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TIME praises Memoirs of a Geisha
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Posted by Phillip_in_Alabama (My Page) on Wed, Nov 9, 05 at 15:12
| I tried copying and pasting this article but it wouldn't let me, so I'll just provide the link. I know some of you are eagerly anticipating this movie. According to this article, the wait has been worth the while!
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1126721,00.html |
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RE: TIME praises Memoirs of a Geisha
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| I really want to see this film, as I so much enjoyed the novel from which it is taken. |
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| Great articel, thank you so much! My favorite part is whent eh head monk of the Japanese temple let them in to use it because he was a fan of Chicago! |
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| This film looks very promising and another that will more than likely fall under the category, "Visually Stunning"! Can't wait to see this one! |
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| Anyone see this film and walk away thinking is was "visually stunning"? I'm not picking on your comment AdobeSunlight, I expected the same thing, but what I got instead was a flat, gray movie screen. I've been to Japan a couple of times and have traveled much of the country. It is visually stunning, the film is not and as far as I could tell, didn't even try. I kept wanting to go ask the projectionist to tweak the contrast and color settings (can they actually do that? :-) Jodi- |
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| Are you kidding Jodi? I saw it and definitely thought it was visually stunning. Granted I have not been to Japan but I have no doubt it is beautiful. But as for the film - I think there are some things to remember. Much of what the viewers sees takes place in the back alleys where it is dingy and gray and raining a lot. Also the landscape during the WWII scenes are not pretty because of the devastation, which is something I'm sure Marshall wanted to convey. However, the scenes in the main square are colorful and pretty, as are the costumes and some of the landscape over the mountains. The dance numbers are amazing. It is a highly stylized film, and that is what makes it visually stunning. If you are looking for gorgeous footage of Japan then you should watch the Travel channel. |
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| I have to agree with moongirl completely, and posted similar thoughts on other threads. It came close, for me, to "House of Flying Daggers" and "Raise the Red Lantern",in terms of exquisite colors and landscapes. |
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| Visually, it was pretty. But in almost very other way, I was disappointed. |
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| That sounds good, but I'm curious about the story itself, compared to the novel. Does it dissapoint? (without giving away too much ;-P |
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| Paula, it was a skeletal adaptation of the novel with an ending that had my friends and I, who had all read the book, rolling our eyes. |
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| Maybe I should go see it at another theater. Perhaps the one I went to (a first rate Edwards) really did have something wrong with the projector. There wasn't a true or bright color in the entire film. Red lipstick was a greyish-red, green hills were a dusty looking green, water was grey and you couldn't even tell Sayuri's eyes were something other than brown. The group of four friends I saw it with all complained of the same thing. I think if I wasn't so disappointed and focused on the visual aspect of the film, I would have enjoyed everything else a bit better. Though all of us (we are all in a book reading group that read the book) scratched our collective heads at the end wondering why they ended it the way they did. Jodi- |
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| ok, thanks for that - I may wait til it comes out on video... |
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| Well it ends the way it ended in the book, they fall in love. *BUT* it left out some major points and that's what took away from the ending. In the book, he's married. No mention of that. In the book, she is giving an interview about her life (that's how it starts) and it ends with her aged, living in the States, and that she had a child with him. So all that is missing. The book is unquestionably better. What I personally missed in the film more than anything was all the in-depth info about the culture, the meaning of things. What I liked about the book was at the same time you got a little lesson about the Geisha world and Japanese culture. Every little thing means has purpose and meaning - the colors, the fabrics, the make-up, every ritual, every knot, the definitions of words, all that. Obviously they chose not to weigh down the film with all that extraneous stuff, but it would have added an extra layer of complexity. But overall I felt the film was visually luscious. |
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