Word: chanboramey
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...took on the additional burden of making a mythological film about a beautiful half-snake, half-human without the aid of digital special effects. Ang's solution: to glue live snakes onto a cap worn by his exceedingly cooperative leading lady, 17-year old newcomer Pich Chanboramey. "Sometimes the snakes would leap off her head," the director recalls, "and we'd have to chase them around...
...tongue at her face.) The snake impregnates the peasant woman. Her husband returns from a trip, discovers her infidelity and slits open her belly, releasing hundreds of tiny snakes, which he tries to kill. But one slithers to safety. It grows into snake-girl Soraya, played by Pich Chanboramey. With a magic ring she can transform her Medusa-like locks into normal hair, but not forever. When Soraya loses her virginity, she is fated to change into a serpent forever. And then she falls in love...
...town, the film's distributors have had to lease the French Cultural Center and give outdoor viewings in the courtyard of a local television station. (The film opens in theaters in Thailand this month.) Cambodian audiences have been enthusiastic, and Ang is grateful the filming is over. Persuading Pich Chanboramey to don the hissing cap of serpents, he says, wasn't easy. "When she first saw the snakes, she cried and cried," Fay Sam Ang says. "But I told her she had to be professional. In the end, it was no problem. The snakes would just give her little kisses...
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