schplurg
7th May 2003, 06:33 PM
The City Of SARS: The Movie!
The Article (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/3006705.stm)
Movie studios in China and Hong Kong have begun work on projects about the mystery illness Sars.
Two separate films about the respiratory syndrome, which has killed at least 219 in China and 204 in Hong Kong, are due to begin shooting, reported Screen Daily.
Hong Kong's Mandarin Films is producing The City of Sars, directed by Steve Cheung, which is due for release as early as July.
Billed as a comedy drama, it will interweave three stories centred around the rise of the illness.(Emphasis mine)
Just looking for opinions on:
1. SARS being made into a comedy drama while the virus is not yet under control, and while people are currently dying from it.
2. Almost every photo I've seen attached to a SARS news article shows Chinese people, and only Chinese people, wearing masks.
3. Nike and other designers selling masks with their logos on them within a week or two of the outbreak (when it started really making headlines at least).
I personally feel that #'s 1 and 3 are pretty sick. If a chunk of this money goes into research then maybe I could understand, but from the looks of it, it's just simple exploitation.
Number 2: I dunno. China does seem to be the hardest hit, and it is alleged that the virus started there. But are the constant images of only Chinese people wearing masks just propaganda of some kind? Is this an attempt to peg this as the "Chinese Disease"?
I know this isn't as serious as Bush's carrier landing controversy, or left-handed leftist militant matriarchal Femi-Nazis doing whatever it is they do, but I thought I'd throw this out there anyways.
The Article (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/3006705.stm)
Movie studios in China and Hong Kong have begun work on projects about the mystery illness Sars.
Two separate films about the respiratory syndrome, which has killed at least 219 in China and 204 in Hong Kong, are due to begin shooting, reported Screen Daily.
Hong Kong's Mandarin Films is producing The City of Sars, directed by Steve Cheung, which is due for release as early as July.
Billed as a comedy drama, it will interweave three stories centred around the rise of the illness.(Emphasis mine)
Just looking for opinions on:
1. SARS being made into a comedy drama while the virus is not yet under control, and while people are currently dying from it.
2. Almost every photo I've seen attached to a SARS news article shows Chinese people, and only Chinese people, wearing masks.
3. Nike and other designers selling masks with their logos on them within a week or two of the outbreak (when it started really making headlines at least).
I personally feel that #'s 1 and 3 are pretty sick. If a chunk of this money goes into research then maybe I could understand, but from the looks of it, it's just simple exploitation.
Number 2: I dunno. China does seem to be the hardest hit, and it is alleged that the virus started there. But are the constant images of only Chinese people wearing masks just propaganda of some kind? Is this an attempt to peg this as the "Chinese Disease"?
I know this isn't as serious as Bush's carrier landing controversy, or left-handed leftist militant matriarchal Femi-Nazis doing whatever it is they do, but I thought I'd throw this out there anyways.