Thailand: Government Propaganda To Be Shown Before Cinema Movies

**DrB0b** · 15-02-2010, 05:56 PM

To be Shown after the Royal Anthem and before the movie. Paid for by Newin and BJT

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**Agent_Smith** · 15-02-2010, 06:30 PM

^liked the bit with the whining farangs

**Bangyai** · 15-02-2010, 06:34 PM

Ah well, another good reason to get your own giant LCD TV at home.

**Bangyai** · 15-02-2010, 06:39 PM

Originally Posted by Agent_Smith

^liked the bit with the whining farangs

Would have been better with red , yellow and blue bunny rabbits and puppy dogs playing on a nice green lawn suddenly getting squashed by a tank.

**robuzo** · 15-02-2010, 07:36 PM

The Russians have a good expression for this kind of thing- "saccharin snot." I assume audiences won't be required to stand or cry.

**Rural Surin** · 15-02-2010, 07:44 PM

A democratic State. Hmmm.....

**Beadle** · 15-02-2010, 10:05 PM

I rarely go the cinema these days, but if we have to endure these kinds of broadcasts I won't go at all.

**kmart** · 15-02-2010, 10:36 PM

Goebbels would be proud.

**BugginOut** · 15-02-2010, 10:46 PM

When they show the little school boy being consoled outside the gate of his closed school, they should cut to the principal taking extra money from the parent just to get him into the program; or the shop owner paying off the BIBs; or Siam Paragon on fire (like anyone feels sorry for that group of fascist elites).

**Happyman** · 15-02-2010, 11:04 PM

Any chance of a translation of the voiceover ?
To my shame I don't understand Thai !

**DrB0b** · 16-02-2010, 01:31 AM

Originally Posted by Happyman

Any chance of a translation of the voiceover ?
To my shame I don't understand Thai !

Something like this, very approximate, some poetic licence (it's very hard for me to understand and even harder to translate some of the concepts

);

A song for calm and tranquility
Have we forgotten the taste of defeat
Will we follow a path to the destruction of the Thai heart
When different colors cause us worry
We cannot return to loving one another
We should look to see what brought us to this
What has happened, how do we learn from this
How do we speak to one another
How do we come together again
How can we move forward

Calm, calm and tranquility

We can get through this
By listening to the Great Royal Father of the Thais
He who keeps us all together
He who is the heart and center of all
Who will not desert us
Who will instruct us in how to live with differences
And who wants us to love each other as of old

When the rain comes, a rainbow follows
Our differences will unite us
And in the end we will live in harmony and love
As we did in the old days

**Agent_Smith** · 16-02-2010, 02:18 AM

I'd rather listen to that than people screaming, whatever works for them.

**ItsRobsLife** · 16-02-2010, 02:31 AM

I'm gonna puke.

**robuzo** · 16-02-2010, 02:40 AM

That singer's crybaby voice is just too much to take.

**Agent_Smith** · 16-02-2010, 02:41 AM

Originally Posted by DrB0b

And in the end we will live in harmony and love As we did in the old days

sounds like something Glenn Beck would write (crock of shit)

**Happyman** · 16-02-2010, 04:03 AM

[quote=DrB0b;1324702]

Originally Posted by Happyman

Any chance of a translation of the voiceover ?
To my shame I don't understand Thai !

Something like this, very approximate, some poetic licence (it's very hard for me to understand and even harder to translate some of the concepts

);

Thanks Dr B0b

Very inspiring stuff

( translation to logical English = what a load of bolloc*s)

**MustavaMond** · 16-02-2010, 09:34 AM

Sappy, sugary, juvenile and nauseating, yes.

But, apart from the usual patriarchal worship message, depressingly present in all cultures these days - I don't see politically partisan propaganda..

**DrB0b** · 16-02-2010, 10:11 AM

Originally Posted by MustavaMond

Sappy, sugary, juvenile and nauseating, yes.

But, apart from the usual patriarchal worship message, depressingly present in all cultures these days - I don't see politically partisan propaganda..

Did you watch the video, it didn't seem a little one-sided to you? I'd hardly describe images of people beating the crap out of each other, firing guns, and burning vehicles as syrupy.

**crazy dog** · 16-02-2010, 10:13 AM

Think I will stop going to the movies, they already show enough propaganda as it is.

**Patangko** · 16-02-2010, 10:22 AM

Originally Posted by Bangyai

Ah well, another good reason to get your own giant LCD TV at home.

I did, 2 days ago, only comedy movies for me. Love Mel brooks etc.

**Mr R Sole** · 16-02-2010, 11:39 AM

So if all goes like the vid' shows does that mean that Thailand will become a 24hr country again??? Great news for the pro's and katoey's... Bars will be full again at all times...except western owned bars because the police will be having a field day....

I have no sound at school..
(which by the comment above sounds like I was spared somewhat!!)
I like the bit where the whinging westerners were shown....were they saying ...Oh FFS not again...when are you lot gonna grow up???? stop having coup's and stop the bloody corruption and nepotism...

Oh sorry that's impossible....it's Thailand.

**Mr R Sole** · 16-02-2010, 11:45 AM

I can feel a beconning..

Possibly even thinking of going back home....gotta check out how to get the Mrs my nipper and her daughter back there first logistical nightmare that one...

Bloody tempting...

**Butterfly** · 16-02-2010, 12:01 PM

I don't see anything wrong with that video, quite well done artistically

are you guys just simply angry with everything that comes from this country ?

**SunTzu** · 16-02-2010, 12:47 PM

Originally Posted by Bangyai

Ah well, another good reason to get your own giant LCD TV at home.

Yeah, it's fff long !

**nikster** · 16-02-2010, 01:41 PM

I can't decide which is worse - the stupid ideas they come up with, or the incompetence with which they implement those ideas.

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