Mind Your Words . . .
“I sound like, stupid, if I speak Malay, so I’ll speak English,”
Those were the exact words that came out of Sharifah Amani's mouth when accepting her award for Best Actress at the recent 19th Malaysian Film Festival. This has caused an outrage in the country especially for Sharifah Amani who incurred the wrath of Culture, Arts and Heritage Minister, Datuk Dr Rais Yatim. Although this may have been up on peako's blog long ago, I would like to go in depth on this issue.
She has truly become my lifetime idol if she had really meant it. The ironic thing is that I had stumbled across this article in the library last week during lunch just after I had done my spontaneous malay oral where I had cursed the language for being so silly. Malay may be easy but its sentence structures are confusing snd tough at times. To defend herself, she put her age as a factor, explaining that she asked for permission to speak English as the Malay she spoke is “young Malay” with all the youth lingo, which would be inappropriate for the formal event since it would be deemed as broken and inappropriate malay by those who attended the event.
If that wasn't already bad, she the added this while speaking :
"If films (like Gubra) taint our culture, let’s do them more often"
This statement although not as offensive as the first would be giving the wrong message when heard spontaneously. Again, Sharifah Amani had actually meant that since local production guidelines were not as stringent as before, more local films of high caliber with honest, modern day content should be produced.
Whatever she had meant, we just hope this issue will mellow down soon and be forgotten by all. Sharifah Amani without doubt is an excellent actress for her age having acted so well in Sepet and Gubra. She definitely deserved the award. Hopefully this will give us all a lesson to mind our words ..
Hollywood too has not been spared from recent cases of what I shall describe as verbal abuse. This abuse was committed by Mel Gibson a few weeks back. Yes, ladies and gentleman, the talented and passionate director of Passion of the Christ, that Mel Gibson.
These offensive words were muttered when Mel Gibson was arresyed for DUI (driving under the influence) by a police officer. He was arrested driving on the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu for driving drunk and was still having alcohol in his hands if i'm not mistaken. Those words may have been intentional but it did come out of that drunk mouth of his and the officer heard it clearly.
She has truly become my lifetime idol if she had really meant it. The ironic thing is that I had stumbled across this article in the library last week during lunch just after I had done my spontaneous malay oral where I had cursed the language for being so silly. Malay may be easy but its sentence structures are confusing snd tough at times. To defend herself, she put her age as a factor, explaining that she asked for permission to speak English as the Malay she spoke is “young Malay” with all the youth lingo, which would be inappropriate for the formal event since it would be deemed as broken and inappropriate malay by those who attended the event.
If that wasn't already bad, she the added this while speaking :
"If films (like Gubra) taint our culture, let’s do them more often"
This statement although not as offensive as the first would be giving the wrong message when heard spontaneously. Again, Sharifah Amani had actually meant that since local production guidelines were not as stringent as before, more local films of high caliber with honest, modern day content should be produced.
Whatever she had meant, we just hope this issue will mellow down soon and be forgotten by all. Sharifah Amani without doubt is an excellent actress for her age having acted so well in Sepet and Gubra. She definitely deserved the award. Hopefully this will give us all a lesson to mind our words ..
Hollywood too has not been spared from recent cases of what I shall describe as verbal abuse. This abuse was committed by Mel Gibson a few weeks back. Yes, ladies and gentleman, the talented and passionate director of Passion of the Christ, that Mel Gibson.
These offensive words were muttered when Mel Gibson was arresyed for DUI (driving under the influence) by a police officer. He was arrested driving on the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu for driving drunk and was still having alcohol in his hands if i'm not mistaken. Those words may have been intentional but it did come out of that drunk mouth of his and the officer heard it clearly.
"The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world," and asked the officer, "Are You a Jew" .
He may be expressing his anger towards the Israeli atatcks on Lebanon but it was just not the right way to do so. He has now angered many of his fellow Holywood Jew celebrity friends. America does have a reasonable amount of Jews and even in Hollywood. Meanwhile, Mel Gibson has been sentenced and who knows what will come out of him next ..
The Friday Star paper had reported some catfight surprisingly between two local Malaysian actresses while filming. Their movie catfight scene turned real when it went too extreme involving lots of slapping and hair-pulling. The filming crew did eventually find out as well. One of the actresses involved is Nisdawati Nazaruddin. Full article here.
The Friday Star paper had reported some catfight surprisingly between two local Malaysian actresses while filming. Their movie catfight scene turned real when it went too extreme involving lots of slapping and hair-pulling. The filming crew did eventually find out as well. One of the actresses involved is Nisdawati Nazaruddin. Full article here.
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