Malaysia is a multi-racial country, but is there a need for a movie to be made into several languages?
When we look at the biggest film industry in the world, Hollywood, the language they use are English. However, America is not only comprised of Caucasians who speaks English. There are various races, and its even more multiracial than Malaysia. But all of them understand that English is their main language, so Hollywood doesn't cater to other language.
Let us re-examine Malaysia's situation again. We are multi-racial, at the same time, our movies are also in different language. Now this does make it seems like Malaysia is not united. What happen to 1Malaysia? I'm not saying that Malaysian movies should all be in Malay language. All I'm saying is that movies should not only target certain race in our country, be it Malay, Chinese or Indian. That only limits its viewers. If we put a limit to our movies, then that means we limit our movies to Malaysian market only. What happen to our dream of competing with Hollywood and other major film industry? Is it just all talk?
Content in our movie should not be one-sided. There can be times, when movies theme celebrate our diferences in culture, but there should be movie that everyone in our country can enjoy. Something eveyone in our country could relate to. Movie maker should not be selfish. Instead they should produce movie that is viewable by all. Movies should portray our unity, even if we are not as united as we hope to be. There is a chance the unity that is portrayed in the movie, might really come true. Isn't that what we trully want?
Our mentality should also change. We should not avoid movie's that are in different language. This shows that we are not making a move to understand our friends from different races. This shows that we only preach of unity, but didnt make an effort to try understand the other fellow Malaysians. Movie producers should make an effort to provide subtitles, so that everyone can understand the movie.
Malaysians can only hope for a movie that can be enjoyed by everyone in this country. When that time come's, I'm sure our movie will be able to compete in the international scene.
These are some of the best that represent true Malaysian movies. And these movie are all worthy of praise.
Upin Ipin- Its good to teach children to be friends with other race.
Talent time- good watch, good message.
Gadoh- It's reality, Malaysian love to fight over differences.By Ahmad Muhsin Bin Hishamshah 1071119979
Reference
http://kib412.blogspot.com/2009/12/interesting-movies-in-2009.html
http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/articles/19wayang/Article/index_html
Majority of the race in Malaysia is Malay people. So we see quite a lot of movie that is in Malay language. We rarely see Mandarin or Tamil movies but these type of movies do exist in Malaysia.
ReplyDeleteThe reality of Malaysian Film market is that it is being controlled by Malays. It's true that we need to have more films that can make the viewers relate it to their life, but it will be quite hard to achieve as there are stereotypes in our film industry which can be seen from the same old story and to the same old style.
ReplyDeleteStory is what makes people want to watch the movie, but if the story involves only one particular race it will not help in getting the attention of the other races here in Malaysia.
Thus, local filmmakers need to work harder and smarter if they want to create a new movie in order to avoid making the same old movies with only some minor adjustment.
~Muhammad Rashidi Ismail~
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I think Malaysian movies are a little bit racist. How much do you hear about local indians or chinese movies being produced?
ReplyDeleteAs Malaysians, we got to find a way to fix this problem.
I totally agree that local film industry is controlled by malay, most of the film created are cater for malay, because of that chinese and indian have difficulty to understand the film.
ReplyDeleteMovies are a great medium to bring us together. I hope we get to see a movie, that can be enjoyed by everyone.
ReplyDeleteContents should be good enough, so that people from anywhere and any background can relate to. If we achieve that, then our movies could even go international.
Ahmad Muhsin 1071119979