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...Guess He'll Skip This Flick You reported that director Royston Tan's intense, gritty film 15 explores teenage life on the dark side of Singapore [Sept. 1]. You suggested that Singaporeans will learn much from the movie's depiction of adolescent angst and despair. This is questionable. We Singaporeans have seen too many delinquents cutting class, chain-smoking, taking drugs, running away from home and fighting. Because the government has not yet approved this film for general release in Singapore, Tan said he feels like an outcast. Well, no apologies. This country was built by a generation of workers...
Jangling the change in the pocket of his tan linen pants, Marglin explained how Social Analysis 72, “Economics: A Critical Approach,” overcame substantial opposition from the economics department last spring...
...that's when the magic happens." His goal: to use his fame to build a cultural bridge between East and West, playing Chinese music to Western audiences and vice versa. "The West is hungry now for Chinese culture - like the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with its music by Tan Dun," he says. "And in China, young people are devouring Shakespeare. Music moves people so deeply, it can really make them feel differently about each other." Official Website: www.langlang.com
...Like American director Spike Jonze, Tan cut his teeth on music videos, and that pedigree shows in the hip-hop numbers that punctuate the film. He mixes documentary realism with dream sequences, rapid montages, video-game graphics, even a darkly comedic animated scene called "Suicide Manual," in which a typical-looking Singaporean kid offs himself in ever more creative?and bloody?ways. Despite his experimental forays, Tan knows when to let the camera linger on the faces of his young actors and wait for the pain to surface. With its white skies and overexposed tropical light, his Singapore...
...Tan says that despite the film's many critical plaudits, since shooting 15 he's become more distant from the government. In a city where the state is deeply involved in the film industry (the Singaporean Film Commission was one of 15's producers), Tan knows that could mean serious trouble for his career. "I feel like an outcast." That's an emotion his characters, rebels on the edge of a manufactured paradise, know all too well...