Tea with Snowflower and the Secret Fan team

That Lulu’s fierce. I wish i had room for her the tea thing.
Hey… did you see the WSJ coverage on the tea? Mentions a head of social media site..

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/07/16/tea-with-the-cast-of-snow-flower-and-the-secret-fan/

Straddling early-19th-century China and modern Shanghai, Wayne Wang’s “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan” tells the story of two sets of women that share a deep bond, a love, that is impermeable to men. Adapted from the bestselling 2005 Lisa See novel, the film diverges from the book, adding the modernized cast of characters. In an attempt to streamline the stories, Li Bingbing and Gianna Jun, the stars of the film, play both sets of women.

Although the film is a steep departure from the novel, See said she prioritized the historical facts — and getting them right — above all else. In the novel she goes to painstaking lengths to describe the intimate details of foot-binding, from the way the feet are wrapped to the bones breaking one by one in the foot. The author wanted to ensure facts like those weren’t lost in the film and did so by requesting and reading each version of the script.

“I wanted to see everything,” See said.

Wang, best known for “Maid in Manhattan” and the film adaptation of “The Joy Luck Club,” said he “modernized” the film by adding the present-day narrative. “I always wanted to be respectful of the book but there is too much spoon feeding in films today. Too many films are made to be consumed easily. I want this film to be more completely understood in multiple sittings,” said Wang.

“Women’s friendship has not changed through time,” See said to a group of women sitting at a table overflowing with tea and scones. Earlier in the week, See, Wang and Bingbing, gathered a group of fourteen women ranging in both age and ethnicity at Maze at The London in Manhattan. The purpose of the tea was to discuss, distill and converse about the bond that exists between women both past and present.

“’Sex and the City’ does not reflect the daily lives of many women,” See added, to the nodding approval of both Bingbing and Wang. Although they had only met two weeks ago See and Wang nearly relied heavily upon the other, deferring back and forth to one another throughout the conversation.

From an established Chinese woman in private equity to a young girl in an otherwise all-male rock band to the head of a social networking website, each reinforced the other’s comment that ultimately led to a singular concurrent thought: friendship between women supersedes all else.

2 thoughts on “Tea with Snowflower and the Secret Fan team”

jaymiePost author

July 19, 2011 at 6:07 pm

hey thanks! prob bc I opened my big mouth at the tea 🙂 You know I always have to participate.
Eseel

July 19, 2011 at 6:07 pm

That Lulu’s fierce. I wish i had room for her the tea thing.
Hey… did you see the WSJ coverage on the tea? Mentions a head of social media site..

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/07/16/tea-with-the-cast-of-snow-flower-and-the-secret-fan/

Straddling early-19th-century China and modern Shanghai, Wayne Wang’s “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan” tells the story of two sets of women that share a deep bond, a love, that is impermeable to men. Adapted from the bestselling 2005 Lisa See novel, the film diverges from the book, adding the modernized cast of characters. In an attempt to streamline the stories, Li Bingbing and Gianna Jun, the stars of the film, play both sets of women.

Although the film is a steep departure from the novel, See said she prioritized the historical facts — and getting them right — above all else. In the novel she goes to painstaking lengths to describe the intimate details of foot-binding, from the way the feet are wrapped to the bones breaking one by one in the foot. The author wanted to ensure facts like those weren’t lost in the film and did so by requesting and reading each version of the script.

“I wanted to see everything,” See said.

Wang, best known for “Maid in Manhattan” and the film adaptation of “The Joy Luck Club,” said he “modernized” the film by adding the present-day narrative. “I always wanted to be respectful of the book but there is too much spoon feeding in films today. Too many films are made to be consumed easily. I want this film to be more completely understood in multiple sittings,” said Wang.

“Women’s friendship has not changed through time,” See said to a group of women sitting at a table overflowing with tea and scones. Earlier in the week, See, Wang and Bingbing, gathered a group of fourteen women ranging in both age and ethnicity at Maze at The London in Manhattan. The purpose of the tea was to discuss, distill and converse about the bond that exists between women both past and present.

“’Sex and the City’ does not reflect the daily lives of many women,” See added, to the nodding approval of both Bingbing and Wang. Although they had only met two weeks ago See and Wang nearly relied heavily upon the other, deferring back and forth to one another throughout the conversation.

From an established Chinese woman in private equity to a young girl in an otherwise all-male rock band to the head of a social networking website, each reinforced the other’s comment that ultimately led to a singular concurrent thought: friendship between women supersedes all else.