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[itaewonguy]

well I just checked the IMDB and it says EXPATS in now in POST..
so the filming is all done and the actors all returned to the STATES.
Ryan Phillippe did not star in the movie.. but chris klien did..in case you're wondering who he is.. AMERICAN PIE!
but get this.. KELLY HU is in it.. MAN SHE IS HOT..
and ohh yeah.. and John cho is in it..
is it just me.. or did it seem like the entertainment business really didnt give a hoot this movie was being shot..I have heard nothing about this movie being shot.. did arrirang at least go down there and film a day of behind the scenes??

so did anyone actually see this being shot?
guess its gonna be set in the Winter which I think was a bad choice from the director! he should have started filming NOW.. best weather..

anyway.. so yeah anyone see the actors or them filming.
where were the locations??

[chronicpride]

kickass..Jeffrey Wright starred in it. He's no slouch with script selection. Hopefully this will be worth it.

The director's last movie was E-Dreams which got huge critical acclaim.

Any release date info?

[Derrek]

My impression of the Korean entertainment and news industry is that they are about twice as xenophobic as the rest of Korea. They don't want outside sources coming in and doing a better job, or presenting anything other than the controlled Korean point of view. I fully expect some part of that film to have something that causes protests and the usual anti-western hatred. No one here wants to support or even mention the film until they know exactly what's in it.

Perhaps some of you heard about how Jjjang Nara (I think it was her) was invited to attend a prestigeous awards show in the USA (something along the line of grammy/emmys, etc). She refused, making some snide comment about it not being a big deal worthy of attending -- or something along those lines. More likely, she refused fearing a local backlash which could ruin her career. That's the rumor, anyway. Of course, it could have been rough on her going somewhere where virtually no one knew who she was or even gave a hoot. Maybe that's the real reason.

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

Is this the same film which Mira Sorvino was supposed to star in?

Sparkles*_*

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

[itaewonguy]

[chronicpride]

Regardless if it gets a wide release or not, it will open up more awareness to teaching over here. Let's face it, although we live in the Korea-esl bubble, it's easy to think that there's a lot more awareness of the truths that we know. But when I used to advertise Korea jobs on college job boards, Jobtrack, and Monster, 9 out of 10 responses that I would get would be 'people actually do that? And getting paid salary/rent/airfare for having to do what?'.

If the script is really good and scores well with test audiences and gets broad distribution, I'm curious to see the amount of hits and unique visitors that are going to come this way. There'll definitely be an uptick of some sort. Just how much remains to be seen.

[stumptown]

I told my ex-gf about it when I read an article in the Korean Herald. Her response "Now people will think Korea is a dirty place.

[Derrek]

Isn't that about the truth? People will think it's a dirty place....

I've always felt that Koreans seem to try to hide certain aspects of their society out of fear that the rest of the world will see it for what it really is. Like when one of my friends was telling me about how most of the spinning poles were for legitimate barber shops, and few Korean men would enter such a place as one of the bad ones.

If you read Korean, you see sign after sign advertising young, available women from the Philippines for marriage. Then you read in the local papers about the problems Korea is having because the US military marries filipina and Thai women, bringing them here to work as prostitutes.

Dude, it's thick in here!

[stumptown]

Yeah Derrek, I totally agree with you. Look at all of the pink rooms that you find near major subways. The ones where there are rows of glass rooms with the available woman waiting for a john.
That same ex-gf once asked me "Why don't foreigners know about Korea?" My answer was simple "What is there to know?" Though I like Korea and I've been here for a couple of years and maybe more, I've found that there really isn't a lot to do. Why go to another city? I'll just see more of the same. Any trip to nature is good, though.

[thorin]

Isn't Kelly Hu like 40?

[itaewonguy]

[mithridates]

Was there an upsurge in tourism in Thailand after The Beach?

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

[chronicpride]