Recently, the movie "Turandot: The Origin of the Spell" co-starring Guan Xiaotong, Jiang Wen, Hu Jun, Sophie Marceau and others is being released. This Chinese-foreign co-production film with a luxurious team has only been released for a few days, causing waves of complaints, and many viewers believe that this is a "good" movie comparable to "Shanghai Fortress" and will be the worst movie in 2021.
We don't talk about movies, let's talk about the back of movies.
In fact, this film with a very Westernized name, with Chinese and foreigners, is adapted from the famous Italian composer Giacomo Puccini's large-scale opera "Turandot".
Moreover, this opera from Italy tells a Chinese story.
It is a Chinese legend imagined by Westerners.
The content is a legendary story about a princess of the Yuan Dynasty.
Because the background of the story takes place in the Yuan Dynasty, there are blonde foreigners in it, which is very reasonable. Moreover, the Mongols not only conquered Asia, but also conquered many countries and nationalities in Europe, defeated many blonde foreigners, and became their own defeated generals.
Of course, in history, there is no Yuan Dynasty princess named Turandot, and no Yuan Dynasty princess has the legendary story told in Turandot.
However, the princesses of the Yuan Dynasty in history have a more legendary story.
For example, Princess Kuokuozhen.
In the American drama "Marco Polo", princess Kuo Kuozhen, played by Zhu Zhu, is Marco Polo's lover, which is a real historical figure.
She was a princess of the Yuan Dynasty, and although she was not the emperor's biological daughter, she obtained the status of a princess and left her hometown to marry a foreign country.
At that time, Genghis Khan laid too big a foundation, so he divided the Mongol Empire into several khanates, and the Yuan Dynasty was their suzerainty.
In order to control other khanates, marriage became a very important means.
In 1293, Princess Kuokozhen set out from Dadu to the Ilkhanate, one of the four khanates, to marry the Ilkhanate Khan Aruhun.
Who knows, this walk is two years and two months.
When Princess Kokojin arrived in the Ilkhanate, her original husband, Aruhun, had already died.
As a result, Princess Kokoko-jin married Aruhun's son, Hezan.
In this way, originally Kuo Kuo really wanted to marry an old man with a broken candle, but because he walked for more than 2 years on the road to his relatives.
So her husband became younger.
And isn't that legendary?
In particular, the road of harmony has been more than 2 years, and in these 2 years, what kind of story has happened, which is also very worth exploring and interpreting.