Pu Yi witnessed the fall of Chinese empire, the republic of China, World War 1, the fall of Russian empire, the Warlords era, the fall of Mongol monarchy, the Russian Civil war, the Chinese civil war, the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, the birth of empire of Manchukuo, the 2 sino-japanese wars, World war 2, the fall of Japanese empire, the communist victory over Kuomintang, the Cold war and the cultural revolution
My wife’s family lived through cultural revolution, and some were part of Red Guards. They told me this movie was absolutely accurate, and they usually don’t like to talk about it. It was a crazy and just mad Times.
It's funny how the mainland Chinese refused to speak more about their ugly past during the communist reign such as the cultural revolution, but when it comes to the Japanese's atrocities during WW2 and Kuomintang's "tyrannical" reign, they can speak novels.
Zennoix riel3620 There are plenty ugly history to go around. Japanese atrocities cannot be forgiven. Has all the Jews forgive all the Nazis criminals, even though Germany has been very forthcoming with their guilt? Chinese Nationalists had plenty of corruption. They used Du Yusheng, biggest drug dealer in Shanghai to their causes. Sure Chinese mobs were very patriotic, but they still had ugly enterprises like gambling, extortion, prostitution, and finally doping dealings. Chiang KaiShek brother in law, HH Kung made plenty of money on American aid to China. His mansion is still standing in Long Island today. You can even google HH Kung personal pictures with Adolf Hitler.
@Major Calvary The CCP were disgusting The KMT was ugly And Sun Yat Sen would be spinning in his grave when the Communist and the Nationalist fought for control, not what Dr.Sun said
마언 Thanks for your reply. I think Sun YatSen expected the outcome. He was actually ousted as President of Republic of China in 1913, the same government that was founded by him. There was an assassination attempt on him, but he summoned Chiang KaiShek to rescue and escorted him out of harm. Chiang was a very junior ranking KMT member then. The fact that Sun picked him was because he had military training because China needed a strong military leader to fight the war lords. Chiang was the legitimate successor to Sun. That was clear. Many CCP members were also KMT members. In fact, Sun never discourage communists from joining KMT. Chiang initially did object either, until Soviet had plot to assassinate Chiang, and after Chiang visited Moscow and understood the true intends of the Soviets.
Pu Yi had the most depressing story of any 20th century "leader". First he was a puppet to the Empress Dowager, then a puppet to the warlords, then KMT, then the Japanese, then tried for collaboration even though he practically has no choice when it came to the will of the Japanese, then a puppet of the communists. Despite being a "leader" at least once in his life, he had no say in anything in his life.
The actor of the prison guard is Ying Ruocheng, Chinese Communist Party's vice minister of culture at that time. He is ethnic Manchu and was also forced to the provinces to do manual labor during the Cultural Revolution.
@@sakuranippon4434mao did the culture revolution to root out his opposition with in the communist party, it was mao way to regain power over his opponents
The warden Ying Ruocheng played was/is a real person. He was born in Korea and immigrated to Manchuria to escape Japanese occupation (before Manchuria was also occupied later of course). I read his memoir.
@@sakuranippon4434well of course they do, the whole reason Mao started the cultural revolution was to keep control of the CCP whose upper echelons increasingly wanted to get rid of Mao because they viewed him as increasingly incompetent and incapable(which they were totally correct about, Mao was a great fighter of guerilla war but not a great administrator)
This scene completes the circle of Puyi's character arc through his turnaround. Puyi was raised to be a spoiled brat. His upbringing and social status never really allowed him to develop basic values such as empathy and compassion for other people. The movie actually toned down his cruelty. Puyi would actually beat his eunuch servants with a stick for entertainment. At one point he even killed one. Throughout his younger years we see how his encapsulation in his own world made him selfish and ignorant about what was going on with his country, the world, and how life works in general. It was only after his incarceration that he becomes a changed man. In this scene we see him care for another soul. Something he could not do when he was emperor. He is a commoner now. He has to work to put food on the table. He finally understands now humanity.
It certainly depicts his development in the way you have observed here, but it also shows how what replaced the old system also dehumanizes those who get in its way. Hopefully, you're not saying the end justifies the means. "Meet the new boss." "Join us, Commrade, or f*** off!"
Despite the attempt to foster a cheerful atmosphere with all the dancing, music and singing, everyone has a hypnotized and somber expression on their faces.
That is exactly what the movie is trying to express ... it's all about stereotypes ... they are ACTORS, in a Western-made film ... see their faces when they play a nazi officer, or a soviet spy, etc ...
Puyi can see the irony, he was once worshiped as a god but now mao is now being worshipped as a god and isn't officially an emperor nor is china a monarchy anymore.
The Chinese term translated into english as 'Emperor' is 'Huangdi', it's more akin to 'Son of Heaven/Living God' than to 'Emperor' but to a Christian and Islamic west it was easier to translate as emperor. Mao was certainly worshipped with a devotion much like that given to a god
@098765 Craper Being the "Son of heaven" implies divinity though. Anyway, Wikipedia said: "The three Huang (皇,"august, sovereign") were godly rulers credited with feats like ordering the sky and forming the first humans out of clay; the five Di (帝), also often translated "emperor" but also meaning "the God of Heaven" were cultural heroes credited with the invention of agriculture, clothing, astrology, music, etc. In the 3rd century BCE, the two titles had not previously been used together. Because of the god-like powers of the Huang, the folk worship of the Di, and the latter's use in the name of the God of Heaven Shangdi, however, the First Emperor's title would have been understood as implying "The Holy" or "Divine Emperor". "
@098765 Craper You might be understanding the terms in "Huangdi" from direct translations in modern Chinese, but I believe that the terms have a more religious background from Classical Chinese. Aaaaand the comparison of Western notions of Divine Right fails because of different backgrounds. The Kings of Western countries never said they had religious character, as that would be heresy. They served on the privilege of God, either directly or through the church. The Chinese as I understand it, don't have the same dichotomy between Heaven and Earth, so that the Emperor would be the mediator between those. Filmer, Hobbes and Locke argued that God did not punish bad rulers, because king/sovereign's right to rule was absolute and God of "another realm". There were also little to find in old christianity that a bad harvests were the result of bad ruling, but rather the moral failings on the church or people. The Chinese believed that an unjust Emperor was one that could not control the world, and thus the world would punish the realm. Bad crops were a sign that the Emperor did not do his duty towards the Heavens and the Earth. The religious West depended on a a more Plato-inspired clear-cut divide between Heaven and the worldly sphere, while these merge together in Chinese. Therefore, the Western term for "Emperor" depends on the rule of a territory, while the Chinese depend on the rule of the "world". The Chinese emperors influenced stretched far beyond their border, while emperors in the West recognized other rulers as their semi-equals.
No, the Son of Heaven revere Buddha, the Jade Emperor and Heaven, at least they follow the Mandate of Heaven, they know their power are not absolute and Heaven will punish them if they do wrong. while the communists want to destroy all scriptures, temples, buddha statues, and deny everything related to belief and Gods, and nothing is above the Party. The Party is not an "emperor" they are scoundrels
Just guessing, probably the accordion was introduced into China by the Soviets, although the ones in the clip are "Parrot" which were already made in China in the 1950s. I assume that Bertolucci paid attention to these details.
Just a bit information, when the cultural revolution started, the central made a list of people who should be protected from the so called red guard youth, Emperor Puyi and his close royal relatives, Song Qinglin, Vice President of PRC but also the widow of Sun Zhongshan, the builder of Republic China in 1911, Li Zongren, the former president of Republic of China (1911-1949), and the family of Confucius, the biggest noble family which lasts for over 2000 years, Mao didn’t treat them as what Lenin did to the Romanovs. As Mao said “I may disagree with Confucian, but I when was at school during the Qing dynasty, I read all of Confucius classics, and I can’t say it has no impact on me”. Confucius said: those with noble and grace ambitious, will not seek to success or alive to harm the Ren (Ren, Confucius created a word for the highest moral standard in his mind), but will rather sacrifice their lives to protect Ren, what is Ren, the one with Ren must a man loves people”. In the view of Confucius, what Lenin did to the Tsar Nicolas and his family, cannot be accepted no matter what condition it might be, because a real hero will not do such thing. The historical meeting of Mao and Emperor Puyi in early 1960s was dramatic, Mao invited the warlords who kicked the emperor out of Forbidden City Palace in 1924 to come to the dinning, those warlords arrived first, Mao made jokes with them “today, we are going to meet our old supervisor, you will see”. When the emperor entered into the dining room, Mao said “see, we have Puyi here tonight, we both born in the late Qing dynasty, and when we were young, we were the subjects of Puyi as he was the emperor, he’s indeed the old boss of all of us right?”
Technically Lenin didn't order to shoot the Romanovs. It was ordered by the Soviet of the Ural Region. Nevertheless it still is disputed if Lenin alongside Sverdlov unofficially instigated it.
This was the extended version DVD version that i have, always go back & watch it on my imac but id like to know the song that played in the prison where the Governor is walkin down the steps to the courtyard where the stone benches are & the stage is where all prisoners sat or stood up while the governor was up on stage talking to them. It's some cultural revolutionary song that plays i can't really make it out because it's kinda distorted when they play it in the movie as he's walkin down where the ground is all covered w snow he's walkin to his little office walks in & shuts the door & pulls the kettle off pouring himself some hot warm water to drink & is where he starts reading Mr Johnston's book of Puyi & his trip to China to get the facts straight about Puyi.
Swen Htet They probably would’ve slaughtered puyi(or anyone) for that matter for even approaching them in one of those little parades that would have to of been a death sentence back then
It’s only a matter of time before they hold people against their will and put them And subject Them to public humiliation forcing them to wear a dunce cap and making them bow to a Picture of chairman mao while demanding them to confess their crimes
Naive young are easy pickings for bourgeoisie propaganda and cult of success, with the individualism culture, and waste best period of life to drugs, alcohol and other senselles shit, simultaneously blame youth, who lived in socialist countries and gain free education and worked for the wealth of all society, not only for wealth of miniscule layer owners of means of production. Have a good day.
@@todoldtrafford English revolution. Spanish revolution. Dutch revolution. Great French Revolution. Hungarian revolution. Well, all this revolutions had failed, and then monarchy restored. Have a nice day.
My grandfather was about to Enter Tsinghua University in the 1960s, like the top one in China and 15th Worldwide. What happened was that cuz of his father's background, who held an famous local enterprise, which even supported the Kuomingtang Army in WWII. My grandfather was beaten so badly when he was young and the school only gave him the worst quality of the food which caused him Nephriti... However at last, luckily went to Shanghai Ocean University for Food Can Engineering, and the warm weather and sufficient amount of seafood there cured his illness ... (Where there was a lack of food and tin cans can save for a long time) Very Luckily as the top student graduating he was appointed after the Open and Reform Policies to HK to become a Vice CEO of China Resources 华润, one of the TOP 500 Enterprise in the World in terms of size but only entered the party by his retirement. I also know and contacts with a lot of family who were forced to relocate or "donate" their ancestral and family business. The closest one to me is the 乐 or 樂 Le family of Chinese Medicine Tongrentang... At first they were very optimistic about the founding of PRC, cuz the first 5-year plan was extremely successful and China was rock in the Korean War. Yet, after a series events such as the 大躍進， Cultural Revolution，etc Their family was forced to become Chinese teachers after 1960s
Well I'm curious about this: back then I've heard about some state funded academy specializing in martial arts during KMT era. Is that true?. If it is what is the name for the academy?. What's become of it?.
Yeah, it was a surprise to many that the Chinese govt even allowed this to be filmed on their soils. Maybe it was an attempt for the communist party at the time to open up to the west. But Tiananmen Square happened later in the same decade which is probably why we don’t see any other western film makers making films like this ever since.
@@larsthorwald56 three body problem was not similar at all and has chinese adaptions. The netflix version changed things to be pro western for no reason
@@cokechang Tiananmen Square happened because people were protesting the restoration of Capitalism and the coup by Deng Xiaoping. Of course the western historians rather you not know this, but everyone on the streets were shouting "Restore ideas of Chairman Mao Zedong" referring to Maoist Socialism.
Here’s where you gotta finally feel sorry for pu-yi. The way he and his brother were watching this procession with fear and confusion means that he doesn’t really know how to move forward from his dream to be emperor and just survive in ways he never imagined he’d have to. When he’s at that camp, you see that he has trouble moving forward from being emperor and the warden helped him to learn how to live land do things on his own. Puyi realizes what this warden did for him and defended him later not fully realizing exactly what had happened in that country. To see him go from sadistic and arrogant to humble is the closest thing to a arc we get here
@@seasalt489 This era put China behind other counties, not on par with them. The Chinese people I met called it an era of insanity. So much culture was lost. So much valuable knowledge. So much sanitation.
@@juliesteimle3867 but the gains outran the negatives. It was able to pull China together as one, defend the country from further foreign invasions. The rapid development of China in recent years owes much to the system set up then. Brutal but necessary time. On the contrary, China doesnt want to end up like how India is like now.
@@SM-ku3uo You should credit today's china more to Deng, and less to the cultural revolution. Although some bad traditions where abolished, so did lots of great traditions and cultural heritage.
this is a movie about the cultural revolution made by the chinese. from the perspective of the last emperor, Pu Yi, a crazy and inhuman era. i remember that when this movie was shown throughout China, it caused a lot of discussion and reflection.
@@fengch1971 They are over but does China allow it to be portrayed in a realistic way in films or even documentaries? Nope. They continue to censor and rewrite history books. What happened in tiananmen square in 1989? Try typing it on Chinese social media.
It's really sad to watch. My maternal grandfather returned to China after graduation in the US during the second sino-japanese out of patriotism to fight the Japanese. We was a professor when the communist party took over. He taught countless young minds to help rebuild a new China, but was branded a rightist and put into political prison for more than 10 years. When this movie was made, the communist party had finally recognized it's wrongs and release him from prison, and allowing this movies to be made was like a form of apology. For a while we had hope for a more righteous China, the Xi came to power and things retrograded, and we are watching the history repeats like Cultural Revolution 2.0 playing out again in slow motion.
Es una pena que China siga en una dictadura 2.0 y no se ve que tenga final. Por eso también incremento la migración China a Estados Unidos, dónde ya también quieren poner más restricciones a esas migraciones. Que triste todo esto.
@@MCP-MZT So delusional - 100 years from now the 3 people remembered most from the 20th century will be FDR and Deng Xiaoping for greatness and Hitler for evil.
@@hotcold7340 Vancouver and Seattle Chinese-American/Canadians are almost all exclusively Cantonese or Nationalist Chinese with anti-CCP ties I dont know what kind of racism you’re talking about. The diaspora have more in common with the Singapore and Peranakan Chinese than their own homeland because they too fled before the Communists took over.
Reminder: The Cultural Revolution is now hated by China and even the Communist Party of China. Yes, you didn't read that wrong. In the official 'pocket' book of the Communist Party of China, and also speech by Deng Xiaoping while he was the Supreme Leader of China, the Cultural Revolution is recognized as a grave mistake and a product of stupidity. China also blamed it on Mao, even though only partially, but it shows how China has seen the importance of culture and moderation, and the danger of extremism. Mao is now only regarded as the Founding Father. However, he is not worshiped anymore. Excessive worship toward him is even taken as dangerous by the government. For instance, the Maoist organization in China established by Mao fanatics in 2008 was disbanded by the government with its members arrested in 2009.
The Communist Party of China now hates the Cultural Revolution because the very capitalist roaders that Mao was trying to get rid of have taken over the party.
Mao was an idealist, and people love to take out the part where he cracked down on the red guard, fixed his mistakes, and resigned into a period of introspection. Mao genuinely wanted to help the people, there is no doubt about it. His ability to do it was lacking, and he was most certainly an overconfident radical bolstered by his success in the civil war. But in no ways was it the same as a Monarch. Although yeah, very much tyrannical.
more literally: revolution is not a crime, uprising is justified the true usage of words in chinese is somewhat stronger than what I've just written in english though.
It is right. Ironically mao zedong was influenced in his youth by george washington and american revolutionaries, unfortunately he lacked the grace to step down
The irony is that the prison warden was likely being humiliated by the red guard for some petty reason such as he had a relative who was a wealthy landowner or he said something taken as an insult to Mao and they called him the emperors lacky yet the emperor himself was speaking to them face to face and they didn’t even realize it. Puyi was nothing than a run of the mill old man to them at this point not someone who personified everything they hated.
Love this scene. Chinese history can be summed up by passage of dynasties and we are currently in the era of the red dynasty and its line of emperors with Mao as the legendary founder.
The Cultural Revolution was Mao Zedong's final attempt to save the country. In footage attributed to him, Mao mentioned that towards the end of his life, the government and its officials had stopped listening to him entirely. They merely revered him as an idol, keeping him in the dark about critical matters and ignoring his opinions. Mao became acutely aware of the dangers posed by an emerging bureaucratic class. At the time, China, as a newly established state, lacked the foundation of a modern nation. Many officials were remnants of the old government, and due to widespread illiteracy, the new administration had no choice but to rely on these individuals. Over time, these people formed various interest groups. Recognizing the growing peril, Mao resolved to leverage his immense popularity among the people to launch the Cultural Revolution. He aimed to rally the masses to dismantle these bureaucratic cliques and address hidden threats to the nation's future. However, this movement eventually spiraled into extreme tendencies. Mao, in reality, had already lost control over both the government and the radical course of the revolution. Without proper leadership, the political movement quickly devolved into a frenzy of violence and infighting, where individuals attacked and undermined each other for personal gain.
its like the chinese movies/dramas set in chinese dynasties over 2000 years ago....and the actors are speaking mandarin, im sure mandarin wasnt used back then but its what the audience understands
A lot of the actors are actually Chinese-American actors but the extras and the people in the background are Chinese from China. So they are Chinese-Americans who speak English as their main language.
Funny thing is that if things turned out well for the Emperor and the revolutions had never happened, all those kids marching in the streets would be surviving off of bread and rotten vegetables while Puyi plays tennis in his Palace courtyard. Really puts things in perspectives.
@Frank Guo Western concepts do not work everywhere. They were/are totally alien to China. By the way, do not idealize constitutions, parliaments etc. Democracies can be very autocratic and miserable too.
@@AntonesPap”Democracies” are autocratic. They are built to give an illusion to the middle class, give a sense of compliance. In reality oppressive institutions teeter on the edge of tyranny, and Capitalists already control vast swathes of the world’s wealth. Instead of redistribution, they hoard it, breeding materialistic natures and selfish acts.
The "governour of our prison"? I understand why that criminal would be walking there. Anyway, i didn't catch the response of those other three when asked about the guy's crime. Does anyone know?
Let me give you the accurate version 革命无罪，造反有理 x2 要革命就跟我走，不革命就滚他妈的蛋 revolution is no crime, to rebel is justified x2 Follow me if you wanna revolution, or just fuck away
A lot of the actors would have been involved in one way or another in the Cultural Revolution. Wonder what the people in the neighbourhood thought of this scene being filmed...
This movie and “Farewell My Concubine” really showed the senseless violence - perpetrated by children and encouraged by a power-hungry egomaniac and his followers- during the Cultural Revolution. I wonder how many people can truly appreciate how horrifying and bloody this time in Chinese history was. The whole country nearly burned down, and so many people died for no reason. Zealotry is dangerous!
Not even close this was the change of an entire government and overthrowing of a political system that lasted for thousands of years, the blm riots are just mobs who would stop if governors moved money from police departments to stuff like education or more access to resources no one ever said join or be shamed
If one slogan sums up the excesses of the Cultural Revolution, *_Smash the four olds (破四旧)_* was it. It exhorted young cadres to destroy anything regarded as "old" - loosely defined as old ideas, customs, culture, and habits. and anything that makes the whole 3,000 years of Chinese's continous written history was Thanos-snapped by that.
Cultural revolution should be inspected from different perspectives. It is regrettable that all the history was being destroyed and innocent people being tortured, but it did bring positive changes--at least in the long run. It completely changed the mindset of the Chinese people. They became more able to undergo critical thinking against those who’re supposed to be ‘on the right side of history’. Also the population of atheists soared which unleashed China’s potential to develop further. Before Mao the Chinese had to be starved to death before even thinking about revolting but to some degrees after the cultural revolution they had the ability to challenge whoever disagrees. Now that does not justify the cruelty of cultural revolution tho, it was too radical and the civilians were simply victims of the conflict between the modest and radical left within the CCP
@@ducmingnguyen1891 lol no it’s nothing like antifa. America has no history. All they have is the anti-communist sentiment and even that isn’t historical
@@aliwakanda7327 amongst many things eradicated by Cultural Revolution, are the concept of *five constant virtues* or _wu chang (五常)._ In descending order of importance, those virtues are : *benevolence* or _ren (仁),_ *righteousness* or _yi (义),_ *propriety* or _li (理),_ *wisdom* or _zhi (智)_ and *fidelity* or _xin (信)._ as you have said, even now CCP are still oppressing those who clings to that idea (Falun Gong for instance). and seeing that Chinese travellers wouldn't even dare to practise _open defecation_ abroad before 1966, shows that Cultural Revolution succeeded in their crusade against human civilization.
@@user-np3cp2cb7u ok now I see u r a Falun Gung fanboy I don’t think we ought to continue on this conversation. Falun Gung is a Chinese cult which is deemed legitimate in the west solely because it’s anti-CCP, not because it actually legitimate for practice. I’ll drop u this link ruclips.net/video/1JaPzJKycxc/видео.html This guy called JJ is an anti-CCP freelance journalist (which means he’s not affiliated by anybody, a startling contrast to Chris Chappel) and he did this research on Falun Gung
I am a Chinese in mainland. Very sadly to see the comments don't really understand what Comrade Mao means and what he relly wants. Generally, it mainly caused by western mainstream narratives, which totally confilt with historical materialism educating me. Mao's Cutural Revolution is a sad attempt, hoping ordinary people arm themselves with smart mind to fight with bureaucracy. The test failed sadly. I assume that Mao even denied the fact that people had to live with captalism for many years, until his last moment. Story after that is wiidely known. China embraced the "market economy" and developed fast in recent decades. And now, in 2020, the over production, inequality, big social gaps are looming. Many people wake up and try to look back to the leftism era for the answers. The globe is walking into a right wing side for bigger gaps between poor and rich, ironically reflecting the forgotten history: There was a great man tried to save us from that hopeless end, but it seems that ordinary people unable to seize the chance.
My friend, people generally like to criticize what they do not fully understand. It is very true and very sad that rich people are getting richer and poor people are getting poorer.
So, I am thinkin' we are about 2 to 4 years away from this scenario here in the US- probably without the accordions mind you. The irony . . . that China-born CV kicked off this whole chain of events over here. I have a pretty good idea what "crimes" I am going to have to confess to the new American Red Guard. This will not end well for anyone sadly. History has a fairly good record to prove that out. This movie was fantastic BTW, so thanks for posting this clip.
French King : executed publicly British King : executed constitutionally Russian Tsar : executed faraway in his exile Chinese Emperor : stripped of his power and give him peasantry job China always do things differently
What is the song that is being played by the accordion, it's very catchy... as most of the Communist propoganda songs? Lol! Also am I the only one that thinks Ying Ruocheng (the actor that played the prison governor) was handsome, even at his age in this movie? The actor who played Pujie was cute too lol!
3:00-3:13 So this is what that one scene in _SpongeBob SquarePants in China 2_ is based on (the cutaway which shows Patrick being reprimanded by a Red Guard).
Once I read his biography on Wikipedia out of curiosity and I really couldn't help but cry. The guy was used as a puppet right from his childhood to his death. I am a person who rarely cries. At most times even the most heart throbbing scenes refuse to make me cry but seeing how his life was it was really heart breaking. Out of all the evil historical figures I would say Mao Zedong is the worst. His revolutions destroyed Chinese culture and led to a lot of moral decline in the people
What a shit comparison. Mao did not commit genocide. The excesses of thr Cultural revolution are not Maos fault they were ultimately the masses choice. Also Hitler killed 40 million in his genocidal war.
over so many revolutionaries, the circle of life is still the same for women nothing changed at all. Women celebrated the new revolution after these men killed each other but in the end, she is just something to entertain others.
In the book Pu Yi felt the wrath of this revolution on his deathbed, even from his former concubines. Officials had risk their live to protect him as his health was deteriorating.
April, 2024 Why am I reminded of Democrats when I watch this........???? ps: I grew up in Cuba. My late father grew up in NAZI Germany. It IS always the same. Totalitarianism. Freedom, once revoked is never relinquished.
If the election goes the wrong way, the republic will fall just like in Hungary and other illiberal states - into an increasingly corrupt plutocracy. Real patriots are fighting for a blue wave to remove Trump and his acolytes from power!
@@jt7638 The Wrong way is Dem/Liberal sweep in November (which is becoming less likely). The Virulent Progressive wing would send people to re education camps Just like their Idol Mao did. FIGHT BACK PEOPLE !
Pu Yi witnessed the fall of Chinese empire, the republic of China, World War 1, the fall of Russian empire, the Warlords era, the fall of Mongol monarchy, the Russian Civil war, the Chinese civil war, the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, the birth of empire of Manchukuo, the 2 sino-japanese wars, World war 2, the fall of Japanese empire, the communist victory over Kuomintang, the Cold war and the cultural revolution
he was also alive when last 3 s president were born too. and quick possible afourth one too.
he got lucky tbh lol
@Aiman Safwan he died by cancer, his brother lived 30 more years, but thanks to the Cultural Revolution, no doctors checked for Puyi.
and the vietnam war.
like the miserable version of Chinese Forrest Gump
My wife’s family lived through cultural revolution, and some were part of Red Guards. They told me this movie was absolutely accurate, and they usually don’t like to talk about it. It was a crazy and just mad Times.
Major Calvary Thank you for that. It’s always interesting to hear stories like that.
It's funny how the mainland Chinese refused to speak more about their ugly past during the communist reign such as the cultural revolution, but when it comes to the Japanese's atrocities during WW2 and Kuomintang's "tyrannical" reign, they can speak novels.
Zennoix riel3620
There are plenty ugly history to go around. Japanese atrocities cannot be forgiven. Has all the Jews forgive all the Nazis criminals, even though Germany has been very forthcoming with their guilt?
Chinese Nationalists had plenty of corruption. They used Du Yusheng, biggest drug dealer in Shanghai to their causes. Sure Chinese mobs were very patriotic, but they still had ugly enterprises like gambling, extortion, prostitution, and finally doping dealings. Chiang KaiShek brother in law, HH Kung made plenty of money on American aid to China. His mansion is still standing in Long Island today. You can even google HH Kung personal pictures with Adolf Hitler.
@Major Calvary
The CCP were disgusting
The KMT was ugly
And Sun Yat Sen would be spinning in his grave when the Communist and the Nationalist fought for control, not what Dr.Sun said
마언
Thanks for your reply. I think Sun YatSen expected the outcome. He was actually ousted as President of Republic of China in 1913, the same government that was founded by him. There was an assassination attempt on him, but he summoned Chiang KaiShek to rescue and escorted him out of harm. Chiang was a very junior ranking KMT member then. The fact that Sun picked him was because he had military training because China needed a strong military leader to fight the war lords. Chiang was the legitimate successor to Sun. That was clear. Many CCP members were also KMT members. In fact, Sun never discourage communists from joining KMT. Chiang initially did object either, until Soviet had plot to assassinate Chiang, and after Chiang visited Moscow and understood the true intends of the Soviets.
It is touching to see Pu Yi show some humanity and decency even if it failed to save the warden, at least the warden knew someone tried.
Excellent observation. That is my favorite scene.
@Gemcitykid very true
How many can say that the emperor of China risked his life for them?
Pu Yi had the most depressing story of any 20th century "leader". First he was a puppet to the Empress Dowager, then a puppet to the warlords, then KMT, then the Japanese, then tried for collaboration even though he practically has no choice when it came to the will of the Japanese, then a puppet of the communists. Despite being a "leader" at least once in his life, he had no say in anything in his life.
@@johannapfelburg6286 True he never had power.
The actor of the prison guard is Ying Ruocheng, Chinese Communist Party's vice minister of culture at that time.
He is ethnic Manchu and was also forced to the provinces to do manual labor during the Cultural Revolution.
Even the CCP today sees the Cultural Revolution as chaos
Stfu, i don‘t even care.
@@sakuranippon4434mao did the culture revolution to root out his opposition with in the communist party, it was mao way to regain power over his opponents
The warden Ying Ruocheng played was/is a real person. He was born in Korea and immigrated to Manchuria to escape Japanese occupation (before Manchuria was also occupied later of course). I read his memoir.
@@sakuranippon4434well of course they do, the whole reason Mao started the cultural revolution was to keep control of the CCP whose upper echelons increasingly wanted to get rid of Mao because they viewed him as increasingly incompetent and incapable(which they were totally correct about, Mao was a great fighter of guerilla war but not a great administrator)
This scene completes the circle of Puyi's character arc through his turnaround.
Puyi was raised to be a spoiled brat. His upbringing and social status never really allowed him to develop basic values such as empathy and compassion for other people. The movie actually toned down his cruelty. Puyi would actually beat his eunuch servants with a stick for entertainment. At one point he even killed one. Throughout his younger years we see how his encapsulation in his own world made him selfish and ignorant about what was going on with his country, the world, and how life works in general. It was only after his incarceration that he becomes a changed man. In this scene we see him care for another soul. Something he could not do when he was emperor. He is a commoner now. He has to work to put food on the table. He finally understands now humanity.
It certainly depicts his development in the way you have observed here, but it also shows how what replaced the old system also dehumanizes those who get in its way. Hopefully, you're not saying the end justifies the means.
"Meet the new boss." "Join us, Commrade, or f*** off!"
A very Buddhist movie. Only through suffering can one realize the mental chains that bind us.
and the inhumanity of the ccp
It's just anti-communist propaganda
@@The80sWolf_ isnt this movie made in mainland china and passed the examinations in the 80s?
Despite the attempt to foster a cheerful atmosphere with all the dancing, music and singing, everyone has a hypnotized and somber expression on their faces.
That is why Pu Yi said that were young and dangerous.
Like North Korea today.
That is exactly what the movie is trying to express ... it's all about stereotypes ... they are ACTORS, in a Western-made film ... see their faces when they play a nazi officer, or a soviet spy, etc ...
theyre waiting for the director to say 'cut! thats a wrap!" so they can all go home for dinner
@@northstar2839 I mean how were they supposed to be... they were brainwashed and oppressed to do things they got no idea what it was
Puyi can see the irony, he was once worshiped as a god but now mao is now being worshipped as a god and isn't officially an emperor nor is china a monarchy anymore.
The Chinese term translated into english as 'Emperor' is 'Huangdi', it's more akin to 'Son of Heaven/Living God' than to 'Emperor' but to a Christian and Islamic west it was easier to translate as emperor. Mao was certainly worshipped with a devotion much like that given to a god
Always Dee TV Its just you and your belief. He’ll likely doesn’t exist.
@098765 Craper Being the "Son of heaven" implies divinity though.
Anyway, Wikipedia said:
"The three Huang (皇,"august, sovereign") were godly rulers credited with feats like ordering the sky and forming the first humans out of clay; the five Di (帝), also often translated "emperor" but also meaning "the God of Heaven" were cultural heroes credited with the invention of agriculture, clothing, astrology, music, etc. In the 3rd century BCE, the two titles had not previously been used together. Because of the god-like powers of the Huang, the folk worship of the Di, and the latter's use in the name of the God of Heaven Shangdi, however, the First Emperor's title would have been understood as implying "The Holy" or "Divine Emperor". "
@098765 Craper You might be understanding the terms in "Huangdi" from direct translations in modern Chinese, but I believe that the terms have a more religious background from Classical Chinese.
Aaaaand the comparison of Western notions of Divine Right fails because of different backgrounds. The Kings of Western countries never said they had religious character, as that would be heresy. They served on the privilege of God, either directly or through the church. The Chinese as I understand it, don't have the same dichotomy between Heaven and Earth, so that the Emperor would be the mediator between those. Filmer, Hobbes and Locke argued that God did not punish bad rulers, because king/sovereign's right to rule was absolute and God of "another realm". There were also little to find in old christianity that a bad harvests were the result of bad ruling, but rather the moral failings on the church or people.
The Chinese believed that an unjust Emperor was one that could not control the world, and thus the world would punish the realm. Bad crops were a sign that the Emperor did not do his duty towards the Heavens and the Earth.
The religious West depended on a a more Plato-inspired clear-cut divide between Heaven and the worldly sphere, while these merge together in Chinese.
Therefore, the Western term for "Emperor" depends on the rule of a territory, while the Chinese depend on the rule of the "world". The Chinese emperors influenced stretched far beyond their border, while emperors in the West recognized other rulers as their semi-equals.
And Xi Jin Pooh has plagued the whole world CCProna virus, maybe he just wants all the honey in the world.
Basically, it shows us that the old emperor has been replaced by a new one.
Exactly
No, the Son of Heaven revere Buddha, the Jade Emperor and Heaven, at least they follow the Mandate of Heaven, they know their power are not absolute and Heaven will punish them if they do wrong. while the communists want to destroy all scriptures, temples, buddha statues, and deny everything related to belief and Gods, and nothing is above the Party. The Party is not an "emperor" they are scoundrels
@@lightbearer9220 lol its all on Mao it was all his idea all the way
Reminds me of Animal Farm
haha when you society broken you need a men Turn the tide ，👀
china says no to western's influence
red guards : playing accordion
Communist originated in Germany
western influence were like western ideas and art, business too
And Karl Marx is German .
Just guessing, probably the accordion was introduced into China by the Soviets, although the ones in the clip are "Parrot" which were already made in China in the 1950s. I assume that Bertolucci paid attention to these details.
@@brendanzhang7488 communist is western idea, boy..
Karl Marx from germany..
All revolutions eventually devour their own children.
These politicians/statesmen/dictators are power-hungry, man.
All "violent" revolutions devour their children. Mongolia's peaceful democratic revolution in 1990 translated into peaceful administration.
I’d say its a mixture of things not just the revolution
Unavoidable regardless
@@ElBandito because politburo of mongolia at that time was not power hungry ghosts
Just a bit information, when the cultural revolution started, the central made a list of people who should be protected from the so called red guard youth, Emperor Puyi and his close royal relatives, Song Qinglin, Vice President of PRC but also the widow of Sun Zhongshan, the builder of Republic China in 1911, Li Zongren, the former president of Republic of China (1911-1949), and the family of Confucius, the biggest noble family which lasts for over 2000 years, Mao didn’t treat them as what Lenin did to the Romanovs. As Mao said “I may disagree with Confucian, but I when was at school during the Qing dynasty, I read all of Confucius classics, and I can’t say it has no impact on me”. Confucius said: those with noble and grace ambitious, will not seek to success or alive to harm the Ren (Ren, Confucius created a word for the highest moral standard in his mind), but will rather sacrifice their lives to protect Ren, what is Ren, the one with Ren must a man loves people”. In the view of Confucius, what Lenin did to the Tsar Nicolas and his family, cannot be accepted no matter what condition it might be, because a real hero will not do such thing. The historical meeting of Mao and Emperor Puyi in early 1960s was dramatic, Mao invited the warlords who kicked the emperor out of Forbidden City Palace in 1924 to come to the dinning, those warlords arrived first, Mao made jokes with them “today, we are going to meet our old supervisor, you will see”. When the emperor entered into the dining room, Mao said “see, we have Puyi here tonight, we both born in the late Qing dynasty, and when we were young, we were the subjects of Puyi as he was the emperor, he’s indeed the old boss of all of us right?”
@vaishnav m Nepal?
Technically Lenin didn't order to shoot the Romanovs. It was ordered by the Soviet of the Ural Region. Nevertheless it still is disputed if Lenin alongside Sverdlov unofficially instigated it.
This was the extended version DVD version that i have, always go back & watch it on my imac but id like to know the song that played in the prison where the Governor is walkin down the steps to the courtyard where the stone benches are & the stage is where all prisoners sat or stood up while the governor was up on stage talking to them. It's some cultural revolutionary song that plays i can't really make it out because it's kinda distorted when they play it in the movie as he's walkin down where the ground is all covered w snow he's walkin to his little office walks in & shuts the door & pulls the kettle off pouring himself some hot warm water to drink & is where he starts reading Mr Johnston's book of Puyi & his trip to China to get the facts straight about Puyi.
I saw this scene in history class except the guard doesn’t say “buzz off” he says “fuck off” 2:40
This looks very real, but real red guards were 10 times brutal and uncontrollable.
Hot Cold yeah a bunch of uneducated, corrupted teenagers/murderers.
Swen Htet They probably would’ve slaughtered puyi(or anyone) for that matter for even approaching them in one of those little parades that would have to of been a death sentence back then
superstitions , many of the red guards were more like what you would describe as paul blart: mall cop. They were everyday people.
@@icekillertony And just imagine how they react if they knew who Puyi acctualy was
@@swenhtet2861 Sounds like antifa
I've been told by my grandparents that the red guards were at our house had free lunch and left.
during the peak of the cultural revolution, youngsters across china traveled to beijing to listen to chairman mao's holy orders directly
@@user-YuHaoHuang 'holy orders' lol
@@kurvitaschthedictator lmao, like, LITERALLY
Typical parasites, always pushing for the "free" (your) stuff.
@@user-YuHaoHuang I doubt that a lot of them did , unless provided by the state , bus tickets were not cheap and most had to farm the lands
Where is this, UC Berkeley?
Damn right it is
It’s only a matter of time before they hold people against their will and put them And subject Them to public humiliation forcing them to wear a dunce cap and making them bow to a Picture of chairman mao while demanding them to confess their crimes
Biggest shit hole in the world,bro :))
LMAO
this comment is genius!
Everyone knows that the naive young are easy pickings for revolutions.
That's why whenever I hear "so-and-so has the youth vote!" I get nervous.
Naive young are easy pickings for bourgeoisie propaganda and cult of success, with the individualism culture, and waste best period of life to drugs, alcohol and other senselles shit, simultaneously
blame
youth, who lived in socialist countries and gain free education and worked for the wealth of all society, not only for wealth of miniscule layer owners of means of production. Have a good day.
Which is why socialist countries have failed. Have a nice day
@@todoldtrafford English revolution. Spanish revolution. Dutch revolution. Great French Revolution. Hungarian revolution.
Well, all this revolutions had failed, and then monarchy restored. Have a nice day.
Vasya vs Vova their economic systems failed or lack there of. Spending other people’s money can only work for so long. Have a nice day
So many people suffered in this era. I have heard several first hand accounts from Chinese about it. They whisper it, though.
"Suffered"
@Always Dee wtf are you talking about, your kind was never in china, still flinging shit at eachother in the ever irrelevant continent
Couman Mao has killed many bilion muslims in China in his devil time
@@seasalt489 Yes. Suffered. Died. Starved. Murdered. Heads blown off. Raped. Killed. You name it, it happened. Lives were destroyed.
@Always Dee TV AYO HOL Up!!
SO YOU WUZ SAYIN'...
WE WUZ CHINESE N SHEEIIT?!
My grandfather was about to Enter Tsinghua University in the 1960s, like the top one in China and 15th Worldwide. What happened was that cuz of his father's background, who held an famous local enterprise, which even supported the Kuomingtang Army in WWII. My grandfather was beaten so badly when he was young and the school only gave him the worst quality of the food which caused him Nephriti...
However at last, luckily went to Shanghai Ocean University for Food Can Engineering, and the warm weather and sufficient amount of seafood there cured his illness ... (Where there was a lack of food and tin cans can save for a long time) Very Luckily as the top student graduating he was appointed after the Open and Reform Policies to HK to become a Vice CEO of China Resources 华润, one of the TOP 500 Enterprise in the World in terms of size but only entered the party by his retirement.
I also know and contacts with a lot of family who were forced to relocate or "donate" their ancestral and family business. The closest one to me is the 乐 or 樂 Le family of Chinese Medicine Tongrentang... At first they were very optimistic about the founding of PRC, cuz the first 5-year plan was extremely successful and China was rock in the Korean War. Yet, after a series events such as the 大躍進， Cultural Revolution，etc Their family was forced to become Chinese teachers after 1960s
Well I'm curious about this: back then I've heard about some state funded academy specializing in martial arts during KMT era. Is that true?. If it is what is the name for the academy?. What's become of it?.
So your family and friends are capitalists. No sympathy.
Films like this literally cannot be made anymore. China has film makers and Hollywood by the balls.
This movie was literally made in China, the governor or the prison is played by the cultural minister at the time
Intro to The Three Body Problem is similar. But not as elaborate. Recent.
Yeah, it was a surprise to many that the Chinese govt even allowed this to be filmed on their soils. Maybe it was an attempt for the communist party at the time to open up to the west. But Tiananmen Square happened later in the same decade which is probably why we don’t see any other western film makers making films like this ever since.
@@larsthorwald56 three body problem was not similar at all and has chinese adaptions. The netflix version changed things to be pro western for no reason
@@cokechang
Tiananmen Square happened because people were protesting the restoration of Capitalism and the coup by Deng Xiaoping.
Of course the western historians rather you not know this, but everyone on the streets were shouting "Restore ideas of Chairman Mao Zedong" referring to Maoist Socialism.
Here’s where you gotta finally feel sorry for pu-yi. The way he and his brother were watching this procession with fear and confusion means that he doesn’t really know how to move forward from his dream to be emperor and just survive in ways he never imagined he’d have to. When he’s at that camp, you see that he has trouble moving forward from being emperor and the warden helped him to learn how to live land do things on his own. Puyi realizes what this warden did for him and defended him later not fully realizing exactly what had happened in that country. To see him go from sadistic and arrogant to humble is the closest thing to a arc we get here
This clip is a history lesson much needed.
I know it was great.
We’ve learned it, thx
@@seasalt489 This era put China behind other counties, not on par with them. The Chinese people I met called it an era of insanity. So much culture was lost. So much valuable knowledge. So much sanitation.
@@juliesteimle3867 but the gains outran the negatives. It was able to pull China together as one, defend the country from further foreign invasions. The rapid development of China in recent years owes much to the system set up then. Brutal but necessary time. On the contrary, China doesnt want to end up like how India is like now.
@@SM-ku3uo You should credit today's china more to Deng, and less to the cultural revolution. Although some bad traditions where abolished, so did lots of great traditions and cultural heritage.
Today's China would never have allowed such a film to be made. The 80s was good times.
Depends on who the president is at the time. Xi has definitely curtailed people's freedom somewhat.
@098765 Craper in different regions of China they push different narratives. IDK why but that's what people in China have said.
The CPC has denounced the excesses of the Cultural Revolution.
True
This is a Hollywood movie made by an Italian director.
this is a movie about the cultural revolution made by the chinese. from the perspective of the last emperor, Pu Yi, a crazy and inhuman era. i remember that when this movie was shown throughout China, it caused a lot of discussion and reflection.
This masterpiece is one of few western films that accurately depict China during Cultural Revolution.
This whole film depicts China more authentically than any modern Chinese movies ever.
The Cultural Revolution was over by the time the film was filmed. In fact, China had criticized the cultural revolution at that time
@@fengch1971 They are over but does China allow it to be portrayed in a realistic way in films or even documentaries? Nope. They continue to censor and rewrite history books. What happened in tiananmen square in 1989? Try typing it on Chinese social media.
It's really sad to watch. My maternal grandfather returned to China after graduation in the US during the second sino-japanese out of patriotism to fight the Japanese. We was a professor when the communist party took over. He taught countless young minds to help rebuild a new China, but was branded a rightist and put into political prison for more than 10 years. When this movie was made, the communist party had finally recognized it's wrongs and release him from prison, and allowing this movies to be made was like a form of apology. For a while we had hope for a more righteous China, the Xi came to power and things retrograded, and we are watching the history repeats like Cultural Revolution 2.0 playing out again in slow motion.
Es una pena que China siga en una dictadura 2.0 y no se ve que tenga final. Por eso también incremento la migración China a Estados Unidos, dónde ya también quieren poner más restricciones a esas migraciones. Que triste todo esto.
Welcome to hell, here is your accordion.
毛主义共产党 - Maoist Communist Party, with the UPCA funny way to spell Deng Xiaoping
120 Bass, the big guns!
@@MCP-MZT I can see the Chinese indoctrination has done its job to fully brainwash the Chinese people. Have fun with your censorship.
@@MCP-MZT So delusional - 100 years from now the 3 people remembered most from the 20th century will be FDR and Deng Xiaoping for greatness and Hitler for evil.
@@MCP-MZT a heaven where 70million people starved to death
An extraordinary movie. Watched many times.
the accordion players look legit dead inside
Like Lu Xun’s character Ah Q - a body without a soul.
Came here after watching videos on what's going on in Seattle...
Jamat A cultural revolution makes America great again!
nest wind a cultural revolution is required to purge the Western World of systemic bourgeoisie racism and oppression...
Seattle WA... city far away from DC, located next to Vancouver with bunch of Chines activist/communist Spies... coincidence or planned?
@Hot Cold Not so sure about that a lot of Chinese people in Vancouver hate the CCP.
@@hotcold7340 Vancouver and Seattle Chinese-American/Canadians are almost all exclusively Cantonese or Nationalist Chinese with anti-CCP ties I dont know what kind of racism you’re talking about. The diaspora have more in common with the Singapore and Peranakan Chinese than their own homeland because they too fled before the Communists took over.
The most entertaining scene in the film for me.
Not the threesome?
@@JK-gu3tl theres a threesome?
LMFAO what
This film is one that every Japanese person should watch at least once in their lifetime as a matter of historical knowledge.
Will the revolution have music and synchronized dancing? If yes then count me in.
Go to a BLM protest it pretty much is like this
@@caseclosed9342 don't say shit, bitch.
Reminder: The Cultural Revolution is now hated by China and even the Communist Party of China. Yes, you didn't read that wrong.
In the official 'pocket' book of the Communist Party of China, and also speech by Deng Xiaoping while he was the Supreme Leader of China, the Cultural Revolution is recognized as a grave mistake and a product of stupidity. China also blamed it on Mao, even though only partially, but it shows how China has seen the importance of culture and moderation, and the danger of extremism.
Mao is now only regarded as the Founding Father. However, he is not worshiped anymore. Excessive worship toward him is even taken as dangerous by the government. For instance, the Maoist organization in China established by Mao fanatics in 2008 was disbanded by the government with its members arrested in 2009.
The Communist Party of China now hates the Cultural Revolution because the very capitalist roaders that Mao was trying to get rid of have taken over the party.
Qué interesante información y la verdad es que parece que no se ha acabado en China la revolución cultural, aún sigue eso en la actualidad. En fin.
It destroyed China's culture.
them: Hated the monarchs because they are tyrannical.
also them: Puts Mao and his politburo in place.
Communism is just hardcore monarchy "but for the people"
You know nothing about Chinese history.
Mao was actually good in his first 5 years, after that he became a dictator.
Mao was an idealist, and people love to take out the part where he cracked down on the red guard, fixed his mistakes, and resigned into a period of introspection.
Mao genuinely wanted to help the people, there is no doubt about it. His ability to do it was lacking, and he was most certainly an overconfident radical bolstered by his success in the civil war. But in no ways was it the same as a Monarch. Although yeah, very much tyrannical.
Like Russia and Putin right now.
This is one of the greatest films ever made and yet I hardly ever hear it referenced
Asked A old Chinese guy . Their main chant is its " right to rebel" Fyi
more literally: revolution is not a crime, uprising is justified
the true usage of words in chinese is somewhat stronger than what I've just written in english though.
It is right. Ironically mao zedong was influenced in his youth by george washington and american revolutionaries, unfortunately he lacked the grace to step down
The irony is that the prison warden was likely being humiliated by the red guard for some petty reason such as he had a relative who was a wealthy landowner or he said something taken as an insult to Mao and they called him the emperors lacky yet the emperor himself was speaking to them face to face and they didn’t even realize it. Puyi was nothing than a run of the mill old man to them at this point not someone who personified everything they hated.
Love this scene. Chinese history can be summed up by passage of dynasties and we are currently in the era of the red dynasty and its line of emperors with Mao as the legendary founder.
The Cultural Revolution was Mao Zedong's final attempt to save the country. In footage attributed to him, Mao mentioned that towards the end of his life, the government and its officials had stopped listening to him entirely. They merely revered him as an idol, keeping him in the dark about critical matters and ignoring his opinions.
Mao became acutely aware of the dangers posed by an emerging bureaucratic class. At the time, China, as a newly established state, lacked the foundation of a modern nation. Many officials were remnants of the old government, and due to widespread illiteracy, the new administration had no choice but to rely on these individuals. Over time, these people formed various interest groups.
Recognizing the growing peril, Mao resolved to leverage his immense popularity among the people to launch the Cultural Revolution. He aimed to rally the masses to dismantle these bureaucratic cliques and address hidden threats to the nation's future. However, this movement eventually spiraled into extreme tendencies. Mao, in reality, had already lost control over both the government and the radical course of the revolution.
Without proper leadership, the political movement quickly devolved into a frenzy of violence and infighting, where individuals attacked and undermined each other for personal gain.
Am I the only one who thinks it's weird that they alternate between English and Chinese?
all the dialogue is in English for this film so that everyone can understand.
I also think it's weird how they speak English with strong Chinese accents. Either make them speak good English, or make them speak Chinese.
Jeremy Xu because we don't have no time to look at sub titles
its like the chinese movies/dramas set in chinese dynasties over 2000 years ago....and the actors are speaking mandarin, im sure mandarin wasnt used back then but its what the audience understands
A lot of the actors are actually Chinese-American actors but the extras and the people in the background are Chinese from China. So they are Chinese-Americans who speak English as their main language.
Funny thing is that if things turned out well for the Emperor and the revolutions had never happened, all those kids marching in the streets would be surviving off of bread and rotten vegetables while Puyi plays tennis in his Palace courtyard. Really puts things in perspectives.
@Frank Guo exactly
@Frank Guo Western concepts do not work everywhere. They were/are totally alien to China.
By the way, do not idealize constitutions, parliaments etc. Democracies can be very autocratic and miserable too.
Finally someone is talking about the movie, other than just trash about China and CCP
First comment I could see actually about Puyi, the main subject of the movie this clip is from.
@@AntonesPap”Democracies” are autocratic. They are built to give an illusion to the middle class, give a sense of compliance. In reality oppressive institutions teeter on the edge of tyranny, and Capitalists already control vast swathes of the world’s wealth. Instead of redistribution, they hoard it, breeding materialistic natures and selfish acts.
What is the song that the school children are singing at 4:04?
2:26 This actor was indeed the vice minister of culture then.
The "governour of our prison"? I understand why that criminal would be walking there. Anyway, i didn't catch the response of those other three when asked about the guy's crime. Does anyone know?
I only caught a couple: "emperor's lackey" "a rightist".
in reality, this actor was Chinese Culture Minster at that time, he palyed a character in this movie,
That man was actually an Korean Chinese, immigrated into South Korea after that and died in there.
Sauce is Sailing Sea Depends on the Helmsman by the way if you want the Sauce of the Red Guards Song!
They were holding chairman Mao's LIttle Red Book. I still have a copy of that.
so，you are fucking mao fans ?
It is a souvenir from a fuckin' dead commie.
@@李飞-o7c No way. I got the little red book from a fuckin' dead commie.
Oh!! This edition has more details than the one I seen.
Can anyone interpret what the young girls are chanting as they surround the man waving the flag?
"Long live Chairman Mao for Revolution!"
"Come with us for the revolution!"
"If you don't want revolution, then run away!"
@@Eea247 Thank you so much!
Let me give you the accurate version
革命无罪，造反有理 x2
要革命就跟我走，不革命就滚他妈的蛋
revolution is no crime, to rebel is justified x2
Follow me if you wanna revolution, or just fuck away
A lot of the actors would have been involved in one way or another in the Cultural Revolution. Wonder what the people in the neighbourhood thought of this scene being filmed...
"the great proleterian cultural revolution is a massive idiocy"
-kim il sung (1912-1994)
north korea's biggest dunce
Good. Long live the eternal science of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. Long live the legacy of Mao Zedong and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution ✊
This movie and “Farewell My Concubine” really showed the senseless violence - perpetrated by children and encouraged by a power-hungry egomaniac and his followers- during the Cultural Revolution. I wonder how many people can truly appreciate how horrifying and bloody this time in Chinese history was. The whole country nearly burned down, and so many people died for no reason. Zealotry is dangerous!
What is the song the red guards are dancing to?
Sailing the Seas depends on the Helmsman
How did they get footage of the USA circa 2021?
如何移民USA
@Crispin Julius - Ominous foreboding. First for the US, then the World.
The Youth or Tik Tok users
This reminds me of the BLM crazies on the streets today. "Join us or be shamed"!
Agree. They even painted their slogan on public street
Confess your crimes!
I have nothing to confess.
What has he been accused of?
Racism, white supremacy, supporting Trump!
Not even close this was the change of an entire government and overthrowing of a political system that lasted for thousands of years, the blm riots are just mobs who would stop if governors moved money from police departments to stuff like education or more access to resources no one ever said join or be shamed
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fuck you and fuck america
The song at the beginning is called 大海航行靠舵手。
荒誕的歷史，人民的悲哀，国家的耻辱。
@@jik2681 nmslses你好
@@jik2681 本来就是段不堪回首的往事，怎么了？连国内对文革也早就定性错误的路线了，你又在这满嘴喷粪找存在感？你就是新时代左倾主义下的智障分子，跟视频里造反的人没啥区别😂
细细一想，现在的台湾，不是也在经历这一幕？又是如此的相似！！！全民政治化的台湾，就是文化大革命！
错在哪里，不整顿国家没有办法安定下来
@@johnwilson8874 蠢貨，就是你這樣，一棍子全打死，新中國剛成立初期，一切都是摸着石頭過河，難道一上來就實行民主政策？不光中國，包括日本，韓國，很多國家都出現了文化大革命現象
Pararell to the begining of the movie, Pu Yi is witnessing the rise of a new Chinese Empire, with it's subjects once more bound by ideology.
This is a socially relevant clip.
I swear to god I heard him say "Join us or fuck off" instead of "Join us or buzz off" in the original movie.
If one slogan sums up the excesses of the Cultural Revolution, *_Smash the four olds (破四旧)_* was it.
It exhorted young cadres to destroy anything regarded as "old" - loosely defined as old ideas, customs, culture, and habits.
and anything that makes the whole 3,000 years of Chinese's continous written history was Thanos-snapped by that.
So just like antifa.
Cultural revolution should be inspected from different perspectives. It is regrettable that all the history was being destroyed and innocent people being tortured, but it did bring positive changes--at least in the long run. It completely changed the mindset of the Chinese people. They became more able to undergo critical thinking against those who’re supposed to be ‘on the right side of history’. Also the population of atheists soared which unleashed China’s potential to develop further. Before Mao the Chinese had to be starved to death before even thinking about revolting but to some degrees after the cultural revolution they had the ability to challenge whoever disagrees. Now that does not justify the cruelty of cultural revolution tho, it was too radical and the civilians were simply victims of the conflict between the modest and radical left within the CCP
@@ducmingnguyen1891 lol no it’s nothing like antifa. America has no history. All they have is the anti-communist sentiment and even that isn’t historical
@@aliwakanda7327 amongst many things eradicated by Cultural Revolution, are the concept of *five constant virtues* or _wu chang (五常)._
In descending order of importance, those virtues are :
*benevolence* or _ren (仁),_ *righteousness* or _yi (义),_ *propriety* or _li (理),_ *wisdom* or _zhi (智)_ and *fidelity* or _xin (信)._
as you have said, even now CCP are still oppressing those who clings to that idea (Falun Gong for instance).
and seeing that Chinese travellers wouldn't even dare to practise _open defecation_ abroad before 1966, shows that Cultural Revolution succeeded in their crusade against human civilization.
@@user-np3cp2cb7u ok now I see u r a Falun Gung fanboy I don’t think we ought to continue on this conversation. Falun Gung is a Chinese cult which is deemed legitimate in the west solely because it’s anti-CCP, not because it actually legitimate for practice. I’ll drop u this link ruclips.net/video/1JaPzJKycxc/видео.html This guy called JJ is an anti-CCP freelance journalist (which means he’s not affiliated by anybody, a startling contrast to Chris Chappel) and he did this research on Falun Gung
This movie helped convince me to be Chinese(and Soviet Union ) politics major in college a few years later .
I am a Chinese in mainland. Very sadly to see the comments don't really understand what Comrade Mao means and what he relly wants. Generally, it mainly caused by western mainstream narratives, which totally confilt with historical materialism educating me.
Mao's Cutural Revolution is a sad attempt, hoping ordinary people arm themselves with smart mind to fight with bureaucracy. The test failed sadly. I assume that Mao even denied the fact that people had to live with captalism for many years, until his last moment.
Story after that is wiidely known. China embraced the "market economy" and developed fast in recent decades. And now, in 2020, the over production, inequality, big social gaps are looming. Many people wake up and try to look back to the leftism era for the answers.
The globe is walking into a right wing side for bigger gaps between poor and rich, ironically reflecting the forgotten history: There was a great man tried to save us from that hopeless end, but it seems that ordinary people unable to seize the chance.
My friend, people generally like to criticize what they do not fully understand. It is very true and very sad that rich people are getting richer and poor people are getting poorer.
You’re a fool and a useful idiot
What is the song that the girls swing with the red flag? It’s quite catchy. What do the words mean?
Meet the new Emperor, same as the old Emperor.
Termina un imperio con su emperador,empieza uno nuevo con Mao y ahora con xi la nueva revolución cultural 2.0.
How did they get jobs running the universities in the US?
这个片段我怎么没见过呢，难道是删减了吗？？
国内的删了
@@zeaven1094 b站就有
2:40 What do they say?
So, I am thinkin' we are about 2 to 4 years away from this scenario here in the US- probably without the accordions mind you. The irony . . . that China-born CV kicked off this whole chain of events over here. I have a pretty good idea what "crimes" I am going to have to confess to the new American Red Guard. This will not end well for anyone sadly. History has a fairly good record to prove that out.
This movie was fantastic BTW, so thanks for posting this clip.
Don’t forget Chinese owned TikTok spreading propaganda...
2:12 so how come the guy is carrying a typewriter? (cause he didn't have an accordion and didn't want to stick out?)
Because typewriters were “ Western” , and he was likely a writer condemned for “old “ ideas.
French King : executed publicly
British King : executed constitutionally
Russian Tsar : executed faraway in his exile
Chinese Emperor : stripped of his power and give him peasantry job
China always do things differently
German and Austrian Emperors:Forced into exile.
Italian king: Voted out of power in a referendum and exiled
Can someone tell me what they’re all chanting? This movie strangely doesn’t have subtitles when there not speaking English
What is that song they are playing on the accordions?
Sean Donnelly Sailing the Seas Depends on the Helmsman
大海航行靠舵手
3:43 Can someone please translate and tell me what those woman are saying and singing?
革命無罪，造反有理
The revolution is innocent，There is a basis for rebellion.(almost like this)
@@shakecioccolato5105 xie xie! Thank you so much. 😊
What is the song that is being played by the accordion, it's very catchy... as most of the Communist propoganda songs? Lol!
Also am I the only one that thinks Ying Ruocheng (the actor that played the prison governor) was handsome, even at his age in this movie? The actor who played Pujie was cute too lol!
Roger sailing the seas depends on the helmsmen
@@ornature5324 Thanks!
3:00-3:13
So this is what that one scene in _SpongeBob SquarePants in China 2_ is based on (the cutaway which shows Patrick being reprimanded by a Red Guard).
You must admit those communist chicks singing and dancing about bloody communist song is lowkey cute.
Does anyone know what the marching females are saying starting at 3:45?
'Ge ming wu zui / Zao fan you li' (Revolution is no crime / To rebel is justified)
同じ高校生なのに凄いと感心していました、
Can you please translate? I am interested what you have to say.
I.was.high.school.student.1966.it.was.very.interesting.student.movement.of.china.very.excitng.I.am.japanes、
@@大野長八おおのちょうはち Thank you very much. 😊
What is the song being played at 3:53?
Sean Donnelly chinese communist anthem? (In my opinion)
Song of revolution and rebellion
Once I read his biography on Wikipedia out of curiosity and I really couldn't help but cry. The guy was used as a puppet right from his childhood to his death. I am a person who rarely cries. At most times even the most heart throbbing scenes refuse to make me cry but seeing how his life was it was really heart breaking. Out of all the evil historical figures I would say Mao Zedong is the worst. His revolutions destroyed Chinese culture and led to a lot of moral decline in the people
mao zedong is responsible for the most murderous regime in recent history. Makes hitler look like an elementary school bully.
What a shit comparison. Mao did not commit genocide. The excesses of thr Cultural revolution are not Maos fault they were ultimately the masses choice. Also Hitler killed 40 million in his genocidal war.
MrHoppers002 Mao was right and the idea that the cultural revolution was evil is just Dengs lies.
@@maozedong537 im guessing you also believe that nothing happened the summer of 1989
CLash no because China after 1978 is capitalist and revisionist
over so many revolutionaries, the circle of life is still the same for women nothing changed at all. Women celebrated the new revolution after these men killed each other but in the end, she is just something to entertain others.
3:10 - just like wokism; accusations, struggle sessions…history rhymes.
an old Chinese saying：知耻而后勇。
wo can face the fact during that period and build a better life today. thx for sharing ，but we have looked forward.
Humans are like the Nazgul. They only desire power.
@@aussiegod4269 yes，especially the Western countries，without power，they prefer the double standard.
Sailing the seas depends on the helmsman!
最初にオルガンで演奏されている曲は何ですか？教えてください
好像是《东方红》
不对，应该是《大海航行靠舵手》的风琴曲
@@HaiyingWang-eo2pmその通り！！中国語が分からなかったので助かりました。
大変ありがとうございます。もっと勉強してみます。
@@putin0325 我也在学日语，我认真日语比英语简单一些，与君共勉
希望文化大革命快快在Chi na重演, 實在太有趣了.
已经在重演了，你去中国台湾和中国香港就可以看到 欢迎
@@bilibili-wdnmd840 爹親娘親都不及毛主席親, 天大地大都不及黨的恩情大, 我在其他地方搵唔到.
@@rickylau5755 爹亲娘亲没有天皇亲 天大地大没有太君的恩情大 天不生我蔡英文 万古台🐸湾如长夜
4v差不多得了
@@bilibili-wdnmd840 现在是亲爹亲娘也没有包子大，天天学习包子精神学的可好啊？铺天盖地包子永远在各种app前两条，这就不是个人崇拜了？嗯？跟视频里没有什么区别，现在的包子就是新时代的一种另类个人崇拜主义而已
In the book Pu Yi felt the wrath of this revolution on his deathbed, even from his former concubines. Officials had risk their live to protect him as his health was deteriorating.
April, 2024 Why am I reminded of Democrats when I watch this........????
ps: I grew up in Cuba. My late father grew up in NAZI Germany. It IS always the same. Totalitarianism. Freedom, once revoked is never relinquished.
I am a Chinese, what's the name this movie?
@Al murphy Thanks
The Red Guard was a menace that even Mao regretted unleashing
Perfect depiction of transition of one autocrat to the next
Very poignant moment in the film. After being a powerless pawn his entire life, for the first time he tries to stick up for someone else.
I think I read somewhere that he said being communist wasn't too hard to adapt, because he was always told what to do in his life and forbidden city..
4:37 Those "红小兵(little red soldiers)" say literally "if you revolutionize then follow me, otherwise just fuck off".
Get ready next spring (if the election goes the way) this could be coming to a town near you America!
If the election goes the wrong way, the republic will fall just like in Hungary and other illiberal states - into an increasingly corrupt plutocracy. Real patriots are fighting for a blue wave to remove Trump and his acolytes from power!
@@jt7638 The Wrong way is Dem/Liberal sweep in November (which is becoming less likely). The Virulent Progressive wing would send people to re education camps Just like their Idol Mao did. FIGHT BACK PEOPLE !
@@tonyrocc
No, they wouldn't. You maniac.
@@ScotisticDad I do I reply to a Chinese Bot, GFY!
@@tonyrocc
Not a Chinese bot. You hysterical lunatic.
For an even more in-depth and harrowing look at this period, find the movie "Raise the Yellow Lantern."
me and the boys partying after we fricked the Kuomintang
这是尊龙吗