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Director Bernardo Bertolucci’s Oscar-sweeping cinematic testament to the decline and fall of China’s Imperial dynasty wowed members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, but members of the Chinese government remain less than overwhelmed. Chinese legislators have protested over the special treatment they say was given Bertolucci during location filming for “The Last Emperor.” The People’s Daily reported Tuesday that delegates to the National People’s Congress complained that location work in the Imperial Palace in Peking broke regulations prohibiting filming inside ancient monuments. The People’s Congress adopted the regulations in 1985, after an unidentified film company damaged some monuments, according to the official government newspaper. Bertolucci shot several scenes in the central Beijing palace.