Why I won't be watching Memoirs of a Geisha - Hollywood, reality and realism - Page 6

jjacob · 02-09-2006, 06:03 PM

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Originally Posted by doroposo

Ah, you're right... it probably hit the streets before it hit the theaters.

That's the studios' fault, their people are leaking it

Intrepid Homoludens · 02-11-2006, 12:48 AM

I'm so damn thoroughly engrossed in the novel! It's exquisite. It's most likely that I'm visualizing it all through my artist and writer's mind, but the still, the images and the scenes are impressively vivid, inching towards lucid. Every now and then I have to stop to savour all those dapples of silk, patterns, sounds, and textures in my mind. Even the ugliness and repulsiveness of some of the characters and of the streets and back alleys of Gion are worth relishing.

And even though I knew it was coming, I cried when I found out about Chiyo-chan's family.

In some ways this story feels like The Shawshank Redemption meets Cinderella, in a kimono. Awesome reading!

TM3 · 02-11-2006, 02:28 AM

I knew it when I first saw the trailers of "Geisha" that there was some "Hollywood-ising"about being a hooker in this film. Darn you Hollywood!

02-11-2006, 12:48 AM	#102
Intrepid Homoludens merely human Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Chicago Posts: 22,309	I'm so damn thoroughly engrossed in the novel! It's exquisite. It's most likely that I'm visualizing it all through my artist and writer's mind, but the still, the images and the scenes are impressively vivid, inching towards lucid. Every now and then I have to stop to savour all those dapples of silk, patterns, sounds, and textures in my mind. Even the ugliness and repulsiveness of some of the characters and of the streets and back alleys of Gion are worth relishing. And even though I knew it was coming, I cried when I found out about Chiyo-chan's family. In some ways this story feels like The Shawshank Redemption meets Cinderella, in a kimono. Awesome reading! Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ platform: laptop, iPhone 3Gs \| gaming: x360, PS3, psp, iPhone, wii \| blog: a space alien \| book: the moral landscape: how science can determine human values by sam harris \| games: l.a.noire, portal 2, brink, dragon age 2, heavy rain \| sites: NPR, skeptoid, gaygamer \| music: ray lamontagne, adele, washed out, james blake \| twitter: a_space_alien

02-11-2006, 02:28 AM	#103
TM3 Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 192	I knew it when I first saw the trailers of "Geisha" that there was some "Hollywood-ising"about being a hooker in this film. Darn you Hollywood! Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ "...And I don't want the world to see me 'Cause I don't think that they'd understand When everything's made to be broken I just want you to know who I am..." "IRIS"-GOO GOO DOLLS

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