So for this week, I will be talking about our local cinema scene! It is exciting and kind of scary at the same time and
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For Singapore, despite having a flourshing Chinese and Malay film industry during 1950s and 1960s, Singapore's flim industry suffered an decline after it's independence in 1965.
During the early 1990s, there were few films that came out however it all performed dismally at the box office. Films like, 1991's Medium Rare, and Bugis street. However those 2 films were not directed by Singapore director.
The first film which came out by an Singaporean director was Mee Pok Man (1991) the first full-length film directed by Eric khoo.
The turning point was when Army Daze came out in 1996 that turned the high profits at the box office.
In 1997 another history was made by Eric Khoo's 12 storeys which was highly acclaimed and was the first ever film to be shown at the Cannes.
Follow by this, was the phenomenal success of Money No Enough in 1998.
This eventually catapulted the nation's drive towards movie making.
In 1999, many productions companies came out and produced many good films of Singapore.
After a turn around took place during the 20th century, there were more directors rising up.
One of it was Jack Neo who made many successful local films in the past decade that almost everyone in our nation knows. His film's include "I not stupid" (2002), Homerun (2003), Just follow law (2007) , Ah long pte ltd (2008) , Money no enough 2 (2008) and follow by the Ah boys to men (2012) and it's sequels.
Another one of the director is Royston Tan. He started off as a young tv commercial which he had received many awards for it. His first film was 15: The movie, in 2003. He goes on and made 4:30 (2005), 881 (2007) and 12 Lotus (2008).
Other than the 2 talented directors, through the years we have many talented directors and their notable works, like Kelvin tong's maid, Boo Jun fang's Sandcastle, Anthony Chen's Ilo Ilo.
Through the years, I'm extremely proud of our own country's work. I personally feel that we came a long way as now we are building up our cinema scene, I believe the new wave of talents along the way will help established our future local cinema's scene.
Now I will talk about a film that I really like, which is Royston Tan's 2007 Singaporean musical =-comedy-drama film 881.
The movie talk about the Getai scene in Singapore.
This show really hit me right in the FEELS.
It is really local, and stay to the root movie. I find it very fresh as I have never seen any movie touch about the Getai's scene in Singapore before.
The additional musical songs use like all the dialect or classic chinese songs used in the film was great. Other than that, it was funny and heart warming.
The part when Big papaya (Yeo Yan Yan), and small papaya (Mindee Ong ) timelapse's scene. When Big papaya suffers from cancer and her hair started dropping.
The scene really touched my heart, even so till now I still remember the scene.
The film also received awards and receive many good reviews even before the movie was shown.
Thinking back the movie, really reminds me of many memories. Definitely one of the best Singapore's movie.
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