The Last Emperor Film Analysis From the Technique to the View of the Western World

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10.2991/hsmet-19.2019.117How to use a DOI?

Keywords

The Last Emperor, Cinematography, Orientalism, Feminization.

Abstract

The Last Emperor is a 1987 British-Italian epic film about the life of Pu Yi, who, at the age of three, was named Emperor of the Qing Dynasty and died as a gardener at a botanical garden in Beijing. The movie won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography and six more awards in 1987. The Last Emperor is a milestone for Chinese historical movies because it was the first to show a specific period at the end of the Chinese monarchy. Furthermore, the brilliant sound design and the director’s perspective of this tragic character have become spotlights in the history of world cinema. This article analyzes the director’s cinematographic skills, including editing and narrative techniques. By focusing on the relationship between Western philosophy and Chinese history, the author illustrates the artistic presentation of the storyline and the Western stereotype towards the Eastern world, which is known as Orientalism.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Humanities Science, Management and Education Technology (HSMET 2019)
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