Memoirs of a Geisha: PRE-RELEASE (LOCKED) - Page 37

Shuya86 · #**541** November 6th, 2005, 01:11 PM

I'm gonna go, I missed my chance for hero, house of flying daggers and 2046 but this time I'm going. Gotta know when where and how much.

CrystalGaia · #**542** November 6th, 2005, 07:25 PM

Great words for the film and the performances:

'The Making of a Geisha' - first look

Quote:

director Rob Marshall, whose first big film was the 2002 musical Chicago, has made this fairy tale into an emotionally sumptuous love story. This intimate epic spans almost two decades, but its script, by Robin Swicord and Doug Wright, never hurries past the telling biographical detail of its four main characters. Nor does the movie's visual splendor ever obscure the furtive, assertive heart beating under the kimono. It's still early in the season of Oscar contenders, but Geisha has a shot to join Chicago as a Best Picture champ... Geisha is a geisha: a vibrant work of art that entertains us for a few hours, then disappears into the night, taking our beguiled hearts with it.
...Marshall got beautiful performances from his cast. Suzuka Ohgo, as the young Chiyo, brings an elfin gravity to the first 40 minutes of the film. Zhang, 26, blossoms persuasively from a girl of 15 to a woman in her early 30s, and Watanabe lends his warmth and regal machismo to the Chairman. But it's Gong Li, in a Bette Davis bitch-goddess role, who strides away with the picture. Her stiletto stare can burn in passion or turn on a rival with Freon fury. Facing it, one child extra started sobbing and had to be replaced.

MarkR · #**543** November 6th, 2005, 09:23 PM

Re: Gong Li in MOAG

"Facing it, one child extra started sobbing and had to be replaced."

That's intense!

Reminds me of what I believe was either Tim Allen or another comedian once said about "The Look" aka, the very angry, pissed off look women give men when they're about to read the riot act to them when they do something wrong. Like forget an anniversary or something. Or maybe it was Sinbad who was talking about it one night on Leno. The evil eye kinda look that strikes fear in the heart of every man and child. If GL even looked at me with the slightest bit of The Look, I might go hide under the bed.

But seriously, she does have that very, not only bitchy, but downright intimidating kinda look and persona in this movie. Like someone you'd never want to mess with or you get a dagger or scissors or an ice pick in your back at the least provocation.

SHADOW · #**544** November 6th, 2005, 11:18 PM

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Zhang, 26, blossoms persuasively from a girl of 15 to a woman in her early 30s

It'll be like tRH all over again.

joy · #**545** November 7th, 2005, 10:59 AM

Only one word comes to mind .. Cathartic !
I guess deep down inside, in their sub-conscious, these actress needed to do this project.. If not only for their fans, but mostly for themselves.
Thanks ladies for having the courage to do this "movie".
I just want to say, your inner strengths are an inspiration to a lot of woman, especially for me..

Big hug for Gong Li, Michelle and the Cute one

Quote:

... Gong Li had a smoldering star quality. So a diva like Hatsumomo fits her like a cheongsam. She thinks she knows why her character is so mean to Sayuri. "In those days, a geisha could not have her own love," she says, speaking through an interpreter, "so she had a lover secretly. She's been deprived of her own love, her own feelings. She has great love and great hate. I thought she might have had the same kind of upbringing as Sayuri. She might have been beaten. Then she turned into a great geisha. I thought there must be someone like her in the world ..." The actress begins to cry, which makes the interpreter cry too.
Tears were plentiful on the Geisha set. For Hatsumomo's final, incendiary face-off with Sayuri, Gong Li stayed on the set all day, crying, never getting out of character. Marshall recalls, with awe in his voice, that "hour after hour, as people worked around her, lighting and moving cable, she stood there weeping, because she couldn't leave that feeling. I've never seen anything like that in my life." After the actress filmed her last scene, she couldn't let go. "When Rob Marshall announced that I had wrapped my role and was leaving," she says, "all of a sudden I just didn't know where to go." After the wrap she asked Marshall to go through the rooms of the geisha house set with her. They held hands, walking from room to room, never speaking.

Zhang says she too cried every day: "Playing her was my most emotional role."

Brainchild · #**546** November 7th, 2005, 12:44 PM

BC trying to imagine Cameron Diaz or Kate Hudson or Kate Holmes carrying on like that.
They’d be kicked out with a police escort.

The funny thing is Gong Li is probably really like that. Ziyi, too. Acting may even be emotionally dangerous for them.

They act from the heart, while our girls act from the pocketbook.

Xiao Hu · #**547** November 7th, 2005, 01:12 PM

This will be a very memorable movie, not only for us but mostly for Ziyi´s career too.
Thanks, everyone for making this film.

Governor Yu · #**548** November 7th, 2005, 06:35 PM

Apple Japan has a slightly higher quality version of the Japanese trailer

http://movies.apple.com/movies/jp/mo...ri-jp_h480.mov

Jin · #**549** November 7th, 2005, 10:34 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Brainchild
BC trying to imagine Cameron Diaz or Kate Hudson or Kate Holmes carrying on like that.
They’d be kicked out with a police escort.

The funny thing is Gong Li is probably really like that. Ziyi, too. Acting may even be emotionally dangerous for them.

They act from the heart, while our girls act from the pocketbook.

Well said. Gong Li and Zhang Ziyi have always become the role.

I get so excited everytime I come here. It's almost a month away

tinababy · #**550** November 7th, 2005, 10:44 PM

I don't know if this has been posted already, but here's a contest to win tickets to the Hollywood Premiere of Memoirs. I think it's only open to American citizens though, you lucky ducks!!

Sorry if this has been posted...I've been avoiding this thread so I won't have to read reviews, etc. and hype myself up.

Win a Trip to the Memoirs of a Geisha Hollywood Premiere!

Jin · #**551** November 8th, 2005, 12:20 AM

I'm keeping my hopes up. That would be

if it's someone from the forum..

Governor Yu · #**552** November 8th, 2005, 12:22 AM

From a USA today article about various product tie-ins, this is the new cover of the novel. Ziyi's face is going to be everywhere.

More pics

ziyimaniac · #**553** November 8th, 2005, 01:52 AM

Yes, Tina, it's been posted on the CurrentZ thread. But I know that you're very busy lately, so on that note you're forgiven

CrystalGaia · #**554** November 8th, 2005, 01:01 PM

Reminder about the official site... If you haven't visited lately, do so today. From the main page click on 'launch website'. They've added a gallery, production notes, downloads. Nice looking site.

Official Site

MarkR · #**555** November 8th, 2005, 02:33 PM

Cool! :)

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