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This is so, so wrong, but in another North Korea humor, people are writing reviews of their prison camps on Google https://plus.google.com/105608625508849318903/about?gl=us&hl=en
Yes, I know. Worst headline pun ever.
It seems the only other director to love Johnny Depp as much as Tim Burton has settled on his next directorial project (not yet starring Depp, but I wouldn't be surprised)...a comic about North Korea. Anybody see that one coming?
Lambiek Comiclopedia
Animator/comic-book artist Guy Delisle stayed in Pyongyang for two months as an animation supervisor, and does not think he would ever be welcome back there after publishing Pyongyang, a graphic-novel account of his time there. Apparently a glutton for dangerous places, he has also done comics about his time in Burma and Gaza.
Deadline's report on the story suggests that the movie will deal primarily with his being accused of espionage, which I assume probably happens at some point or another to everybody visiting North Korea. Guessing it'll be played up a bit to heighten suspense.
I hope there's a Pulgasari cameo.
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There's no espionage accusation in the comic as long as I can remember... Just some observations on the people and culture. I really can't see this movie actually being made.
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@antonio.raveau In North Korea, not looking suspicious is suspicious.
(Hey. This could be the new "In Soviet Russia, ___ somethings you." meme.)
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Don't you think North Korea has suffered enough...i mean the Red Dawn remake did not paint a pretty picture of them.
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@Canadian.Scott Are you kidding? It made them look like they could take over America, and SPOILER we don't even overthrow them by the end. Best compliment we could pay them.
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I always feel sad thinking about North Korea. There's a wonderful documentary that's available on YouTube (and netflix streaming) that's worth watching if you have time, and want to see what a broken people look like. It's a little depressing.
@CaptainZADL and it's worth pointing out repeatedly that the graduation exercise for N Korean special forces is to sneak into S Korea and kill innocent people in gruesome ways.
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@Gallen_Dugall @CaptainZADL Because if they don't, they and their extended families for generations will be placed in camps.
If you defect or disobey, your mother, father, uncle, aunt, child, wife, and grandparents are thrown into prison. If they bear children there, those children are raised in that prison, and may grow up to have children of their own who will also be raised in that prison. "Wives" are given to male prisoners for good behavior, but the stain of the sins of the father or uncle or whoever are enough to condemn that child to the same fate. There are great grandchildren of people whose relatives fought in the war in these camps. Their grandparents were born in the camps, their parents were born in the camps.
So of course the soldiers commit atrocities. To fail to do so is to court a fate worse than death for everyone they love. Wouldn't you?
It's worth pointing that out repeatedly too. Lest we forget that these are a broken, destroyed people, but they are also still people.
@Gallen_Dugall @CaptainZADL There's a big difference between a totalitarian regime and nearly every other form of government. Not all governments are evil.
In the case of North Korea though, yes, their government is an evil system set up to perpetuate evil for the benefit of a few. All the people in that system though are acting for their own self interest. If they work within that system they are rewarded, if they don't they are punished.
We can hate what they do, and we can hate some of the people who do evil things, and I'm sure that there are some evil people in their government, but I'm willing to bet that there are many who are horrified at what is done in their name (or would be if they knew).
Once we realize that, it makes the whole thing more complicated, and it makes it easier for us to combat it.
But when I say that the people are broken and destroyed, I mean that because of the brainwashing, because the fact that there are no songs other than state propaganda, no books written by anyone other than the Great and Dear Leaders, that they've been indoctrinated on a scale that has never been seen before. It's going to take a lot of work to undo that, and there's going to be a lot of really messed up people when their entire world falls apart.
Like I said above, it makes me sad.
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@CaptainZADL Fair enough, but I would think it would be more accurate to say brutalized and oppressed, then again it's never the "people" that are the problem, it is always the government, and people forget that government is a necessary evil that should be limited in power in order to limit the evil that it can do.
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@CaptainZADL I saw that report on National Geographic back in 2006 and several other documentaries about North Korea since then. It never fails to amaze me how bizarre that place is.
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@CaptainZADL @Canadian.Scott From what I've heard recently, there are reports of many resorting to cannibalism because of famine- which makes the whole situation there even more depressing.
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@CaptainZADLThis is part two but here in Canada (and i think in the US) we have a show called Departures. And basically these three guys, got a pretty in depth look into the North Korean culture or as they were instructed to call it the People's Democratic Republic of Korea. Part one has a unique look at their views behind the Korean war and probably some unprecedented coverage.
