For "Farewell My Concubine" ends with Xiao Si being taken away by a group of revolutionary juniors.
The penultimate scene of "Farewell My Concubine" is the ending of Xiao Si, the last bad guy in the story. Xiao Si is dressed in Yu Ji's costume, wearing the jewelry given to Cheng Dieyi by Master Yuan Si, and belting out the words to Farewell My Concubine. Until a group of revolutionary juniors walk in and see his lawless, reactionary behavior, Xiao Si heads for his destructive end.
The film centers on the tragedy and joy of two Peking Opera artists for half a century, showing the thinking and understanding of traditional culture, human existence and human nature. 1993, the film was released in mainland China and Hong Kong, and since then it has been screened in many countries and regions around the world, and has broken the box office record for a mainland Chinese literary film in the U.S.
The film is the first of its kind in Hong Kong, and it is one of the most popular films in the world.
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Duan Xiaolou (Zhang Fengyi) and Cheng Dieyi (Leslie Cheung) are a pair of brothers who grew up together since childhood, and the two men are acting as a student, a play Dan, has always been a seamless match, especially a "Farewell my concubine," but also a reputable Beijing, for which the two men agreed to co-star in a lifetime of "Farewell my concubine. Farewell My Concubine".
But their understanding of the relationship between theater and life is fundamentally different. Duan Xiaolou knows that theater is not life, while Cheng Dieyi is not separate from theater.
Duan Xiaolou married the famous prostitute Juxian (Gong Li) when he thought it was time to start a family, causing Cheng Dieyi to recognize Juxian as a shameful third party, making Duan Xiaolou a traitor. Since then, the love-hate relationship between the three of them around the "Farewell My Concubine" began to escalate with the changes of the times and eventually led to a tragedy.
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