Talk:The Teahouse of the August Moon (film)

message: I wonder... has this film been released to DVD yet? Sweetfreek 20:19, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

message: I was afraid that the article on this film would be suffused with PC-ese on cultural imperialism or how anachronistic it (supposedly) is, but instead, the author has written a very fair and balanced article.  The film is touching and a pleasure to watch.  And it treats the American presence in Japan/Okinawa in a similar fashion to the way this issue is handled in "The Third Man" - but without the sinister subtext:  post-war America as an ingenuos but well-meaning bumbler.  But as the reviewer has noted, Ford's character goes native and embraces the villagers.  It should also be noted that there is a very funny throw-away line in the movie about Communism that satirizes McCarthyism, but I won't spoil it by spelling it out. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 76.209.57.217 (talk) 18:56, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  A good article, thanks. 

message: The article quotes
Sakini: (played by Brando)  who says the following
"Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable".
see  Life endurable
--Conh 22:26, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Philosophy

message: Recovered from a deleted article "Life Endurable".  
The translations into Latin and Irish were done by myself.   Apologies for the grammar but I think its not too bad.
 
--Conh 19:51, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Recovered  Article based on the above

message: The Teahouse of the August Moon
with Marlon Brando,
is a 1956 motion picture comedy satirising the US occupation of Japan following the end of World War II. 
John Patrick adapted the screenplay from his own Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning Broadway play 
of 1953. The play was, in turn, adapted from a 1951 novel by Vern J. Sneider.
It was Sakini, played by Brando, who said   
"Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Teahouse_of_the_August_Moon
Adversity
Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man 
by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited 
and dependent being; and only suffering teaches him this.
Simone Weil (1909–43), French philosopher, mystic. La Source Grecque, pt. 1, ch. 2 (1953).
Theory
Let us work without theorizing, ‘tis the only way to make life endurable.
Voltaire (1694–1778), French philosopher, author. Martin, in Candide, ch. 30 (1759).
See also:
Engels on Action;  
Proust on Art
Adversity
It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one’s own advantage and to that of one’s craft that a 
large part of genius consists.
G. C. Lichtenberg (1742–99), German physicist, philosopher. Aphorisms, “Notebook K,” aph. 48 
(written 1765–99; tr. by R. J. Hollingdale, 1990).
Original on  --Conh 22:20, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Teahouse Text

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message: I find it frankly amazing that this article makes no mention whatsoever of the controversy regarding Marlon Brando's 'yellowface' performance in this film. There have been repeated mentions of it as a controversial role for Brando to have played. The first time I encountered a mention of the film in print was in the 'Golden Turkey Awards' where it won the category of 'Most Offensive Racial Stereotyping'.
Other examples of it being mentioned as featuring a notorious 'yellowface performance':
http://www.asianweek.com/top-25-yellow-face-performance-10to6/ - comes in at no. 9 in Asianweek's  25 top yellowface performances.
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/18/18_yellow.php - "Brando gets a "C" for effort, and actually attempts an "authentic" Japanese accent (he even speaks some Japanese, but it's all in that unique Brando voice). Standard prosthetic eyepieces and makeup, made all the more noticeable because he is the only actor in yellowface in a sea of Asian extras and secondary characters. Looking unmistakably like Marlon Brando doesn't help either."
http://www.racebending.com/v3/background/history-of-yellowface/ -  a history of 'yellowface' performances complains that, in the 50s, asian roles were more commonly played by caucasian actors.
Teahouse of the August Moon even gets a mention in the Wikipedia page Portrayal of East Asians in Hollywood: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrayal_of_East_Asians_in_Hollywood
As I've never edited wikipedia before I'm going to leave it for now but I feel there are plenty of sources that would make it almost a necessity to mention this aspect of the movie prominently and without burying it within the text. 123.117.0.135 (talk) 17:13, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: huh?? just MY opinion, i thought this was a sweet & funny (satire) movie.. taken in content! of when it was made! and NOT, 2008 etc. In category of 'Most Offensive Racial Stereotyping'....?? see Mickey Rooney in stupid movie 'Brkfst @ Tiffany's'. geez ppl, get an education. 2600:1700:A760:C10:FC64:5E4A:DF05:F44C (talk) 17:01, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yellowface