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Farewell My Concubine : I Am By Nature a Girl

Douzi (Yin Zhi) performs his monologue for Na Kun (Ying Da) in an attempt to win his patronage for the opera troupe. When he makes the same mistake, Shitou (Zhao Hailong) commands him to try again. As a result, they win Na Kun's patronage and later perform Farewell, My Concubine together for Eunuch Zhang (Yidi).

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camera leading, close-up, costume, crosscutting, dolly in, dolly out, establishing shot, framing, historical mise-en-scene, long shot, makeup, medium close-up, medium long shot, medium shot, music, diegetic, music, nondiegetic, performance, reaction shot, shot/reverse shot, sound advance, source music, traveling shot

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"I Am By Nature a Girl" in Farewell My Concubine. Directed by Chen Kaige, Beijing Film Studio, 1993, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=4323

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