Word: forbiddenness
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...Winner? It certainly wasn't the Duke, with his lemon-sucking face and even sourer responses. He's crazy if he thinks he'll sweep into office with the shrill yelp that aid to the contras is "A VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW!!!" Turns out it's forbidden by something called the Rio Treaty--one treaty, at least, which the Soviets don't seem to have violated...
Still, it is imagistically, not intellectually, that The Last Emperor asserts what will probably be a lasting claim on memory. Bertolucci has restored to the Forbidden City all the life it once sustained: a detachment of troops clattering through the night to seize a baby from his crib and place him on the throne; the Emperor's English tutor (Peter O'Toole) flapping through the streets on his bicycle; an Emperor and his bride (the lovely, fragile Joan Chen) overwhelmed by their huge wedding chamber; the great courtyard filled with wailing eunuchs, dismissed by their ruler; a tennis court...
...courtiers in exile. And the film's concluding sequence, so clear, so inevitable, should not be spoiled by discussion. Very simply, Bertolucci has found an elegance of design and execution that few of his contemporaries could even dream of. One can almost see him running through the Forbidden City, his imagination fevered by its splendor, his ambitions running high, as Pu Yi's never did. He is the movie epic's last emperor...
...President was in the U.S. on a speaking tour. Laurel was afraid that if Aquino were ousted from the presidency while he was abroad, he would be maneuvered out of the succession. Aquino, meanwhile, was not above tweaking her Vice President. Members of Philippine consulates in the U.S. were forbidden to attend Laurel's speeches...
...Last Emperor, Bernardo Bertolucci roams through Beijing' s Forbidden City and creates a ravishing, brooding antiepic...