Sawaaadeeeekaaarrrppp! Me love you long time from bangkok!! Buli Balik still conforming not yet First print till monday!! i want to terrjuunetingkarp!

Assalam' mualaikum and greetings kodok-kodok semua from the HAZE FREE city of Bangkok. Saya, Azman ABu Hassan dan Abang Indera Che Muda tiap-tiap hari sedut udara yang API indexnya kurang dari 500. Betul kengkawan, kat sini langit masih biru dan orang-orangnya sungguh beradab dan bersopan santun ya amat (mungkin ada yang tak percaya, tapi walaupun ada dari mereka yang makan babi, tetapi peradaban mereka, kalah sesetengah orang tak makan babi kat kl tu.)Saya rasa amat rendah diri di sini. I am so deeply humbled again, by this bangkok experience.

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Isu GOL dan GINCU yang sedang hangat diperdebatkan oleh dua orang heee... heee..
Gua Ingatkan happening gila la debat tu rupanya dua orang aje. itu pun pasal WAR OF THE WORLDS oleh Prof Madya Steven Speilberg. (actually, dia full professor kerana mendapat doctor of film dari universiti beliau... dia tak mainlah madya, madya ni. Actually come to think of it, he doesn't even call himself professor Steven or Dr. Steven Spielberg dalam filem dia ek? kenapa hah?...hmmm )

Anyway what was i talking about? oh yes, gol dan gincu. I agree with some of you that this is not a new story, this because all sports movie follow a similar type of formula BUT my argument is, the execution of this malay sports movie, like this!, is what i am excited about. It is a good story, to me. A film yang berjaya menghibur dan mendekatkan isu-isu topikal yang penting adalah sebuah filem yg berjaya bagi saya. Saya rasa fresh pendekatan Bernard and when i left the panggung, i tak rasa macam a) ditipu b) dihina c) diludah oleh director dan produser filem itu. Filem ini saya rasa cuba diberi balance di antara kesan komersilism dan artistik integritinya. Saya amat setuju yang kita jangan buat cerita bodoh, tetapi saya rasa penonton Malaysia sekarang masih dalam stage tengah membuka minda mereka dan saya rasa akan tiba masanya, the time will come when, the market will be big enough to support all types of malaysian movies, from the popcorn to the art. Sebelum kita tengok Wim Wenders dan Fellini pun dulu kita tengok ultraman taro dan Cumi dan Ciki dulu kan, so kena tak teh dulu la geng.... BUT CHANGE IS COMING AND IT IS COMING SOON TO A THEATRE NEAR YOU. Saya berdoa dan percaya.

Back to GOL DAN GINCU...

personally, i didn't feel the incest issue(or as it is more popularly known these days as sumbang mahram - sounds like a charity organisation doesn't it? "Sudahkah anda membuat sumbangan mahram anda?" hee hee... they should call it something more fiercely evil like, BAPAK BABI ROGOL ANAK or BABAROAN (bukan BARBARRAN eh kengkawan) for short.) Was forced and i thought a lot of care was put into that subplot as no words were even uttered on the matter. it was treated visually and we had to come to our own conclusions. But in the end people, GOL DAN GINCU is as i have said before, a popcorn teen flick sesuai untuk seisi keluarga. Take it for what it is and enjoy the ride. As a malaysian filmmaker i was proud of it. Tak malu dikelompokkan sebagai filem maker.

Buli pun pada saya, banyak kelemahannya. Tetapi sebagai pembuka minda penggerak naluri ianya adalah pengajaran yang baik bagi saya, jika hanya seorang pun dapat sesuatu manafaat dari filem BULI itu.... gua dah alhamdulillah dah... plus dia box office!! jadi gua diberi peluang berkarya lagi.

Saya berpegang kepada prinsip life is like school. As we move up the stages of life we are given opportunities to learn more complex ideas. Problems are our greatest teachers. Success is the great enemy of creativity. When the bass player stops playing, it's called a drum solo.. or ...errr something like that la.

I want to be a great film maker! but i have given in to the realisation that what is actually more important is my journey into becoming a great film maker / storyteller. If i follow the path that i believe in, then maybe my children will one day be able to say loud and proud, " i had a great father!" and that would be enough for me.

personally, i believe we have to make GOL dan GINCU a commercial success as i am already excited to watch bernard punya next film. In with the new and out with the... the... (you fill in the blanks lah)

More power to you my friends and more power to MALAYSIAN FILMS.

As for how buli balik punya post is doing in Bangkok, It is going great. Check print slightly delayed to monday, due to the Queen's Birthday and the monstrous release of Thailand's own TOM YUM GOONG, starring stuntmen turned actor TONY JAA.

Like i told my mother, buli is like my architectural diploma it was for them, not for me, but Buli Balik is MY degree, something i did for me. I hope Malaysians will identify and find it in their hearts to love it too.