tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post7717653442252624031..comments2024-03-17T10:11:46.952-04:00Comments on Film Experience Blog: Miyoshi Umeki (1929-2007)NATHANIEL Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11597109147678235399noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-42051013055703831582007-09-14T06:08:00.000-04:002007-09-14T06:08:00.000-04:00Getting off the topic, here's a shout out to Time'...Getting off the topic, here's a shout out to Time's other lovely cover girl, Pat Suzuki. I have the <I>Flower Drum</I> original cast record and CD largely due to Suzuki's wonderful vocalizing. Don't know if she ever made a movie, or what really became of her after this breakthrough.Vertigo's Psychohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17701774152300870403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-69455034718185930072007-09-11T10:25:00.000-04:002007-09-11T10:25:00.000-04:00I've always thought Nancy Kwan was robbed of a nom...I've always thought Nancy Kwan was robbed of a nomination for "The World of Suzie Wong". And - of course - there's Gong Li,heart of the memorable Chinese film "Raise the Red Lantern" and the main (and electrifying) point of ineterest in "Memoirs of a Geisha". I'd have given supporting nominations to Philip Ahn in "Thank You Mr.Moto"(1937) and to the wonderful Victor Sen Yung in "The Letter"(1940). Also, it's a shame Western audiences haven't been exposed to some of today's great Bollywood stars - charismatic and brimming with talent - Akshaye Khanna, for instance and Rani Mukherjee. Who knows? It might happen yet. Aishwarya Rai has at least created a profile for herself in non-western cinema. But so far her choices have not been fortunate. Still wish she'd accepted the role of Helen in Wolfgang Petersen's Brad Pitt/Orlando Bloom starrer "Troy". It was purportedly offered to her. I loved the movie anyway - but casting Aishwarya as the Face That Launched a Thousand Ships would have been the icing on the cake.CanadianKenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12240756292929779255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-27090141539067358032007-09-09T03:18:00.000-04:002007-09-09T03:18:00.000-04:00Hopefully, Ziyi Zhang will change this!Hopefully, Ziyi Zhang will change this!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-72433443343256407252007-09-08T23:13:00.000-04:002007-09-08T23:13:00.000-04:00Then again that can also be said for Latin America...Then again that can also be said for Latin American movie stars. Fernanda Montenegra is the only one who's been able to do it.Adam Luishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04482737490671621334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-13604692245119856612007-09-08T14:55:00.000-04:002007-09-08T14:55:00.000-04:00i just think the discrepancy is therei just think the discrepancy is thereNATHANIEL Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11597109147678235399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-45740079309695868822007-09-08T14:54:00.000-04:002007-09-08T14:54:00.000-04:00well actually the larger point i was trying to mak...well actually the larger point i was trying to make was that the non-western movie stars don't get nominated.<BR/><BR/>I mean TONY LEUNG, MAGGIE CHEUNG, GONG LI, etc.. these are world class actors who've been awarded elsewhere but Oscar only notices asian actors in western films and then they're usually unknowns. Whereas European superstars can ride that international acclaim occassionally into Oscar graces --even in films from their home countries. It doesn't seem to happen for Asian actors.NATHANIEL Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11597109147678235399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-68148032543263024922007-09-08T14:45:00.000-04:002007-09-08T14:45:00.000-04:00I think the issue Nate is trying to point out is t...I think the issue Nate is trying to point out is that there has never been a bonafide Asian movie star that can be immediately identified with their ethnicity to win the Oscar (as politically incorrect as that sounds). In the public consciousness, Ben Kingsley is very much a British star. Yul Brynner admitted to fudging stories of his ethnicity to appear more "exotic." <BR/><BR/>- AdamAdam Luishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04482737490671621334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-80977873471260723452007-09-08T13:47:00.000-04:002007-09-08T13:47:00.000-04:00Ben Kingsley is half-Indian, if that counts for an...Ben Kingsley is half-Indian, if that counts for anything here.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-55490558181025414932007-09-08T11:55:00.000-04:002007-09-08T11:55:00.000-04:00According to his IMDb biography, Brynner's father ...According to his IMDb biography, Brynner's father was a Swiss-Russian engineer and his mother the daughter of a Russian doctor.J.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17126912928153855523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-77991972085334363452007-09-08T11:37:00.000-04:002007-09-08T11:37:00.000-04:00I think you're forgetting a pretty big Asian star ...I think you're forgetting a pretty big Asian star to win an Oscar - Yul Brynner. If I remember correctly, he was Mongolian, though he won for playing a Thai (Siamese then. Whatever). And I think it's safe to say that he was at least a "star", if not a "big star" for his Broadway turn in the same role. So . . . that's something.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-55870440155576386842007-09-07T21:52:00.000-04:002007-09-07T21:52:00.000-04:00....sigh...."Mr. Eddie's father"....sayonora.....sigh...."Mr. Eddie's father"....sayonora.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-86089626346630906832007-09-07T20:11:00.000-04:002007-09-07T20:11:00.000-04:00Welcome to my world.Welcome to my world.Neel Mehtahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11286549029037039134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-14804846180026882872007-09-07T18:45:00.001-04:002007-09-07T18:45:00.001-04:00And isn't kind of weird/sad that none of those are...And isn't kind of weird/sad that none of those are from non-Western productions?J.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17126912928153855523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-41380736459391223252007-09-07T18:45:00.000-04:002007-09-07T18:45:00.000-04:00right but they weren't big stars before the nomina...right but they weren't big stars before the nominationsNATHANIEL Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11597109147678235399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-23450617850648642862007-09-07T18:44:00.001-04:002007-09-07T18:44:00.001-04:00And Pat Moriata - The Karate Kid, both in the same...And Pat Moriata - The Karate Kid, both in the same yearMichael Parsonshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17668853285292187310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-70989474884856423492007-09-07T18:44:00.000-04:002007-09-07T18:44:00.000-04:00Hang S. Ngor for the Killing FieldsHang S. Ngor for the Killing FieldsMichael Parsonshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17668853285292187310noreply@blogger.com