Fure-fure da suka fashe

Broken Blossoms ko The Yellow Man and the Girl, sau da yawa ana kiranta kawai da Broken Blosoms, fim ne na Amurka na shiru na 1919  wanda D. W. Griffith ya jagoranta. United Artists ne suka rarraba shi kuma an fara shi a ranar 13 ga Mayu, 1919. Tauraruwar Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, da Donald Crisp, kuma tana ba da labarin yarinyar, Lucy Burrows, wacce mahaifinta mai shan giya, Battling Burrows, ya yi mata fyade, kuma ta sadu da Cheng Huan, wani mutumin kasar Sin mai kirki wanda ya ƙaunace ta. Wannan shi ne fim na farko da United Artists suka rarraba. Ya samo asali ne daga ɗan gajeren labarin Thomas Burke "The Chink and the Child" daga tarin 1916 Limehouse Nights . A shekara ta 1996, an haɗa Broken Blossoms a cikin zaɓin shekara-shekara na fina-finai 25 da za a kara su a cikin National Film Registry na Library of Congress . 

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China Huan ya bar asalinsa na kasar Sin saboda "yana mafarkin yada saƙon Buddha mai tausayi ga ƙasashen Anglo-Saxon". Manufarsa ta ɓace yayin da yake fuskantar mummunar gaskiyar birni na ciki na Landan. Koyaya, a ƙarshe an fahimci aikinsa a cikin sadaukarwarsa ga "fure mai fashewa" Lucy Burrows, kyakkyawa amma ba a so kuma an zalunta 'yar dambe Battling Burrows.

Bayan da mahaifinta mai fushi ya buge ta kuma ya watsar da ita wata maraice, Lucy ta sami mafaka a gidan Cheng, kyakkyawan ɗaki mai ban sha'awa a sama da shagon sa. Yayin da Cheng ke kula da Lucy zuwa lafiya, biyun sun kafa dangantaka a matsayin mutane biyu da ba a so daga cikin al'umma. Dukkanin ya ɓace musu lokacin da mahaifin Lucy ya sami labarin inda 'yarsa take kuma cikin fushi ya ja ta zuwa gidansu don azabtar da ita. Tsoron rayuwarta, Lucy ta kulle kanta a cikin wani kabad don tserewa daga mahaifinta mai raini.

A lokacin da Cheng ya isa ya ceci Lucy, wanda yake ƙauna da shi ba tare da laifi ba, ya makara. Jikin Lucy marar rai yana kwance a kan gadonta mai ladabi yayin da Battling ke shan giya a ɗayan ɗaki. Yayin da Cheng ke kallon fuskar Lucy mai ƙuruciya wanda, duk da yanayin, yana haskakawa da rashin laifi har ma da ƙaramin alamar murmushi, Battling ya shiga dakin don ya tsere. Su biyu sun tsaya na dogon lokaci, suna musayar kallo, har sai Battling ya yi wa Cheng ramuwar gayya ta hanyar harbi Burrows akai-akai da bindigarsa. Bayan ya dawo gidansa tare da jikin Lucy, Cheng ya gina wani wuri mai tsarki ga Buddha kuma ya kashe kansa da wuka a kirji.￼

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Ba kamar ayyukan Griffith na baya ba kamar The Birth of a Nation ko Intolerance, Broken Blossoms fim ne mai karami wanda ke amfani da yanayin studio mai sarrafawa, don ƙirƙirar tasirin "impressionistic", wanda ke tunatar da "makarantar zane ta impressionist". An harbe shi gaba ɗaya a cikin ɗakin studio, Broken Blossoms sananne ne saboda yawancin shirye-shiryen Hollywood a lokacin "sun dogara sosai ga aikin wuri don samar da kowane irin yanayi mai tasiri".  Halin gani na Broken Blossoms yana jaddada titunan Limehouse masu duhu tare da inuwa mai duhu, masu shan miyagun ƙwayoyi, da masu maye, suna bambanta su da kyawawan abubuwan da ke cikin Cheng da Lucy kamar yadda gidan kayan ado na Cheng ya bayyana. Sabanin haka, kwayar halitta ta Burrows tana da ƙanshin zalunci da ƙiyayya. Mai sukar fina-finai kuma masanin tarihi Richard Schickel ya kai ga ya ba da wannan gaskiyar ta gaskiya tare da karfafawa "kamar Pabst, Stiller, von Sternberg, da sauransu, [kuma] sake fitowa a Amurka a zamanin sauti, a cikin nau'in da aka gano a matsayin Film Noir".

Griffith an san shi da yardarsa don yin aiki tare da 'yan wasan kwaikwayo kuma a lokuta da yawa ya shiga su a cikin tafiye-tafiye na bincike. Saboda haka, Broken Blossoms shine "haɗin tsarin darektan da wasan kwaikwayo". 

Griffith bai tabbata ba game da samfurinsa na ƙarshe kuma ya ɗauki watanni da yawa don kammala gyare-gyare, yana cewa: "Ba zan iya kallon abin da aka la'anta ba; yana raunana ni haka".

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