Slumdog Millionaire: Simply wow!
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Like I care.
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Blade_Runner
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Come on the movies won a "nod" from the westerners dude because it confirms their POV about India. Plus us Indians are always looking for approval from them especially when it comes to movies. The eternal craving for that Oscar......... So when we get a movie that's been based on a novel by an Indian (mind you not scripted) and the music has been given by an Indian again which goes on win big in western awards it's bound to be hyped !! It satisfies our inner cravings about winning a place/an acceptance in the minds of the westerners when most of them will not even be seeing the movie in the same light/same mind as us. Most of the so-called "intelligent" audience is going to be like "Shit i always knew India was a shitty place. Now Danny confirms it totally." So yes you don't understand what's the hype about.Darthcoder said:
Slumdog Millionaire could only have been made by a westerner | Film | guardian.co.uk
"Even that old iconic Bollywood blusterer, Amitabh Bachchan, has thrown his empty-headed two rupees' worth into the mix."
"Bachchan is no doubt riled, as many other Bollwood no-talents will be, about the fact that the best film to be made about India in recent times has been made by a white man, Danny Boyle."
"Bachchan gave one of the worst English-language performances in cinematic history with his embarrassingly stupid portrayal of an ageing thespian in The Last Lear. Having failed miserably at cultivating a western audience, it must hurt him to be so monumentally upstaged by white folk on his home turf."
"Bachchan's blinkered comments prove how hopelessly blind he and most of Bollywood are to the reality of India and how wholly incapable they are of making films that can address it. Instead, they produce worthless trash like Jaane Tu, Rock On!! and Love Story 2050, full of affluent young Indians desperately, and mostly idiotically, trying to look cool and modern."
"Even that old iconic Bollywood blusterer, Amitabh Bachchan, has thrown his empty-headed two rupees' worth into the mix."
"Bachchan is no doubt riled, as many other Bollwood no-talents will be, about the fact that the best film to be made about India in recent times has been made by a white man, Danny Boyle."
"Bachchan gave one of the worst English-language performances in cinematic history with his embarrassingly stupid portrayal of an ageing thespian in The Last Lear. Having failed miserably at cultivating a western audience, it must hurt him to be so monumentally upstaged by white folk on his home turf."
"Bachchan's blinkered comments prove how hopelessly blind he and most of Bollywood are to the reality of India and how wholly incapable they are of making films that can address it. Instead, they produce worthless trash like Jaane Tu, Rock On!! and Love Story 2050, full of affluent young Indians desperately, and mostly idiotically, trying to look cool and modern."
Blade_Runner
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apollyon said:
Thanks for proving my point. So i stand by my bigoted and narrow viewpoints.
SO Danny Boyle now should be the special advisor to the PMO and the GOI. After all he seems to have figured out India's problems. Heck if "Slumdog" was made by an Indian it would not have been received in the same way as it is now. As a film it is no better than "Jaane tu or Rock On", heck it's even worse in so many cliche ridden ways !!!PS: The author of that article is also one of the "approval" seeking types
neomustdie
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If agnipath can be consider as a nice movie, why cant slumdog.... both show the same shade of india... its slums... why is amitabh not speaking about that... Would he criticize if he would have been in anil kapoor's seat..??
India is beautiful... but accept the fact that there's a face of india living int he slums... which is left untouched by all means... by media and others.... And it hurts when someone shows or tells about them... the movie did not criticize india... nor it pin point anything.. its about preservance and determination and a never dying spirit...
Slumdog Rules...
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neo
India is beautiful... but accept the fact that there's a face of india living int he slums... which is left untouched by all means... by media and others.... And it hurts when someone shows or tells about them... the movie did not criticize india... nor it pin point anything.. its about preservance and determination and a never dying spirit...
Slumdog Rules...
regards
neo
vebk
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I think it was a very good movie, but nowhere near the hype that has been created. I think there are way better movies out there. AND I think Rehman has done MUCH MUCH better work previously in his career. The music to the movie was quite mediocre IMHO.
What personally ruined the movie for me was the directors' dumb decision to have the kids start speaking in English to each other from the Taj Mahal scene onwards. :no: That totally destroyed the authenticity that has been created so wonderfully till that point. What is amazingly retarded is that they successfully used subtitles till that point and god only knows what stupidity went in their mind, and which numbskull decided to change that. I have seen some incredible movies with subtitles, and the fact that I understood them through subtitles did not ruin it for me even a bit. On the contrary, subtitles add to the authenticity and the mystique of a foreign culture. A director of Danyn Boyle's standing should understand that.
I just kept thinking of "Bride and Prejudice" and the fiasco that was the English version, and kept my fingers crossed throughout that they wouldn't break into a "Marriage Marriage has come to town" type song!! ^o
What I would have done is to have them continue speaking in Hindi, and have them separately develop their english-speaking skills. Jamaal would have been shown to pick-up the English at his call-centre jobs (underlining how smart a kid he is - as a chaiwallah he continues to learn better than the executives themselves).
What personally ruined the movie for me was the directors' dumb decision to have the kids start speaking in English to each other from the Taj Mahal scene onwards. :no: That totally destroyed the authenticity that has been created so wonderfully till that point. What is amazingly retarded is that they successfully used subtitles till that point and god only knows what stupidity went in their mind, and which numbskull decided to change that. I have seen some incredible movies with subtitles, and the fact that I understood them through subtitles did not ruin it for me even a bit. On the contrary, subtitles add to the authenticity and the mystique of a foreign culture. A director of Danyn Boyle's standing should understand that.
I just kept thinking of "Bride and Prejudice" and the fiasco that was the English version, and kept my fingers crossed throughout that they wouldn't break into a "Marriage Marriage has come to town" type song!! ^o
What I would have done is to have them continue speaking in Hindi, and have them separately develop their english-speaking skills. Jamaal would have been shown to pick-up the English at his call-centre jobs (underlining how smart a kid he is - as a chaiwallah he continues to learn better than the executives themselves).
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sid_donnydarko said:
In real life we have the CM of UP.
Not winning a mere 2 crores but getting 40x more just for a birthday.
How is the country reacting ?
So long as she is as corrupt or more than the rest there is less to worry about
What would be far more scary is if she was honest, did not take bribes and still maintained the support of the people.
scarezebra
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Phew.... A lot of Pro and Anti Slumdog rant going on here....
Well here are my two cents (er....2 rupeess) ....
Why are ppl complaining abt the slums in India shown in the movie? Look around from the terrace of any building in Bombay ... You will surely find a slum dwelling in the horizon ... So slums do exist so whats with the "showing India in BAD LIGHT" comments !!!!! he was just showing REALITY..... And its a movie based on a hell lot of coincidences (...I know i know ..It was basically a love story)
..Hence everything bad happens to the 3 main characters in the movie..... Also they had to show something out of the ordinary.. its a movie it has to be made interesting hence the rape, the begging, the turning-into-a-gangster etc......Not every slum dweller goes thru all these stages in life...
The main reason everyone is pissed off is because the movie was made by a FIRANG ..... If it had been a movie made by an Indian it would go on to win national awards and would be considered a "Brilliant insight of the REAL INDiA" ......
Also I am not saying the movie was the greatest movies ever made... It was a movie which I enjoyed watching ..... So I didn't read into any message conveyed thru teh movie.. It was a 2 hour timepass movie at the end of which you really feel happy for the protagonist... THATS it .....
Well here are my two cents (er....2 rupeess) ....
Why are ppl complaining abt the slums in India shown in the movie? Look around from the terrace of any building in Bombay ... You will surely find a slum dwelling in the horizon ... So slums do exist so whats with the "showing India in BAD LIGHT" comments !!!!! he was just showing REALITY..... And its a movie based on a hell lot of coincidences (...I know i know ..It was basically a love story)
..Hence everything bad happens to the 3 main characters in the movie..... Also they had to show something out of the ordinary.. its a movie it has to be made interesting hence the rape, the begging, the turning-into-a-gangster etc......Not every slum dweller goes thru all these stages in life...
The main reason everyone is pissed off is because the movie was made by a FIRANG ..... If it had been a movie made by an Indian it would go on to win national awards and would be considered a "Brilliant insight of the REAL INDiA" ......
Also I am not saying the movie was the greatest movies ever made... It was a movie which I enjoyed watching ..... So I didn't read into any message conveyed thru teh movie.. It was a 2 hour timepass movie at the end of which you really feel happy for the protagonist... THATS it .....
Aces170
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^^ Read the recent economist editorial (pm me if you cant find etc.) those guys believe Mayawatti has a very realistic chance of becoming a PM in the coming elections.
That will be the starting of an end to India as we know etc, for the records she actually quoted that she wants to build a mall inside the Taj mahal compound..
That will be the starting of an end to India as we know etc, for the records she actually quoted that she wants to build a mall inside the Taj mahal compound..
scarezebra
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Yeah had read that... :no: ... If Mayawati becomes the PM of India the INDIA WILL BE DOOMED.... Then there is nothing any1 will be able to do to save india.....:huh:Aces170 said:
Sei said:
I agree, films have their critics, I have merely posted a review, did not said how much I agree with it and how much i dont, but thanks that it wasnt a flame bait.
What i dont get is, so far of what I have read, most people who have posted that this movie is ok but not upto the mark of the hype it has been created, which has automatically being taken as a anti-slumdog movie rant. It seems the 'syndrome' across the spectrum being, anyone who dont like this movie dont because they cannot see the reality which is India is a poor nation with thousands of people under poverty and we simply want a white approval which infact no one is saying in the first place (save some politicians), excuse me I dont want to to be the part of trickle down effect.
I have found more people relating this movie to politics/real life than peoples who dont simply like it that much, issues exist but they are way vast, with roots way deep.
Interpreting us and them is the key, but what we are doing in every sphere is interpreting us through the lens of them, and this was done by them for them as well. Blade_runner has put across a pretty nice thing about the hype.
sid_donnydarko, I think you dont even know what 'social model' means per se.
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