The Last Emperor

478 01:23:43,977 --> 01:23:45,854 Like Harold Lloyd. 479 01:23:45,979 --> 01:23:47,481 Impossible. 480 01:23:47,606 --> 01:23:50,609 An emperor does not wear spectacles. 481 01:23:50,734 --> 01:23:52,444 That cannot be allowed. 482 01:23:52,569 --> 01:23:56,156 Times have changed, Your Highnesses. 483 01:24:10,796 --> 01:24:14,466 If His Majesty doesn't get spectacles, Johnston, he could lose his sight. 484 01:24:19,096 --> 01:24:22,683 Now please, would you show me the way out of here? 485 01:24:25,477 --> 01:24:26,979 Your Majesty. 486 01:24:46,164 --> 01:24:50,419 If the emperor does not get spectacles, I will resign. 487 01:24:50,544 --> 01:24:53,547 Unfortunately, our decision is final. 488 01:24:53,672 --> 01:24:55,674 And unfortunately, what I have to say 489 01:24:55,799 --> 01:24:59,219 will be published in every newspaper in China. 490 01:25:02,681 --> 01:25:05,517 What do you have to say, Mr Johnston? 491 01:25:07,144 --> 01:25:09,896 The emperor has been a prisoner in his own palace 492 01:25:10,022 --> 01:25:11,440 since the day that he was crowned 493 01:25:11,565 --> 01:25:13,734 and has remained a prisoner since he abdicated. 494 01:25:13,859 --> 01:25:17,362 But now he's growing up, he may wonder why he is the only person in China 495 01:25:17,487 --> 01:25:20,657 who may not walk out of his own front door. 496 01:25:22,743 --> 01:25:26,413 I think the emperor is the loneliest boy on earth. 497 01:25:28,498 --> 01:25:33,253 It would be conveniently sad if he becomes blind. 498 01:25:33,378 --> 01:25:35,964 Blind, Mr Johnston? 499 01:25:37,007 --> 01:25:39,676 To the expense, Your Excellency. 500 01:25:39,801 --> 01:25:43,221 To the cost of maintaining 1,200 eunuchs, 501 01:25:43,347 --> 01:25:48,685 350 ladies-in-waiting and 185 cooks. 502 01:25:48,810 --> 01:25:54,316 To buying 120 sable furs a month and 3,000 chickens a week. 503 01:25:54,441 --> 01:25:59,363 To the fact that 840 guards and employees of the household department 504 01:25:59,488 --> 01:26:03,742 plus one Lord Chamberlain care only about one thing: 505 01:26:03,867 --> 01:26:07,287 filling their own rice bowls. 506 01:26:07,412 --> 01:26:11,249 You are very good at accounts, Mr Johnston. 507 01:26:11,375 --> 01:26:13,877 The emperor may have abdicated, 508 01:26:14,002 --> 01:26:18,507 but he's still a symbol of great importance to many people. 509 01:26:19,800 --> 01:26:23,553 If I did not agree with that, I would not be here. 510 01:26:24,554 --> 01:26:26,473 And some of us believe 511 01:26:26,598 --> 01:26:31,436 that one day soon he may be more than a symbol. 512 01:26:31,561 --> 01:26:34,147 The spectacles are a detail. 513 01:26:34,272 --> 01:26:38,026 What do you really want, Mr Johnston? 514 01:26:38,151 --> 01:26:40,654 Just the spectacles. 515 01:26:42,823 --> 01:26:44,241 Oh. 516 01:26:45,742 --> 01:26:47,160 Oh. 517 01:27:37,586 --> 01:27:43,175 The Princess Wan Jung, Your Majesty. Seventeen years old. 518 01:27:55,395 --> 01:27:58,899 Princess Wu Chang. Fifteen years old. 519 01:28:00,525 --> 01:28:03,195 The Princess Di Li, Your Majesty. 520 01:28:04,780 --> 01:28:07,199 And the Princess Fung Ying. 521 01:28:09,993 --> 01:28:12,412 The Princess Wang Ching. 522 01:28:24,966 --> 01:28:27,969 The Princess Shilean. Sixteen years old. 523 01:28:33,558 --> 01:28:34,976 Who is this? 524 01:28:35,101 --> 01:28:38,021 Princess Wen Hsiu. Twelve years old. 525 01:28:43,819 --> 01:28:46,321 She has got a funny face. 526 01:29:26,236 --> 01:29:29,823 Not just one wife. One empress and one secondary consort. 527 01:29:29,948 --> 01:29:31,032 Two wives? 528 01:29:31,157 --> 01:29:33,618 But who did you choose to be the Empress? 529 01:29:33,743 --> 01:29:38,164 They chose her. She's very old, Johnston. She's 17. 530 01:29:38,290 --> 01:29:40,542 That's not so old, Your Majesty. 531 01:29:40,667 --> 01:29:43,503 - What does she look like? - Old-fashioned. 532 01:29:43,628 --> 01:29:48,216 I want a modern wife, Johnston, who speaks English and French. 533 01:29:50,677 --> 01:29:53,430 And who can dance the quickstep. 534 01:30:08,737 --> 01:30:10,572 Johnston. 535 01:30:12,574 --> 01:30:13,992 Sir. 536 01:30:14,117 --> 01:30:15,952 I'm going to escape, Johnston. 537 01:30:16,077 --> 01:30:19,414 I've got a suitcase and a ticket to England. 538 01:30:19,539 --> 01:30:22,792 I am going to Oxford University. 539 01:30:22,918 --> 01:30:26,004 Your Majesty, if you get married, 540 01:30:26,129 --> 01:30:28,882 you will become the master of your own house. 541 01:30:29,007 --> 01:30:33,094 A wedding might be a more practical way to escape. 542 01:31:12,509 --> 01:31:16,346 I suppose she's on her way by now. 543 01:31:16,471 --> 01:31:20,266 It will be all right. They do everything for you. 544 01:31:28...