Production Management for Film & TV- Analysis the Rules for Publishing a Movie in Malaysia

Analysis the Rules for Publishing a Movie in Malaysia

1) Select 5 scenes that cannot be show

a) EXPOSED SCENE

Scene description-      “Frontier Command Support “Huo An (Jackie Chan) coming to Hungary Ann to return silk scarf to “Hungary Ann King’s female” Coldest (Lin Ping). Coldest offering a cup of wine to Huo An, after that she striping her cloth and want to having a traditional married ceremony with Joan.

Reason-                      During Hungary Ann married ceremony, Coldest striping her cloth and expose her buttock to the audience. I think that this scene is impolite and indecent to the audience.  

It’s making awkward to the audience too. Imagine that you have been watching this movie in cinema with your family, and then this girl suddenly striping up her cloth and show her buttock. What will you feeling all that? Maybe your child will be curiously to asking you, why the “sis” is showing her ass to us. It’s also making uncomfortable between you and your parents too.

It’s not unrespect to female. Expose her whole back of body is one of the scene that showing unrespect female, particular in “our” country. Because some of the country still conservative to showing this scene.

b) SANGUINARY SCENE

Scene description-      Huo An open up a special prison to rescue “Rome’s first Warrior” Lucius (Johncusack). Lucius was locked there with bloody body. His scar to be countless and a pair of eye had been blinding by “Roman Empire, Prince” Tiberous (Adrien Brody). The air filled with the smell of sanguinary.

Reason-                      During Huo An rescue Lucius. Huo An have been surprise and stun, because he can’t accepted that Lucius have been bloody with serious injuries. I think that it’s also make audience feel surprise and stun too, because this scene is very sanguinary and disgusting. Someone even can “smell” that kind of sanguinary in the air.

                                    It’s also will make uncomfortable and frighten to the audience and Childs who timid. Imagine that you are eaten full before the movie time, then during this scene, it will make an illusion that your food mix with this kind of sanguinary. Maybe your child or an audience who timid will feel scare or unaccepted this kind of bloody guy.

                                    This scene hasn’t taking into account for “special audience”. Maybe some of the audiences having special diseases like scare blood or ugly injuries. This scene will make them feel uncomfortable, or recurrence their diseases like Asthma, vomiting, faint or etc.

 c) UNCOMFORTABLE SCENCE

Scene description-      Rome Little Prince (Simon Son) having a serious illnesses with hunger. Huo An invite Chinese physicians to treatment him. Physician through acupuncture to save his life.

Reason-                      During the Chinese physician’s treatment process, he is using different size of needle to pricking Little Prince’s acupuncture point. Maybe the director want to highlighting the treatment  of culture Chinese to showing that Little Prince is lie on Chinese place to remain and continuity process to the audience. I think that this shot can’t be show on Malaysian cinema, because when the physician acupuncturing Little Prince’s belly, his belly been concave by the needle, this scene is really make uncomfortable to the audience especially a people who having an Obsessive compulsive disorder or Childs. It will make them keep reviewing the scene in their mind to causing influence of spirit.

d) VIOLENCE

Scene description-      Lucius lead a group of army to escape from their country. They want to invasion Yanmenguan for survival. But they are blocking by Huo An. Then Huo An having a fight to Lucius.

Reason-                      Bashes and kicks, waving their army, cool pose, bashing and etc. This kind of posture and action are mostly influence Childs to imitation like a super hero.  Most of the Childs may not think too much of this kind of action is safety or not. They only think about the posture is cool or not. Its will indirect transferring bad educate to the Childs.

Its doesn’t look like a good way to spreading a good educate to the audiences. Instead, its spearing a bad educate that through a violence to get what you need or what you want. Imagine that if all the people are using this kind of rule to get their demand, then the piece will gone.

Its also will vilify and make a bad image to audience that the ancients people through violence to solving all the troubles.

e) BAD INFLUENCE

Scene description-      A group of army wants to hunted down Huo An and his family, then they make a fight.  One of the Hungary Ann’s soldier shoot through the enemy’s sore throat by bow with arrow.

Reason                        I think this scene will influent and increase level of brutal to audience. Maybe its one of the way to let some of the audience use it in really life, first time the people will feeling that it is brutal and I can’t make it, but through second time, third time… the people will start numbness and feel nothing of this, and finally process it. This kind of murder technique is one of the way to practice some people to murder someone. Maybe the people will follow this kind of action and imitate it to kill someone or animal to getting some special “feeling”.

2) Talents (Main, featured, extra)

Main Talent

Jacky Chan                            as                                Huo An

Lucius                                     as                                Joho Cusack

Featured

Tiberius                                   as                                Adrien Brody

Yin Po                                     as                                Choi Si-Won

Coldest                                    as                                Lin Ping

Xiu Qing                                  as                                Mika Wang

Captain                                    as                                Xiao Wang

Rat                                          as                                Wang Tai Li

Red Sun                                  as                                Sammy Hong

General Huo Qubing               as                                William Feng

Lady Crassus                          as                                Sharni Vinson

Parthian Queen                       as                                Lorie Pester

Secretary                                as                                Xu Xiang Dong

Wolf                                         as                                Xiu Qing

Cougar                                    as                                Steve Yoo

Huo An Deputies                     as                                Max Huang

                                                                                    Aliku

                                                                                    Oz Tomber

                                                                                    Guo Min You

Christian                                  as                                Vanness Wu

Karena                                                as                                Karena Lim

Tache                                      as                                Li Zhen Qi

Lieutenant                               as                                Li Shao Ting

Ma Chuang                             as                                Liu Jian Wai

Publius                                    as                                Jozef Liu Waite

Agrippa                                    as                                Peck David Alonzo

Falco                                       as                                Cox Scotty Robert

Consul Crassus                       as                                Allen Gregory Joseph

Extra

Lucius Deputies         

Octavius                                  as                                Ned Bellamy

Caeso                                      as                                Oram Matthew Henry

Statius                                     as                                Benntt James Ambrose

Tullus                                       as                                Clack Paul Philip

Decimus                                  as                                Joly Phipippe

Sertor                                      as                                Slaatto Joel Adrian

Paullus                                    as                                Salay Daniel John

Tiberius Deputies

Titus                                        as                                Brahim

Hostus                                     as                                Ian Powers

Quintus                                    as                                Dushet Micheal

Gaius                                       as                                Day Jaimr

Young Huo An                         as                                Zhu Jia Yu

Huo An’s Sister                       as                                Han Zi Qi

White Indians Chief                 as                                Walisi Yisilamu

Saklar Chief                            as                                Akbar Omar

Turk Chief                               as                                Allen Ng

Uyghur Chief                          as                                Sengge Renqin

Kusan Chief                            as                                Yilmaz Emrah

Tache’s men                           as                                Baisha

                                                                                    Hongtong Batu

                                                                                    Gangte Muer

                                                                                    Xiest Hadi

Dancer                                    as                                Liu Wen

Students                                  as                                Liu Chu Tian

                                                as                                Yumiti Alerken

                                                as                                Zhou Kai Wen

                                                as                                Zhou Kai Rui

                                                as                                Hanzah

                                                as                                Cheng Cheng

3) Choose 5 scenes/ locations

Nice Scene

a) Work smart, with work hard

Scene Description-     Yanmenguan’s Captain (Xiao Wang) getting  a notification from king that immediately to fixing Yanmenguan. But they can’t finish it before expired date. So that they make a deal with Lucius and his army for fixing Yanmenguan.

Reason-                      I really this kind of scene.  People always say that work smart, don’t work hard. This proverb is happening in this scene. Firstly, Prisoners use an old technique to fix Yanmenguan. This is representing people work hard. Lucius’s army feeling that kind technique is like a joke, then they teaching and educate their technique to the prisoner. Lucius’s army won’t immediately to start construction. They are having a pre-construction first which is measurement the high and weight of the building, make a construction map, build up a crane and etc. After finish preparing, then start working, its save more time, save more resources. They are representing work smart. This scene educates us having a strong preparation before start doing any work. Don’t be a frog in a well, you need to never stop learning and expose ding.  

b) Pacific

Scene description-      They hanging up their own flag in Yanmenguan.

Reason-                      Hua An manage and educate pacific to everyone. Everyone treat well to each other, don’t caring about culture, race, background. Take caring to everyone even you come from anywhere and popularize this virtue to everyone. He hoping and leading all of them to designing their own flag and hang it up at once day. Firstly, all the people feel that this is impossible, until they experience different problem and solve it together. Finally they trust it, they really pacific is still in this world. I believe that pacific is still on this world, and it’s very important to us. For me, this scene is very touch, I sincere hope that this scene can really happening in our work, everyone take caring to each other, forget about culture, background and “color of skin”.

c) Important of knowledge

Scene description-      Huo An’s wife are educate and teaching their “children”.

Reason-                     I like this scene. It’s warm. Sound of reading; I can even smell a book in the air. At the ancient, you are not easy to get educate. So that when I see someone spending her time to teach a Childs, I will feel touch. She really knew that the Childs are the future. I really like her motivate. Because she starting to teach a good motivate and knowledge the Childs since they are young, its can make them have a good educate during their growth.

d) Shearing

Scene description-      Huo An sing a song for personal performance during their short break.

Reason-                      I will select this scene, because its represent “shearing”. During his short break, Huo An shearing his talent to sing a song for entertainment to other. The atmosphere of this moment is relax, friendly, enjoy, comfortable, unstressed and etc. It’s making resonance to other and leading them to sing together with clapping the hand. After Huo An finish the song, then it’s a turn to Little Prince, he sharing his country song. In this scene, we can know that how important of “sharing”. If you treat well to people, people also will treat well to you.

e) Conscience

Scene description-      Adrien Brody having a serious injuries, but nobody want to save him.

Reason-                      Extent of authority, greedy, high ambition and money will make people showing the ugly part of human nature. Adrien Brody is a good example. He have a high ambition and greedy to getting all the country. He brutal, heartless to achieve his destination. But you have been afraid to it if you do like this, because you will pay the price when you fall down .

4) Choose 5 scenes/ locations

Ugly Scene

a) Blue Sky

Scene Description-     Lucius at the high place to thinking his future.

Reason-                      I think it’s too much of blue in this scene. Maybe the exactly environment is really like this. We have to color grade it as continuity shot to other scene.

b) Boring

Scene description-      All the country gathering together to fight with Adrien Brody.

Reason-                      There are few more different country over day. Each country will having a appearances shot like about the picture. I have a bit boring to me.