1:10:03
You're just in time to help me
select my portrait.
1:10:11
Did you ever see a book like this?
It's a painter's catalogue.
1:10:15
The idea is to select the features
that most resembles one.
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For example, ear number three...
1:10:24
and nose number six...
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and the chin number 27
equal General Yen.
1:10:33
How do you like this nose?
1:10:35
Do you think it
resembles mine?
1:10:43
Perhaps you wonder why
I don't sit for the picture myself.
1:10:48
You see, a Chinese
is never painted...
1:10:51
until he has joined his ancestors.
1:11:14
May I offer you
some champagne?
1:11:17
May I?
1:11:24
In the days of our greatest
civilisation, we drank to excess.
1:11:29
In fact, one of my ancestors,
a very famous poet,
1:11:32
was drowned in an attempt to
catch the moon in the Yellow River.
1:11:42
Oh.
1:11:44
This portrait is of his wife, who was
made very unhappy by his death.
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She left a very famous
collection of swords.
1:11:52
I have them in my bedroom.
May I show them to you?
1:11:54
Oh, please.
Why do you torture me?