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    2007-07-06 1:59AM / 標準BLOG / 會員可以看
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    Last week I got a call from Sony International.  They asked me to go to Russia to consult on the remaking of "I dream of Jeannie" for Russian TV.  Boy, we have come a long way since the cold war.  Instead of shooting missiles at them, we are sending over American TV shows.

    For the last several years, Sony has been licensing old American TV shows all over the world.  Shows like "Married with Children" and "The Nanny" are being made in Greece, Turkey, Agentina and Indonesia.  I guess that should not be surprising in today's world of cultural globalization.  After all, we get McDonalds from Red Square to Tiananmen Square.  We listen to Rap music in all languages.  Hip Hop becomes the language of youths of the world.  The tide is not just a one way street.  America is also at the receiving end.  Martin Scorcese won the academy award for remaking "Infernal Affairs", a great Hong Kong film.  "Ugly Betty" started out as "Betty, la fea" a soap opera from Columbia.  May be there would be less war if we all watch the same TV shows and laugh at the same jokes. 

    The vibriancy of a society can usually be measured by how well it adopts other cultures without losing its own.  So here we are, multicultural artists,  how do we take all our experiences and produce something new and unique?  Can we heat up this boiling cultural melting pot?

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  • sommer
    藝術家空間 Sommer
    留言於2007-08-02 4:34AM [举报]
    hi Henry, didn't know you are a "Jeannie" expert! yea, i grew up on the show. How are u?  I just worked w/Russell Wong and Jack Ong, so I'm excited 4 my contribution.  They were so cool and funny.  Hope all is fabulous and sunny in Russia.
  • elizabethsung
    藝術家空間  孫芳
    留言於2007-07-23 3:38PM [举报]
    Great insight Henry. I agree.
  • Beatrix
    Beatrix
    留言於2007-07-10 1:30AM [举报]
    I think generally all artists in the world are having hard time between these mixture of cultural, commercial, and new breakthroughs. just talk about the hit of all - hip hop. Musicians from different cultural backgrounds are trying to integrate some hip hop elements, and it ends up a hip hop with their own cultural style, like Japanese Hip Hop, or even HK Hip Hop. Well, each of these creation, i can say, have their own unique points (by adopting/ 'stealing' other culture's elements). They keep their own taste for their own culture, so the local people will seldom find 'their own hiphop' lame (it may not fit to other people in another culture, of course). And in the society now, as we all can see, is coming to a point that hardly a new style of music/ movies can be created as a 'new born species'. I am not an artist and so i do not know how it can possibly happen later on. What's your opinion?
  • Mommy_Mok
    Mommy_Mok
    留言於2007-07-09 4:09PM [举报]
    When I was in Germany, I watched a lot of I Dream of Jeannie altho they were dubbed.  They're still entertaining to watch.
  • JRS
    JRS
    留言於2007-07-09 2:59AM [举报]
    Gee....I just hope they don't farm out old episodes of "All in the Family" to other countries!  I was a kid (around 10 or so) when it was on TV.  I know it was extremely popular but I was so offended by it and did not find much humor in Archie's "Bunkerisms".  Although this was a cutting-edge kinda Sitcom for its day, I think it would definately set us back in the eyes of the world.

    Now...."Monty Python's Flying Circus"...that's classic!

    I would love to see a succesful show that incorporates many persons of different cultures put into some common situation where they have to work together (with humor because I love to laugh) discovering that we're not so different after all.
  • Flagday
    Flagday
    留言於2007-07-07 1:05AM [举报]
    I used to love I Dream of Jeannie, and that "I'll give you three wishes" thing resonates in any culture.  I wish we had something a little more "high culture" to export.  I know you're a sitcom guy, but other than slapstick (someone falling down, pie in the face, etc.), do the same things make people laugh the world over?  What is Russian humor?  Maybe Jeannie can be found in an old bottle of Stoli floating in the Caspian Sea!

    Anyway, good luck on that job...sounds like fun.

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