Movie maiesty
'Last Emperor' is compelling, outstanding drama
: With 1 9,000 extras employed, "The
Last Emperor" is an epic by any
standards, and director Bernardo
Bertolucci ensures that it is as full of
color, imagery and sheer spectacle as
it is people.
The costumes are supremely cle-
gant, the unprecedented location
work at Beijing's Forbidden City
stunning, the world ot 2Uth-century
China so completely created to the
last detail; yet for all the visual
splendor that parades across the
screen, Bertolucci's film is unbeliev
ably quiet and sad. Make no mistake
this is not a "feel-good movie."
It is, however, one of the finest films
of the decade.
uThe Last Emperor" is the extraor-
Unary true story of Pu Yi, who in
908, at the age of 3, was crowned
xrd of Ten Thousand Years and
uler of almost half of the world's
opulation. He was abdicated three
ars later upon the formation of the
irst republic, but was forced to stay
vithin the palatial but prison-like
onfinesofthe Forbidden City, where
te grew up without power.
This was the first in a long series
f prisons for the little emperor,
unally ousted from the city in 1924,
ic befriended the Japanese, who, he
lelieved, might have been his last
lope in retaining the power he lost
is a child. It is ironic that the only
. hoice he was ever allowed to make
vas the greatest mistake of his life,
or the Japanese a wily, imperial-
stic lot made him Emperor of
danchukuo, solely to further their
iwn master plan of Asian
lomination.
At the close of World War II, Pu
fi was impnsoned once again, this
ime as a war criminal in Communist
hina. At the Fushun Prison he was
e-educated so that he could eventu
dly be granted freedom in 1960. Free
it last, Pu Yi, once emperor of China,
etired to the humble life of a
jardener.
It is a fascinating story, heavy in
.rony, but Bertolucci does not
emphasize the drama of it, and he
is right not to. Despite the immense
historical background the film covers
(the end of the Qing dynasty, the
Kuomintang and Chiang Kai-Shek,
World War II, the establishment of
the People's Republic through to the
Cultural Revolution of the '60s), "The
Last Emperor" remains the intimate
story of a man who was a victim of
history, who was buffeted around,
puppet-like, by the events of a century
that no longer had a place for
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things are already decided and issues
are beyond our control."
Poston said it is important to have
respect for Chapel Hill residents and
to promote a positive image of the
" University.
One way of promoting a more
positive image would be through a
program sending UNC students to
work with students in secondary
schools in the community.
"Let's make a positive image, and
then well talk about getting someone
elected to town council," Poston said.
Maynard said the most important
objective should be to have a student
elected to the town council. This
could happen through getting stu-
dents to register and to vote, he said.
"I think we should take the initia
tive and get a student elected,"
"Maynard said. "WeVe got 22,000
" students, which is 22,000 votes."
Maynard also said he would estab
lish a four-member town council
advisory committee that would report
back to the president after every
council meeting.
- Martin said many strides have
already been made in improving
relations with the town, and the
liaison position will help to continue
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emperors and dynasties.
Bertolucci keeps the scale of things
in control by basing the story in 1950,
when Pu Yi was imprisoned by the
Communists who not so much
pushed as shoved him down the road
of self-analysis. Interrogations and
prison life trigger lengthy flashbacks,
and this is the means by which the
viewer discovers how Pu Yi came to
be in a reform center and how he
began the slow metamorphosis from
prisoner to free citizen. In this sense,
it is a sad story, beautifully told.
And it is not insignificant that the
cinematography is as majestic as it
is; Pu Yi, despite his ambitions, was
someone who could do little more
than watch his life go by, as if he
were himself watching this marvelous
spectacle of a movie. It is an idea that
Bertolucci does not pass up, as Pu
Yi and his inmates are seen to watch
newsreels relating events that encom-
pass and feature much of the last
emperor's life,
Vittorio Storaro, who has worked
with Bertolucci on all but one of his
films and has already won two
Academy Awards for his photo-
graphy in "Reds" and "Apocalypse
Now," creates a visual feast that alone
makes "The Last Emperor" worthy
of praise. It is a light, unobtrusive
touch the stark gray of the Fushun
prison, the brash reds and yellows of
the emperor's early years, the more
subtle shades of blue and green as
his grip on his own destiny loosens.
It is a ploy naturally echoed by James
Acheson s costumes.
But "The Last Emperor" is not
merely a technical wonder its
polish is as much a credit to its stars
as it is to its makers. Three actors
play the younger Pu Yi at ages 3,
8 and 15 (each of whom offers a
different accent, not to say a slightly
different interpretation a small but
nevertheless annoying point), but
John Lone has the awesome task of
portraying the anti-hero from the age
of 18 through to his death at age 62.
Lone has just the sort of timeless
face that makes the task viable, and
the skill that renders it a triumph.
Though entirely convincing "as the
younger, ambitious Pu Yi, he is best
at the Fushun prison as the Pu Yi
alternately clinging to, hiding from
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Problems like the noise ordinance
came up because students did not
know what was coins on, Martin
said.
The liaison will help Student
Government to understand town
issues better, he said.
"We have to make sure Student
Government is involved in all the
decision-making that's going on,
Martin said.
Lewis said the liaison is a positive
step but will only be effective if there
is communication between Student
Government and the liaison.
"The big problem simply is not
knowing what the other people are
up to," Lewis said. "We're just not
out there with our ears to the
ground."
Beasley said the problem with
relations is that students only become
concerned with the town when it
makes decisions that directly involve
them.
The University, the town and the
students should work together on
mutually beneficial projects in the
community, Beasley said.
"WeVe got to work together and
be with them every other 360 days
of the year, not just when we've got
a problem, Beasley said.
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and finally coming to terms with his
life. It is an exemplary performance.
Peter OToole's role as the acerbic,
refined Briton, Reginald Johnston
(R.J.), might be problematic were it
not for OToole's affinity for playing
acerbic, refined Britons. R.J. is Pu
Yi's English-Scots tutor and mentor
whose influence on the young man
is obvious yet curiously undefined.
This is partly based on truth, because
it was rumored, though never proven,
that R.J. was a spy planted by the
British. Even so, OToole's character-
ization is superbly sour and their
friendship strong, but largely
unexpressed provides for some of
the film's highlights.
The Last Emperor" has already
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won four Golden Globe awards,
including one for Best Picture
(drama), and doubtless it should
figure highly, in the upcoming
Academy Award nominations.
It seems impossible, in retrospect,
that Bertolucci could have achieved
so much from such an immense
subject; there is, after all, nothing so
immense as somebody's life. Yet he
has captured the essence of it, and
in doing so has created a wonderful
picture that says so much more than
a mere historical narrative. It speaks
of the majesty, the tragedy and the
irony of one man's life; of the self
discovery that comes through failure;
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