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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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 Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 11:04 pm Post subject: HSM: It keeps getting worse and worse |
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I've now had the pleasure of watching the first 45 minutes of High School Musical III (twice). Who came up with this 똥? It seriously looks like HS kids wrote it themselves. I can't believe (a) that I actually paid W22,000 for a special edition of this scat and (b) how much my students absolutely love every minute of it. You'd really think that Korean teenagers were the marketing committee's focus group.
This week I'll be getting lots of practice at how to tune out a movie while reading a book. |
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espoir
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
Location: Incheon, South Korea
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| Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 11:18 pm Post subject: |
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| hahaha I know the feeling! I just brought in my laptop into the class, sat at the back with my headphones on and cranked my music while I read a book. |
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halfmanhalfbiscuit
Joined: 13 Oct 2007
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 11:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Jeez..you actually bought it yrself, not a CT? Haaaaaa-ha. |
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KYC
Joined: 11 May 2006
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| Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:25 am Post subject: |
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| I never got into any of the high school musical crap. My coteachers use it all the time and show it to the kids during classes we dont teach together. How can anyone like that crap?? I've never watched any of them, but I'm betting they all the same....love dovey dramatic crap..and singing and dancing...cuz yeah..that was what high school was all about. |
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Rteacher
Joined: 23 May 2005
Location: Western MA, USA
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| Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 7:15 am Post subject: |
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The whole High School Musical series has practically all the elements that Korean students love - fashion, pop music, romance, dancing, and attractive people in "exotic" locales.
Lead girl character, "Gabriella" is also nearly half-Asian (her real-life mother is part Filopino and Chinese) and the principal of the high school is an Asian-American of some sort.
Practically all the songs and dance numbers are of very good professional quality, most are fun, and many students are interested in learning the English lyrics to them.
Of course, it's not a realistic depiction of high school life in America, but it strikes a responsive chord on some aesthetic level that gives it global appeal. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 3:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Rteacher wrote: |
The whole High School Musical series has practically all the elements that Korean students love - fashion, pop music, romance, dancing, and attractive people in "exotic" locales.
Lead girl character, "Gabriella" is also nearly half-Asian (her real-life mother is part Filopino and Chinese) and the principal of the high school is an Asian-American of some sort.
Practically all the songs and dance numbers are of very good professional quality, most are fun, and many students are interested in learning the English lyrics to them.
Of course, it's not a realistic depiction of high school life in America, but it strikes a responsive chord on some aesthetic level that gives it global appeal. |
Which is to say...
- crappy synchronised dancing
- cheesy script
- boring, predictable plot
- lots of Aryan looking teenagers and a couple of toned black guys
- 18-year-olds who opperate at a 13-year-old level
- sanatised, sappy love scenes
...what's not for Korean teenagers to love about it? |
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ardis
Joined: 20 Apr 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 7:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
| Rteacher wrote: |
The whole High School Musical series has practically all the elements that Korean students love - fashion, pop music, romance, dancing, and attractive people in "exotic" locales.
Lead girl character, "Gabriella" is also nearly half-Asian (her real-life mother is part Filopino and Chinese) and the principal of the high school is an Asian-American of some sort.
Practically all the songs and dance numbers are of very good professional quality, most are fun, and many students are interested in learning the English lyrics to them.
Of course, it's not a realistic depiction of high school life in America, but it strikes a responsive chord on some aesthetic level that gives it global appeal. |
Which is to say...
- crappy synchronised dancing
- cheesy script
- boring, predictable plot
- lots of Aryan looking teenagers and a couple of toned black guys
- 18-year-olds who opperate at a 13-year-old level
- sanatised, sappy love scenes
...what's not for Korean teenagers to love about it? |
Correction, what's not for ANY teenager to love about it? Injecting the "Korean" was hardly necessary, since American's obsession with this cheesy crap is obvious. |
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samcheokguy
Joined: 02 Nov 2008
Location: Samcheok G-do
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| Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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I showed Rod Stiger's Napoleon with Thai Subtitles
...now the studies cry when I say "Today is Movie Day"
...depress the little blighters... |
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MrMr
Joined: 05 Sep 2006
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 10:30 pm Post subject: HSM: It keeps getting worse and worse |
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| Samcheokguy made me laugh out loud. |
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nicam
Joined: 14 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 10:39 pm Post subject: |
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| God, HSM is lame. I'm glad we were kids and teenagers when we were, and not now. It's all highly marketable cotton candy crap now! |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:09 pm Post subject: |
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| ardis wrote: |
| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
| Rteacher wrote: |
The whole High School Musical series has practically all the elements that Korean students love - fashion, pop music, romance, dancing, and attractive people in "exotic" locales.
Lead girl character, "Gabriella" is also nearly half-Asian (her real-life mother is part Filopino and Chinese) and the principal of the high school is an Asian-American of some sort.
Practically all the songs and dance numbers are of very good professional quality, most are fun, and many students are interested in learning the English lyrics to them.
Of course, it's not a realistic depiction of high school life in America, but it strikes a responsive chord on some aesthetic level that gives it global appeal. |
Which is to say...
- crappy synchronised dancing
- cheesy script
- boring, predictable plot
- lots of Aryan looking teenagers and a couple of toned black guys
- 18-year-olds who opperate at a 13-year-old level
- sanatised, sappy love scenes
...what's not for Korean teenagers to love about it? |
Correction, what's not for ANY teenager to love about it? Injecting the "Korean" was hardly necessary, since American's obsession with this cheesy crap is obvious. |
But it's not marketed at American teenagers; it's marketed at American 'preens'. I have very little experience teaching secondary school kids in Canada - and they were ESL students - but I somehow can't image a class of 14-15-year-old virgins on the edge of their seats in eager anticipation waiting to see if Troy and Gabriella are going to kiss. Maybe at a Christian fundamentalist school but even then I doubt it.
It's like Seventeen magazine - nobody age 17 and older actually reads it. |
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halfmanhalfbiscuit
Joined: 13 Oct 2007
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:24 pm Post subject: |
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| I should imagine every PS HS and MS boy has seen Vanessa Hudgen's nude shots....maybe that's part of their interest in the movie?? |
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nicam
Joined: 14 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:27 pm Post subject: |
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| ^^^ Yeah, it's a TWEEN movie! American High Schoolers are too busy getting stoned and having sex to think that cheesy crap is cool. |
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Dodgy Al
Joined: 15 May 2004
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:38 pm Post subject: |
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| I've decided to give each class a choice between Stand By Me, The Goonies, and Never Ending Story. For my sanity as much as anything else. Why on earth would you show a movie you don't enjoy yourself? |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:52 pm Post subject: |
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| halfmanhalfbiscuit wrote: |
| I should imagine every PS HS and MS boy has seen Vanessa Hudgen's nude shots....maybe that's part of their interest in the movie?? |
She's done nude shots? I'm suprised Disney would even keep her under contract as a 'Disney kid'. |
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