1 | * At the party where Sayuri, the heroine, makes her debut as a geisha, she has an encounter with the AlphaBitch, Hatsumomo: |
2 | -->'''Hatsumomo''': "Sayuri"... a name as sweet as she is. I'm afraid these days even a common chambermaid can call herself a geisha. So it's nice to see such a sincere young ''maiko'', isn't it?\ |
3 | '''General''': Why yes!\ |
4 | '''Mameha''': Surely you would like to thank Hatsumomo for her gracious compliments?\ |
5 | '''Sayuri''': There is ''so much'' I would like to say to Hatsumomo.\ |
6 | '''Hatsumomo''': Sometimes the smartest remark is silence.\ |
7 | '''Sayuri''': What better advice to follow than your own?\ |
8 | '''Mameha''': Sayuri...\ |
9 | '''Hatsumomo''': Ah, a ''maiko''. I was one myself, once.\ |
10 | '''Sayuri''': Of course... but it's been such a very long, long, long, ''long'' time. |
11 | * [[MundaneMadeAwesome Sayuri's dance shoes]]. Standing in them without falling on her face would be hard enough, but she DANCES [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63FxLM3AQt4 in them]]. |
12 | * There's a scene with the Mameha (Michelle Yeoh) teaching the protagonist, Sayuri (Zhang Zhiyi) that a true geisha can stop a man with her eyes. She demonstrates and then asks Sayuri to do so, which Sayuri does to a passer by riding a bicycle, causing him to crash. |
13 | * There is a scene in the book where apprentice Chiyo gets the beat of Hatsumomo. While at the same party, Hatsumomo starts to snark at Chiyo finishing with a remark about Chiyo's youth "You don't even have any hair yet" (the hair Hatsumomo referring to being pubic hair), Chiyo simply responds with "Oh I do, and plenty of it" before patting her head, making the man Hastumomo's entertaining (and trying to tear Chiyo down in front of) laugh and remark on Chiyo's cleverness. |
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/context.php
FollowingContext Awesome / MemoirsOfAGeisha
Go To
- Show Spoilers
- Night Vision
- Sticky Header
- Wide Load