In my mind, a geisha is the master of the beauty of women's behavior, ranging from the knowledge of qin, chess, dance, and conversation, to how to stretch out the hand when pouring tea, how to tilt the wrist, and so on. There are rules and regulations to follow. I am very nostalgic for the complicated etiquette and attention to detail in ancient China, so I am interested in Japan's pursuit of formal rituals. I collect some books and materials on Japanese tea ceremony and flower arrangement as much as possible, and try to trace the living methods of ancient Chinese people. .
Been looking forward to Memoirs of a Geisha, as the promotion says it has a detailed account of the life and training of a geisha.
Memoirs of a Geisha should be full of descriptions and presentations of beauty.
Memoirs of a Geisha is a bad movie. Because Zhang Ziyi is too bad.
Zhang Ziyi played very well in "2046", she is the pungent energy of a Beijing Hutong girl. But playing a famous geisha with the energy of playing the prostitute in "2046" is like asking a country singer to play our famous Peking Opera actress.
Zhang Ziyi performed a dance in "House of Flying Daggers" without any sense of beauty. Beauty must bloom with margins, so although plastic flowers have the color of flowers, they do not have the soft texture of flowers. Zhang Ziyi danced like a full-strength female warrior, with a strong expression and a stiff body, doing every movement to the end. It's a fake flower carved out of wood.
There is a dance in the movie "Memoirs of a Geisha", I think it is the "Cruel Rain" in the novel. When I read the novel, I could almost feel the dance full of desperate love. How to perform this dance. It's a pity that Miss Zhang, like Sadako, has hair like a mop covering her face, and she looks like a ghost. I'm too timid, so I had to cover my eyes.
Without the display of the heroine's performance art, there is nothing new in this film. Japanese-style rooms, cherry blossoms, kimonos, hot springs... These are all seen a lot.
And the most touching love story isn't on display either.
The love story of Memoirs of a Geisha is very moving. The structure is similar to "Thorn Birds".
And because I am from the East, the love in Memoirs of a Geisha is more beautiful.
Chiyoko is lucky to have two men who love her. One has loved her for 18 years since she was 12 and finally got her, the other has loved her for 15 years since she was 15 and finally gave up on her. These two people are colleagues who started the business together, one is the chairman and the other is the president. Because the chairman cares too much about his partners, he did not express it until the president gave up. And Chiyoko fell in love with the chairman from the age of 12. Kind of like a fairy tale. The disadvantage is that it is not refined. There are not enough details.
I've watched a lot of Japanese movies recently. Of course, Memoirs of a Geisha is not a Japanese movie.
Hollywood movies have already been made from templates, and there are no surprises; there are too few European movies; Hong Kong movies are becoming less and less popular; but I find that Japan has maintained its own culture relatively intact in today's world, and it has become a systematic thing It is easier to form accumulation, and things with accumulation may have richer performance.
Liu Ren said that his impression of watching "The Promise" is that Chen Kaige is an old man. He wants to express many things, but he is old and has no strength. Indeed, in Japanese/American/European films, we will be creative in every detail, such as the DVD broadcast guides at the beginning and end of the film. For many films, I will completely watch his end credits, thinking that there will always be performances and surprises.
After Chen Kaige finished filming Wuji, the main body was so weak that he didn't have the strength to deal with the beginning and end of the film, and even the three characters of Chen Kaige, the abbreviation of Chen, and the complex script of Kai were not particular. Reminds me of Zhang Chu's "Sister".
When I was in Tokyo, I was surprised to find that in such a developed country as Japan, young people didn't speak English. At that time, I felt that if I did not surf the Internet and did not speak English in today's world, I would be self-isolating in modern society. Later, I felt that, perhaps, the closure of its language kept its culture intact.
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