Friday was our Film History final test. After this marked the start of my two-months holiday as well.
Film History is considered as one of the most difficult modules to understand and learn and all that stuff. Obviously we have people going around “Why should we learn abt history??!?!??! What’s past is past!!!”
Yaaaaaa…….. its because of ppl like us who read on history know what to expect in current times. A peaceful world? Fat hope….
Film History basically teaches us about the development of western cinema from its start in 1895 to today….. and modern Hollywood’s a real bastard by dumbing down talented directors and writers to follow their materialistic money making blockbuster schemes….
Throughout the module I learnt that cinema changes not because of technology or society or whatever….. it’s basically POLITICS and ECONOMY.
Like Vselovod Pudovkin, the guy I wrote the report about (and got 74% mark! Hee hee..)… talented filmmaker who perfected editing techniques… made very strong films that portrayed working class people of Bolshevik Russia as stronger than those fat ass politicians….. but then he was taken in by Stalin, given propaganda projects that just had to conform with Stalin’s view on the ideal Russia at that time and resulted in the artistic death of Pudovkin as so many lies had to put in otherwise Pudovkin would be punished by the Stalinist regime. Pudovkin did try to compromised.. but no matter what he did, he had to give lies and was denied artistic freedom. Finally, he died of sadness, having only managed to make three more films after Stalin. The irony is that Stalin died the same year he did.
Other than pre-world war two cinema, I have no idea what’s up with the history after that. The French New Wav started coming in then the Italian Neorealism and then Hollywood collapses and rises up again to what it is today; another product of money-making-soul-eating modern day factory for America.
Wendy Wee herself kept rolling her eyes at the quality of Hollywood now. Even my textbook was like “Hollywood…. Urgh.”
So at around 3pm the night before I opened up my textbook…. Got bored… so I took the Straits Times lying on the floor infront of the toilet bowl.
And then I came across this article in the HOME section.
Basically.. this Singaporean film-maker produced a film called “Singapore Rebel” which showed the “activities of Singapore Democratic Party chief”, Chee Soon Juan.
The film got pulled out of the Singapore Film Festival, probably will never be shown here and the filmmaker received a “stern warning” from the police.
I’m not particularly concerned of the film (though it’d be interesting to look see around….) …. But I’m just SIBEH DOO LAN-ED the the fucking law he seemingly violated EXISTS!!!!!
SIMI LAN JIAO WTF KINDA LAW STATES - “THE MAKING AND DISTRIBUTING OF PARTY POLITICAL FILMS IS FORBIDDEN.” !?!?!!
Even though (I think) it doesn’t clearly state that we cant make a Michael Moore-ish type of film…. But even if we do…. We will still get Backside Tear-ation Syndrome!
Someone up there will go, “Orhhhhhhh eng eng liao u make filem on PAP~~~~ ooorhhhh u die liao….”
Cos LKY = Gahment = PAP.
If u go other way - Gahment = PAP, PAP = Gahment and Gahment = PAP = you get fucked anyhow.
I’m really sibeh damn doo lan la. WHY CANT WE NOT MAKE A PARTY POLITICAL FILM!??!?”
Ham Ji? Scared to lose face? Scared other leaders will see? Need to always be clean otherwise they dun come Singapore?
Orhhh I know its because it will cause riots and civil unrest like you know the Royston Tan de film? The one he did after doing the Super-Duper-Better-Than-Eric-Khoo film called 15, the one that the Singapore Film Censorship Board cut out TWENTY SEVEN shots? Just because it was about bengs and had a shot of dick?
But mostly its that you’re scared of other ppl finding out our clean country has “bad” people? na beh chee bai...
15 is such a meaningful film that I really think every single Singaporean should get the uncensored version from overseas and watch it, then pass to their friends, and pass to their friend’s friends. Actually I have the uncensored version. So if anyone wants it pls come get me.
After 15 got fucked by the Board, he made a film that poked fun at the board…. And like 15, it got fucked, banned, and Royston kanna warning.
I have one middle finger on my left hand…. Another one on my right. And now I’m waving it too all these Ham Ji Association people who make ham ji laws.
Yes. Films do have the power to invoke riots and civil unrest. It can affect a fuckload of society members… just look at Da Vinci Code! All the virgin old men now shaking in their robes!
But doesn’t this mean that the society’s maturity should come into play?
If you were to hide your child from scratches, brusies, accidents, falls and all things evil all the time… what if one day, like say a horny old men touch his ball ball or his friend’s ball ball? You think he will be superhero and save the whole fucking world because he’s so “clean”????
..
.
..
NI DE TOU LA KNN.
Your fucking fat son will be crying and sobbing and dunno what to do like a fucking ah gua! All his branded jeans and waxed hair and fat tummy wont be of any use!
Its like sometimes the society needs to be given some tests so that it can review its progress… so that ppl can see what’s wrong, fix it… and then mature so they wont be a fucking complain kia like as if they married an ang moh and went to Los Angeles with him. Even better if it’s homegrown… so it hits them harder.
Let’s see….. Do you people in Tampines even cared when the Yishun bomb plot was uncovered? NO RIGHT?!?!!? Maybe for a day or twenty but after that you’d see all the newspapers going, “Dun worry hor… our gahment sibeh swee swee found all the pcb so Singapore safe liao… Our system very tok kong wan dun pray pray!”
And then you walk away from the next terrorist going “AIya gahment will settle la…”
Correct anot? Do you call this maturing? It’s called RETARDED!
Pls la all the big people up there…. Could u dun be a mother goose? Our testicles need to grow!
Disclaimer: I am a Singaporean, and i love my country and my people and Lee Kuan Yew is one of my heroes. But sometimes... the way some people run things just irks me off. If you think i'm making no sense.... lets just say it's like you love your best friend... but he sometimes fucks up and so u get angry at him, correct? Does this mean you are "playing with his feelings"?
Film History is considered as one of the most difficult modules to understand and learn and all that stuff. Obviously we have people going around “Why should we learn abt history??!?!??! What’s past is past!!!”
Yaaaaaa…….. its because of ppl like us who read on history know what to expect in current times. A peaceful world? Fat hope….
Film History basically teaches us about the development of western cinema from its start in 1895 to today….. and modern Hollywood’s a real bastard by dumbing down talented directors and writers to follow their materialistic money making blockbuster schemes….
Throughout the module I learnt that cinema changes not because of technology or society or whatever….. it’s basically POLITICS and ECONOMY.
Like Vselovod Pudovkin, the guy I wrote the report about (and got 74% mark! Hee hee..)… talented filmmaker who perfected editing techniques… made very strong films that portrayed working class people of Bolshevik Russia as stronger than those fat ass politicians….. but then he was taken in by Stalin, given propaganda projects that just had to conform with Stalin’s view on the ideal Russia at that time and resulted in the artistic death of Pudovkin as so many lies had to put in otherwise Pudovkin would be punished by the Stalinist regime. Pudovkin did try to compromised.. but no matter what he did, he had to give lies and was denied artistic freedom. Finally, he died of sadness, having only managed to make three more films after Stalin. The irony is that Stalin died the same year he did.
Other than pre-world war two cinema, I have no idea what’s up with the history after that. The French New Wav started coming in then the Italian Neorealism and then Hollywood collapses and rises up again to what it is today; another product of money-making-soul-eating modern day factory for America.
Wendy Wee herself kept rolling her eyes at the quality of Hollywood now. Even my textbook was like “Hollywood…. Urgh.”
So at around 3pm the night before I opened up my textbook…. Got bored… so I took the Straits Times lying on the floor infront of the toilet bowl.
And then I came across this article in the HOME section.
Basically.. this Singaporean film-maker produced a film called “Singapore Rebel” which showed the “activities of Singapore Democratic Party chief”, Chee Soon Juan.
The film got pulled out of the Singapore Film Festival, probably will never be shown here and the filmmaker received a “stern warning” from the police.
I’m not particularly concerned of the film (though it’d be interesting to look see around….) …. But I’m just SIBEH DOO LAN-ED the the fucking law he seemingly violated EXISTS!!!!!
SIMI LAN JIAO WTF KINDA LAW STATES - “THE MAKING AND DISTRIBUTING OF PARTY POLITICAL FILMS IS FORBIDDEN.” !?!?!!
Even though (I think) it doesn’t clearly state that we cant make a Michael Moore-ish type of film…. But even if we do…. We will still get Backside Tear-ation Syndrome!
Someone up there will go, “Orhhhhhhh eng eng liao u make filem on PAP~~~~ ooorhhhh u die liao….”
Cos LKY = Gahment = PAP.
If u go other way - Gahment = PAP, PAP = Gahment and Gahment = PAP = you get fucked anyhow.
I’m really sibeh damn doo lan la. WHY CANT WE NOT MAKE A PARTY POLITICAL FILM!??!?”
Ham Ji? Scared to lose face? Scared other leaders will see? Need to always be clean otherwise they dun come Singapore?
Orhhh I know its because it will cause riots and civil unrest like you know the Royston Tan de film? The one he did after doing the Super-Duper-Better-Than-Eric-Khoo film called 15, the one that the Singapore Film Censorship Board cut out TWENTY SEVEN shots? Just because it was about bengs and had a shot of dick?
But mostly its that you’re scared of other ppl finding out our clean country has “bad” people? na beh chee bai...
15 is such a meaningful film that I really think every single Singaporean should get the uncensored version from overseas and watch it, then pass to their friends, and pass to their friend’s friends. Actually I have the uncensored version. So if anyone wants it pls come get me.
After 15 got fucked by the Board, he made a film that poked fun at the board…. And like 15, it got fucked, banned, and Royston kanna warning.
I have one middle finger on my left hand…. Another one on my right. And now I’m waving it too all these Ham Ji Association people who make ham ji laws.
Yes. Films do have the power to invoke riots and civil unrest. It can affect a fuckload of society members… just look at Da Vinci Code! All the virgin old men now shaking in their robes!
But doesn’t this mean that the society’s maturity should come into play?
If you were to hide your child from scratches, brusies, accidents, falls and all things evil all the time… what if one day, like say a horny old men touch his ball ball or his friend’s ball ball? You think he will be superhero and save the whole fucking world because he’s so “clean”????
..
.
..
NI DE TOU LA KNN.
Your fucking fat son will be crying and sobbing and dunno what to do like a fucking ah gua! All his branded jeans and waxed hair and fat tummy wont be of any use!
Its like sometimes the society needs to be given some tests so that it can review its progress… so that ppl can see what’s wrong, fix it… and then mature so they wont be a fucking complain kia like as if they married an ang moh and went to Los Angeles with him. Even better if it’s homegrown… so it hits them harder.
Let’s see….. Do you people in Tampines even cared when the Yishun bomb plot was uncovered? NO RIGHT?!?!!? Maybe for a day or twenty but after that you’d see all the newspapers going, “Dun worry hor… our gahment sibeh swee swee found all the pcb so Singapore safe liao… Our system very tok kong wan dun pray pray!”
And then you walk away from the next terrorist going “AIya gahment will settle la…”
Correct anot? Do you call this maturing? It’s called RETARDED!
Pls la all the big people up there…. Could u dun be a mother goose? Our testicles need to grow!
Disclaimer: I am a Singaporean, and i love my country and my people and Lee Kuan Yew is one of my heroes. But sometimes... the way some people run things just irks me off. If you think i'm making no sense.... lets just say it's like you love your best friend... but he sometimes fucks up and so u get angry at him, correct? Does this mean you are "playing with his feelings"?
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