"Bunraku"

[Plastic Flute]

Yes , I mean We Will See!!!
meh idk

[Italia6]

Originally Posted by aloha

that sounds absolutely great. can´t wait to see the movie next year

me too
Kate thanks for movie poster. It\s cool :-)

[Soss]

The film does sound amazing, its the stuck on 'goaty' that l have reservations about!!

[aloha]

m really excited about how they make it look like, this paper-maché

[Soss]

Maybe like this?????

[aloha]

hehe LOL, I try to imagine Josh looking like that

[Jocasta]

Originally Posted by annieHARTNETT

thanks kate.. I prefer if there is a link back.

No problem. But I'm not sure why you didn't credit fanhost for finding that tabloid video of Josh in Romania, when I posted it here a week ago?

[annieHARTNETT]

Originally Posted by Jocasta

No problem. But I'm not sure why you didn't credit fanhost for finding that tabloid video of Josh in Romania, when I posted it here a week ago?

the reason is if someone posts the same news on my forum as anyone here has posted in fanhost, I will credit the person from my forum and not here because fanhost forum is not affiliated to my site and it just makes more sense if I credit someone who is more part of my site. If no one posts the news on my forum by the time I want to post the news on my main site, I will credit whoever found the news on this forum. Does that make sense?

In the case of hte tabloid video, a person did post the video at my forum, so I credited her.

[Jocasta]

If no one posts the news on my forum by the time I want to post the news on my main site, I will credit whoever found the news on this forum. Does that make sense?

Yes, fine and the same here. If the news at your site is elsewhere I'll credit them. Of course you could wait until someone on your forum copies the news from fanhost before you post it, which is your decision.
(I posted the video on the 11th, for the record).

[Jocasta]

Bunraku at Cannes...

Keith Calder, Jessica Wu, asian performer, Stewart Ford and Ram Bergman attend the IM Global Party held on the Pegasus Yacht, during the 61st Cannes International Film Festival on May 15, 2008 in Cannes, France.



Entrance to Cannes soirees sometimes requires a certain state of undress. To party on a yacht usually means taking off your shoes before braving the gangplank. That was the case at IM Global’s “Bunraku” party Thursday evening on Ron Tutor’s boat in Cannes’ Old Harbor.

At least Taiko drummers entertained the throng of buyers who were lined up to check their shoes. Among the barefooted were pic’s producers Ram Bergman, Keith Calder and Jessica Yu, who showed footage from the first 10 days of shooting in Romania.

Source.

And here.

[sunkis80]

the poster looks great! i cant wait to see the movie!!!

[annieHARTNETT]

Originally Posted by Jocasta

Yes, fine and the same here. If the news at your site is elsewhere I'll credit them. Of course you could wait until someone on your forum copies the news from fanhost before you post it, which is your decision.
(I posted the video on the 11th, for the record).

well i do not know if the people at my forum come here.. they could have found the news themselves and not copied here at fanhost.
I do not wait till someone posts on my forum and I have no problem with posting information that you have posted kate. I post news in order of importance and if I have time or can be bothered to update the site. like for the august trailer, I had time and I posted it right away after I saw it here in fanhost, so I did credit you and I did add a link back to fanhost forum as you requested me.

[Italia6]

Originally Posted by aloha

hehe LOL, I try to imagine Josh looking like that

great pictures from Cannes KAte

[aloha]

thanks for the news from Cannes

[Soss]

Thanks for the news Kate x

Oh how strange! As l posted this, something caught my eye out my window, and a guy was walking past, dressed like a cowboy???????????

[Jocasta]

^What? Is that usual for your part of North London?!

It's great to see the producers and production company are really making an effort to get this film out there... pity they couldn't have let the actors have a day off for the trip to Cannes.

[aloha]

pity they couldn't have let the actors have a day off for the trip to Cannes.

that would have been great!

[Plastic Flute]

Originally Posted by Jocasta

^What? Is that usual for your part of North London?!

It's great to see the producers and production company are really making an effort to get this film out there... pity they couldn't have let the actors have a day off for the trip to Cannes.

Agreed. I think TBD rode alot just on the reputation of Coppola,and not Cope himself and the production company and producers. So this I feel is more heartfelt.

[Laura Organa Solo]

I love haiku so I think that's a great idea. XD

Originally Posted by Jocasta

Haiku! Yes, now just remind me of the syllable pattern, is it 3,5,3 or 5,7,5?

5,7,5 ^____^

I'm so happy that they're showing footage at Cannes but ugh, what an embarrassing gimmick for the showing. Taiko drummers are cool but dude, that's not a geisha, that's a drag queen with a terrible wig. I own classier kimono than that. ¬_____¬

Anyway, here's a better shot of Josh in the poster from the IMGlobal site:



It's actually the same shot of Josh from the photo of him and Gackt that Gackt.com initially posted.

I would wager money that this is not going to be the final product, though. I've never seen a modern movie poster that didn't utilize super-pretty promotional photos taken solely for the purposes of using on products/promo materials of some sort.

Reading the synopsis, though, I wish they'd thought of a catchier title than Bunraku. Besides completely baffling non-Japanese speakers, the movie doesn't really have anything to do with Bunraku besides being a dramatic adventure story.

First of all, I think anything that sounds like it's based on puppets immediately sounds lame. Puppet theater doesn't exactly have a reputation for anything over than juvenile entertainment in the west. In fact, when my husband and I actually went to Japan, one of the things my travel book raved about was Bunraku, and we both completely disregarded it because we thought puppets sounded boring.

It wasn't until much later that I found out how bunraku stories are often the same as the stories in kabuki and noh theatre. Although noh is mostly dramatic and tragic, kabuki is mostly boisterous and even mature or risqué, as high-class prostitutes (oiran or courtesans, which is what most people imagine when they hear the word geisha) are frequently main characters, double suicides were/are a popular theme, and because samurai were involved, sometimes lots of people got killed.

Not only that, bunraku puppets are more like easily-manipulated dolls. Their costumes are exquisitely detailed with elegant clothing made out of the same fabric formal Japanese-style clothing (wafuku) is made out of. It's not like stylized papier-mâché at all. They're like tiny elegant people with ukiyo-e styled faces.

Look at the individual joints of the fingers.

When people see the word puppet, they're never going to imagine anything like that, and "Bunraku = Japanese puppet theatre" isn't going to drive the idea home.

*wipes brow* Sorry that's so long...

P.S. In a lot of Japanese dramas, even in popular present-day anime, end similarly to Shakespeare's best tragedies: most of the main characters die. It's actually a running gag amongst a lot of English-speaking anime fans, illustrated by the phrase "Spoiler alert: everyone dies." This even happens in anime and manga (comics) intended for young adults.

Remember Sailor Moon? At the end of the first season, all the main characters died. The second season is about their reincarnated selves.

If Yoshi in the Bunraku film doesn't die spectacularly and heroically, I'll be shocked beyond belief.

[Soss]

Laura thanks for the very interesting post xx
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