TheRuleOfThirds 0 Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 Anybody willing to bet that Yo Yo Ma is soloist for Memoirs of a Geisha? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RomanticStrings 10 Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 Haha, you're probably right. The cello seems a very apt instrument for the Chinese film score, for whatever reason, and Williams has already proven more than willing to use it for the Asian score. Plus, there is no one else to my knowledge better qualified to bring the Chinese emotion to a film about China than Yo-Yo Ma.~Conor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRuleOfThirds 0 Posted December 20, 2004 Author Share Posted December 20, 2004 Actually, Geishas are Japanese. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,335 Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 Cello?! You mean Williams is not writing for the Chinese violin, the erhu? What a lost opportunity!----------------Alex Cremers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh500 1,615 Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 Actually I don't think Williams will use YoYoMa again in Memois of a Geisha. That would be too much like Seven Years in Tibet. But maybe he'll use another famous soloist . . . perhaps Vanessa Mae. Isn't she Chinese? Then again, she might be too wild for such a quiet, introspective movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,335 Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 Actually I don't think Williams will use YoYoMa again in Memois of a Geisha. That would be too much like Seven Years in Tibet. But maybe he'll use another famous soloist . . . perhaps Vanessa Mae. Isn't she Chinese? Then again, she might be too wild for such a quiet, introspective movie. What? Williams isn't going to work with Vanessa Mae. That's preposterous! He works with respected artists like Yo-Yo Ma or Gil Shaham.----------------Alex Cremers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh500 1,615 Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 Yeah, well, I was only half-kidding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RomanticStrings 10 Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 Actually, Geishas are Japanese.Well, that makes me feel a bit silly. Well, then, I have no clue about the music. It'll be good, that's all I know... or hope.~Conor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeshopk 8 Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 I think it will all be JW brand Tokyo Pop, somewhat flavored by Williams' Earthquake style.Also, he will borrow heavily from JG's Mr. Baseball Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Awalt 0 Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 Actually, Geishas are Japanese.Well, that makes me feel a bit silly. Well, then, I have no clue about the music. It'll be good, that's all I know... or hope.~ConorI wouldn't feel too silly since the production has curiously cast Chinese women in the lead roles of Japanese women. I really wonder how this film will play in Asia, since most Asians clearly know the difference between Chinese and Japanese persons, unlike we Americans. Then again, if a person's good for a role, they ought to play it, but I couldn't help but be miffed if I were a talented Japanese actress who lost the role to a Chinese woman who will portray a Japanese. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morlock 11 Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 Language Problems on 'Geisha' Set10 December 2004 (WENN) Chicago director Rob Marshall is finding filming on his latest movie Memoirs of a Geisha complicated, because his cast all speak different languages. Sony Studios refused to cast non-Asian actresses in the big screen adaptation of Arthur Golden's best-selling book about the life of a Japanese geisha, and boasts Chinese Ziyi Zhang and Li Gong, Malaysian Michelle Yeoh and Japanese Cary-hiroyuki Tagawa and Ken Watanabe amongst its stars. An insider on the Japanese set tells American gossip site Pagesix.com, "They hired a 'Pan-Asian' cast. So now they have Chinese, Japanese, Korean and other Asian actors and they have had to hire a load of interpreters, especially since there are like 15 Chinese dialects. It is costing a lot of time to do anything." Producer Lucy Fisher and Doug Wick adds, "We have a Chinese and Japanese interpreter. The movie may or may not be a day over schedule, but we are brilliantly on time for an epic and on budget." So they refused to cast non-Asians, but didn't give a rat's ass on where in Asia they are from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Breathmask 555 Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 Of course. Whatever the hell they speak, it all sounds alike, doesn't it? :roll: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh500 1,615 Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 Actually, Geishas are Japanese.Well, that makes me feel a bit silly. Well, then, I have no clue about the music. It'll be good, that's all I know... or hope.~ConorI wouldn't feel too silly since the production has curiously cast Chinese women in the lead roles of Japanese women. I really wonder how this film will play in Asia, since most Asians clearly know the difference between Chinese and Japanese persons, unlike we Americans. Then again, if a person's good for a role, they ought to play it, but I couldn't help but be miffed if I were a talented Japanese actress who lost the role to a Chinese woman who will portray a Japanese.So? Liam Neeson, who is, I think, originally Irish, played a German in Schindler's List, didn't he? Same thing here. A Chinese actress portrays a Japanese. That's why they're called ACTORS, I guess. :roll: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was not a very big hit in China because of the obvious "foreign" accents of Chow Yun Fat and Michelle Yeoh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morlock 11 Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 So? Liam Neeson, who is, I think, originally Irish, played a German in Schindler's List, didn't he? Same thing here. A Chinese actress portrays a Japanese. That's why they're called ACTORS, I guess. Neeson wasn't necasserily believable as a German in the movie, he was believable as the character. In this movie, the fact that they are Japanese, as opposed to Chinese or Malaysian, is inherent to the plot. I don't think Zhang and Yeoh are believable as Japanese. I think their acting skills will probably transcend that, but casting anyone oriental in a part that is specificaly Japanese is not a small technicality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Awalt 0 Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 Clearly I'm not saying that no one could play a role that they are not, Josh500?I made a specfic point to say that if an actor is right for a role, they should play it regardless (maybe you missed that point tripping over yourself to be sarcastic over my post that you obviously didn't read too closely), but as Morlock pointed out so well, the characters and their nationalities are essential to this story. Again, I wonder how the Asian film going populace (particularly Japan in this case) will take to this film considering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 No one in Hollywood or Europe will care, so the Producers won't care either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRuleOfThirds 0 Posted December 20, 2004 Author Share Posted December 20, 2004 Don't you love that part in Starsky and Hutch when they're questioning that "Korean" guy and he says all we white people look same to him? Funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morlock 11 Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 Don't you love that part in Starsky and Hutch when they're questioning that "Korean" guy and he says all we white people look same to him? Funny. "It's funny, cos' it's true" Morlock- who liked it even more in The Last Samurai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRuleOfThirds 0 Posted December 20, 2004 Author Share Posted December 20, 2004 So was it a nod in S&H to TLS? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmo Lewis 6 Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 Clearly I'm not saying that no one could play a role that they are not, Josh500?I made a specfic point to say that if an actor is right for a role, they should play it regardless (maybe you missed that point tripping over yourself to be sarcastic over my post that you obviously didn't read too closely), but as Morlock pointed out so well, the characters and their nationalities are essential to this story. Again, I wonder how the Asian film going populace (particularly Japan in this case) will take to this film considering.Tonight I will be Miss Saigon... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morlock 11 Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 I don't know. Frankely, I enjoyed S&H, and forgot it the second I left the theater. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Docteur Qui 1,544 Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 Tonight I will be Miss Saigon...LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurker 5 Posted December 21, 2004 Share Posted December 21, 2004 I really wonder how this film will play in Asia, since most Asians clearly know the difference between Chinese and Japanese persons, unlike we Americans."They all look alike".Neil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRuleOfThirds 0 Posted December 21, 2004 Author Share Posted December 21, 2004 Those guys don't look a thing like each other. :-D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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