Unhappy Ending For Sleazy Khaosan Movie Set

[webfact]

Unhappy Ending For Sleazy Khaosan Movie Set

By Chayanit Itthipongmaetee, Staff Reporter

 

Extras dressed as women that would not have looked out of place on Soi Cowboy raised eyebrows and ire when they appeared on Khaosan Road as part of a film production.

 

BANGKOK — Khaosan Road looked a little different Wednesday. Women were showing a lot more skin beneath the glow of Japanese and Chinese signs featuring titillating images and stalls were selling lingerie and sex toys.

 

The problem with this dystopian scene, a sci-fi trope since Blade Runner, was that the foreign production company behind it told the police it would not be identified as Thailand. In addition to having their set demolished, the filmmakers today were charged with three offenses including public indecency for misrepresenting their sexy market scene.

 

Full story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/crimecourtscalamity/crime-crime/2018/01/18/unhappy-ending-sleazy-khaosan-movie-set/

 

-- © Copyright Khaosod English 2018-01-18

 

 

[richard_smith237]

Someone's brown envelope was not large enough and triggered a bout of hypocrisy....

 

[tubby johnson]

Thailand earns billions each year from sex tourism, but don't you dare tell anyone about it.

[KIWIBATCH]

7 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

Someone's brown envelope was not large enough and triggered a bout of hypocrisy....

 

Post of the week...Congratulations.. I am serious...!

[USPatriot]

The guy in the white shirt has to look good incase his name comes up in the Victorias secret  investigation 

[samsensam]

 

what's interesting is that pretty much every tourist knows khao san road is a backpacker area but many thais think it is a red light area. bizarre.

 

any local upset about image should take a look at sukhumvit road, and i believe pattaya - though i've never been there myself.

 

there's none so blind as those who dont want to see.

[webfact]

Pattaya film company charged over ‘pornographic’ Indian movie scenes shot on Khaosan Road

By KORNKAMON AKSORNDET 
THENATION

 

 

BANGKOK POLICE have filed charges against a movie production firm after its personnel were caught preparing to shoot alleged indecent and pornographic scenes on Khaosan Road.

 

Indo Bangkok Film Co Ltd was on Wednesday seen filming scenes, between 9.30am and 11.30am, featuring women wearing revealing costumes selling what appeared to be sex toys. Placards were set up displaying the words “Adult Toys” and “Sex Toys” as well as photos of near-naked women.

 

 

The filming was recorded by Pu Banglampoo, who posted a video clip on Facebook that went viral yesterday.

 

Pol Colonel Pitak Suthikul, police commander of Chanasongkram Police Station, said that the film company on Tuesday asked police for assistance and permission because they wanted to film scenes for the movie “Happy Bhag Jayegi Return (2018)” on Khaosan Road.

 

The film apparently was intended for distribution in India.

 

The crew showed their permission form from the Tourism Authority of Thailand in which the department clearly asked the team to be aware not do anything that caused a negative impact on Thailand’s tourism.

 

 

 Pol Colonel Puwadon Unpho, deputy traffic commander at the same station, said he had been informed that the movie’s location would be identified as China, not Thailand.

 

“I was briefed on the details of the scenes and told that the firm had already shot several scenes in Thailand in many areas,” he said.

 

However, Pitak said that when he saw the scenes and items to be displayed on Wednesday, he ordered the shooting to stop immediately because the photos, items and placards were not appropriate. 

 

He then had officers file four charges against the firm.

 

 

The company is based in Pattaya and has two executives, one Thai and one Indian. Both executives were yesterday reportedly on their way to acknowledge the charges.

 

The filmmakers were charged with offences including not following authorities’ orders, exporting or disseminating pornographic movies for commercial purposes, and acting indecently in public.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30336589

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-01-19

[Darcula]

Why do they need to spend good money on a set, when they could just go film in Nana, Cowboy or Patpong? The signage is way more exciting in those sois.

[RichardColeman]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Both executives were yesterday reportedly on their way to acknowledge the charges.

via outside countries. 

[sammieuk1]

Soi now stands for save our image !

[Kerryd]

"The company is based in Pattaya and has two executives, one Thai and one Indian. "

Based in Pattaya and it never occurred to them that they could have probably gotten even better shots just by walking down Walking Street with a camcorder ? Sheesh, they could have even had the "actors" doing their scenes on the street and nobody would have noticed (or cared), (as long as it wasn't overt sex acts). Would have had the added advantage of having loads of Indians in the background of most of the scenes as well !

[AhFarangJa]

Hypocrites......

[PEE TEE]

18 hours ago, tubby johnson said:

Thailand earns billions each year from sex tourism, but don't you dare tell anyone about it.

shsssh its illegal 

[cedel]

They say "pornographic" movies!! Do they even know what pornography is? Pure hypocrisy, and they probably want some more bigger brown envelopes... 

[Classic Ray]

There was a film crew with lots of apparent Indian staff filming outside the Rembrandt Hotel in Bangkok last night, but they never asked me to take my clothes off so it's unlikely I will be in this movie. With my body it would have been a horror film rather than pornography anyway!

[Maestro]

Removed one abusive and one off-topic post.

[mikosan]

OMG you have to laugh at the hypocrisy of this.  Have a little wander down the lower numbered end of the Sukhumvit Road in Bangkok of an evening and you will see street sellers blatantly selling sex toys and the like.  Or Walking Street or many other streets in Pattaya, Nana Plaza, Soi Cowboy etc. etc. in Bangkok and many, many other places in Thailand, where women and men flaunt scantily dressed bodies and sex is for sale openly.  Get real, the powers that be in Thailand.

 

Come to think of it, what kind of image did films like the Hangover Series and many others portray of Thailand.  This seems like small fry and probably associated with the size and content of brown envelopes and doubtless will do nothing to encourage future productions.

 

And whilst on the subject, it seems that there have been dozens of films shot in Thailand and some good ones at that.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_shot_in_Thailand

 

Incidentally nothing major seems to have been shot since 2015, is this a coincidence, or maybe the list is not up to date?   

[Italian guy]

19 hours ago, webfact said:

misrepresenting their sexy market scene

That's damn accurate! They should have done that in Soi Cowboy, not Khaosan Road...

Edited January 19, 2018 by Italian guy

[MaddDog]

I don’t see any sex toys??

[KKr]

usually, at least in some other countries, a synopsis of the scenes to be filmed is submitted to the authorities as professional filmmaking usually creates a problem for traffic. Even when filming inside a private home, two of three trucks, sometimes with trailers, parked outside is the minimum.
if the description is adequate and the authorities did not deem it necessary to ask further, I do not understand why then someone would have the authority to stop the film making.
The process of the permission granting could be questioned, but not the permission itself.

Hardly one officers' personal opinion should be overruling a permit granted by proper authorities? 
 

[Happyman58]

Like the one in the Gold cowboy hat and short pants I think they look great Different if they were in the nude

[WHYWHY]

Walk down main Street of Bangkok people selling sex stuff 

Walk down any street people dressed like this 

[sanemax]

36 minutes ago, KKr said:

usually, at least in some other countries, a synopsis of the scenes to be filmed is submitted to the authorities as professional filmmaking usually creates a problem for traffic. Even when filming inside a private home, two of three trucks, sometimes with trailers, parked outside is the minimum.
if the description is adequate and the authorities did not deem it necessary to ask further, I do not understand why then someone would have the authority to stop the film making.
The process of the permission granting could be questioned, but not the permission itself.

Hardly one officers' personal opinion should be overruling a permit granted by proper authorities? 
 

The filming permit was issued on the understanding that the film would portray Thailand in a positive way , as the filming did not portray Thailand in a positive way, the permit was withdrawn

[off road pat]

Hmm,..Hypocrites....???.. sure, just like all politicians/Police in charge of any country in the world that wants po preserve the image they like to show of there country !!!

Anybody living long enough in Thailand, knows or at least has a bit of a idea how far he can go. what he can do in public or in private !? Common sense is becoming a rarity these days !

[sanemax]

Just now, off road pat said:

Hmm,..Hypocrites....???.. sure, just like all politicians/Police in charge of any country in the world that wants po preserve the image they like to show of there country !!!

 

To be fair, sex dolls for sell on the streets isnt a correct image of Thailand and its understandably that the authorities do not want Thailand to be portrayed like that

[neeray]

This doesn't quite seem to "rise" to the level of porography. 

[toofarnorth]

Post #7. I think the one in the nurses outfit looks quite cute. Not too sure about the others , will look for my glasses first.

[worgeordie]

Opps,can see a LEO beer sign,more charges.

regards Worgeordie

[Gillyflower]

9 hours ago, KKr said:

usually, at least in some other countries, a synopsis of the scenes to be filmed is submitted to the authorities as professional filmmaking usually creates a problem for traffic. Even when filming inside a private home, two of three trucks, sometimes with trailers, parked outside is the minimum.
if the description is adequate and the authorities did not deem it necessary to ask further, I do not understand why then someone would have the authority to stop the film making.
The process of the permission granting could be questioned, but not the permission itself.

Hardly one officers' personal opinion should be overruling a permit granted by proper authorities? 
 

You're in Thailand, NOT in other countries!

[holy cow cm]

What ever. Should have been done in a real venue are and not there.