Lost (And Found) in Thailand
Our columnist in Beijing reports on the new comedy taking the Chinese box office by storm
- Published: 11 Jan 2013 at 00.00
- Newspaper section: Life
Do the French, Indians, Japanese or anyone else feel jittery when foreign filmmakers arrive to make movies about their country?
Wang Baoqiang, Xu Zheng and Huang Bo star in Lost in Thailand .
It seems that whenever Hollywood studios or foreign directors make movies about Thailand, we feel a pang of insecurity. Instead of being proud of the images of our beloved country, questions such as these are bound to come up: What are they going to say about us? What kind of joke they are going to make? Or we will think: I bet there will be scenes of drunken guys, half-naked bar girls pole dancing, and drugs galore at a Full Moon Party at Koh Phangan!
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