According to today’s Taipei Times, CSB used the Oscar nominated movie Brokeback Mountain to describe relations between Taiwan and the US, stressing the importance of both sides seeking ways to reconcile and cooperate with each other.
At a banquet held by AmCham, CSB said:
“It motivates us to understand that all of us are bound to make a difficult decision in life; yet we must strive to dispel prejudice, create trust, uphold mutual respect etc.”
:roflmao: :roflmao: I think the US is the better partner here. Hell, if my partner wouldn’t allow me to get a credit card, a pension, or be given basic human rights in his or her house, I wouldn’t respect or trust her – especially if I gave her all of those rights in my own house or apartment. In other words, Chen’s analogy is pure “horseshit.”
However, since the DPP are bringing up movie analogies, based on my experience at the TaiwanICDF, I would use those two films as perfect examples illustrating the DPP’s view of foreigners. Given the DPP’s involvement with foreign brokers in the K-City MRT scandal and since foreigners in Taiwan are second-class citizens, I think Mississippi Burning is a better analogy than Brokeback Mountain.
Furthermore, since the DPP wants an independent Taiwan run by xenophobic Hoklo chauvinists and loves to play the “Ethnic Card” repeatedly in politics, I thought “Birth of a Nation” would also be an excellent example. Can anyone think of any others?
If there is a movie that is exactly about DDP and theyr quest for Independence (Holy Grall) (and all the BS from all other parties, because DPP is not alone) that would have to be some Monty Python stuff. Sincerely, politics in Taiwan are surelly a good reason for me to see the news, expecting some “action” in the LY or in some other office (I personally appoint number 1 politician the guy that was beatten in a LY session (I think) and went to the gym to get some fight lessons… god, I love this politicians…).
The is nothing like seing the news - I just think that they should ask John Cleese to come after the first news and say: “And Now for Something Completelly Different…”
Or I guess we can call Taiwan politics as “The Flying Circus”
This is a great news story, the Chen remarks re Brokenback Mtn, and I wonder if the outside world has picked up on this yet? Has the NYC or London papers reported this at all? Might even make a good joke at the Oscars bash with Jon Stewart hosting…
(I wonder who Chen’s speechwriters are? Or was this just an off the cuff remark on the Great Jester’s part? Did he say it in Chinese or Taiwanese, by the way…)
This remark will be in TIME and NEWSWEEK magazine’s next Monday, in the QUOTABLE QUOTES section.
[quote=“Cola”]This is a great news story, the Chen remarks re Brokenback Mtn, and I wonder if the outside world has picked up on this yet? Has the NYC or London papers reported this at all?
This remark will be in TIME and NEWSWEEK magazine’s next Monday, in the QUOTABLE QUOTES section.[/quote]
Yup, someone from forumosa.com sent the quote to Newsweek magazine editors in New York and they printed in this week’s issue on page 6, sure enough, the power of forumosa,.com, …Page 6, Newsweek, issue of March 13 on stands now and online under ‘‘Perspectives’’ column that uses 10 quotes from VIPs around the world.
Newsweek gives the quote and then says where Chen uttered the words at that AMCHAM dinner in Taipei last month…
Perspectives
Issue dated March 13th, 2006
QUOTE on page 6
“The most profound lesson we should take away [from the film] transcends the narration of the love affairs in the movie.”
Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian, comparing Taiwan-U.S. relations to the film “Brokeback Mountain,” at a recent dinner in celebration of the Lunar New Year hosted by the American Chamber of Commerce in Taipei
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BTW, the CHina Post has a very stupid stupid stupid editorial today, Monday, about the Chen remark and Brokeback Mountain and it has to be the dumbest editorial ever published in that stupid stupid newspaper. LINK coming soon, not online yet.
Did anyone else read it? I hope not, for your brain’s sake…
Hell, if my partner wouldn’t allow me to get a credit card, a pension, or be given basic human rights in his or her house, I wouldn’t respect or trust her – especially if I gave her all of those rights in my own house or apartment. In other words, Chen’s analogy is pure “horseshit.”.jpg)
