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In Reply to: I provisionally take your word for it posted by Victor Khomenko on December 9, 2005 at 17:34:52:
...and it is clear that these are Chinese actors speaking English; pronunciation, intonation, mannerisms.....none of it Japanese.....most american audiences won't notice this, but it is rather disconcerting if you know Japan and Japanese...they are just out of place in this context.
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You can say opera is more symbolic than movies, but in reality this is not so - all performing art has this, and we expect the actor's talent to shine through the layer of superficial details.I intentionally mentioned the Rose. In the case of Geisha you are familiar with the details, and you are stuck on them. We all are far less aware of the subtleties of the 14th century life, so pretty much everything goes - including actor's impecably groomed beard.
Much has been written on whether a black actor could convincingly play Hamlet. I don't see why not.
...in what we are willing to accept. And, you're right--familiarity has a lot to do with it. A black actor playing Hamlet woudn't bother me, but part of that might be that Hamlet tends to transcend the time for which it was written. It doesn't really matter that Hamlet was a Dane in the grand scheme of things.Americans are notriously naive about other cultures and ethnic groups, and "Memoirs of a Geisha" is just another in a long line of examples regarding Asia.
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