Sensationalism
Posted by JoOct 19
_____’s first short film “The Temptation Between Our Legs” (23 minutes, English) was denied Censor Board Certificate.
That is one of the profile credentials of a young and upcoming Malayali film maker who is now making a Tamil movie. The denial of a censor board certificate is projected as the sole recognition of the director’s first short film. I was surprised to read it in between the other credible recognitions he got, but we live in a world where we all try to market ourselves to the core. And we know that the best tool to use is sensationalism. Well, nobody needs to teaches you that; particularly if you come from journalism.
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3 comments
Comment by neelu on October 20, 2009 at 7:20 am
Jo, I think i disagree here where you pointed out his ” denied”movie as a part of sensationalism. It is his product so he included it rightly in his credentials “among his other achievements” and mentioned about the denial. I don’t see anything wrong in that.
But i do agree there are people who wants to be in News for any reason..Good or Bad.. You might have read about the latest news on balloon boy http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j2zUTvDzBOnAoCq8zf504vy5aAdAD9BE3NIG0
Comment by Jo on October 20, 2009 at 9:50 am
Thanks for sharing your thoughts Neelu, but I don’t see any other reason than sensationalism for highlighting the denial of a movie as a credit. What does that make of?
And thank you for the link. Didn’t know about it.
Comment by John Samuel on October 20, 2009 at 1:56 pm
It’s unbelievable that people put even such things in their profile. But if you look it from a different angle, it can even be the case that he had made a short film, but it was denied. So the focus here could be the making of the film and not the denial