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...report on Memoirs of a Geisha, the first big-budget Hollywood movie with an all-Asian cast, prompted readers to discuss the repression of women and the merits of Chinese and Japanese actors...
...them." But the lure of shooting in mainland China for the first time was enticing, and Chan saw an opportunity to make a modern musical without compromising dramatic complexity. With Morgan, the producer behind Oscar-winning Million Dollar Baby, and a $10 million budget, Chan assembled a starry cast: Taiwanese-Japanese icon Takeshi Kaneshiro, rising mainland actress Zhou Xun and Jacky Cheung, the one Heavenly King of Canto-pop who can really sing. But would audiences accept a big-budget Asian film without a flying kick or aerial swordfight? And was Chan?a Hong Konger best known for delicate, tightly...
...Chan deftly switches between the pulsing musical scenes, the growing tension among the cast in Shanghai and lengthy flashbacks to Sun and Lin's love affair in Beijing. The songs have a sense of the subcontinent, courtesy of top Indian choreographer Farah Khan, who taught the Chinese cast how to use their hips and added a few Bollywood dancers to round out the action. Two of Asia's best cinematographers?Peter Pau and Christopher Doyle?split time behind the camera, and each creates distinct visuals. Pau shoots the baroque hotels and classic Bund streets of Shanghai with a warm...
...election that ended yesterday, Haddock and Riley received 59 percent of the first-place votes cast, the Election Commission announced. Their ticket received 2,308 votes out of 3,896 cast, while Magnus Grimeland ’07 and Tom D. Hadfield ’08 received 912 first-place votes and John F. Voith ’07 and Tara Gadgil ’07 received 664 first-place votes...
...Slightly fewer votes were cast this year, compared with last year’s record-breaking 3,985 votes...