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Have something to say about the 78th Academy Awards? Think “Brokeback Mountain” got screwed? Think George Clooney should leave the politics to ignorant bloggers like me? Think Heath Ledger getting passed up for Best Actor is the biggest travesty since Howie Long was snubbed for Best Supporting for his work in “Broken Arrow?”
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Let me be the first to say, “Who cares?”
Gathering from the comments, I’d say, “More people than those who care about Shinto shrines in Korea.”
well, i have to say the homoeroticism throughout westerns medley was pretty fun, in contrast to ben stiller’s green screen speech.
The Shinto shrines were interesting, I just didn’t have anything to say about them…something of a rarity here I know.
I lived in L.A. (which means Hollywood) for 12 years, and all people talked about was movies and gossip about actors they never met and never would meet. So maybe I’m a cranky old man about the Oscar stuff.
OK–didn’t see any of the films (”Crash” hasn’t come out in Korea yet, right?) except “Memoirs of a Geisha,” which was slick and boring. Ken Watanabe was very good, though.
I’d like to hear Baduk’s take on the gay cowboys
If somebody pays me $10,000, I might sit thru the Brokeback. The movie is a political propaganda.
Gay money and feminist money are pouring into Hollywood these days. They like to change people’s perception through movies. Movies are powerful medium. Two hours of brainwashing. On the top of that, a core action group may arise from innocent moviegoers who did not have any opinion on the subject.
Someday in the future, Columbians will pour money into Hollywood to make films on the therapeutic effects of Cocain and how the drug eases the suicidal tendencies. They will influence Americans to legalize and consume the drug. There is one movie like this about cigarette smoking.
Korean message parlor madams will pool money and make a movie on the necessity of sex industry in modern society.
Hollywood has become the main political propaganda machine for hire.
If somebody pays me $10,000, I might sit thru the Brokeback. The movie is a political propaganda.
Gay money and feminist money are pouring into Hollywood these days. They like to change people’s perception through movies. Movies are powerful medium. Two hours of brainwashing.
That’s right. The goal is to have 80% of the cowboys gay by the end of the decade.
Gonzaga’s down by 7 with 9:30 to play.
On another note, three six mafia won … that’s disturbing. A fine case of no talent ass clowns winning accolades for no apparent reason.
s/tallent/talent… and some more ranting… George Clooney over Matt Dillon? pshaw. Clooney has little variance in his delivery since his days on e.r.
I’m also disappointed that Munich didn’t receive more accolades. That was probably Bana’s best performance to day. Oh well.
Baduk, I knew you’d come through
“Korean message parlor madams will pool money and make a movie on the necessity of sex industry in modern society.” I’d even chip in man won….
I just happened to catch the 3-6 Mafia or whatever they’re called on the way out the door–wasn’t all that bad, and I can’t stand rap. It was 10,000 times better than the limp-wristed K-rap–and the girl actually sang live, imagine that.
baduk, someone needs to make a reality show about you. they could take you around the US and put you in all different kinds of scenarios, and i guarantee if your writing is any indication, it would be an absolute hit. you’d be like the korean anna nicole smith, only without her tits and brains.
week 1: baduk hangs out with teenage rape victims. proceeds to tell them they’re all trailer bunnies, whores, abbynormals, earthy and smelly sluts, and as many other insulting names he can think of. teens respond by tying baduk up with duct tape and repeatedly sodomize him with broomsticks and cucumbers. they then cover him with dirt and write “earthy slut” on his forehead. baduk confesses to the camera that he obviously wanted it and is ashamed of himself.
week 2: baduk spends a few days with andrew sullivan, dan savage, harvey fierstein, and nathan lane, who introduce him to the gay subculture of san francisco. baduk runs around several bath-houses telling all the gays that AIDS is their punishment from god. he then sits through brokeback mountain with his hands over his eyes. but he peeks through his fingers at the butt-love scene, then punishes himself after the film for doing so.
week 3: baduk interns at a hollywood studio. pitches steven spielberg with ideas about columbian drug lords and korean massage parlor madams. eventually wins them over with his idea of a film starring himself as a koreatown preacher who goes to abortion clinics dressed in a bunny costume and asks every girl coming in if she’s been raped. if they answer yes, he proceeds to sing them the trailer bunny song.
week 4: baduk serves as an associate researcher at a stem-cell research lab. he harrasses the researchers non-stop, telling them that god will smote them down for their blasphemous work, mixing in as many references as possible to disgraced charlatan hwang woo suk.
week 5: baduk edits the los angeles edition of the korea times. at his first editors meeting, he tells the entire staff that he knows about their secret ploy to sell papers with fake rape and molestation stories. editors fess up and admit it’s true. baduk tells them to keep up the good work and reminds them not to forget to degrade the “so-called” victims, as it will only increase circulation.
week 6: baduk chills with the lakers. he rooms with kobe bryant on a 5-game road trip, and spends the entire week telling kobe what a hero he is for beating the rap on the colorado butt-rape. in a hidden video surprise, kobe admits that he did rape the girl, but baduk refuses to believe it. kobe spends the rest of the trip asking baduk to explain what a trailer park bunny is and where he can find some.
Baduk is like the Korean version of Archie Bunker.
Mihwa, earlier I tried to post the exact same thing.
Oll in the Family.
I liked Walk the Line, and I liked Reese Witherspoon in it. Kudos to her for learning to sing and play an instrument for the role. But I was disappointed that the best actress Oscar didn’t go to Felicity Huffman for her performance in Transamerica. She was amazing, and so was the film.
Just trying to take some of the heat off Brokeback Mountain.
Hollywood is stuck on Sept 10 2001 or Dec 6 1941. Don’t they realize that the Korean wave is poised to batter the USA any day now and that soon it will be Hollywood clamoring for a screen quota system?
iheartblueballs, (your balls are blue?)
Thank you for taking time out to write a humorous piece. I will try my retorts.
“be like the korean anna nicole smith, only without her tits and brains” - I have tits. Not hugh but good size for a male.
week 1: Some rape victims are sluts.
week 2: I don’t talk to anyone who smells of gays. Many of them talk funny, like Capote. They keep insisting on gay life style is an alternate. When I tell them it is decadent and ugly, they do not agree. I think I will use the brokeback movie as the litmus test; anyone who has paid$9 to see the movie is gay! AIDS is a God’s way to kill off gays.
week 3: baduk don’t go near Hollywood. Too many gays.
week 4: Hwang is a proven liar.
week 5: Korean newspapers do not check source. A reporter can make up stories and as long as they sell newspapers the reporter keeps his job. Only if, like Hwang, he lies too big and everybody wants names and places, he has to quit his job. Basically, it is a game of chicken.
week 6: Kobe was a victim. White slut pussy-whipped the poor Kobe. He decided on celibate life style since, and have been concentrating his game. One time, he score over sixty points all by himself. Celibacy (”just say no”) has its place in human achievement.
Kangmi, Witherspoon deserves it. She sang beautifully. I must admit that I actually saw Johnny and June Carter singing together the song, “I go to Jackson”. Witherspoon sings about ten times better than June.
June’s family folks were Christians. Johnny became a strong Christian as well. He even made a film about Gospel.
With all sexual absurdities like the trans-sexual and gays, the human-animal sex may be the only area left to be put on the silver screen. Do you know any movie director looking for a trans-sexual sheep? Hwang may have one in his lab.
I saw Johnny and June in “Hee Haw” circa 1975. Do you, young people, know what “Hee Haw” is?
iheartblueballs, (your balls are blue?)
“be like the korean anna nicole smith, only without her tits and brains” - I have tits. Not hugh but good size for a male.
Well, if Ronald Reagan wore a “man bra,” I guess Baduk can wear one, too. Kudos to you for not hiding it, Baduk.
week 1: Some rape victims are sluts.
Therefore we should assume from the beginning that all rape victims are sluts, then we won’t look so surprised on the occasion when it’s true.
And from now on, let’s assume all men who smile at little girls or boys are pedophiles. All politicians are crooked. All scientists are liars. And all dentists are sadists. By assuming things, we can make the world more manageable to the simple-minded.
AIDS is a God’s way to kill off gays.
I thought AIDS was God’s way to kill off Haitians?
If God is trying to use AIDS to kill off gays, he should be aware that most of the people dying from AIDS are heterosexual. God could get sued under product liability laws, then. And you just know some prosecutor will also want to slap on a manslaughter charge, too.
Actuallly, if God is trying to kill off gays, he’d be better off planting flesh-eating virus in the urninals at the Broadway theaters, or by an earthquake with San Francisco’s Castro Street at the epicenter.
Not that I’m trying to give God ideas. Boy, am I going to be embarrassed if a big one hits the Bay Area in the next few days.
week 3: baduk don’t go near Hollywood. Too many gays.
Baduk, there are gays all around you. They might be attracted to your substantial man breasts.
week 6: Kobe was a victim. White slut pussy-whipped the poor Kobe. He decided on celibate life style since, and have been concentrating his game. One time, he score over sixty points all by himself. Celibacy (”just say no”) has its place in human achievement.
Celibacy? He’s not having sex with his wife either?
You mean he tried monogamy; something quite a lot of the rest of us do regularly, usally voluntarily.
I’m not saying Kobe Bryant deserved to be put through a rape trial and his freedom threatened, but by golly, had he not knowingly and willingly committed adultery, this wouldn’t have happened in the first place. As you sow, so shall you reap.
With all sexual absurdities like the trans-sexual and gays, the human-animal sex may be the only area left to be put on the silver screen. Do you know any movie director looking for a trans-sexual sheep? Hwang may have one in his lab.
So is Hwang a liar and an incompetent, or is he an evil genius? Make up your mind!
Hey Baduk–my parents used to watch Hee Haw every week. My father had Johnny Cash’s album “Live at Folsom Prison” too. It wasn’t until much later that I realized how cool Buck Owens is–one of the greatest underrated U.S. musicians ever. Cash was always one of my favorite singers as well. I haven’t seen the movie yet–is it out in Seoul now?
Back to the Oscars:
Both Zhang Ziyi and Jesica Alba were smoking hot. Streep and Tomlin did the best bit. And Lauren Bacall was either on crack or needs reading glassing to see the teleprompter.
Yes back to the Oscars:
I’m really delighted that for the first time Asian director Ang Lee won the best director category. Congratulation to Ang Lee and his wonderful directing job in brokeback Mountain.
Of course, it is all a Canadian Conspiracy. Broke Back was shot (no pun intended) in Canada and best picture was Crash, made just across the bridge from where I am sitting now. This proves that all Canadians are gay commie subersives. First we let in the terrorists, then the gay cowboys and finally take best picture on a film that only cost $8m to make.
BLAME CANADA!
Ang Lee’s Oscar is making China look stupid, because it banned Brokeback Mountain. China is now calling Ang Lee the ‘pride and glory of the Chinese people’.
Which actually brings me to something that popped into mind when I first heard about Brokeback Mountain (which, I have to say, is a terrific film). You have a Chinese director making a film about gay cowboys, a quintessential American cultural symbol. Not that I have a problem with a foreign director making a film that analyzes and criticizes American culture; some of the best books and films about the United States ever produced were done by foreigners, who have the advantage of seeing things that people immersed in American culture might not. However, one wonders what Asian audience reactions might have been if an American director had made a film about, oh, let’s say, gay Confucian scholars during the Ming Dynasty or gay samurai in pre-Meiji Japan. As far as I know (which, I admit, is limited), while “Brokeback Mountain” was certainly controversial in the United States, there appeared to be few who labeled the film a foreign or Chinese assault on an American cultural icon (although this might have been the case if Ang Lee had made the film for a Chinese rather than American movie company, and certainly many of the American films about Asia that have been less than enthusiastically received by Asian audiences could be rightly criticized for shallow understandings of Asian culture and/or heavy doses of Orientalism).
Anyway, it’s just something that popped into mind, and a throw it out there for discussion’s sake.
Mihwa, do you have a link to that?
kushibo- I can’t seem to get to the website, but I think the phrase where Ang Lee is described as the ‘pride and glory of the Chinese people’ might be taken from an article in the China Daily.
Kushibo: The article is from the Guardian .
Robert, that’s an interesting question. Hollywood saw a huge influx of European directors and producers with WWII, and the Old World morality and a cosomopilitan outlook are still in some movies today, the better ones anyway, IMHO. Ang Lee in a way is another refugee from political suppression, and his movies deal with complicated moral issues–especially “Hulk.” Um, kidding. So I think he is protected to some degree by being in Hollywood, and your observation about what the reception might be if he made the same film for a Chinese company is also interesting.
I’m not sure if you were being sarcastic about Ang Lee being a “refugee from political suppression,” but in case you weren’t, he’s from Taiwan.
Well, the observation was sparked by some of the Western movies about Asia made in recent years like “The Last Samurai” and “Memoirs of a Geisha,” and the controversy they sparked in Asia. The comparison with “Brokeback” isn’t really valid, I guess, given that you can’t call it a “Chinese” or “Taiwanese” film given that the only thing “Taiwanese” about it is the director. To make a more valid comparison, I guess you’d have to see something like a Japanese studio hire an American director to do a film about gay samurai. Not that I expect something like that to happen anytime soon.
That was stupid of me, I was thinking of Mi-hwa saying “Brokeback” was banned in China and scrambled the eggs on that one. Maybe it comes down to your observation that “some of the best books and films about the United States ever produced were done by foreigners” (I agree), whereas Western filmmakers just don’t “get” Asia. I dunno.
while “a foreigner” may have directed Brokeback it’s worthy to note that the screenwriter (a very under-appreciated figure in filmmaking) was Larry McMurtry and it could be McMurtry’s talent for words combined with Lee’s talent for directing that made it the work it has become. just something to keep in mind…
i remember hee haw, baduk. however, when solid gold hit the airwaves i pretty much didn’t watch anything else.
The only 70’s TV shows I remember watching are Rockford Files, M*A*S*H and strangely enough, Hee Haw. The 80’s are really where the choice TV shows came in.
Judge judy,
You liked the Solid Gold dancers, huh? I did too.
On a differnt note, in NK entertainment news, this is how the Norks find some relief from the stresses of living in an oppressive dictatorship state.
KJI must have written the song “Love Your Wives,” he’s loved three or four by now.
or maybe that is the norm in NK still? They haven’t ditched the practice of accumulating many concubines? or was this already widely known?
“Smells of Gays”? Isn’t that the next Kevin Spacey vehicle?