Word: lhasa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deities" to fend off his detractors; Courtney Love is said to be a practitioner, while Harrison Ford simply supports Tibetan freedom (his wife Melissa Mathison wrote Kundun's script). Composer Philip Glass, yes. REM singer Michael Stipe, maybe. And in one of the more peculiar occurrences along the Hollywood-Lhasa axis, action-film star and all-around surly guy Steven Seagal was recognized by the head of the venerable Nyingma Tibetan lineage as the reincarnation of a 15th century lama...
...story follows the adventures of one Heinrich Harrer (Pitt), an Austrian mountain climber whose mountaineering expedition eventually takes him to the holy Tibetan city of Lhasa. The journey marks an emotional awakening for Harrer, one that culminates in his befriending the Dalai Lama, whose friendship and spiritual guidance emboldens him to return to and face tangled domestic issues at home. The relative lack of compelling ideas and characters to identify with before this enlightenment--basically, during Harrer's journey to Tibet--acts as a foil for the movie's latter, more fulfilling half...
Annaud doesn't hit you over the head with anything, but he now allows prolonged glimpses of the beautiful Tibetan landscape, and almost on a dime, Pitt is inspired to treat people with some respect. Once Harrer reaches the city of Lhasa, the screen explodes with color as the Tibetan customs, artwork and religious traditions are presented. The stimulus-starved audience gains new focus immediately on a suddenly human Harrer and his attempt to assimilate to his new surroundings...
After masquerading as a woman in Lhasa for a month-and-a-half, he heard that the government was planning to arrest his parents if he did not turn himself...
...Scorsese is directing Kundun, a movie about the Dalai Lama, written by Ford's wife Melissa Mathison. Pitt is currently making Seven Years in Tibet. Two sources told the International Campaign for Tibet that they saw the list on a wall at a Chinese Information Travel Service office in Lhasa. "It was in a back room, the office of the head honcho," says John Ackerly, spokesman for the group. A CITS spokesperson in Beijing denied the existence of the list...