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I've just seen it at the cinema, and when I read about it here later, I noticed that
Marta Dusseldorp supposedly played a character called "Memsahib". Well, there was no such character in the film I saw. I've seen Dusseldorp in a few things and I would have noticed her if she was here.
Checking IMdB, I see there are also characters called "Mother (rumored)" and "Mrs. Margery Lomax". Apart from not having the faintest idea what "Mother (rumored)" means, I didn't see these characters in the movie either.
Not having seen the movie, I nevertheless ask whether you recall a scene, on the protagonist's way home, where a woman shows sympathy toward POWs for not having had the opportunity to "do their bit".
This blog refers to that woman as a memsahib, and I think
this text refers to the same scene (though without using memsahib. And see also
Sahib#Colonial_and_modern_use and
memsahib. ---
Sluzzelintalk17:32, 25 March 2014 (UTC)reply
Thanks for that ref, Sluzzelin. No, I don't remember that scene; but I'd have to see it again before I could categorically deny it was part of the movie. If it was there, Dusseldorp must have been made up to the point of unrecognition. She's had starring roles in some rather high profile Australian TV productions of recent years, so a fleeting scene in a movie at all, let alone one where a keen eye would fail to recognise her, seems contrary to that assault on fame.
All Ref Desk Regulars: Your mission for the weekend is to see The Railway Man and report back no later than Monday on the above issues. This is mandatory. That is all. --
Jack of Oz[pleasantries]21:39, 27 March 2014 (UTC)reply
Saw the movie. Don't recall the scene Jack's interested in. But geographic proximity to Jack (well, a couple of hundred kilometres) makes that unsurprising. We probably saw the same commercial cut.
HiLo48 (
talk)
23:25, 27 March 2014 (UTC)reply
So, this is relevant to my first question. I know about directors' cuts etc, but they typically happen some time after the initial release of the film. This film is still in its initial cinema run, at least down here. Why would it be released in different cuts (presumably for different geographical audiences) right from the start, and how would a random viewer ever know he isn't necessarily getting exactly the same finished product as another viewer elsewhere? I've read various reviews of The Railway Man (which is why I went to see it), but nothing about the issues I'm raising. And nothing in our article either. --
Jack of Oz[pleasantries]10:04, 28 March 2014 (UTC)reply
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I've just seen it at the cinema, and when I read about it here later, I noticed that
Marta Dusseldorp supposedly played a character called "Memsahib". Well, there was no such character in the film I saw. I've seen Dusseldorp in a few things and I would have noticed her if she was here.
Checking IMdB, I see there are also characters called "Mother (rumored)" and "Mrs. Margery Lomax". Apart from not having the faintest idea what "Mother (rumored)" means, I didn't see these characters in the movie either.
Not having seen the movie, I nevertheless ask whether you recall a scene, on the protagonist's way home, where a woman shows sympathy toward POWs for not having had the opportunity to "do their bit".
This blog refers to that woman as a memsahib, and I think
this text refers to the same scene (though without using memsahib. And see also
Sahib#Colonial_and_modern_use and
memsahib. ---
Sluzzelintalk17:32, 25 March 2014 (UTC)reply
Thanks for that ref, Sluzzelin. No, I don't remember that scene; but I'd have to see it again before I could categorically deny it was part of the movie. If it was there, Dusseldorp must have been made up to the point of unrecognition. She's had starring roles in some rather high profile Australian TV productions of recent years, so a fleeting scene in a movie at all, let alone one where a keen eye would fail to recognise her, seems contrary to that assault on fame.
All Ref Desk Regulars: Your mission for the weekend is to see The Railway Man and report back no later than Monday on the above issues. This is mandatory. That is all. --
Jack of Oz[pleasantries]21:39, 27 March 2014 (UTC)reply
Saw the movie. Don't recall the scene Jack's interested in. But geographic proximity to Jack (well, a couple of hundred kilometres) makes that unsurprising. We probably saw the same commercial cut.
HiLo48 (
talk)
23:25, 27 March 2014 (UTC)reply
So, this is relevant to my first question. I know about directors' cuts etc, but they typically happen some time after the initial release of the film. This film is still in its initial cinema run, at least down here. Why would it be released in different cuts (presumably for different geographical audiences) right from the start, and how would a random viewer ever know he isn't necessarily getting exactly the same finished product as another viewer elsewhere? I've read various reviews of The Railway Man (which is why I went to see it), but nothing about the issues I'm raising. And nothing in our article either. --
Jack of Oz[pleasantries]10:04, 28 March 2014 (UTC)reply