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Home » Remarkable » Film Owen Wilson banned in Thailand
Film Owen Wilson banned in Thailand
'No Escape', the latest film with Owen Wilson, is not allowed to be shown in Thailand, where the film was shot. The Thai government viewed the film and banned it, writes The New York Post.
The film 'No Escape' is about an American family fleeing a coup in an unidentified Southeast Asian country and will be released in Asia in a few weeks. The film was allowed to be shot in Thailand on the condition that it would not be noticed that it had been shot in Thailand.
Precautions were taken for this, for example, signs that came into view were turned upside down. Nevertheless, after seeing the film, Thai authorities decided that 'No Escape' should not be shown in Thailand. It is unclear why not.
According to the Thai newspaper, this film is not banned.
That's why it looks like a story made up by a journalist again.
Thailand is happy with filmmakers, they bring in a lot of money.
According to the Thai Bangkok Post of August 11, 2015, screening of this film is allowed:
” One of the most recent movies shot in Thailand was No Escape, an action film starring Owen Wilson, Pierce Brosnan and Lake Well shot partially in Chiang Mai at the end of 2013.
Despite rumors that the film was banned by Thailand's military government because it depicts a coup in a Southeast Asian country, the Culture Ministry on Monday confirmed the film was approved by censors on July 28 and will open as planned on Sept 10.” We will see.
After watching the trailer I understand that it is banned in Thailand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOjj07EuO50
Unfortunately, this trailer will probably also be blocked for viewing in Thailand.
The government really sees no threat in this.
As you may know, no injuries were reported in the coup.
So the trailer and the film can be seen next month.
If there are protests, then it will soon be over.
In any case, the trailer is not blocked in Thailand.
So just download it as soon as it's available… 🙂
Is available.
Just watched the trailer.
Zohoooooo…. That will cause quite a stir here. If this film is allowed to be shown in Thai cinemas, then I think that the current administrators do not lack guts and confidence.
Wim
Courage and confidence? I am glad that we live in a free democracy and can say and write what we want within the rules. You will only live in a country where you accept all this! I find it much more harrowing to close your eyes
Dear kjay,
Thailand is a completely different culture from that of "the West" and also has a different form of democracy, or whatever name one may call a country governed by elections. Democracy, even in Europe, is very different from country to country and such a democracy is also greatly manipulated and even censored there. That really stands out when you read and see the Asian news here in Thailand and you can compare it with the news from, among others, the Dutch state broadcaster NOS and other mass media. Certainly also very colored when it concerns Thailand, for example. (Or current now, Russia)
Certainly there is censorship here in Thailand. Also self-censorship so as not to get into trouble. But it is not correct to say that this bad fact DOES occur in Thailand and NOT in the Netherlands, for example.
Having lived here for a long time, I argue that the form of government as I have experienced it for a very long time was a sham democracy, which was embraced by “the west”. But a number of groups finally thought it was enough. People started to enforce reforms quite normally, which is part of an evolving country. That did lead to violence and disruption of public order and the economy, after which the military at least ensured that there was peace again and the reform process could be continued without violence.
Of course we don't know how good or bad that will develop. But I really believe that allowing this film to be shown in Thailand speaks of much more guts and confidence than may appear from the letter as it can be read in the attached link, and therefore believes that your comment about Thailand is not entirely correct. is.
Warm regards,
Wim
Typically Thai want the money from the filmmakers, having the texts on the boards put in Khmer (Cambodian is nice and sporty, despite the fact that the film was shot in Thailand. And then banning it for its own population shows nicely how sick the current rulers with emphasis on rulers and not a government.
There are no direct and/or intentional references to Thailand in the film. They have tried to avoid it (at least in the trailer)
The readers of Thailandblog will of course immediately notice where this is included; to the average viewer, this is ONE country in Asia (which appears to be politically unstable).
Nothing wrong with that in itself; this practice is commonplace in the film industry and it is, after all, fiction.
(Apocalypse Now, a film epic about the Vietnam War, was shot in Thailand/Laos because at that time (1979) it was still much too sensitive in Vietnam. You are led to believe that everything takes place in Vietnam and Saigon instead of Laos and Bangkok.)
The fact that the inscriptions were written in Khmer (upside down, of course) is striking, but here again: how many viewers will notice this? For the Asia connoisseurs, this comes across as outrageous.
Anyway, Thailand served as a backdrop, and it does not immediately attract extra tourists when viewers recognize certain facets and start to link them to the otherwise beautiful country. Clearly unthinkable in today's Thailand despite its military junta; hopefully the holidaymaker will not accumulate prejudices - there are more great holiday destinations that are completely unfairly avoided because of a certain negative image. Don't just get rid of it.
You could call it hypocritical to collect $$ for the recording rights and then ban the film from its own cinemas. For the Thai, this print must certainly come across as shocking.
I personally would much rather see “The Last Executioner”, but it has not (yet) been released in Europe.
This is based on true events. And pretty hard too.
Dear Serge,
I just wanted to point out that: “Apocalypse Now” as well as another very critical movie about Vietnam: “Platoon” was shot in Luzon in the Philippines. Unfortunately certainly not in Thailand.
http://www.movie-locations.com/movies/a/apocalypse.html
I stand corrected. I confused Apocalypse with “The Deer Hunter”, another Vietman icon. This was partly shot in Thailand/Bangkok.
http://www.movie-locations.com/movies/d/deerhunter.html#.VcsP-XjZjG4
the Thai governments are extremely critical of foreign films, as I also learned from Steven Seagal last month, whom I interviewed at a dinner. He had made a movie 5 years ago in Bangkok, where a famous actress exposed her one breast nipple, and because of this, the movie was banned at the time. Now Steven has learned from this in his film Asian Connection that will be released at the end of this year, and where there was no room for sex scenes. A bit hypocritical for Thai standards, where prostitution is forbidden, but is allowed everywhere.