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Around 12 minutes of My Geisha is taken up by selections from Madame Butterfly.
Otherwise it's a typically lovely, lush Waxman 50's/60's romantic dramedy score with some Asian ornamentation here and there.
I love it. It was one of my first, and still favorite, Kritzerland releases.
But I could easily live without the MB material, which disrupts the flow for me.
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May 9, 2021 - 5:55 PM
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Zooba
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I have THE GEISHA BOY, the Jerry Lewis movie, soundtrack from Kritzerland. I like it. Grand and Big from Lewis' regular composer Walter Scharf.
You can hear samples here:
http://www.kritzerland.com/geisha.htm
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The Friedhofer took the longest to grow on me (like a decade, to be honest -- I got the original Intrada edition and originally didn't care much for it even though I usually like Asian-tinged Hollywood scores) but over time it has grown in my estimation and now it might be my favorite of these three (which are all good). Of course I'm not sure whether it would best fit your own sensibilities, Onya, so I don't know how much my taste on this matters to this thread.
Yavar
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Agreed, zooba. For superb “Geisha” scores in this thread but Williams wrote my favorite of them all.
Yavar
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The Geishas of Kritzerland
Now there's a title for a movie that needs to be made.
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"Barbarian and the Geisha" is eliminated through a combination of hideous cover art and John Wayne involvement. (My pad is a John Wayne-free zone.)
Not sure what makes the cover art "hideous" though I can sympathize with an aversion to John Wayne. Don't think Hugo Friedhofer (or your ears) should be penalized for it though! (Rest assured this doesn't sound like a western score, haha.)
Yavar
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May 10, 2021 - 9:31 AM
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OnyaBirri
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"Barbarian and the Geisha" is eliminated through a combination of hideous cover art and John Wayne involvement. (My pad is a John Wayne-free zone.)
Not sure what makes the cover art "hideous"...
Beginning in perhaps the late 1990s, there has been a trend in which film studios will produce new artwork for their back catalogs to make the films look more "contemporary." Presumably, this is to trick viewers with no interest in cinema history into thinking the films are recent.
In some cases, when a boutique label releases a score, the film studio bullies the label into using whatever crappy artwork is on the current DVD release.
Billy Goldenberg's "Duel" is one such example. Just imagine if they would have used the 1970s Italian film poster for the CD!
At any rate, the artwork on "John Wayne Goes Geisha" looks suspiciously like one of those film studio hack jobs. Based on other Kritzerland releases that feature excellent, period-appropriate artwork, I would guess that this was not their idea.
... though I can sympathize with an aversion to John Wayne. Don't think Hugo Friedhofer (or your ears) should be penalized for it though! (Rest assured this doesn't sound like a western score, haha.)
Perhaps you are right, although if I had to compose music to John Wayne's image, it would not bring out the best in me.
I do admire the fact that John Wayne explored his feminine side by playing a geisha decades before this kind of thing became societally encouraged.
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May 10, 2021 - 9:48 AM
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Mose Harper
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I'd drawn a blank on Geisha Boy and I've had that for several years now. I own the Friedhofer too, but haven't gotten around to ripping/listening to it yet.
Of the two (MG and GB), Boy has more Japanese travelogue style passages. It's a more obvious comedy score , though, with the usual Mickey Mousing at tiimes, if that makes a difference.
If you can hang with that aspect, it's still an entirely pleasant listen.
Of the two, I still greatly prefer the Waxman- even with the 12 minutes of Madame Butterfly. But GB clearly seems to have more frequent, obvious Japanese accents, if that's what you're looking for.
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I know the phenomenon you’re talking about, but I’m pretty sure you’re wrong about it applying in this case, and that Kritzerland came up with the best cover design they could based on the available poster art. Multiple people in the announcement thread were pleasantly surprised by it (probably because it was an improvement over the Intrada, which I also think was probably not studio-mandated): https://filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?pageID=1&forumID=1&threadID=87712&archive=0
Google the original posters for this movie. A lot of them are incredibly cringey. I think Kritzerland made the best possible cover in this case.
Yavar
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