canada goose store Bale blossom together on Flowers of War canada goose store
buy canada goose jacket cheap LOS ANGELES (Reuters) In 100 years of Chinese film, Flowers of War is the first major title to feature a western movie star. It earned canada goose coats a Golden Globe nomination for best canada goose foreign language film, and is China entry for Oscars. buy canada goose jacket cheap
buy canada goose jacket British actor Christian Bale (L) and Chinese director Zhang Yimou attend the premiere of “The Flowers of War” in Beijing December 11, 2011. REUTERS/China Daily buy canada goose jacket
Canada Goose sale Budgeted at $100 million, of War stars Oscar winner Christian Bale as John Miller, an opportunist mortician on the run Canada Goose Jackets in 1937 as the Japanese are invading the province of Nanking, now known as Nanjing. The Japanese occupation led canada goose uk outlet to the deaths of thousands of Chinese citizens and came to be known by some as the Rape of Nanking or the Nanjing Massacre. release this week before opening nationwide in 2012, Bale character must save a group of schoolgirls from the clutches of the Japanese. At the same time, he falls in love with Canada Goose Parka a Chinese courtesan. Canada Goose sale
cheap Canada Goose Bale and Chinese director Zhang Yimou, who communicated through an interpreter while making canadian goose jacket the film, talked with Reuters about overcoming cultural barriers and revisiting an infamous episode of China past. (The interview took place before Bale recent run in with Chinese officials.) cheap Canada Goose
Q: This is your first time working with a western film star. Did the collaboration meet or defy your expectations?
canada goose black friday sale Zhang: I amazed at how low key and humble Christian is. The stereotype that Chinese have of Hollywood actors is they probably have an canada goose store entourage and assistants. So that definitely changed how I viewed Hollywood actors. And also Christian didn want to stay in a five star hotel either. He lived right above me, lived with everybody canada goose black friday sale else, with the crew members. And another thing is uk canada goose Christian gave up his weekends to work with us because we work seven days a week. canada goose black friday sale
canadian goose jacket Bale: this seven day week schedule became something I quite enjoyed cause I liked https://www.canadagooseonline.org the momentum. Yimou is top dog in his profession, canada goose factory sale and he genuinely seemed to have a great deal of humor and cheap Canada Goose laughter on the set. I didn always know what the canada goose clearance laughter was about but I would laugh with them. I hope they not all laughing at me! I felt surrounded by good friends and even if I didn understand nuances of what was being discussed, I got the essence in the presence of people. canadian goose jacket
Canada Goose Outlet Q: Do you find that your shared experience in filmmaking was enough to communicate despite the language barrier? Canada Goose Outlet
canada goose coats on sale Bale: would be moments where Yimou would cheap canada goose uk come Canada Goose Outlet to me and we would work it out between the two of us. And Canada Goose sale sometimes with a scene it very small adjustments that were being asked for and I could understand from body language. And I always was convinced Yimou spoke a little bit of English, more than he ever let onto. So we experiment and see how it works out and sometimes it did and sometimes it didn canada goose coats on sale
Canada Goose Jackets Q: How are Western actors different than Chinese? Canada Goose Jackets
canada goose deals Zhang: line Christian offered three or four different ways, which is very unusual because Chinese actors normally cannot pull that off. Screening the film for a western audience I realized canada goose uk black friday that the first one third of the movie, audiences would laugh at Christian lines. That actually surprised me because when I wrote the script in Chinese, I didn think that was humorous, but clearly Christian added other layers to canada goose uk shop it. canada goose deals
canada goose coats Q: I understand Zhang asked you to stand before the buy canada goose jacket cheap cast and give them acting tips but it proved buy canada goose jacket awkward. canada goose coats
Canada Goose Parka Bale: always think it bad to try to alter anybody else experience. Apart from that, it not my job. That the director job. And I love very much working with uk canada goose outlet actors who either have no experience or very little experience. I like to try to avoid getting any technique into my acting because I feel like the more known an actor gets, you really have to be exceptional to maintain that Canada Goose online feeling of freshness and vitality and enthusiasm instead of falling back on your usual tricks. Canada Goose canada goose parka Parka
canada goose clearance Q: Steven Spielberg recommended you for the part after working with you years ago on of the Sun when you were a child. Did working with kids on this movie take you back? canada goose clearance
Canada Goose online Bale: of the girls would say to me, Canada Goose Online would never want to act ever again in my life, this is it. And I would say to them, what I said. That Canada Goose Coats On Sale exactly what I said when I was your age. The thing that I liked so much was the freshness that they brought in terms of this is something new but there no consideration of this being anything that they would continue with. Canada Goose online
canada goose Q: The movie is set around an atrocity by the Japanese that rivals in brutality what the Nazis did in Europe. Why do you think the world hasn held the Japanese accountable? canada goose
canada goose clearance sale Zhang: the international community doesn know much about Nanjing because China, at that time, canada goose coats on sale was really far behind, and they didn have enough voice or power to actually speak out for themselves. For me, rather than arouse sad feelings, the goal of the movie canada goose clearance sale is to make people see the good side of humanity and bring peaceful feelings to an audience canada goose clearance sale.
Leave a Reply