Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

... you can learn from:

The Last Emperor (1987)

RJ: Words are important. 

Pu Yi: Why are words important? 

RJ: If you cannot say what you mean, your majesty,

you will never mean what you say and

a gentleman should always mean what he says.

The extraordinarily talented Bernardo Bertolucci was born on this day in the year 1941 (he passed in 2018) -- I just watched The Last Emperor over this past weekend because when I did the year 1987 for last week's edition of my "Siri Says" series I couldn't remember if I had seen it before; turns out I had, I remembered as I watched it, but it had been a very very very long time and I had definitely been too young to appreciate it when I had seen it. 

Now in 2022 Current-Me thought it a damn masterpiece (and also that John Lone is a total babe) but then I am pretty solidly in the tank for most everything Bertolucci when it comes down to it. Oh and I did it as a double-feature with Warren Beatty's film Reds, which turned out to be an absolutely spectacular way to spend a Sunday. 1980s Communist Epics, who'd have thunk? But I do mean an entire Sunday, as that's a full three-hundred-and-sixty-three minutes of entertainment there in just two pictures.

Doing this as a double-feature today pic.twitter.com/evsAVxmN4w

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) March 13, 2022