Thursday, January 17, 2008

Sly Stallone chose Burma rather than Afghanistan as setting for his new movie Rambo.

http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IEE20080117050126&Page=E&Title=Startrek&Topic=0


I'd do the same -- partly of course because I am from Burma, and the Burma issue needs all the publicity it can get.

The politics of Afghanistan is too complex to show perhaps in a movie, and there are splendid books like Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns and the Kite Runner.

Kyi May Kaung

The Shape of Water--book and film--

https://www.amazon.com/Shape-Water-Guillermo-del-Toro/dp/1250165350/ref=asc_df_1250165350?mcid=1245f878e1413607bd9e7f839a1da3bb&hvocijid...