Is Alexandra 'too polite' in the new Thai drama??

[Konnanasaat]

On February 13, the day before Valentine's Day, Alexandra was going to appear in the new soap opera on Thai Channel Seven. This did not happen because our government, despite not being able to produce their own soap operas, did not like the content. It accused the Thai producers of misrepresenting Lao culture. In the drama Alexandra was cast as Champa, a beautiful young lady whose mother had no husband, something the government found unacceptable because “it is against Lao culture to have a child outside of marriage” said Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Yong Chanthalangsy (555, yeah, never happens here). Champa plays a tourist guide who becomes romantically attached to a young Thai man. “It’s misleading that a Lao woman could be such an easy woman,” said Yong (who wants a Thai guy anyway). He also criticised the Thai actor’s poor use of Lao language. “If you cannot speak Lao, you shouldn’t pretend you can and then speak in such an ugly accent,” he said. Champa is also criticised for throwing the Lao national flower, a white frangipani, into a dustbin after an argument with her Thai lover (I don't think she was making a political comment Yong). “The national flower should not be thrown away in that manner," said Yong. So anyway, now that the new, censored version of the soap opera has finally begun screening on Thai TV, I want to know, WHAT DO LAO PEOPLE THINK ABOUT ALEXANDRA IN THE NEW SOAP OPERA? Is she 'too polite' now? Tell me please.
(see the news about it at http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2007...s_30026818.php

no...she's just to OLD FASHION! we don't wear sin every day...gosh gosh

so! if they didn'twant her to do this and do that! why doesn't he(yong chanthalasy go and doing himself)this is the drama,it's just a story we just created to entertaint people! it's just movie why don't you just make a big deal out of it?did any laotian capable to make their own movie yet? everything are came from the other side of mekong river(vidio music,vidio song etc..) we all knew about it! this is the first time alexandra try to be in the big screen,com on! give her a chanced(everyone learn from their own mistake)i think most of the people just know how to critism,but they don't even know how to do it(we just see other people mistake but we never see our own)i think, if he know too much why didn't he let his daughter try to act like alexandra,i wonder what will he say about it???

who is Alexanda? what a marketing stun. I don't know why lao websites mention her when lao people don't even know her. they must get paid or someting

Originally Posted by Unregistered

who is Alexanda? what a marketing stun. I don't know why lao websites mention her when lao people don't even know her. they must get paid or someting

Alexanda is a girl who is being popular because she is half Hungarian and Lao.. I guess.. And her parent is a musical and she had that musical blood from her parent and she is a singer now... But I don't know why she is getting popular... Maybe she is beauty? or Perhap she is having a nice voice?

why are lao people being control by thai people, i think lao people can make a movie , why THAI THAI THAI????????????????????

oyyyyyyyy on one side....i am not a traditional person...i dont play by the rules...i make my own<<<<<huhuhuh keng nor 55555....anyway....on another side...i like when i see that Lao culture is being communicated so people can see what its like...and i said "like" becoz people are people...not everyone follows cultural tradition and social norms/mores exactly...humans make mistakes, or as some like to call it creating a "learning opportunity" in life, so i agree with the original poster that it happens...and people should just accept that a mother doesn't neccessarily have to be married...i mean Champa is alive--obviously her mother did a good job in raising her because she turned out to be a functional memebr of society...so it IS possible without a man<<<has always been 55555 i guess what i'm trying to say is that Mr. Yong Chanthalangsy should be proud that a strong Lao woman can raise her own kid just fine...and Mr. Chanthalangsy states an opinion about Lao women ("It’s misleading that a Lao woman could be such an easy woman")---but actually CHanthalangsy is misleading us into thinking ALL LAO WOMEN ARE THE SAME<<<<just becoz a character is a Lao woman does not mean another Lao woman will fit that character...Chanthalongsy obviously doesn't know the point of a soap opera....my deduction: know the subject before u talk about it or be prepared to be mistaken....soap operas are fiction...don't have to take it personal...
as for this comment>>>“If you cannot speak Lao, you shouldn’t pretend you can and then speak in such an ugly accent.”<<<he may as well shoot me down from my cloud....i only speak a little bit of Lao....so sad nor and when i speak it, i guess i pretend to speak it with a terrible accent... but i'm trying my best to teach myself...and learn from others....and what does this say about our people and our language? what if a Lao person doesn't know their own language and wants to learn? well, they aren't going to want to learn now becoz the Foreign Ministry "spokesperson" communicates that doing so is not a good idea. Ouch...that hurts my heart...poor me
and as for the throwing away of the national flower....maybe Mr. Chanthalangsy shouldn't put down khon Lao<<<<or atleast thats what he communicates in my opinion...
and the person who posted second: clappppp clappppp well said his critiscism was actually more embarrasing to me than any soap opera could be.
and some Lao ppl do know her...teenagers know her...but why does her popularity status matter? She is doing good for herself. If one Lao person doesn't know another Lao person, does that make either person less valuable to our society or us as a people? i don't think so....and i think that is our way of life....we are not as individualistic as western societies so shouldn't that mean that we support our own people for great things they are doing? instead of put them down, because if u put one of us down, you may be bringing all of us down.
Then you have some peopl who do wear sin everyday and some people who don't...55555 thats just personal choice...i'm not looking at what u wear....i'm more interrrested in what u have to say or knowing what u think....but tthat's just me
Popularity is popularity...people like listening to music....people like watching TV....if i had the talent of being able to become a performer in both music and television....i would use my talent...but not everyone has this talent....so popularity or attension mostly goes to those who use their talent for show....u can claim her as khon Lao, but she is the one to truly identify her self...and who are we to judge? PANDA pen luuk sord keu gun....i am proud of who i am...she should be too...
to sum this long post up....i just want to say that positive critiscism is useful and negative critiscism is unuseful, if not destructive...hence the term "constructive critiscism"....
and as for Mr. "Spokesperson"......i wish i could have a calm and constructive conversation with him...which means tong pai hien pa sa Lao kon....or maybe we need a new spokesperson huhuhuhu jk

omg! this post is long

peace, love, and chicken grease

If i was her, i would turn down the part, i did that little more then 12 years back. Was offer to do a Thai drama soap as one of the main character. Funny they wanna pay me 50 usd per day per shooting....Oh well.

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I could not see the advertisement. How can I watch it? I already click to the address where you show but I can't.
thanks