The Music of “Memoirs” runs for 9:53 and takes us for a look into John William's superb soundtrack (Did you know he passed on the Harry Potter soundtrack for this?), where we see the method employed behind the soundtrack, with some of the rational - for example, the concept that the cello is Sayuri's voice throughout the soundtrack/movie. This is highly provocative apparently I suppose it's the equivalent to the glimpse of a stocking in western culture.
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There's a lot of information about the look, from what's sexy and what isn't in the culture - for example, the back of one of the Geisha's has a white V shape - where some of the skin is covered and some isn't. It's interesting as while the makeup is authentic looking, we're told it was “softened” down because they weren't making a documentary! Quite right too.
The Look Of A Geisha runs for 16:18 minutes and as you can guess, from the makeup used to the costumes worn. It was a huge undertaking, based on the featurette here and it's interesting enough up to a point - if you're interested in the sets, you'll love it. They hoped they could find a village in Japan, but they couldn't so it was built completely from the ground up, so to speak. Building The Hanamachi is a 12:21 minute featurette which shows how the set for the Hanamachi (village) was constructed. Definitely worth watching this featurette for those reasons.
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From walking and dancing to playing the instruments, not to mention the issues of language with directing this movie, which is also touched upon, shows how hard this movie was to make, not just for the actors, but for everyone on the crew too. Ahh, such a hard life eh? Geisha Bootcamp is a 12:03 minute featurette which, believe it or not, features the actresses training in a proverbial boot camp in the art of a Geisha. However, they did shoot there as well (first time a movie has been shot in Kyoto apparently), for authenticity more than anything else. It's very interesting to see the culture like this, even if it does strike you as an excuse for a proverbial “jolly”. The Road To Japan is a 5:33 minute featurette and focuses on how they did their research in Japan and Kyoto, including the temples, a trainee Geisha and so on.
Quite interesting to see not just the evolution of the screenplay, but to hear about the original evolution of the novel from the author himself.
There's a fair degree of back slapping but there's also a nice respect to the author and his original novel - one gets the feeling that when they said they wanted to do the book justice, for once, they actually meant it. I'm not usually keen on commentary tracks, but these are more interesting than some others I've endured, with a nice insight into both the making of, as well as little nuances, such as sound changes made for certain scenes and so forth.ĭisk 2 starts with Sayuri's Journey:From The Novel To The Screen, a 14:25 minute featurette, which, as you can guess from the title, revolves around the process of taking the book, through screenplay to the big screen. The commentary tracks are insightful, with both sides giving anecdotal stories, with some overlap. With a 2 Disk set, it's no real surprise to see that the second disc holds all the extras, but on the first disk, we have a Director's & Production Commentary Tracks and also Trailers for The Da Vinci Code, Fun With Dick & Jane, Rent, The White Countess and The Frank Capra Premiere DVD Collection.
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