jemert96
7 ай бұрын
Why is this film is nowhere to be found on greatest films lists is beyond me. What a masterpiece.
@jessieblossom3874
4 жыл бұрын
I just finished watching this on cable and was blown away. When I saw this last scene for the first time, I was very, very moved, almost cried. I think John Lone's portrayal of the Emperor was extraordinary, but only showed the softer, nicer side of him. The movie sugar coated his personality. Supposedly in real life Pu Yi was a narcissist due to his imperial upbringing, and could be far more arrogant and cruel, to the point of being a bona fide asshole. Other than that, the film was phenomenal.
@joanlluistobaruelamaldonad2872
2 жыл бұрын
Pu Yi was a human too. I'm sure he learnt through the years.
@EternalEmperorofZakuul
2 жыл бұрын
@@joanlluistobaruelamaldonad2872 he is a human, a flawed one, just like us
@pyromania1018
2 жыл бұрын
He was Joffrey Baratheon, but his experiences in Mao's re-education camps humbled him something fierce.
@jessieblossom3874
2 жыл бұрын
@@EternalEmperorofZakuul most people don't beat servants to death for fun like he did. That's Sociopathic.
@jenesaispas5082
2 жыл бұрын
@@jessieblossom3874 most people also don't get treated like a god at 8 years old.
@asianlotusflower
6 жыл бұрын
John should be awarded for this wonderful acting!! He'll be remembered in our hearts and minds with beautiful oriental taste music!!
I’m amazed to this day that so much has happened in the last century! The Czar of Russia was toppled, the Sultan of Turkey, the Shah of Persia, the Emperor of China. So much can change within a century! This is just the type of movie that gives the example that no human can be immune to change…no matter what families they are born into!
@user-qb6wb5iq7u
9 ай бұрын
ラストシーン、何度見ても泣ける…
@richierichnumber1
9 жыл бұрын
The song from the horn she holding and using is " Yankee doodle dandy went to town," this is the Hall of Supreme Harmony where the Emperors were crowned.
@EPsuperFan
8 жыл бұрын
+Myron Martin funny thing is having grown up in China during the late 80's and 90's, that's exactly the kind of tune you'll hear from those made-in-China loudspeakers... as a matter of fact, another popular one is "Dixie"! As weird and out of place as the scene may seem, it is actually something straight out of my childhood... gave me a laugh when first seeing it.
@ap42869
10 жыл бұрын
This is why they deserve OSCAR
@yodamane4031
2 жыл бұрын
Twenty five years later I. Finally watched this masterpiece ❤️
@user-eu6lh7ny1m
Жыл бұрын
This film was released in 1987, so not 25 years but 35 years.
@FranciscoChile77
7 жыл бұрын
so good to know I´m not the only one who cries a lot every time watch this last scene. My film I love the most ever ! Absolutely brilliant and touching !
@timgriffin3368
2 жыл бұрын
It makes me very sad when I talk to people and mention The Last Emperor and they have never seen nor heard of it. So Sad!!!
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