Infuriating MEMOIRS
by Andre Soares
"It has to be mentioned that Rob Marshall treated ethnocultural peculiarities of the material too freely [in Memoirs of a Geisha]. Maybe he thought that if the film was based on American novel it would be needless to pay attention to the details and credibility. To please Western public kimonos of the female characters are too sexy. Besides, the filmmakers did not use the traditional white make-up of a geisha that could seem unattractive and even ugly to the foreigners. Instead they took the best of the modern make-up industry." Leon Zhabin in Pravda, explaining why "Hollywood geishas infuriate Japanese and Chinese public."
Hollywood Foreign Press Association 2005 Golden Globe Award nominations
List of the British Academy of Film 2005 nominees
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