Soi Cowboy movie

[Yinn]

This movie old, but maybe some you guy like it. About caucasion and sex worker.

 

Pregnant with the lovechild of one of her customers, ex-Soi Cowboy prostitute Koi sits around watching daytime soaps. Her boyfriend, Tobias, an overweight Dane, gives her an elephant plushie and a gold bracelet for which he paid too much at MBK Center. She eats rice with pla too mackerel, he eats toast. At night in bed, she turns away from him.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“We know that foreigners love the look of rural, Isaan women. If we chose a Chinese-looking Bangkok face, we wouldn’t be able to sell the film,” Waller said.

 

 

http://www.khaosodenglish.com/featured/2019/08/19/thai-farang-romance-in-soi-cowboy-still-rings-true-producer/

 

 

[baansgr]

What is am elephant plushie?

[PatOngo]

Do you think he gives her enough money?

[Jai Dee]

A racist troll post and a reply have been removed.

[Jane Dough]

I watched my first movie in Thailand in a daytime bar in Soi Cowboy. It was Apocalypse Now and the whole scene was somewhat surreal. 

 

However, I won't be watching your suggestion though I thank you for it Yinn!

 

Rooster

[Yinn]

6 hours ago, baansgr said:

What is am elephant plushie?

Tukada. Doll. Soft toy.

 

elephant one. 

 

[Orton Rd]

More likely to watch if it had Thai music and not that dreadful western dirge as in the trailer. Went to a wedding once up country of a guy looking very similar to the lard bum in this, but to a Nana bar girl, lasted 6 weeks, not the ceremony the marriage. His dad who paid out a lot for it wanted to burn down the village!

Edited October 26, 2019 by Orton Rd

[Yinn]

Free link to watch it.

 

https://www.hooq.tv/movies/ซอยคาวบอย-soi-cowboy-f14faa09-fa38-4cd2-a8b8-fe5d07323f64

[Lacessit]

Have to disagree with the title song. Many foreigners die in Thailand. Some are happy to do so, some not.

[Enoon]

Thanks for the info, but I am unlikely to be watching it.

 

It looks as if it may be rather focused on Western/Thai stereotyping/types, had quite enough of that already thankyou.

 

Would prefer to see a film based on one of Pira Sudhams stories. 

 

Suggest that anybody should read his work before visiting Thailand.

 

He is Thai, but writes in English.

 

Pira Sudham - Wikipedia

 

https://www.thaiworldview.com/lao/isan7.htm

 

(Re-written to correct attribution mistake.)

 

 

 

Edited October 26, 2019 by Enoon

[Justgrazing]

The dude looks a bit like Meatloaf in that pic' ..

[Yinn]

3 hours ago, Enoon said:

Thanks for the info, but I am unlikely to be watching it.

 

It looks as if it may be rather focused on Western/Thai stereotyping/types, had quite enough of that already thankyou.

 

Would prefer to see a film based on one of Pira Sudhams stories. 

 

That be good. 

But not have the film right?

[Yinn]

5 hours ago, Orton Rd said:

 Went to a wedding once up country of a guy looking very similar to the lard bum in this, but to a Nana bar girl, lasted 6 weeks, not the ceremony the marriage.

Have good music at the wedding? 

 

5 hours ago, Orton Rd said:

 

His dad who paid out a lot for it wanted to burn down the village!

5555555 

His son an idiot. Not the village fault. Better if burn the son.

[sunnyboy2018]

There are quite a few movies about Thailand.  Spirit house was the last one I saw. Theres another about a Thai cop. Most of the films dont ring true.

[Dumbastheycome]

9 minutes ago, sunnyboy2018 said:

There are quite a few movies about Thailand.  Spirit house was the last one I saw. Theres another about a Thai cop. Most of the films dont ring true.

Not so different  to Hollywood/Bollywood misrepresentations. It is entertainment  after all.

 Thai movie  "Jack fruit Ghost"  (not sure if that is the  real title)  is quite close to Isaan  reality in more ways than not ! lol

[Orton Rd]

Anyone remember the good woman of Bangkok? people thought it was a real documentary but it was fake. The principal character is listed as an actress, but people still thought it was reality on IMDB

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104360/?ref_=tt_urv

[PatOngo]

4 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

The dude looks a bit like Meatloaf in that pic' ..

Can he see paradise by the dashboard light?

[Yinn]

1 hour ago, Dumbastheycome said:

 

 Thai movie  "Jack fruit Ghost"  (not sure if that is the  real title)  is quite close to Isaan  reality in more ways than not ! lol

 

[Yinn]

1 hour ago, Dumbastheycome said:

 

 Thai movie  "Jack fruit Ghost"  (not sure if that is the  real title)  is quite close to Isaan  reality in more ways than not ! lol

 

[Dumbastheycome]

6 minutes ago, Yinn said:

 

555. Yes !  Westerners who watch this  might  not see the  humour as well as the sad self recognition of socially instituted superstition.

I would  rather watch this than  the  banality of   "Rambo" as an alternative .

There are  many such Thai movies  that do only suggest self criticism but incorporate the  reality of  community in that !

 

 

 

 

[Dumbastheycome]

If people can  genuinely  laugh at themselves then they have  more merit than those who take themselves  so  seriously !

[Dumbastheycome]

But sadly  the high profile comedian social " commenters " via Thai  media  seems to have succumbed  to quiet retirement. Or anywhere else.

Banality is the  new drug  !

[ratcatcher]

16 hours ago, baansgr said:

What is am elephant plushie?

[Jane Dough]

21 hours ago, Enoon said:

Thanks for the info, but I am unlikely to be watching it.

 

It looks as if it may be rather focused on Western/Thai stereotyping/types, had quite enough of that already thankyou.

 

Would prefer to see a film based on one of Pira Sudhams stories. 

 

Suggest that anybody should read his work before visiting Thailand.

 

He is Thai, but writes in English.

 

Pira Sudham - Wikipedia

 

https://www.thaiworldview.com/lao/isan7.htm

 

(Re-written to correct attribution mistake.)

 

 

 

I met him several times in the early 1990s both in the NE and in Bangkok. Quite a character.

 

Rooster

[Yinn]

Yinn and gang watch this movie today, raining Ranong, have spare time.

 

can not finish. Nude scene to much, so ugly. Not watch the end.

 

The movie make us laugh a bit, and depressing a lot.

 

Feel bad for the actress must kiss this guy. Yuk.

 

The farang character like to play Thaivisa!!!

 

 

 

 

[fusion58]

On 10/25/2019 at 11:11 PM, Yinn said:

“We know that foreigners love the look of rural, Isaan women. If we chose a Chinese-looking Bangkok face, we wouldn’t be able to sell the film,” Waller said.

Silly generalization.

 

It would be more accurate to say that Isaan women are much more readily available to the average falang than their Chinese-looking counterparts.