Paul P. Powell September 03, 2025 02:05 PM
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I admire Mishima and have read a good solid round handful of his writings.
However –of those works –I'd rank this as my least favorite. I suspect it emerged early in his career.
It is somewhat profound but not worth the difficulty and awkwardness of the narration.
Nowhere near as smooth, poised, or finessed as his other outpourings.
Thus, the movie with Kristofferson I was never motivated to explore; in light of my lukewarm reaction to the novel itself.
Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) published this
Sailor
in 1963.

I admire Mishima and have read a good solid round handful of his writings.
However –of those works –I'd rank this as my least favorite. I suspect it emerged early in his career.
It is somewhat profound but not worth the difficulty and awkwardness of the narration.
Nowhere near as smooth, poised, or finessed as his other outpourings.
Thus, the movie with Kristofferson I was never motivated to explore; in light of my lukewarm reaction to the novel itself.
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I told you already I took it up with PC a few times.

Oh ****, I keep forgetting. I'll go to that board and post something about Mishima. Lol.
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I'm being direct, as I was when I posted it. I've seen people post trailers in the GD section before. I have on occasion posted in the movie boards but the last posts were sometimes a year or even a two, so what's the point, when no matter, still several replies are made.
I'm just looking to talk to current members, and not read posts that are years old. I made that clear, since I just don't get why this has to be such a gigantic issue with some people when I'm just here to have fun.
As I've said, up front, I'll stop posting trailers to movies in GD if they're so offensive and distracting despite that I've been doing it since I joined, and have seen others do the same thing. I'll stick to other topics.
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Right. Not at all being passive aggressive about it.

What? I'm simply saying it happens and there's no need to get in a huff over it.
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Uh oh. You didn't put this under the "movie" category, just the GD forum. Be warned.
(Maybe you're exempt?)
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I've seen the uncut version too. When Bowie reveals himself to Candy Clark she pees on the rug
When Candy's crying, she has snot running out of her nose
If we take the time to see with the heart and not with the mind, we shall see that we are surrounded completely by angels ~ Carlos Santana

I really liked The Man Who Fell to Earth. It's a slow burn, but what didn't you like about it.
As far as Bowie movies falling flat, you didn't like The Hunger?
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Divine, right? Interesting how a rather frumpy ordinary looking man can become so frighteningly outrageous in drag!
I never saw Performance. I saw "Man Who Fell" and it was good but just didn't blow my mind. My point about Bowie playing his own persona was that he played an alien like his character onstage. I was disappointed with Bowie in film because he was a musical genius but as an actor he was rather average. I guess I expected Ziggy Stardust and he didn't deliver.
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The Man Who Fell To Earth and Performance are both superior films but also happen to be their first and best films, probably because they were used more for their image than for their acting range. Kristofferson has an image better suited to cinema and also happens to be a good actor.
You remember those old pictures I posted of me with a beard during the 1980s? The reason why I shaved it off was because I saw Kristofferson in a film called Trouble in Mind and realised I’d never look as good as that. Recognise the other actor?

I never thought Bowie's films were anything special. Jagger did quite a few movies and none are memorable.
Kristofferson transitioned over into moves rather well though. If you look him up he did dozens of popular movies. "Sailor" was one of his first and more arsty and it seems to have given him credibility.
And Jagger's and Bowie's films were egotistically centered around them as personas. Kristofferson didn't typecast himself.
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The crime syndicate movies seem suited to his macho persona. This is one reason why I am fascinated by Mishima. His was a completely masculine homosexual aesthetic. That's rare now.
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There’s a short film he made on YouTube along with some of his acting roles. His Yakuza films were more mainstream than you’d expect but I suppose he did them for the money.

I admit I haven't even read the book. Hearing about the movie I thought it might be a heterosexual romance, kinda like that song "Brandy". Lol.
I've read Mishima's "Forbidden Colors", "Confessions of a Mask", "The Sound of Waves".
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I haven’t seen this but it was controversial when it came out and the first time I noticed the name Mishima.