Plot SynopsisThe film, titled Broken Blossoms, and subtitled "The Yellow Man and the Girl," introduces the allegorical nature of its three main protagonists in its cast list - an innocent, an idealist, and a strongman brute:Lucy, The Girl (23 year-old Lillian Gish as a 15 year-old girl)The Yellow Man (Richard Barthelmess, a Caucasian actor playing a Chinese character)Battling Burrows (Donald Crisp)The minor characters include the Evil Eye (Edward Peil), The Spying One (George Beranger), and a Prizefighter (Norman Selby).I see a man in your life.Tira: What, only one?Rajah: But this is one very particular man.He is very wealthy, enormously wealthy.Tira:...What does he look like?Rajah: I see he has brown eyes.In fact, I see two men...two different men.In the near future, I see a change....I see a change of position.Tira: Sitting or reclining?...Rajah: The horoscope.Keep this where you may consult it frequently.Tira: All right, I'll take it to bed with me.She returns to her place that she shares with Slick Wiley.Although she lives with Slick, she also maintains a place away from the circus.He complains how cool she has been to him lately.He wonders why she acts so "high-hat," not wanting to help the circus by performing regularly with the lions, and for often being away from the show lot." She presented "mock copies" of the paper's new layout -- the giant headlines read: "SUMMIT KAPUT! 'IS WORLD AT BRINK?'" - with a cheesecake picture of a bikini model below with hands in a prayer pose.A symphony orchestra was performing Franz Schubert'sUnfinished Symphony(No.8), as he awoke to his ever-present view of TV 'reality':[Note: The performers were from the North Carolina School of the Arts Orchestra.Not to mention one or two other less savory items of publicity before we got that so-called epic in the can.