Word: geishas
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...Marshall: Memoirs of a Geisha (Sony...
...exclusive, behind-the-scenes report on the making of Memoirs of a Geisha, the first big-budget Hollywood movie with an all-Asian cast of superstars, prompted readers to share their observations on the repression of women and the relative merits of Chinese and Japanese actors Richard Corliss's article on the filming of Memoirs of a Geisha was very well written [Jan. 9]. Although this depiction of the geisha tradition of Japan will surely become a worldwide hit, the fact that the "main geishas are played by Chinese women speaking English, which they were taught to intone...
...threat. There is architectural drama in the severe planes of her face, and her slimly voluptuous figure could grace the prow of a China Sea clipper. "We joked that if we just had a dollar for every time somebody said she was beautiful when they walked past her," says Geisha producer Lucy Fisher, "we could've financed the whole movie. She's magnificent in every...
Magnificent and scary. Early in Geisha, when Hatsumomo discovers the young heroine in her room, Gong Li's glare was so intense that the child extra in the scene started sobbing and had to be replaced. "No one was touching her," says Fisher. "It was just the power of Gong Li's look...
...ages the actress resisted offers to go West. But her reluctance dissolved with Geisha. "I didn't even know what potential I had before making Geisha," she says. She is now shooting the Michael Mann film version of Miami Vice (with Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell) and will then be in Peter Webber's Lecter prequel Young Hannibal. "I don't feel this is a big barrier for me anymore," she says of acting in English. (Mind you, she says it through a translator.) "I'm very pleased to be working with the best American directors...