Mrbiggus Posted November 13, 2011 Share Posted November 13, 2011 Ted, a 46-year-old salesman from Wales, visits Thailand on business. After revelling in the carnal pleasures of Bangkok, he falls in love with Tip, a bar girl. They marry and start a new life in her poor, rural home. Ted soon finds he isn't alone. In Northeast Thailand marriage to foreign men has become an industry. Things soon sour for Ted. His money has disappeared much faster than he expected. No one seems to want him around the farm anymore. When Ted asks Tip if she loves him, she replies: "I can't eat or drink your love." Ted returns home destitute, having learned what his Thai wife already knew: without money you lose everything. David Tucker studied psychology and worked in human services before coming to filmmaking relatively late in life. He began by making short documentaries for film festivals and for non-government organisations working in Asia. His desire to make My Thai Bride stemmed from a long-standing interest in the relationship between developed and developing worlds. http://www.australiaatidfa.com/My-Thai-Bride.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beetlejuice Posted November 13, 2011 Share Posted November 13, 2011 So who done it? Was it the butler? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeyserSoze01 Posted November 13, 2011 Share Posted November 13, 2011 Everyone knows Colonel Mustard was schtooping the little harlot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mca Posted November 13, 2011 Share Posted November 13, 2011 When Ted asks Tip if she loves him, she replies: "I can't eat or drink your love." She'd have to marry a German for that. A bit of the old "wind, rain and lava". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CWMcMurray Posted November 13, 2011 Share Posted November 13, 2011 So will this documentary be shown at the Bangkok International Film Festival? http://www.worldfilmbkk.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janverbeem Posted November 13, 2011 Share Posted November 13, 2011 So in fact,Teds real name is David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommyDee Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 pity no download links Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrbiggus Posted November 15, 2011 Author Share Posted November 15, 2011 More information http://www.idfa.nl/industry/tags/project.aspx?id=D336FEB0-4BFF-4B74-AA88-B7C0D79EFB8C&tab=- Volume ON So you guys can sneer and make a mockery of..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F4UCorsair Posted November 15, 2011 Share Posted November 15, 2011 (edited) The pop up after post # 1 is for Thai Love Links?? The link is about a westerner being dudded by a Thai bride, and then up pops an ad for Thai brides. Reaffirms what I think, when the money runs out, the love runs out too, but it seems there is no shortage of takers. I think David, oops Ted, may be speaking from first hand experience Edited November 15, 2011 by F4UCorsair Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrbiggus Posted November 16, 2011 Author Share Posted November 16, 2011 I was curious if this was a stereotype scenario of a film. A made up half baked corny story. Well it's for real...It's a real live action documentary, so when it's released it might have some insight as to what many farang men post/ask on this forum about Thai women. http://showreal.com.au/my-thai-bride/my-thai-bride-producers-directors-notes/ I was working in Khorat, a town in the Issan region of Thailand in 2006 when I met Ted. I had just rented a room in an apartment block where Ted was living. I was surprised to find someone like Ted in a poor, unfashionable part of Thailand. Three weeks earlier Ted had separated from his Thai wife. He’d lost everything and didn’t have enough for an airfare home. There was no one at home who could bail him out and he was living on borrowed money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berkshire Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 I was curious if this was a stereotype scenario of a film. A made up half baked corny story. Well it's for real...It's a real live action documentary, so when it's released it might have some insight as to what many farang men post/ask on this forum about Thai women. http://showreal.com....irectors-notes/ I was working in Khorat, a town in the Issan region of Thailand in 2006 when I met Ted. I had just rented a room in an apartment block where Ted was living. I was surprised to find someone like Ted in a poor, unfashionable part of Thailand. Three weeks earlier Ted had separated from his Thai wife. He'd lost everything and didn't have enough for an airfare home. There was no one at home who could bail him out and he was living on borrowed money. I would love to see the whole film. At first, like you, I thought it'd be a typical smear campaign with a one-sided perspective. But it "appears" to be a documentary from two sides, both him and her. That would be ground-breaking, if you will, considering the sort of stuff that we read on English-speaking Thai forums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remy1960 Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 I was curious if this was a stereotype scenario of a film. A made up half baked corny story. Well it's for real...It's a real live action documentary, so when it's released it might have some insight as to what many farang men post/ask on this forum about Thai women. http://showreal.com....irectors-notes/ I was working in Khorat, a town in the Issan region of Thailand in 2006 when I met Ted. I had just rented a room in an apartment block where Ted was living. I was surprised to find someone like Ted in a poor, unfashionable part of Thailand. Three weeks earlier Ted had separated from his Thai wife. He'd lost everything and didn't have enough for an airfare home. There was no one at home who could bail him out and he was living on borrowed money. I would love to see the whole film. At first, like you, I thought it'd be a typical smear campaign with a one-sided perspective. But it "appears" to be a documentary from two sides, both him and her. That would be ground-breaking, if you will, considering the sort of stuff that we read on English-speaking Thai forums. Sounds very much like a filmed version of 'Private Dancer', although set in Bangkok, tells the story not only from both sides, but also that of their mates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taninthai Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 Ted, a 46-year-old salesman from Wales, visits Thailandr on business. After revelling in the carnal pleasures of Bangkok, ddsryfbnetjdehe falls in love with Tip, a bar girl. They marry and start a new life in her poor, rural home. Ted soon finds he isn't alone. In Northeast Thailand marriage to foreign men has become an industry. Things soon sour for Ted. His money has disappeared much faster than he expected. No one seems to want him around the farm anymore. When Ted asks Tip if she loves him, she replies: "I can't eat or drink your love." Ted returns home destitute, having learned what his Thai wife already knew: without money you lose everything. David Tucker studied psychology and worked in human services before coming to filmmaking relatively late in life. He began by making short documentaries for film festivals and for non-government organisations working in Asia. His desire to make My Thai Bride stemmed from a long-standing interest in the relationship between developed and developing worlds. http://www.australiaatidfa.com/My-Thai-Bride.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdadane Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 Get outta here. Whaaa-Whaaa.. No money - No honey is simply a way of life all over, even back in the good ole US of A. What do you expect her to do when the money runs out ????? Remember - memories are 4 ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travel2003 Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 Would like to see that movie. Anyone knows how to download? Anyhow, it always puzzles me when I hear about someone's money ran out. I guess Im one of those that always need to have something saved for a rainy day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrbiggus Posted April 21, 2013 Author Share Posted April 21, 2013 Well this documentary is out on the torrent sites just google "My Thai Bride torrent" English: MY THAI BRIDE.Ted is a 46 year-old salesman from Wales. He is divorced, feels marginalised by middle age and is tired of life in the ‘nanny state’. Ted is a frequent visitor to Thailand as a result of his job in an import business. He revels in the freedom he finds in a country where everything is for sale at the right price; including the beautiful young women who want to be with him.Ted meets Tip who is working in the Rooster Bar. She is in her mid thirties, from the northeastern Issan region, the poorest part of Thailand. Like many Issan women, Tip is uneducated and could never earn enough to own her house or educate her child. She hates the thought of her daughter growing up to be involved in prostitution. When she meets Ted, she thinks she has finally found a foreigner who will take care of her and her daughter.Ted returns to the UK, but stays in contact with Tip by telephone. He sends her money so she can give up her bar job and return to her family’s farm in her village, Krasang. After a few months, at Tip’s request, Ted returns to Thailand and marries her. Ted liquidates his assets in Wales and sinks his money into building a house and piggery on Tip’s family farm.He soon discovers there are many other foreign men who have married and settled in northeast Thailand. For many Issan women, marriage to a foreigner provides a way out of debt and a lifetime of difficult work. In northeast Thailand, marriage to a foreigner has become an industry. John, an Australian, says that there are about 90 foreigners living within a five-kilometre radius and that new foreigners arrive every week. Larry, an American, built his wife a large, luxurious house in Krasang. Larry believes she does love him, even though she tells him she doesn’t. Grant’s wife Pon says that when she took Grant home to Krasang, her friends and relatives all came over to her house to see the foreigner, because they couldn’t believe she got one.Within 12 months, Ted’s hopes for a better life have been dashed. His money has disappeared much faster than he expected. Tip and her family don’t seem to want him around the farm anymore. When Ted asks Tip if she loves him, she says: “I can’t eat or drink your love.” Ted leaves the farm destitute and wonders whether it had been a con all along. Ted rents a room in a nearby town. After surviving on credit for several months, Ted begs Tip to give him some of his money back. But she is only willing to buy him a one-way ticket back to the UK.Economically, Ted and Tip have traded places and Ted has learned what his Thai wife already knew: without money, you lose everything. My Thai Bride is about the power of money to save and destroy – and the harm that ensues when people are reduced to commodities. While there have been other films about prostitution in Thailand, My Thai Bride explores the lesser known story of the foreign marriage industry and the consequences for the men and women involved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HardenedSoul Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 There's another thread on here about that very same documentary. I tried finding it but just loads of links to dodgy torrent sites asking for credit card details. It was also available to watch on a Canadian TV channel via their version of something like the BBC's iPlayer but you needed to be in Canada. TBH, it seems like the film maker is doing his level best to stop people watching it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeaVisionBurma Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 18 month old thread - bad formatting in the OP - CLOSED Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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