Adding movie makeup does not cover up the dangerous roads, pollution, corruption and scams that infest this potential paradise.

1 hour ago, overherebc said:

In that case they could do

'Bag Snatch 2' in Pattaya.

Didn't know if that was a typo?

Big Snatch 2

Like everything else, the Thai film industry lacks the personnel proficient for international, English language productions. There are no English language production programs in Thai universities. The last two closed four or five years ago. And the interface between foreign production staff and local crews simply doesn't exist in trained and experienced numbers. Up until a decade or so ago, a lot of cut rate American television movies for cable did come here. But I haven't noticed any lately. 

1 hour ago, Father Fintan Stack said:

I enjoyed the remake of the Quiet American with Michael Caine.

 

Dunno if it was filmed in Thailand.

I am convinced that Graham Greene got most of his ideas for The Quiet American from a now obscure novel by Norman Lewis, A Single Pilgrim, which appears to be set in Nan and across the border in Laos. Lewis' book came out of the experiences he described in his Indochina travel book, A Dragon Apparent. I'm not sure that Greene was in Indochina during any time that Lewis was, but the window, 1950-52 for Lewis, and 1952-54, for Greene, easily could overlap. Perhaps Greene was a bit of a literary stalker.

 

BTW, the 1958 movie, with some location footage at the beginning filmed in Vietnam, better captures the era for me. Michael Redgrave's Fowler is almost perfect in tone, especially compared to the too old Michael Caine in 2002. And Audie Murphy was born for the role of the American. Brendan Fraser? Ugh.

2 hours ago, Father Fintan Stack said:

I enjoyed the remake of the Quiet American with Michael Caine.

 

Dunno if it was filmed in Thailand.

 

Of course the American in the book and film adaptation is 'quiet' because he's dead...

 

Grahame Green nailed it there.

 

I love the opening narrated by Michael Caine... "I can't say what made me fall in love with Vietnam. That a woman's voice can drug you? That everything is so intense? The colors, the taste, even the rain. Nothing like the filthy rain in London. 

 

They say whatever you're looking for, you will find here. They say you come to Vietnam and you understand a lot in a few minutes, but the rest has got to be lived. The smell: that's the first thing that hits you, promising everything in exchange for your soul. And the heat. Your shirt is straightaway a rag. You can hardly remember your name, or what you came to escape from. But at night, there's a breeze. The river is beautiful. You could be forgiven for thinking there was no war; that the gunshots were fireworks; that only pleasure matters. A pipe of opium, or the touch of a girl who might tell you she loves you. And then, something happens, as you knew it would. And nothing can ever be the same again."

It was filmed in vietnam 2002?

A troll post containing inappropriate language has been removed. 

Spike Lee is in Thailand doing his next movie as I type this.  

Edited March 3, 20197 yr by IAMHERE
change tenses for future readers

"Apocalypse Now 2019"

11 hours ago, holy cow cm said:

Actors and actresses doing 90 day check ins or border runs and needing 20k and a return flight ticket with

Why they have to do that. Privilege people don't do that. Only foreign vagabonds who have managed to accumulate few dollars just because they were lucky enough to be born in the West, could come to Thailand and do their 90-day border runs (in most countries they will be working hard to take care of their families). People who have personal achievement, don't do border runs

Edited March 3, 20197 yr by onera1961

Daft and Furious, featuring The Red Bull Boy.

1 hour ago, onera1961 said:

Why they have to do that. Privilege people don't do that. Only foreign vagabonds who have managed to accumulate few dollars just because they were lucky enough to be born in the West, could come to Thailand and do their 90-day border runs (in most countries they will be working hard to take care of their families). People who have personal achievement, don't do border runs

That part was being facetious.