Saturday, February 24, 2007

havent updated for a week or so...
have much to blog about...

Like the visit by local director Royston Tan to tee jay on wednesday.
Screened short films like Careless Whisperer, Cut & preview of his new film 881 (if i remember the title correctly)

In Careless Whisperer, it's about the guy nicknamed Careless Whisperer in Singapore Idol's auditons.. Oh ya btw, his name is Patrick, i think many cant remember his name, but can certainly recognise his face and from the way he sings. Ok hmm.. he dont sing, he whispers.. And people can hardly hear him sing, but he's determined to let the world hear him sing so he sings everywhere ( sing to strangers, sing in the bathroom...) and ask for comments.
Those scenes were funny^^
Eventually he managed to sing out loud (not exactly clear) but clearly he sounded much better as i can finally hear him.

Cut is about Singapore's Censorship board's cuts to films, some of which deemed unnecessary. The director said he needed to vent his frustrations due to 27 cuts made to his short film '15' by either producing a film or kill someone. So he made 'Cut'.
There's not much of a storyline, just an actor portraying a big fan of films complaining to another who's acted as a member of the Censorship board. The latter's tortured expressions while tolerating the film buff's barrage of comments & questions which dont require answers fired in a rapid relentless way is really funny! He questioned why there are XX number of cuts made in the film YYY and ZZ number of scenes being cut from the film AAA... and so on..and he carried on...and on... Looks like the director/scriptwriter did much research on the number of cuts made to films in the history of the censorship board.
Towards the end, that actor+other extras decked out in skimpy/outrageous costumes danced & sang somewhat in mockery of the censored scenes, as all the supposedly censored people from different films & scenes are coming together in one scene. Hehe

An interesting quote made by Royston during Q&A session when one girl asked him how he find ideas & decide which idea to use to make films. He replied ' I'm the Ah Beng type of person. So i do first, think later & regret forever.' Woah haha... nice one..

yunn. at 11:18 PM