Re: China Daily: Geisha Movie Stirs a Debate

"Nick Macpherson" <NMacphe421@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> John Harkness wrote:
>> On 14 Nov 2005 11:27:18 -0500, "Dioneae muscipula"
>> <flytrapvenus@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>> >On November 11, 2005, Zou Hanru wrote for China Daily on the
>> >controversy stirred up by the movie "Memoirs of a Geisha", which stars
>> >two of China's most recognizable actresses Zhang Ziyi and Gong Li.
>> >Some Chinese netters expressed their negative views on Zhang and Gong
>> >that they star in a movie concentrated on Japanese culture, and what's
>> >worse, they play prostitutes in the movie -- in Chinese, "geisha" is
>> >literally "arts prostitute" (yiji).
>>
>>
>> I'd be waiting for the Japanese complaints -- as  the third principal
>> female role is also filled by a Chinese actress. (Michelle Yeoh is
>> Malaysian by birth, but ethnically Chinese.
>>
> The trailer's bigtime disorienting.  You watch it and think, aren't
> Geishas supposed to be Japanese so why are all the women in this film
> Chinese?
>

The film is in English so why would it matter?