Ah Q Movie Essay

The Last Emperor, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci made the movie in the late 1980s, in 1987. The movie is about a young boy by the name of Pu Yi becoming emperor at the age of three from the previous empress, Empress Dowager Cixi. She told the two and a half year old Pu Yi that he would be the next emperor after the previous one had died earlier that day. This starts to take take place in the year of 1908 when he was brought to the Forbidden City. While in the book The True Story of Ah Q by Lu Xun, begins about a man named Ah Q. The book was published in 1921 and it was about a man named Ah Q as he was from the rural peasant class with little education and no definite occupation. He did small jobs and when he got paid, he would use the money he got, not on housing or clothes, but drinks. Ah Q 's name was also a run on the word "quei" this was meaning the hair of men in ancient China that they would not cut their hair because it would show their status in the land.

Pu Yi and Ah Q have similar traits when it comes to knowing them. Ah Q may have been a peasant but at the same time, Pu Yi was a child who had no idea how to rule and he had no friends. The only friend that Pu Yi had while in the palace was his wet nurse, Ar Mo. Ar Mo was his wet nurse at the time when he arrived when he was three years old. But when he was about seven years old, she was sent away due to people

While he was only a peasant during the revolution era of China, he did have quiet an experience as one though. Ah Q had little or no education as he was only a middle class peasant and experience with work. During chapter two of the book, this is when he was shown outside of the theater with stacks of silver and gambling. When he is gambling, he quickly loses all of it, but then starts to get hit. The person who was hitting him, was himself due to he lost all the money, but somehow still called himself the victor. That is even when he lost the fight against Mr. Zhao. Mr.