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nipponophile
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 Posted - November 17 2008 : 12:37:32 PM
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 No, no NO, Wilderness Woman!! Not even CLOSE to being Japanese in ethnicity (I'm a 4th/5th generation Australian of Scottish/English/German descent), but very much in love with the country and its people, and have been for over 15 years. To the point where many of my Japanese friends tell me I'm more Japanese than them! I'm currently living in Tokyo, where I've been working for almost four years. |
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Wilderness Woman
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Posted - November 17 2008 : 12:59:30 PM
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I actually didn't mean that to be funny. It was a serious question, and one that made sense to me given your board name and what you had just posted.
My father was stationed in Japan for a year during the Korean War. While there, he purchased and sent home some very lovely things, from Kokeshi (also called Sendai) dolls to silk kimonos to cloisone vases to carved ivory figures to Sake sets to beautifully detailed ceramic figurines. He, too, fell in love with Japan.
But, this is off topic for this thread... |
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Posted - November 17 2008 : 9:57:50 PM
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| nipponophile, you're very rare because there's not many a gaijin who speak nihongo! I am sadly one of the majority who doesn't. I was learning for a while but didn't have time to continue. |
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nipponophile
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Posted - November 18 2008 : 10:55:02 AM
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Off topic, but just wanted to pass on humble apologies to Wilderness Woman if I appeared to come across as flippant in answering your question This was certainly not my intention. Sounds like your father had a similar aesthetic appreciation for Japan as I do (an appreciation that is proving to be very expensive as the years roll on....)
Back on topic, perhaps not a re-casting for Hawkeye, but would dearly have loved to use a hair straightner on his locks..... |
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Wilderness Woman
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Posted - November 18 2008 : 1:10:21 PM
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Originally posted by nipponophile
Off topic, but just wanted to pass on humble apologies to Wilderness Woman if I appeared to come across as flippant in answering your question This was certainly not my intention.
No problem! 
Yes, Dad was quite taken with Japan and its people, the beauty of their houses, their gardens, their artwork, etc. As you can imagine, it was all very different in Japan in the early 1950s. Most of the old ways were still in tact.
Dad lives in our Pacific Northwest, in Portland Oregon. There were a lot of Japanese immigrants who made their way there in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and there are many beautiful Japanese-influenced gardens in that part of the U.S. In fact, Portland's Sister City is Sapporo!
Oooops.... sorry. Still off-topic. |
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Posted - November 18 2008 : 6:20:24 PM
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OK...back to the topic.....
"If ROTM was le-made..."
(PS--Back in the early '80's we had an Exchange Student Japanese daughter, Hiromi.... "Lomi", she went by.... who has since given us a beautiful granddaughter, Reiku. I'd love to go see them someday, but I don't think I'll ever be able to....)
NOW...back to the Topic:
I think it's WAY too soon to remake it. We need a whole new generation of GOOD actors/actresses.....not the current Pop Tart crowd of Hollywood bozos. We need folks with talent who are believable! After all, how long was it from the original to 'our' LOTM??? Answer: It was 72 years from the original in 1920 (Want a treat? Watch THIS ONE!!) to 'ours'(1992)! There was also one in 1936, and....we cannot forget all the serials,TV shows, etc., along the way.
I vote to wait awhile for a crop of as-yet-unborn talent....maybe by then there will be some!
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 Posted - November 18 2008 : 9:53:49 PM
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I find it hard to disagree with any of the suggestions made here for a remake of LOTM...but who would we get to play the Sachem? Why, Wes Studi, of course!   |
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Seamus
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Posted - November 19 2008 : 05:25:48 AM
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| THAT........would be great, Obi! Good suggestion! |
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nipponophile
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Posted - November 19 2008 : 09:08:10 AM
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| Yeah, I reckon Wes HAS to be in it in some capacity. |
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