The underrated "Memoirs of a Geisha"

Jordane 2021-11-19 08:01:27

This movie is a fine product from any angle at the production level-the finest among the finest works.

Director: Robert Marshall

Producer: Spielberg

Starring: Zhang Ziyi, Gongli, Michelle Yeoh, Ken Watanabe,

supporting roles such as Kaoru Momoi, Koji Yakusho, Jiang Zeng, and Caiqin Zhou. It can be said that this should be a collection of leading Asian movie stars at that time.

The screenwriter is not at fault in criticizing the plot. The original work is so bad that it is unreasonable how to edit it. The whole story is how a little girl becomes the top elite in the industry step by step for love. The plot of killing all over the world is built on the background of the mysterious Japanese geisha-this background is the author's obscenity.

I found Arthur Gordon’s original work and looked at it. He tried very hard to build a beautiful world in English that he was completely unfamiliar with but tried to get close to, but no matter how beautiful the metaphors were (Impressive, for example, their kimono queens) On tatami mats, it is like floating in the waves of the sea), language barriers doomed that the subtle and subtly loneliness can only exist in the expression system and content of this cultural existence. There is nothing wrong with the film's weakness.

What's interesting is that it is this kind of unreal and naive imagination that clearly knows that it is purely Western, which makes the film present a peculiar beauty-specious, neither of the East nor of the West, as if being emptied. exist. Gong Li's role of Chu Tao is so amazing. Back then, the American media used Betty Davis to compare her performance. The queen's aura was concealed under various luxurious kimonos and towering buns, her long eyebrows swept across, and she flew diagonally into the temples. Full of disdain and ambitious. In contrast, Zhang Ziyi’s cautiousness and unwillingness are more like the rumors about her own growth process. With gray-blue cosmetic contact lenses, in some shots, it will appear as written in a book." The beauty of "Amidst the Rain and Misty". And Michelle Yeoh's tepidity is nothing outstanding, but her dignified and restrained manner is really interesting. Ken Watanabe is not even handsome, but the scene where he meets on the bridge where the monk is a little girl and the heroine on the river is really fascinating-for such a person for the rest of his life, he is only willing to exchange for him. The eyes are convincing.

As an avid movie soundtrack lover, the soundtrack of "Memoirs of a Geisha" is definitely my top ten favorite soundtrack. It is impossible for John Williams to appear as Spielberg’s queen voice-as the greatest musician today, his soundtrack is highly consistent with the movie-it is also his own lustful exotic music, the same Interpreted an indefinable strange beauty. In the movie, he did not use ordinary oriental instruments such as Dongxiao, flute, pipa, shamisen, etc., but used cello and violin as the main voice.

Okay, here comes the point, the cello is Yoyo Ma! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! If this is not enough to make people scream, then the player of the violin is Yitzhak Perlman! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Now, let me scream indulgently! ! ! ! ! This is really the most gorgeous soundtrack lineup in thirty years! ! ! !

Take the scene where Ken Watanabe and Chiyo as a child met on the bridge-I watched this no less than twenty times, half of it was because of Ken Watanabe's low and gentle voice and the shyness of the little girl's light gray and blue eyes. , Half of it was to near the end, the little girl seemed to see the faint music of the hope of life-after the camera turned, she ran on the promenade leading to the temple, the little gray-blue kimono overlapped with each other. The orange-red porch presents a sense of fantasy like undulations, Yo-Yo Ma’s cello seems to rise from the bottom of my heart, every time it makes me goose bumps, and Yitzhak Perlman’s violin does not know when it will gradually follow. It's like a lover's voice whispering in the ear, the secret turmoil and joy of breathing like a detachment.

The following plot is very bad and vulgar. It can be said that after Xiao Chiyo became an adult, the plot turned sharply. Japan was defeated in World War II and geisha fell. After the war, Chiyo became a benefactor of communication with the US military because of his lofty status in the geisha world. An important bridge-can this be regarded as a yearning for the beauty of an unknown civilization?

Of course, if you want to entangle the English pronunciation of actors, it is really tangled. Watanabe Qian, Michelle Yeoh, Zeng Jiang, and Zhou Caiqin’s English is so good that they can keep up with their acting skills, while Gong Li can use acting skills to make people ignore her pronunciation. (Her pronunciation is actually very good.) As for Zhang Ziyi at the time, I can only say that I can see that she worked very hard... The controversy in "Memoirs of a Geisha" is now nothing but trivial. This Hollywood has been played by Chinese actresses. One of the quintessence of Japan is not a disadvantage for us, but at the time, the Japanese entertainment industry was still annoying why they didn't have any actresses who could appear in Hollywood A-level productions in China.

This film gave Zhang Ziyi the first Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress-not necessarily how well she performed, but this kind of production film will inevitably be considered by the awards, and the actors will also get corresponding Attention. This is why famous directors, famous actors, and famous actors are mutually reinforcing.

I missed the original soundtrack and watched the movie a few days ago. As expected, I will still be aroused by the thrilling undercurrent of the music. I have nothing to say if the soundtrack can do this.

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  • Wayne 2022-03-25 09:01:08

    wtf is this!? Japanese people are not angry when they see it?

  • Clemmie 2022-03-28 09:01:02

    Basically equivalent to photography, lighting, art, make-up, clothing, props and other departments of the results show film.

Memoirs of a Geisha quotes

  • Auntie: You are to become geisha.

  • Sayuri Narration: You cannot say to the sun, "More sun." Or to the rain, "Less rain." To a man, geisha can only be half a wife. We are the wives of nightfall. And yet, to learn kindness after so much unkindness, to understand that a little girl with more courage than she knew, would find her prayers were answered, can that not be called happiness? After all these are not the memoirs of an empress, nor of a queen. These are memoirs of another kind.