memoirs of a geisha, anyone else offended by this??

Go away. Go very far away.



Keep D&D Civil.

 

jap chicks? chink chicks? What's the difference?

[edit: this was meant to only offend the original poster. the rest of you can just ignore.]

 

I'm not offended, but the casting was lame. Why make a Japanese movie and use all Chinese actresses. The feel is already messed up by that decision, and it looks like it is next to impossible for the movie to really come together as a cohesive project.

When I saw the preview I kept wondering if it was a story of a Chinese girl who ends up being a Geisha, but then they were almost all Chinese in the preview and it became apparent that that wasn't the story line.

 

Actually I thought Japanese people would be more offended by this. Instead of casting famous Japanese females, Spielberg decided to cast Chinese females as if Japanese females aren't suitable to play a part of their own ethnicity.

Maybe you don't like the fact that a Japanese man plays opposite of a Chinese female?

 

Nope, still don't see it. Maybe if the role was demeaning to Chinese people, but isn't the role more demeaning to the Japanese by showing a part of their culture where the women are slutty? There are no geisha in China. Most people (non-asian) will probably associate the role with the Japanese rather than Chinese. Heck, I doubt they even care. They probably just want to check out the hot chicks.

 

It is an acting part. That is the crazy thing about movies, people can play sluts without being them, or even cast as sluts without the director trying to make an a statement that all of a certain type of person is a slut in real life.

They are acting a role.

 

"memoirs of a geisha, anyone else offended by this??"
No, I'm not offended in the least bit.

 

In 'House of Sand and Fog', Ben Kingsley plays a Persian...

Anyways, I think because this movie is likely geared towards a western audience it is not as big a deal as if it was made for China/Japan.....and that's probably why the actresses themselves agreed to do the film......hell, I'm not complaining since they're all hot....well at least Gong Li used to be hot....they are all very good actresses as well.......I'm sure there are some hot Japanese actresses out there too, but I don't really know of any....so as a westerner and part of the target audience, I may actually end up seeing this film in part b/c I am already familiar with the cast....I can see how you might be offended, but maybe just try and look at it in terms of business and selling tickets...

 

No one is offended by this, and if you ARE offended, it is a sure sign of latent homosexuality, seek help now !







Not that there is anything wrong with that...

 

I'm offended that there's no mention of nudity for those three actresses in the movie.

 

isn't "jap" a derogatory(sp) term?

 

"The following is a list of ethnic slurs that are, or have been, used to refer to members of a given ethnicity (or in some cases, nationality, region or religion) in a derogatory or pejorative manner. The term is listed, followed by its primary user(s) and a definition.

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Jap/Jappo
(U.S./UK Commonwealth) someone of Japanese descent"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_slurs

Hey, numnuts, how about not throwing around ethnic slurs when making an uneducated accusation of racism? The term you liberally use is the same that was used to demean Japanese soldiers as well as Japanese Americans being interned in the U.S. With this post you've lost any ethos you might have had on this board.

Moreover, your point is incoherent and largely racist in itself. So a Chinese ACTRESS can't play a part of being Japanese??? Isn't part of being an actor/actress assuming a role that isn't actually yourself? Why does a Chinese actress playing a Japanese geisha have anything to do with Chinese or Japanese relations? Oh wait, I think i know what it has to do. You sound like a supremacist who can't stand the fact that a Chinese actress is playing a Japanese role because it somehow debases the Chinese people. A role that these women VOLUNTARILY CHOSE by the way. Your attitude is analagous to me getting upset about the movie "Jungle Love" because I can't stand the fact that a white woman would be sexually involved with a black man. The only thing that seems racist to me is you.

 

Gong Li is not Chinese. The only color she is interested in is Green, because she is a capitalist w**** who will play any role if they pay her enough.

 

Yes it is and its uncalled for. Considering how many Chinese were offended by the uninformed use of the term "Chinaman" by a white American the least we can do is point out when a Chinese uses an ethnically offensive term.

In regard to the issue of Gong Li and other Chinese actresses portraying Japanese I'm not bothered by it at all. There have been Japanese actors in Hollywood and in Hong Kong who've played Chinese. Gong Li is being cast because she's well known not out of some irony of having a Chinese play a Japanese. Its like casting Renee Zellwegger (American from Texas) to play the British Bridget Jones or the British Jude Law to play a Confederate soldier in Cold Mountain Ken Watanabe is being cast because he's been getting well known from roles in Last Samurai and Batman Begins.

 

That goes for the vast majority of actors.

 

w**** + hot = Why I spent X years in college