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| "Women's Life and Health" is the interview series that features active professional women about their health, lifestyle and career. |
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Sachiko Watanabe, Film Critique -Part1 |
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| Sachiko Watanabe |
| Graduated from the Kyoritsu Women’s University’s Faculty of Arts and Letters in Film. Following graduation, she joined the editorial department of Ondorisha Publishers’s Eiga Story [Movie Story]. After working as the chief editor of a PR magazine, Watanabe switched to freelance writing which she continues still. Currently she introduces and reviews movies for newspapers, movie magazines, etc. and also appears on the NHK Radio 1 show “Waku-Waku Radio Mimi Yori Seikatsu Joho ‘Totte Oki Cinema’” [Exciting Radio’s Daily Living Scoop: “Cinema Talk”] (http://www.nhk.or.jp/radiodir/wakuwaku/index.html), which is broadcast every other Friday. Her hobbies are cooking and growing flowers (particularly tree peonies). |
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| Today I’d like to look at movies from the point of view of women’s health and careers. What comes to mind when you think of Hollywood stars and health? |
| Actors’ teeth are their life. Teeth are something I really notice about a performer in a film. Hollywood stars all have beautiful teeth. In fact, they’re so gleaming and beautiful that sometimes it seems almost unnatural. But, well, people just won’t accept a Hollywood star with bad teeth. Conversely, when someone plays a homeless character, they have to make sure and dirty up their teeth. An interesting example recently is Johnny Depp in “Pirates of the Caribbean.” Have you seen his teeth? He doesn’t smile much of late because his mouth is full of silver teeth. He’s playing a pirate in the movie so he had a bunch of silver caps put in. |
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| Really? |
| It’s true. He’s contracted for three installments of that film, so even now he’s got those silver teeth in. Let’s see, there are two on the top and two on the bottom. I heard this from producer Jerry Bruckheimer when I interviewed him, but when shooting finally got under way, Johnny Depp had gone and had all of his front teeth done in silver! |
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| Wow, sounds like overkill. |
| A whole mouth of silver teeth would be pretty scary! Jerry Bruckheimer asked him to get rid of some of the silver, so he settled on the look he has now. Depending on the part, producers and directors don’t need to give orders; Johnny Depp voluntarily went out and changed his teeth. That’s why-until May of next year when the third installment comes out-he will have a mouth full of gleaming silver teeth! |
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| I figured they would just paint them or use some sort of special effects. |
| Painting or effects would make it into a joke, and a joke isn’t what the producer and director are intending, right? “What’s the big deal about getting some dental work if you’re going to put that much of yourself into the role?”is what they’d say. |
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| So in Hollywood teeth are so important that people think, “What’s the big deal about getting some dental work?” On the other hand, you don’t hear about Japanese actors and actresses getting that caught up about teeth. |
| Recently, even in Japan, the awareness of the importance of teeth has gone up tremendously. I also do television-related work, which puts me in contact with actors, actresses and a variety of people, and the topics such as teeth certainly come up. They’ll make comments like “That guy has really nice teeth.” Yeah, I’d say the Japanese really care about teeth, too. |
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