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Swing Girls (and a boy)

Started by bmwracer · 12 Mar 2007 · 2,049 replies

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29 Oct 2007, 07:28 #1191
I just love the way everyone in the band was given not just a name, but a whole background, even though they were seldom referred to in the movie. :dancing:
29 Oct 2007, 08:10 · edited #1192
thtl wrote:I just love the way everyone in the band was given not just a name, but a whole background, even though they were seldom referred to in the movie. :dancing:

I suppose you can thank the director and writers for that... And it was a team effort. :D
29 Oct 2007, 08:47 #1193
bmwracer wrote:
I suppose you can thank the director and writers for that... And it was a team effort. :D


I believe it was the director and the marketing guys. The girls' (and the boy's) profiles were not mentioned in the script or the novel, but appeared first in the movie's website. It gives a whole new perspective to the players if you read their background, and then see them in action.
29 Oct 2007, 08:50 #1194
thtl wrote:I believe it was the director and the marketing guys. The girls' (and the boy's) profiles were not mentioned in the script or the novel, but appeared first in the movie's website. It gives a whole new perspective to the players if you read their background, and then see them in action.

Sure does... It adds to the realism and makes you feel like you know them... And that feeling is carried on in that book which is sorta like a high school yearbook. :)
29 Oct 2007, 09:22 #1195
bmwracer wrote:
Sure does... It adds to the realism and makes you feel like you know them... And that feeling is carried on in that book which is sorta like a high school yearbook. :)


It sure did. While there may be more successful movies out there, I can't think of one off the top of my head that put in more peripheral effort (my words). The Korean movie My Sassay Girl, my favourite Korean film, also put in a lot of little cues to 'explain' plot lines. But it did so inside the movie itself.
29 Oct 2007, 10:33 #1196
thtl wrote:While there may be more successful movies out there, I can't think of one off the top of my head that put in more peripheral effort (my words).

Actually, Swing Girls did quite well, being the 8th most popular film of 2004, from what I read...

But yeah, all the other stuff did expand and elaborate the Swing Girls world.... For which I'm very grateful. :victory:
30 Oct 2007, 07:48 #1198
A very brief description of the characters' backgrounds.


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Tomoko's father is a civil servant with stomach problems.

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Yoshie fantasizes of being the heroine of romantic mangas and novels. Her first love was her kindergarten teacher.

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Both of Kaori's parents work full time so she was left alone mostly. Her only companion (conversation partner) was a dog that belonged to the home appliance shop next door (to her home).

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Naomi is big healthy big who doesn't care to take an umbrella when she goes out into the rain, and wears scantily on snowy days. Her gluttony caused her weight to shoot up and all efforts to lose weight failed.

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Takuo is the only child of a dentist and his mother the child of an expatriate. His parents are quite strict when it comes to educating him.
30 Oct 2007, 07:53 #1199
thtl wrote:A very brief description of the characters' backgrounds.

Cool.

This is a direct translation of the text?
30 Oct 2007, 08:02 #1200
bmwracer wrote:
Cool.

This is a direct translation of the text?


However much of the text I can understand, yes.

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