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5:37 pm - 10/20/2011

The Trailer for The Flowers of War

[info]ljubavirakija 20th-Oct-2011 04:53 pm (UTC)
Are watching the trailer I'm very confused about the premise.

Does CBale play a man of God, trying to protect the girls; or, is he pimping them out?
[info]teetersslow 20th-Oct-2011 04:57 pm (UTC)
idek, from what i heard before the trailer he was supposed to be saving them but now i'm confused
[info]ljubavirakija 20th-Oct-2011 04:59 pm (UTC)
Well, I'm glad another person is just as confused. LOL
[info]miss_29 20th-Oct-2011 05:12 pm (UTC)
He's definitely trying to protect them from being brutally raped/murdered but it seems like there's an obligatory romance added just for the sake of romance. Bleh.
[info]must_go_faster 20th-Oct-2011 05:20 pm (UTC)
wiki

The film is set in 1937 in Nanjing, China during the Nanking Massacre, at the time of the Second Sino-Japanese War. A group of escapees, finding sanctuary in a Church compound, risk their lives as they struggle to survive the plight and persecution brought on by the violent invasion of the city. Christian Bale portrays John Magee, an American priest who helps a number of Chinese escape certain death.

imdb

Chinese sex workers in 1937 volunteer to replace university students as escorts for invading Japanese soldiers
[info]sharangurl 20th-Oct-2011 09:06 pm (UTC)
Here is a better synopsis. Bale isn't a priest, he pretends to be in the movie:

"THE FLOWERS OF WAR will center on a foreign mortician who comes to China in 1937 to bury a priest. He has the misfortune of being there just as Japanese forces are taking over the capital and epic battles rage all around him. The late priest’s cathedral was also a school for girls in which the mortician must now pose as a priest to avoid incarceration by the advancing Japanese army. But he is forced to take a more active role in the conflict when the soldiers demand the use of the young female students as “entertainment” for their troops."
[info]lovejoydiver 21st-Oct-2011 12:50 am (UTC)
lol yea the trailer seems to be cut really weirdly.
[info]ani_di_franco 20th-Oct-2011 04:53 pm (UTC)
This looks crazy and all over the place.

[info]mammary_glands 20th-Oct-2011 04:58 pm (UTC)
i'm confused
[info]thaumos 20th-Oct-2011 05:02 pm (UTC)
Hmm.. This trailer is somewhat of a mess.
[info]grotesque_xxx 20th-Oct-2011 05:07 pm (UTC)
Bale ? o.O
[info]spacebound09 20th-Oct-2011 05:08 pm (UTC)
terribly edited trailer
[info]miss_29 20th-Oct-2011 05:10 pm (UTC)
OMG the Nanjing massacre :X. So fucked up that even the Nazis were disgusted. This film will probably be great but I don't know if I can watch it. What the Japanese did was beyond inhuman. It's part of the reason why I side-eye weaboos who saw Japan is a flawfree country (along with xenophobia, conformist mentality, etc.)

FYI: to anyone who wants to google the Nanjing Massacre, BE CAREFUL. The pictures are DISTURBING ENOUGH to give you nightmares, even on a strict Google safesearch.
[info]sitakhet 20th-Oct-2011 05:36 pm (UTC)
Yeah Unit 731 (don't wiki this if you get queasy easily, seriously) is the reason I side eye weeaboos, personally.
[info]miss_29 20th-Oct-2011 05:45 pm (UTC)
Oh God, I couldn't sleep that night after reading the wiki article. And they got away with it too, because it was deemed as "academic" or some sort of shit? I can't go back to the wiki article and check.
[info]miss_29 20th-Oct-2011 05:50 pm (UTC)
Oh and since I'm in an angry mood now, what pisses me off is how Japan NEVER acknowledges any of this. Anyone who worships Japan as a country is ignorant and fucking deluded. I cannot deal with the weaboos who say "World War 2 wasn't Japan's fault/as bad as the Nazis/etc". SMH.
[info]lem0nlight 21st-Oct-2011 04:12 am (UTC)
this is the main reason i can't stand a certain japanese celebrity tbqh
[info]miss_29 21st-Oct-2011 04:37 am (UTC)
Which one? What happened? And is there some sort of scandal I've missed?
[info]lem0nlight 21st-Oct-2011 03:54 pm (UTC)
Hyde. It's five or so years ago now, but in an MC for one of his solo concerts he basically said how awesomely peaceful and great Japan was vs the US who are always making wars and such. While the latter may be true, you can't possibly hold Japan up as a peaceful nation with this crap in their not-so-ancient history that they don't even fully acknowledge to this day. Pissed me off.

I actually used to be a fan too, but I can't forgive that kind of ignorance.
[info]grotesque_xxx 20th-Oct-2011 05:10 pm (UTC)
[info]teetersslow 20th-Oct-2011 05:12 pm (UTC)
oh my god, is that legit? it looks like someone knocked it out on photoshop in 5 minutes
[info]miss_29 20th-Oct-2011 05:14 pm (UTC)
Damn it, it looks like Zhang Yimou is trying too hard to appeal to the international market again. Between this shitty poster and the obligatory romance added, bleh. I hope he can go back to the brilliance of his old films - 'Raise the Red Lantern' is one of my fav films of all time.
[info]lovejoydiver 21st-Oct-2011 12:51 am (UTC)
mte, i love love love raise the red lantern and ju dou sfm, but his last few films have all been such messes.
[info]lynott 21st-Oct-2011 03:55 am (UTC)
god, ia sfm
[info]ebenetwo 20th-Oct-2011 05:16 pm (UTC)
LOL WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH HIS FACE
[info]morrbido 20th-Oct-2011 05:28 pm (UTC)
LMAO his face
[info]whysoseriousbb 20th-Oct-2011 05:50 pm (UTC)
LMAO HIS FACE
[info]ebenetwo 20th-Oct-2011 05:16 pm (UTC)
this is based on Nanjing yes?

i'm taking this less seriously coz they tried to add a love story with Bale (based on the trailer)... and then the weird ass smiley faces he made was not necessary for the trailer coz it was so out of context

although i hope someone giffed it
[info]drownanddive 20th-Oct-2011 05:16 pm (UTC)
That is one hot mess of a trailer.
[info]kaiserschmarrn 20th-Oct-2011 05:23 pm (UTC)
The trailer is a tad dramatic but the movie looks good and so does CBale. Why are people confused?
[info]ragdollia oh lawd20th-Oct-2011 05:26 pm (UTC)
[info]morrbido 20th-Oct-2011 05:28 pm (UTC)
i don't understand anything
[info]marielaurie 20th-Oct-2011 05:31 pm (UTC)
bad trailer, but i'll see this anyway.

btw unfffffff priest!bale
[info]prophecypro 20th-Oct-2011 05:57 pm (UTC)
Bale loves his period dramas big up
[info]beaorgana 20th-Oct-2011 06:26 pm (UTC)
This trailer is really bad...
[info]insaynejayne 20th-Oct-2011 07:03 pm (UTC)
y u no notify me, ontd?

meanwhile - the trailer confused me but I'm intrigued.
[info]sharangurl 20th-Oct-2011 09:39 pm (UTC)
If you're confused about the movie here is what it's about:

"THE FLOWERS OF WAR will center on a foreign mortician who comes to China in 1937 to bury a priest. He has the misfortune of being there just as Japanese forces are taking over the capital and epic battles rage all around him. The late priest’s cathedral was also a school for girls in which the mortician must now pose as a priest to avoid incarceration by the advancing Japanese army. But he is forced to take a more active role in the conflict when the soldiers demand the use of the young female students as “entertainment” for their troops."

btw I love your icon, his facial expressions in AP deserved an Oscar
[info]insaynejayne 20th-Oct-2011 11:12 pm (UTC)
ty for the summary!

you icon is just as delicious <3
ia ia, Pat Bateman was robbed an Oscar.
[info]sharangurl 21st-Oct-2011 12:44 am (UTC)
seriously I have no hope for the academy, except they did right by him when they gave him an award for the Fighter. Now he just needs another Oscar for best Actor
[info]insaynejayne 21st-Oct-2011 12:47 am (UTC)
Amen Sexy Bruce, Amen

[info]hysteric_23 20th-Oct-2011 07:25 pm (UTC)
The trailer was confusing but I'll still check this movie out
[info]sharangurl 20th-Oct-2011 09:37 pm (UTC)
If you read the actual synopsis the story makes more sense. Anyway IDC if it sucks because it has a sex scene with Bale and that's all I needed to convince me.
[info]michelleantonia 21st-Oct-2011 09:06 am (UTC)
Too bad the trailer makes NO sense!
[info]michelleantonia 21st-Oct-2011 09:06 am (UTC)
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