Memoirs of a geisha

jus_a_ger SG · 2006-01-25T21:59:31+00:00

Yes… The descriptions in the book is very unique.

jus_a_ger SG

anyone seen the movie already? how is it? any big big difference from the book?

huaqing SG

i have seen the advertisements for this movie on magazines liao

but it is damn stupid for them to ask Chinese actors to act as Japanese geisha...

jus_a_ger SG

quite true.. but its okies la, take it as a chance to let chinese actors noe more abt jap culture lor. i m still reading the book halfway, very thick. the book not bad, so i was tinking if the movie will be nice. Rolling Eyes

huaqing SG

and the most stupid of them is that when the story is about Japanese geisha, they actually used english in the movie

jus_a_ger SG

Laughing let more ppl understand ma...some ppl dun like reading subtitles u see..lol

Ayukat SG

Y here?

jus_a_ger SG

y there?

Eclipzer SG

like japanese de zhen zi =D

eyonx SG

haha .. yah heard my friend used that a week ago during the trailers
Chinese people acting as Japanese speaking in English ...
It is a moive that is juz wrong in all aspects

the chances are that the movie will turn off the chinese and japanese but would still appeal to American audience. IOW a typical Hollywood movie

goaler SG

hey guys look at this, it is funny:-

http://www.youtube.com/w/Memoirs-of-a-Geisha--Mad-TV?v=_AQvqsZFgDY&search=Memoirs%20of%20a%20geisha%20

by the way.. why is this posted on Aunt Agony? Rolling Eyes

Hocklez SG

i had seen the book cover u see... browse thru only... see the backpage... lol...

I HAVEN SEEN THE MOVIE YET!!!

Mr. Green

M©+square SG

Thread starter - this topic ain't suitable for this Forum dunch ya think? Wink

Can i refer you to a movie Forum so that you can start your thread there?

Cheers

hyperactivechatterbox SG

LMAO! I saw the video! I was laughing all over.

Well... in my opinion, I felt the movie was a little rushed at times, and yet a little slow at times. The book was better, in the description, but the colours was great. I especially loved the fantwirling and dances, but I thought Sayuri was rather scary in the blue, etheral light of the dance. The sorrowful dance... The extremly high heels...x.x And... everybody looked so gorgeous! I think the actress who played Chiyo would grow up to be very pretty.

Devil1976 SG

X 2. Laughing

dinky1409 SG

Yea the small girl who played Chiyo is damn pretty for such a small age.. Anyway I've watched the movie and the weird thing is not about English being used or Chinese actress acting as Japanese characters but a small 9 year old girl falling in love with a man not good looking at all and so old enough to be her father. Thats so weird man.. I guess instead of MILF there is a new term for this, which is FILF.. Pretty but weird..

Jerina SG

Yeah...the drawback is that Michelle Yeoh looked so modern and urban in the movie with her layered hair streaked brown. And yeah, it's a lil paedophilic coz the old man got together with young Sayuri in the end.

Lovely soundtrack though..and the kimonos are pretty. Zhang Ziyi looks pretty too but her contact-lens-ed blue eyes disturb me... coz they look TOO artificial.

goaler SG

I think gong li is super seductive lor!
Though i think she quite old already, hair always messy... she is still so attractive!
Very Happy

Ito_^ SG

wah. the movie caused so much agony in you arh? Shocked

hyperactivechatterbox SG

Actually... Some cacausians don't know the difference between Chinese, Japanese and Korean. It was designed to appeal to them anyway... *shrugs* Besides, the role of "Sayuri" had been offered to some other famous actresses, one korean, before Zhang Zi Yi. However, they all refused, the korean actress seeing how it would...well, offend her country, and they wouldn't like her... Zhang Zi Yi who acted in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" had already offended China, seeing her in a japanese show, not to mention this "Memoirs of a Geisha", seeing how the timeline was during the world war two, the sensitive area, and the thought of a chinese woman acting as well, a japanese "prositute" for japanese man. ( That's not what I think, I read the book. ) Well... yes. Oddly, nothing was said against Gong Li. ( She is so beautiful! >_< ) Michelle Yeoh looked very ncie with her dyed hair...

This quote might help you understand... "We become Geisha, not because we want to, but because we are forced to." Or something like that. A powerless girl, who meets a kind man, after living in this world of Geisha...

hyperactivechatterbox SG

So pretty... Mameha is one of my favourite characters. That is the best they could manage, I suppose? Nobu-san...

Yes, I agree. The kimonos are very lovely. *sigh* I want to wear one of them someday... Maybe I could travel to Gion and pose as a Maiko for one day. Very Happy She looks very very pretty though...