Tan heard in 1987 that Bernardo Bertolucci would be filming The Last Emperor in China and Italy.
The resulting bargains gradually sapped imperial power, and after the Vandals sacked Rome itself, in 455, the last emperor soon departed.
Bernardo Bertolucci, director of Last Tango in Paris and The Last Emperor, is to receive a lifetime achievement prize at the 2012 European Film Awards.
The 73-year-old's 1987 film The Last Emperor won nine Oscars.
He went on to direct such landmark dramas as The Conformist, the controversial Last Tango and historical epic The Last Emperor, winner of nine Academy Awards in 1988.
"Every trade magazine you pick up, you see more and more of the same ads: The Departed, The Queen, Iwo Jima, " says John Levy, executive producer of Best Picture winners Platoon and The Last Emperor.
In 1975, his followers plowed over the course where Vietnam's last emperor, Bao Dai, used to play before he abdicated in 1945, and built a fruit farm.
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We seem to be a long way from the Exaltation of the Cross, the subject of the last scene in Gaddi's fresco cycle, in which the Emperor Heraclius, having alighted from his horse by order of an angel and walking barefoot like a mendicant friar, bears the relic into the holy city.
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Last year, an emperor penguin, the original Happy Feet, made headlines when he appeared on New Zealand's shores.
Should the Florida court be put in its place--overridden and thus shorn of its emperor's new clothes--we will have at last begun to rectify the constitutional imbalance created by the imperial judiciary.
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