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joe_doufu
Joined: 09 May 2005
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 Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 8:54 pm Post subject: Memoirs of a Geisha |
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| I just saw this movie last night and it has me feeling all emotional. And a little bit embarrassed to be male. It's a movie about loneliness and reminds me that I don't have any love in my life (sigh). Life without love is life without meaning, don't you think? |
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Bulsajo
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| Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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I just watched 40 yr old version and so I am approaching your introspection from a different perspective.
Hit it, Joe. Put your bike in the trunk. |
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joe_doufu
Joined: 09 May 2005
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| Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 9:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Bulsajo wrote: |
I just watched 40 yr old version and so I am approaching your introspection from a different perspective.
Hit it, Joe. Put your bike in the trunk. |
What?
OH! The 40-Year Old VIRGIN... yes that was a powerful movie, too. It effected me because it's so true... the feeling of that uniquely male type of humiliation is tangible, as in a Tom Wolfe novel. But at the time I was doing this Japanese girl from my Korean class, so I wasn't suffering from such insecurity myself, and that reduced the blow. |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 9:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah, PWI. g'night. |
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kiwigirl :O)
Joined: 05 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 12:15 am Post subject: |
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wow joe are you being sarcastic?
if you arent you seem to have some depth there
that movie was amazing and quite an insight into the geisha tradition
isn't it somewhat ironic that 3/4 leads were chinese?? and only the chairman is in fact japanese and quite attractive!!! like the heroine i would have gone for him too!!![/url][/quote] |
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Faron
Joined: 13 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 12:25 am Post subject: |
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| joe_doufu wrote: |
| Bulsajo wrote: |
I just watched 40 yr old version and so I am approaching your introspection from a different perspective.
Hit it, Joe. Put your bike in the trunk. |
What?
OH! The 40-Year Old VIRGIN... yes that was a powerful movie, too. It effected me because it's so true... the feeling of that uniquely male type of humiliation is tangible, as in a Tom Wolfe novel. But at the time I was doing this Japanese girl from my Korean class, so I wasn't suffering from such insecurity myself, and that reduced the blow. |
All my Korean friends here in Canada tell me that all the Japanese girls come to Canada to be with a white guy......oh and that they are all sluts.......it' funny though because the Japanese say the same thing about the Koreans! :O |
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BigBlackEquus
Joined: 05 Jul 2005
Location: Lotte controls Asia with bad chocolate!
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| Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 5:04 am Post subject: |
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Well, I saw the movie. I was unimpressed. My friend, who speaks Japanese at a near-fluent level, was disappointed. She said that it was exactly as the actors were: Chinese trying to pretend to be Japanese, but acting for an American audience. The actors had far too many emotions to be emulating Japanese well (the women, mostly).
I heard that they now cut the movie off after playing a few days in Korea. Is it true? |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 6:03 am Post subject: |
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Ziyi Zhang is teh sex. Hottest woman on the planet -- and possibly the solar system -- IMO.
Sparkles*_* |
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 6:06 am Post subject: |
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I read the book. Not seen the movie. I am told that the movie doesn't live up to the book because it loses a lot of trains of thoughts that are written in the book but not expressed in the movie.
What do you think? |
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joe_doufu
Joined: 09 May 2005
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| Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 7:25 am Post subject: |
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| Tiberious aka Sparkles wrote: |
| Ziyi Zhang is teh sex. Hottest woman on the planet -- and possibly the solar system -- IMO. |
She looked good in this film, but frankly I find it hard to be even slightly aroused by her. Especially when they keep casting her next to the hottest Chinese woman on the planet, Michelle Yeoh. That lady is fine.
I didn't mind that they had Chinese actors, but it bothered me that they mixed obviously American actors with strong ESL speakers with one or two who can barely articulate anything in English... it kills the suspension of disbelief when "Pumpkin" is speaking to "Sayuri" and they seem as if from different continents. |
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sistersarah
Joined: 03 Jan 2004
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| Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 8:03 am Post subject: |
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| i'm afraid to watch the movie because i really enjoyed the book. |
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Bo Peabody
Joined: 25 Aug 2005
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 11:21 am Post subject: |
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The book was written by a white north american guy, right?
Seems only fitting that it should star hot Chinese babes.
Post post ex-modernism? |
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Bo Peabody
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Son Deureo!
Joined: 30 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 3:35 am Post subject: |
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| Faron wrote: |
| joe_doufu wrote: |
| Bulsajo wrote: |
I just watched 40 yr old version and so I am approaching your introspection from a different perspective.
Hit it, Joe. Put your bike in the trunk. |
What?
OH! The 40-Year Old VIRGIN... yes that was a powerful movie, too. It effected me because it's so true... the feeling of that uniquely male type of humiliation is tangible, as in a Tom Wolfe novel. But at the time I was doing this Japanese girl from my Korean class, so I wasn't suffering from such insecurity myself, and that reduced the blow. |
All my Korean friends here in Canada tell me that all the Japanese girls come to Canada to be with a white guy......oh and that they are all sluts.......it' funny though because the Japanese say the same thing about the Koreans! :O |
Awesome, I'm going to Canada to find some of those Korean sluts.
Oh, wait a minute.... |
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