Asians don't like 'Memoirs of a Geisha'

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Az
but as we've previously established, it's not uncommon for Hollywood to place actors with accents and looks that bear only a slight resemblance to the characters they're supposed to portray, in terms of ethnicity.

Poor Merryl Streep, all that care to get the accents right was for nothing, then?

[Seeker]

"making a movie about New York and substituting shots of New York with those of Vancouver"

LOL it's Toronto that's the usual stand-in for New York...many's the time I've been watching some movie that's supposedly set in New York that is obviously on a Toronto street

[Timexwatch]

Originally posted by DanS
Were the actors in the Last Samurai actually Japanese? (I have never seen the movie, just curious.)

DanS'd

Yeah, IMDB confirms all of the on-screen asian actors were Japanese.

[Az]

Poor Merryl Streep, all that care to get the accents right was for nothing, then?

Well she does get extra points, but it's not a neccessity in hollywood...

[Dis]

Originally posted by Timexwatch


Yeah, IMDB confirms all of the on-screen actors were Japanese.

except for Tom Cruise and the English translator I would think.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Timexwatch
I got an earful from my girlfriend (half Chinese, half Japanese) about this. She was very angry that Hollywood couldn't find at least a handful of decent Japanese actors who speak a little English to play the characters. It would be like making a movie set in the middle east and substituting hispanics for arabs or making a movie about New York and substituting shots of New York with those of Vancouver. They may look close but it shows that the filmmakers didn't go the extra mile.

Asians are especially sensative about this sort of thing, I've seen. I can imagine the furor that would go on in China if some Chinese national hero was portrayed by a Japanese actor.

QOTM once was an extra on a film where Baltimore stood in for New York. Her job was to drive her car down a street in Bolton Hill, which stood in for Brooklyn Heights. Which wasnt a bad substitution. However the opening, in which an aerial view of downtown Baltimore stood in for Manhattan, was about the most awful such substitution Ive ever seen.


BTW, the film was "Her Alibi" and starred Tom Selleck. If you rent it, you may note the scene where someone is released from prison - thats the 5th regiment armory. My wifes "scene" is the one in the quiet restuarant/coffee shop. There are cars driving by in the background. If you can make out a blue Nissan Sentra, thats QOTM.

[Sava]

those are the chicks from Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon right?

THEY ARE HOT

I want to see this movie

I hope there is breastesses

[Dis]

so what's the deal with Geisha's? did they put out or what? I heard they didn't. I guess I'll have to watch the movie to find out.

[Sava]

after the war, when I was in Japan during the occupation, I met a lot of Geisha's... they definitely put out

[Jaguar]

Originally posted by Sava
those are the chicks from Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon right?

THEY ARE HOT

Yep, both of them. If I were to make a TRU7H CONTINUUM for this thread, you wouldn't be wrong.

[Sava]

that's right, because in this thread, everything I have said is truth!

[Verto]

Who cares what Asians think, as long as they keep giving us cheap, sh*tty DVD players?

[MrFun]

WAAAAHHHH!!!!!!



I'm so pissed of that most of the actors on the former series, Queer as Folk were straight!

[Drake Tungsten]

Hmmm...so you would agree then that to cast "the engineer" in Miss Saigon as a white man would be equally as unreasonable?

I know nothing about Miss Saigon, as I'm not homosexual.

Were the actors in the Last Samurai actually Japanese? (I have never seen the movie, just curious.)

Yes. Would've been much more difficult to cast Chinese actors in those roles, given that much of the dialogue was in Japanese.

so what's the deal with Geisha's? did they put out or what?

They put out, but only if you were uber-rich and could afford to subsidize their lavish lifestyle for an extended period.

[Mao]

Hmm...so Az, is blackface ok then?