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Sasha
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 Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 2:36 am Post subject: Blow Fish! |
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I just saw Geisha for the third time, and for the third time I was the only person in the cinema who laughed when Hatsumomo says "Blow fish?"
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Hatsumomo, you used to smell like Jasmine. What is this new perfume? Blow fish?
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It's so funny. Why doesn't anyone else laugh?
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tieu_yeu_nu
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| i don't get it...i haven't seen the film...but i still don't get wats so funny....care to explain? |
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| Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 6:05 pm Post subject: |
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Because Hatsumomo thinks Sayuri "stinks of fish" so when she touched the perfume, Hatsumomo might smell like fish too, Blowfish in particular.
BTW, I found myself laugh during the give-and-take between Hatsumomo and Sayuri when she first danced and Hatsumomo and Pumpkin arrived and Hatsumomo kept criticizing Sayuri's skills (while showing her fan skills to boot), Sayuri's being a mere chambermaid, and being a young maiko. And then Sayuri remarked its because Hatsumomo was a maiko herself "a long long long long time" ago =) |
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Sasha
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| tieu_yeu_nu wrote: | | i don't get it...i haven't seen the film...but i still don't get wats so funny....care to explain? |
My friend explained the joke above, but there's something about the way she says "Blow Fish" that makes me grin just thinking about it!
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Sasha
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| Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 4:07 am Post subject: |
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| LC wrote: |
BTW, I found myself laugh during the give-and-take between Hatsumomo and Sayuri when she first danced and Hatsumomo and Pumpkin arrived and Hatsumomo kept criticizing Sayuri's skills (while showing her fan skills to boot), Sayuri's being a mere chambermaid, and being a young maiko. And then Sayuri remarked its because Hatsumomo was a maiko herself "a long long long long time" ago =) |
I did think that was a good comeback for the characters' sake, but I really don't like that part because it reminds me of the interviews where Zhang Ziyi says she has admired Gong Li since she was a little girl, etc.
It [the scene in the movie] was a bit too real. You know, a complement that is actually an insult. Not that Sayuri was complementing Hatsumomo, there's just a similar tone.
Hey, maybe Zhang Ziyi didn't mean it that way!
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Sasha posted:
| Quote: | | it reminds me of the interviews where Zhang Ziyi says she has admired Gong Li since she was a little girl, etc... You know, a complement that is actually an insult. Hey, maybe Zhang Ziyi didn't mean it that way! |
The first time I read the remark made by Ziyi about watching Li's movies since she was a child, it rubbed me the wrong way. ('What is she really trying to say?') Then, I realized that Ziyi is 13 years younger than Li, and Li made her first film, 'Red Sorghum', when still a university student. So, Ziyi really was a child (about 9 yrs.) when 'Red Sorghum' was in theaters.
During an interview at the end of 2004, Ziyi said, "Gong Li is a superstar and she's my idol, you know. I love her so much."
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Sasha
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Mmm, but Li was a mature-age student. She wasn't *that* young. I'm still skeptical, but it's good that you have forgiven Ziyi. It's gonna take a bit more for me to open my heart. 
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| Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 4:58 pm Post subject: Re: Blow Fish! |
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| Sasha wrote: | I just saw Geisha for the third time, and for the third time I was the only person in the cinema who laughed when Hatsumomo says "Blow fish?"
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Hatsumomo, you used to smell like Jasmine. What is this new perfume? Blow fish?
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It's so funny. Why doesn't anyone else laugh? |
i laughed. it was funny how she said it  |
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Rachel Lee
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| Quote: | Hatsumomo, you used to smell like Jasmine. What is this new perfume? Blow fish?
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It sounds funny for me too  I recall that Chiyo (as a child) said that sentence when she was in Hatsumomo's room. Someone in a forum said that the girl played Chiyo (as a child) looks like Gong Li. Her name is Suzuka Ohgo. How about your opinion?
For tieu_yeu_nu: Are you from Vietnam? if so, you and me are from the same country!
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