Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Last Emperor...
...this is not an outtake from one of Calvin Klein's erotic "Obsession" commercials or a Duran Duran video. This luscious footage comes direct from Bernardo Bertolucci's latest film, The Last Emperor...
Best remebered for Last Tango in Paris, Italian director Bertolucci makes a triumphant return to the screen, this time chronicling the life of China's last emperor, Pu Yi (John Lone). Starting from the emperor's ascension to the throne at the age of three, Bertolucci covers nearly 60 years of Pu Yi's life in a three-hour extravaganza...
...continues to live the life of an emperor without really being one, maintaining the luxuriant standards of his former lifestyle. But alas, the poor youth is lonely. Not allowed to go beyond the gates of the Forbidden City, he has to satisfy his curiosity through books and magazines...
...with the movie's scenes of debauchery and debasement. A master of capturing erotica, Bertolucci takes advantage of Pu Yi's early imperial splendor and later playboy lifestyle in Tienstin to give cinema some of the most sensual images since Bertolucci's own Tango. Bertolucci and Storaro follow the emperor and empress (Chen) as rich and powerful friends seduce them. While the emperor continues to foster megalomanic visions of regaining the throne, his wife takes to opium...