Word: cambodian
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...Matt Dillon's Cambodian Ghosts...
...compare to the pesky monkeys that tormented Dillon during the filming of his directorial debut, City of Ghosts, a crime drama set mostly in Cambodia and scheduled to open on April 25 in the U.S. "We had to smuggle in a monkey from Thailand for some scenes, because our Cambodian monkey was untrained and bit a chunk out of the prop lady's ear," Dillon recalls. "The Thai monkey escaped, and its trainer was yelling at these kids who gathered around not to chase it. Of course, every kid in Cambodia went after that monkey, and it ran into...
...Matt Dillon's Cambodian Ghosts...
...being politically dysfunctional, Dillon had surprisingly little difficulty securing permits and permissions from the local Culture Ministry. The country's cultural czars were irked a couple of years ago when Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, which was partly shot in Angkor Wat, mistakenly showed people wearing Vietnamese hats, not Cambodian ones?an unwelcome reminder of Cambodia's historic enemies. But besides trimming a few ultra-violent scenes, Dillon was required to do little more than translate the script for curious officials. "I was afraid of censorship, but they seemed more concerned that the movie was truthful," says Dillon, "even...
...Although it is written in an extravagantly emotional style and is at times deeply moving, The Gate is ultimately more historical document than literary memoir. Bizot assumes that his readers have a thorough knowledge of modern Cambodian history, sometimes identifying even obscure figures by surname only. Although future historians may not find in The Gate the definitive history of Cambodia's genocide, as a witness to that terror, Bizot's account will surely inspire an enduring fascination...