I'm Singaporean. And I'm more insulted than ever. They could have gone to Singapore, seriously, the media industry is dying for its big break, and many of us are quite so very sick of seeing Jack Neo films (they're just very large commercials with plotlines and a bit of Singaporean culture humour thrown in) as our one saving grace. Pretty much all of us speak English (the older people I'm not so sure, though I've seen a couple of aged people with a rather good command of English), and none of us are getting breaks from the rest of the world in a good long time, excepting this guy called Royston Tan (the true one saving grace in film, his film 881, about singers during the Hungry Ghost Festival, was submitted for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. It failed. But it got somewhere.), and Fann Wong (the only Singaporean actress to enter Hollywood. You may remember Shanghai Knights). Point, Hollywood should look further. But they won't. Because they think they can survive on whatever's in their backyard.
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They could have gone to Singapore, seriously, the media industry is dying for its big break, and many of us are quite so very sick of seeing Jack Neo films (they're just very large commercials with plotlines and a bit of Singaporean culture humour thrown in) as our one saving grace. Pretty much all of us speak English (the older people I'm not so sure, though I've seen a couple of aged people with a rather good command of English), and none of us are getting breaks from the rest of the world in a good long time, excepting this guy called Royston Tan (the true one saving grace in film, his film 881, about singers during the Hungry Ghost Festival, was submitted for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. It failed. But it got somewhere.), and Fann Wong (the only Singaporean actress to enter Hollywood. You may remember Shanghai Knights).
Point, Hollywood should look further. But they won't. Because they think they can survive on whatever's in their backyard.
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