INDIAN MOVIE FACTS
India, since the beginning of 20th century had produced many movies. It produced 1000 movies annually and currently has one of the biggest film industries in the whole world aside from United States, China and Europe. People often mistaken that they called the Indian movie as a “Bollywood” Movies. In reality, Bollywood is a company which based in Mumbai India that produced many Indian Movies with Hindi language only. This is quite an opposite. Some of the actors and actress that currently graces India’s movie scene nowadays is on High demand from Hollywood’s movie directors. Name such as Sharukh Khan, Aiswarya Rai and Dev Patel have been contacted to featured in future Hollywood movie. There were a lot of famous Indian movie (both Local and International) which not only famous in India alone but the whole world. Such as: Slumdog Millionaire and My Name Is Khan.
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In theme with this weeks reading of Edward Said Beginning postcolonialism (2000), there are some interesting Western movies that capture Said’s argument about the stereotyping and marginalization of the Orient (East). Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) is one that comes to mind.
ReplyDeleteThe film depicts the ‘Orientalizing' of both British and Americans, and racism in both the savage portrayal of the fictitious Kali cult referred to as Thuggies, and the uncivilized portrayal of the rest of the Indian civilisation.
This is evident in the scene where the holy man proclaims to Indy that it was Shiva (their god) who made him fall from the sky, in order to help them to recover the stolen stone. This scene portrays the notion of Indians as being ignorant, superstitious and most importantly the savage in need of salvation by the white man (colonisation).
Its amazing once you start observing the way in which orientalist representations are so much part of western visual culture. The binary opposition is always played out in the way you described, and thus a dehumanisng process of `the other' takes place .
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