Why are there Japanese actors?
Isn't it set in Shanghai?
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shareeven if it were set in shanghai, it shouldn't matter if there are japanese actors... i mean, all of memoirs is chinese...
share"i mean, all of memoirs is chinese..."
Look how many people bitched and bitched about it though. The Japanese actors in this are playing Japanese characters.
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(As a result, it was filmed in London and Thailand.)
They were actually finally given premission a couple weeks shy of wrapping the film. But stayed put of course.
thaivietphan, haha i was gonna say just that. pretty much 80% of the ppl in Memoirs of the Geisha was non-Japanese. Which pisses me off sssooo badly.
But this is Hollywood, what do u expect? that's just how the cookies crumbled. I'm pretty much just gonna watch for Gong Li, so whatever, lol.
No worries luckyrabbit. I'm watching for Gong li too!
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That's a good reason (and no, i'm not being sarcastic, I like beauty!). Mmmm, part of why I want to watch this film is Ken Watanabe - he looked gorgeous in Memoirs of a Geisha.
Well, that's a good reason to have a Japanese actor, too, he's hot :P
I have been a fan of Gong Li ever since Miami vice and have looked to see what else she is in or going to be in. I think she is Chinese but, it does not matter.If she is Chinese and playing a Japanese in a movie, what difference does it make? She.s an ACTOR.
shareShe is Chinese and plays a Chinese woman in the film. Totally agree with you about the actor part.
shareYes, Hollywood likes to patronize, and most of them are racist. Alex Cox has been quoted in Halliwell's who's who in the movies as saying "If you're a fascist in Hollywood you work with great regularity, if you're not you don't. so i don't"
shareWhat utter bollocks.
Alex Cox is a childish conspiracy theorist, who likes to blame his lack of talent on such nonsense.
If you choose to paint 'Hollywood' as majority racist, then you're simply engaging in another form of bigotry.
What do you mean, "this is Hollywood"?
What a silly, generalized cliche - most of Hollywood isn't what you obviously want it to be.
"This" is not Hollywood. Unless all film makers across the entire world are now to be labelled 'Hollywood' just because they make films.
And as far as I'm aware, the cast of characters is international.
Do you also have an objection to Caucasian people playing Caucasian characters?
Should they be Chinese too?
But don't let an inconsequential thing such as reality get in the way of needing to make yourself feel better by the dishonest demonizing of others. If that's really what you need to do for kicks...
i am not labelling film makers across the entire world 'hollywood' just because they make films!, i am in fact very passionate about film and hope to be involved in it one day. you missed my point; what i was saying was the hollywood system, not the majority of film makers, likes to patronize not the independant side of hollywood the major studio side, the one that promises to take the film off the film maker if that person doesn't do as they are told. although some of the independant side will be like that to but i wouldn't say all of them. i have no objection to caucasian people playing caucasian caucasian characters okay. and with my last post i wasn't doing it for kicks okay. goodbye.
shareThe actors in MoG were irrelevant. The problem with it was that is was a terrible movie based on an even worse book that is nothing but a white, male fantasy written by a jackass American who has done effectively zero factual research on the topic and rather gobbled up the BS a single geisha, who took a ton of flak for her stupid actions, fed him.
share" i mean, all of memoirs is chinese... "
Michelle Yeoh is Malaysian and Ken Watanabe is Japanese. Just to point that out :) Ziyi Zhang and Gong Li are Chinese.
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Huh. Interesting :)
'Sooner or later... you really wear that suit'
Michelle DOES speak "Chinese." She speaks Cantonese, however, not Mandarin. Same for Chow Yun-fat, who also had to study up for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
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I speak people's republic of chinese.
But seriously, there's nothing wrong with a german playing an irishman, etc.... on the other hand I understand some bad stuff happened between china and japan during wwii. Terrible stuff.
First: Michelle Yeoh is Chinese, not a Malay. She was born in Malaysia, true, but if you go to Singapore, the largest ethnic group is actually Chinese, and it's the primary spoken language there. Her first language was English, then Cantonese in Hong Kong.
Back to the OP: Why are there Japanese in Shanghai? Seriously- study some history. Aside from the fact that the Japanese had a settlement there, (a whole neighborhood, as did the English, the Americans, the French, and the Italians) they had also been conquering China piecemeal since 1937. They already held Manchuria, the Rape of Nanking took place in 1937, and they were days away from seizing the city.
..Joe