memoirs of a geisha - the movie preview
got a pair of free ticks to watch "memoirs of a geisha" today... as usual it was pouring...
p.s. forgot to mention... due to my trip to chinatown, i came down with a really high fever, 39.3degrees, sour throat, block nose and a terrible cough which kept me awake most of the nite n prob irritated alot of pple in the cinema with my "tuberculosis" sounding cough even though i tried hard to muffle it with tissue :P... had to go see doc at a 24hr clinic and had to pay $52!! h/r supposed to be back at work today but doc forsee that i'll need to rest another day so gave me mc for today :))
ok, back to the movie...overall a nice movie, like certain scenes but fully aware that lots of parts hv been changed and pace a lot faster than the novel (which i took the trouble of re-reading it again b4 going to see the movie ;p) skipped alot of parts like:
- started off when tanaka san took them away but done away with intro to sayuri's life in her hometown n what drove her father for allowing tanaka san to take them away
- did away a lot of parts abt the "battle" btw hatsumomo n sayuri n mameha, i.e. hatsumomo stalking the two of them and spreading rumours abt sayuri
- the better times pumpkin n sayuri did spent together like practising their shimasen in the snow before hatsumomo put a stop to it
- skipped the part abt her 1st danna who had helped them significantly in terms of material needs during the war (nodu san did mention his name but dont tink those who had not read the book would take notice)
- did not mentioned that eventually she went off to america to open a teahouse with the chairman's help
and changed some storyline like:
- sayuri was suppose to take the opportunity of delivering hatsumomo her shimasen to look for her sis instead of running out on her own
- mameha shd hv approached sayuri's okiya much earlier to propose taking chiyo as her younger sister and the terms of her offer totally changed like the bet was supposed to be sayuri would settle all her debts before 18 or 20 (forgot ;p) instead of within 6 mths etc...
- sayuri was not suppose to know that the other bidder for her mizuage is mameha's danna, the baron, from mameha herself but from others later on
- sayuri was to only return to her okiya only when she receives instructions from her mother for her to go back n not simply folllowing nobu san's pleas
- sayuri was to entertain a new jap finance minister n not an american colonel and venue was suppose to be at an empty theatre n not in the rm as shown..
okok, stop boring pple...overall, they had to increase the pace coz the show was ard 2hr 15min after cutting some of the scenes, imagine how long it would take to finish the whole show, think tiffy would hv passed out by then.. anyway, like some scenes like the ambience for the solo performance performed by sayuri (as seen in the picture below), the scenic gardens of the baron's estate and how they ended off on the really nice garden where the chairman finally annouced his feelings to sayuri... but still tink a little lack of details explaining some of the ceremonies and customs, such as the type of hairstyle and obi that diff geisha wear etc... but cant expect that much coz itz meant to be a commercial movie. maybe they shd film a tv series which will better tell this story...
got to go sleep, working tomolo, oredi 12.30am... by the way, cant wait to catch "the da vinci code - the movie", another novel which i like and cant wait to see the adaptation with all the scenes and actual pictures to relate to wat i hv read, before that, go to re-read the book but plenty of time coz it only opens in may ;p
oyasumi nasai!
