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on this day in history

12 and holding premiere toronto international film festival 11th september 2005

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"Mémoires d'une Geisha"

Extrait de ce très beau film 🎬 de Rob Marshall de 2006

Bel après-midi 🙋‍♀️

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I feel a deep kinship with Zoe Weizenbaum

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Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) Director - Rob Marshall, Cinematography - Dion Beebe "We must not expect happiness, Sayuri. It is not something we deserve. When life goes well, it is a sudden gift; it cannot last forever..."

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12 and Holding (USA, 2005)

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I feel like if the people here watched the movie ‘Twelve and holding’, it would become tumblr’s favourite....

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Watchfires of Freedom

77. Watchfires of Freedom

The flu pandemic was still ravaging the country and the soldiers who returned from WWI carried the double burden of severe injuries and PTSD. However, the suffragists pushed on. The National Woman’s Party (NWP) who had been picketing the White House since January of 1918, took even bolder action to draw attention to suffrage. President Wilson had promised to do all he could to help pass suffrage, but with the bill lingering in the Senate with no scheduled vote, the words felt empty and pandering. On September 16, 1918, the NWP staged a protest at the Lafayette monument across from the White House. With the President’s hollow promise to “do all I can” written on a piece of paper, Lucy Branham held up a torch and publicly burned the note. 

On October 1, 1918, the Senate finally held the first vote on the suffrage bill. It was 2 votes short of the ⅔ majority needed and did not pass. The Silent Sentinels of the National Woman’s Party (Episode 71) wore black armbands to mourn the “Death of Justice”. However the real activism came when women from all kinds of suffrage organizations became intentionally focused on campaigning against any politician who was not actively supporting suffrage. Progressives won the 1918 fall election.  

On December 16, the 145th Anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, 300 women from the NWP went to the Lafayette monument across from the White House. They carried suffrage banners and torches. They brought a large urn to burn books that President Wilson had written and copies of speeches he had given; any paper where he mentioned “liberty”, “freedom”, or “democracy”. 84-year-old suffrage veteran Olympia Brown was one of the protestors. 

On January 1, 1919, suffragists from the NWP placed a Grecian urn filled with wood harvested from a tree in Philadelphia’s Independence Mall in front of the White House gates and lit the first official “Watchfire of Freedom”. Through the freezing rain, Alice Paul, Annie Arniel (WCW 73) and Julia Emory stood guard the first night. Over the next few days, crowds often rushed to extinguish the “perpetual flame” and harass the suffragists. Arrests were made. New suffragists took their place and continually relit the fire no matter what happened. By the end of January, 29 suffragists were on hunger strikes in prison and other suffragists continued to take their place to keep the fire burning.

The watchfire demonstrations forced the Senate to schedule a second vote on the suffrage bill for February 10, 1919. Suffragists hoped the lame duck Senators would want to leave a positive legacy on the way out. The bill only needed one more vote to pass. In one last bold attempt to demand suffrage, the women planned to burn an effigy of President Wilson. In order to get away with it before police could stop them, instead of making a large easily seized figure, they made a two-foot tall cartoonish figure that could be concealed until needed and quickly dropped into the urn. Sue White held the effigy, accused the president and his party of keeping women “in political slavery”, and dropped it into the flames. All the women were immediately arrested. Moderate suffrage groups condemned the outrageous act which shocked the general public. On February 10th, the bill was voted down.

The NWP’s brazen actions were very much in line with Emmeline Pankhurst's militant British suffragettes who cut up golf courses, smashed shop windows, and set buildings on fire. While in London, both Lucy Burns and Alice Paul were active members of Pankhurst’s radical group. Picketing the White House and burning the President in effigy was seen to be just as violent as the acts of the British suffragettes, but, the National Women’s Party never embraced the term “suffragette” and only used “suffragist”. 

The names of some of the women who were arrested for the effigy burning were Louise Havermyer, Cora Weeks, Bertha Wallerstein, Louise Bryant, Mary Edith Ainge, Amy Jungling, Mrs. Payls Chevrier, and Lucy Burns.

This week’s song pick:

“I’m Burning for You” by the Blue Oyster Cult, covered by actor Zoe Weizenbaum as the character Malee Chuang in the movie “12 and Holding” (It is only part of the song but she’s fabulous.) https://youtu.be/IOO8P3aUT58

Image of a “Watchfire for Freedom” 1919

https://www.loc.gov/item/mnwp000303

#SuffragetteCity100 #SufferingForSuffrage

Episode 77 Sources:

https://www.history.com/news/suffrage-19th-amendment-ratification-election

https://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/connections/women-protest/history4.html

https://www.loc.gov/collections/women-of-protest/articles-and-essays/historial-timeline-of-the-national-womans-party/1918-to-1920/

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1919/02/10/97071928.html?pageNumber=1

“Winning the Vote” by Robert P.J. Cooney Jr. Chapter 16 (pages 388-401)

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Zoe Weizenbaum

Facts

September 21, 1991

former American actress

she was born to Jewish mother and a Chinese father

Filmography

Female Writer [ Assassination of a High School President: 2008]

Young Pumpkin [Geisha: 2005]

Malee [ 12 and Holding: 2005]

Lenny [ Missing in America: 2005]

Appearance

black hair

brown eyes

Roleplay

playable: teenager

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tumblr meets Jeremy Renner

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“i directed jeremy in a film called ‘12 and holding’ back in 2006.  i knew from the moment the camera was on him he was the real deal. one of the best actors of his generation. he has a face that speak volumes.  his inner life is constantly stirring”

 - michael cuesta on jeremy renner

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Memoirs of a Geisha directed by Rob Marshall, written by Robin Swicord

(Originally a book by Arthur Golden)

IMDB rating: 7.1

Rotten Tomatoes rating: 35%

Personal rating: 10/10

Sayuri (Suzuka Ohgo and Ziyi Zhang) and her sister a transported away from their home in a fishing village and parents and sent to live in different places in the big town of Kyoto, Japan. They are then separated and Sayuri is trained to be a geisha alongside another geisha child, Pumpkin (Zoe Weizenbaum and Youki Kudoh). Unfortunately for Sayuri, the main geisha of the house, Hatsumomo, (Li Gong), takes a disliking to her and, after being framed for a lot of Hatsumomo's trouble, Sayuri is made a servant instead of a geisha in training.

A turning point in Sayuri's life occurs when a kind stranger, the Chairman (Ken Watanabe), buys her sweet cherry whilst she walks through the town. She's determined to become a geisha and meet the Chairman again so she is very lucky when Mameha (Michelle Yeoh) takes her under her wing at the age of 15 and she finally is able to achieve her dream of being a geisha, but can she be the best? Will she find the Chairman again?

This film is my absolute favourite. It is such a beautiful story with beautiful film work to go with it. Literally all emotions are covered from heartbreak, love, laughter, jealousy, it's an overwhelming story that I've watched countless and will watch over and over for the rest of my life. Probably more for girls, I would recommend this to any of my friends. It's definitely a film I could watch and then start again from the beginning as soon as it finishes.

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12 and Holding

Review:

Okay so...here is the thing. I did originally DL this movie for JRens (love of my life XD). But...it's a really interesting coming of age plot. I mean the three characters deal with some interesting issues: the death of a sibling, appearance,  weight, divorced parents. All of the emotion just felt so real. I actually ended up really liking the movie. it's not brilliant, but it's at the very least relateable. Sure, some of the actions by the characters were...a bit extreme (Malee trying to seduce Gus (Renner) whom is like 3 times her age, Leonard holding his mother hostage, and the main character Jacob killing the bully who accidently killed his brother. 

Only thing I hated was the ending, because we didn't get to see the real end of Malee and Gus's story arcs. Does Gus come to terms with the fact that he killed that girl? Does Malee see her father? It just sort of ends with Gus killing Kenny, whom tried to reconcile. 

Well whatever, I give it about a solid 7/10. Go watch it if you feel like watching a nice coming of age movie. 

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on this day in history

12 and holding premiere, toronto international film festival 11th september 2005