Production Year: 2004 - Drama - Director: Nick Cassavetes - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over, 12 years and over - Starring: Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Gena Rowlands
Advantages: Superb sense of history, close up view Disadvantages: crowds
. Whilst it merely provides a glimpse of history of The FirstEmperor it provides an insight into his many achievements from a very early age.
It would be very easy to exit and feel under-whelmed and I would suggest that anyone who has had this feeling has not given the exhibition justice. You really need to take in everything including the written history (or even hire headsets for £3.50) and only then will you appreciate the exhibition for what it is. Do not be seduced by thinking this is about The Terracotta Army as it is much more than that.
The venue is both wheelchair and push-chair friendly but give yourself time to get around. Information is freely available in large print or Braille and there is an audio loop for the hard of hearing.
Unfortunately, photography is banned so the photos I have included are largely of the outside ...
Advantages: Close-up view of a few of the figures Disadvantages: Missing the 'wow'
The eponymous 'firstemperor' is Ying Zheng, - first in the sense that he was the first to unify the vast area that came to form the basis of modern China (whose very name derives from his original kingdom at the centre of it Qin - pronounced 'chin') - first also in the sense of foremost, first and uppermost, which was how he saw himself: as illustrated in his adoption of the religious title Qin Shighuangdi (First August Thearch of Qin) - to be echoed perhaps unwittingly a thousand or so years later in the title of the Holy Roman Emperor one wonders?
Ask anyone at random on the street about Ying Zheng or Qin Shighuangdi and as amusing as the responses are likely to be, you will almost certainly not get a very high hit rate in terms of accuracy (unless of course you are in Great Russell Street in London, home of the British Museum ...
Advantages: HISTORY Disadvantages: Are there any ?
***INTRO***
The story of the final Emperor of China from a biography by Aisin - Giori. My DVD came free with the Times, I watched before doing a little research and was later surprised at the significance of its content. Filming on location in China, Bertolucci and producer Jeremy Thomas were the first western film - makers to be allowed access to hitherto forbidden locations. The cast includes Peter O'Toole (Reginald Johnston) amongst others (see below).The film is deemed suitable for persons of 15 years or over by the censors, although in other countries this maybe lower. Genre : biography/drama/history.
***THE STORY***
He was the Lord of Ten Thousand Years, the absolute monarch of China. He was born to rule a world of ancient tradition. Nothing prepared him for our world of change. A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last ...
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