The Last Emperor is the first feature film shot in the Forbidden City with the permission of China government, and the first western film about China with the full cooperation of China government since 1949.

The first western film allowed to shoot in the Forbidden City was Lucy Jarvis 1973, a documentary film for NBC.

Pu Jie, Puyi's younger brother, and Li Wenda, who helped Puyi complete his autobiography, were both hired as film consultants.

The film used a total of 65438+9000 extras.

The Lama in the film is forbidden for women to touch, so the crew specially hired a male costume assistant to help them dress.

In order to make people's wigs in the court, the hair stylist Giancarlo di Leonardis used 2,200 pounds of hair.

In order to ascend the throne, his employees spent 65,438+00 days training 50 China employees, enabling them to fix the wigs and pigtails of 2,000 extras in two hours.

In order to play the flag bearer, 2000 soldiers shaved their heads The officer persuaded them that this showed international friendship with Italy and Britain and gave each soldier a bonus of $3.50.

At that time, bertolucci submitted two shooting plans to the China government, and the other was andre malraux's novel "The Human Situation".

The China Municipal Government approved the filming of this film, with no restrictions on the content.

This is the first Oscar-winning film that was rated PG- 13 by the Motion Picture Association of America.

Producer Jeremy Thomas raised $25 million for the film alone.