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Broken Blossoms
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Broken Blossoms or the Yellow Man and the Girl is a 1919 film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish, a tale of love between a Chinese man and an English girl, and very different from the far better-known The Birth of a Nation. It's also notable as the first film released by United Artists.Cheng Huan (Richard Barthelmess), a young Chinese man leaves his native homeland for the shores of England, as a missionary hoping to spread the teachings of Buddha. However, London quickly chews him up and spits him back out again, and he finds himself running a shop and drifting through opium dens. However, a chance meeting with the young Lucy Burrows (Gish), the abused daughter of well known boxer Battling Burrows (Donald Crisp), leads the two of them to fall in love. But when her father finds out, their love quickly turns into tragedy.This film is in the public domain and can be viewed in its entirety at Youtube (there are also purple-colored, yellow-colored or sepia-colored versions there). | |
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A Taste of the Lash | |
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A Taste of the Lash: Battling Burrows regularly beats Lucy with a whip. | |
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Age Lift | |
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Age Lift: In the original short story, Lucy was twelve. For the film, her age has been upped to fifteen. | |
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May–December Romance | |
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May–December Romance: More like May-September, as Cheng is still a young man. | |
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Alliterative Title | |
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Alliterative Title: Broken Blossoms. | |
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Offing the Offspring | |
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Offing the Offspring: Burrows beats Lucy to death. | |
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The Golden Rule | |
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The Golden Rule: At the beginning of the movie, Cheng quotes this as a precept of the Buddha's to two white men who are fighting. It's just good-natured brawling, but Cheng doesn't have that concept and is now "more than ever convinced that the great nations across the sea need the lessons of the gentle Buddha." | |
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The Chain of Harm | |
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The Chain of Harm: Battling Burrows's manager berates him for his drinking and whoring. Since Burrows can't take his anger out on him, he "saves it for a weaker object" - Lucy. | |
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Wide-Eyed Idealist | |
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Wide-Eyed Idealist: Cheng starts out as one, but he's quickly broken down by the world. | |
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Broken Smile | |
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Broken Smile: Lucy forces herself to smile like this several times, including while dying. | |
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Funetik Aksent | |
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Funetik Aksent: The intertitles are written this way when quoting the Cockney characters | |
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Yellowface | |
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Yellowface: The Chinese characters are played by white actors. | |
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Break the Cutie | |
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Break the Cutie: Cheng and Lucy. | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: Cheng fails to rescue Lucy from Battling Burrows, who beats her to death. Abandoning his pacifist beliefs, Cheng shoots Burrows, then commits suicide. | |
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Drowning My Sorrows | |
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Drowning My Sorrows: Cheng visits opium dens because he's depressed. | |
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Yellow Peril | |
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Yellow Peril: Subverted, in that Cheng is a decent and honorable person, and the villain of the film is the white Battling Burrows. | |
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Actual Pacifist | |
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Actual Pacifist: Originally, Cheng is one. He tries to stop two sailors from fighting, quoting The Golden Rule. | |
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Enter Stage Window | |
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Enter Stage Window: How Cheng gets into Battling's apartment when he is trying to rescue Lucy. | |
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Missing Mom | |
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Missing Mom: Lucy's mother, who simply handed her over to Battling Burrows as an infant, and never came back. | |
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Axe Before Entering | |
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Axe Before Entering: After a desperate Lucy tries to hide from her father by locking herself in the closet, he chops the door down with a hatchet. The scene where a terrified Lucy bounces off the walls of the closet is one of the most memorable of Lillian Gish's career. | |
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The Missionary | |
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The Missionary: Cheng tries to be a Buddhist missionary in England, but he fails. Nobody listens to him, and he becomes just another Chinese shopkeeper. | |
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Driven to Suicide | |
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Driven to Suicide: Cheng at the end. | |
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Almost Kiss | |
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Almost Kiss: Twice, Cheng leans in to kiss Lucy, but seeing her draw back refrains. | |
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Alcoholic Parent | |
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Alcoholic Parent: Battling Burrows. | |
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Murder-Suicide | |
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Murder-Suicide: Cheng kills Lucy’s father Battling Burrows, and then himself, having failed to prevent Burrows from beating his own daughter to death. | |
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Go Out with a Smile | |
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Go Out with a Smile: After being beaten up by her father, Lucy tries to force herself to smile one last time. Upon death, however, her smile relaxes and she dies with her eyes open. | |
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Stalker with a Crush | |
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Stalker with a Crush: Cheng, though he's harmless. | |
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Mighty Whitey and Mellow Yellow | |
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Mighty Whitey and Mellow Yellow: Gender-inverted, even though Cheng is played by a white actor. | |
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Abusive Parents | |
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Abusive Parents: Battling Burrows, who abuses Lucy both verbally and physically, and eventually kills her. | |
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Blood from the Mouth | |
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Blood from the Mouth: Lucy after her last, fatal beating at the hands of Battling Burrows. | |
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The Film of the Book | |
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The Film of the Book: Based on the Thomas Burke short story "The Chink and the Child". | |
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Alliterative Name: Battling Burrows. | |
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Opium Den | |
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Opium Den: Cheng starts spending time in these after things go bad in London. | |
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Chastity Couple | |
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Chastity Couple: Cheng's love is "a pure and holy thing" (a line straight from the original text). Enforced in the film, since, even though Cheng is played by a white actor in yellowface, an interracial makeout session would have been too much for most people to take in 1919 America. And Lucy is only 15, after all. He does try to kiss her, but when she pulls back he stops. The original text, where Lucy is twelve, explains that while that's not too young to marry in China, Cheng has had lots of girlfriends but always looked for "his world's one flower," and Lucy was it; he revered her perfection. "All that is known is that his love was a pure and holy thing. Of that we may be sure, for his worst enemies have said it." | |
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Broken Bird | |
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Broken Bird: Poor, poor Lucy. | |
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Either/Or Title: Broken Blossoms or the Yellow Man and the Girl | |
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The Cavalry | |
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The Cavalry: Cheng tries to be this, but arrives too late. | |
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Finger-Forced Smile | |
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Finger-Forced Smile: When Lucy is ordered to smile by her father, she pushes up the corners of her mouth with her fingers. Her life is so miserable that she never had a reason to smile for real. | |
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