est. 2004
Seharian bekerja nak tepati all my deadlines, and then sempat gegas balik ke rumah balik, tukau baju before later in the night headed to McDonalds' yang nak on the way ke Sentul after Hospital Tawakal tuh.
Tunggu abang Mus, my photographer sampai...kuar masuk McDonalds nak resist the temptation. Finally couldn't, but settled for an apple pie and corn in a cup.
Sampai je nampak ramai ler orang kat set.
Aksi malam ni adalah nak feeling golekkan keta ke dalam longkang yang ala ala cam sungai da.
Amik ko...berapa kali meka take. Slow motion...jangan ingat dalam pilem golek keta tuh all the way down tuh one take.
Tu Hollywood je ok. Sini mangsa keta satu je...so take sekali tuh kena manfaatkan ler sepenuhnya.
Tengah take ni aku sempat amik pic ler. Tapi rasanya sebab meka tak sampai separuh jalan mau golekka keta tuh ke dalam sungai, esok je remainder of the pics.
Sempat interview abang Bade, and had a nice talk with Gaya (yes, you gurl!) about Puaka Tebing Biru which I didn't find too interesting (you think??!!!)
Still sometimes betul gak aku ni overanalyse something, thus rendering the inability to enjoy it kan...
Dalam erti kata lain, aku ni jenis kekadang nak nilai sesuatuh tu too much sampai aku tak nampak the big picture ler kan. Which is sometimes what you need to enjoy the pic.
Still aku tak tarik balik apa aku cakap pasal banyak kelemahan yang ada dalam Puaka Tebing Biru. Tapi kan...memang aku da kata, and I also stand by what I said, which is Syaitan is quite good, in fact one of the more intelligent movies of the year, despite a few shortcomings.
Anyway....had fun ngan abang Bade.
He is quite an impressive person.
Practical and yet sort of insightful in his own way. I also notice he absorbs what everone has to say like a sponge.... signs of a truely intelligent person.
Eh ok ler...sebelum aku berundur, nak kongsi sikit nasihat tuk adik adik yang berangan nak feel star. Eh lain lak terasa kan...
Ni tuk meka yang mabuk glamer...oops...lain lak yang terasa lagik.
I mean mereka yang rasa glamer ni the best way out of their mundane lives. Damn...I did it again.
Ok...let me reword it...pada adik adik yang rasa jalan senang nak berjaya is by acting ke singing ke wat apa saja janji popular, bukan senang dik oi.
Nampak je glamer.....ketiak masam (oops), badan berlengas... dok kat lokasi bukan senang tau.
Tengok ler contohnya....ni da tengah masa time aku update, sempat ler aku snap pic Nana yang erm... begitu tekun kerja sambil tunggu production team preparekan keta yang nak meka tunggang terbalikkan.
Tak tahan gelak...dalam tidur tersedar lak si Nana, sempat carut aku...pastu libas rambut sekali and then sambung tidur. And we lost her from there to malaikat tidur...ader ker?
Sambil dok lepak ramai-ramai....sempat ler sembang sok sek sana sin iabout this and that. I seriously have high hopes for Malaikat Maut, sebab pas cakap ngan abang bade, aku yakin konsep cita ni leh jual.Abang Bade wat style Twilight Zone, ngan tiga citer yang lain, tapi ngan basic underlying aim tu sama.
To kind of display mortality...yang kita ni sebagai manusia, leh dipanggil bebila. Really simple, but interesting premise as far as I can tell.
While we were chatting...distracted sat because there was this cutest kitten tidur kat bawah kerusi abang Bade.
Sempat lak iklan katanya nak tunjuk pic kitty ni yang memang comel, curled up in the cold. Cam Nana lak...merasalah aku kena carut agik ngan Nana pasni. Ampun dearie...you know aku sayang ko.
I really would love to update panjang lagi, tapi battery da low (akibat biarkan laptop on nak download abih Heroes sebab leh tompang unsecured network kat sini)...so esok jer lah aku upload more pics.
Setakat ni yang mampu aku transfer and upload this pics of cast yang terlibat. Ni last shooting sebelum nak wrap. Ni for the third story. Terlibat include, Nana, Awal, Que dan Sherry.
The last scene meka nak shoot ni, aksi konon nya bulan Ramadhan yang mulia ni feeling party, last last mabuk dan sebagainya, keta yang di bak tergolek masuk longkang (yang aku tetap maintain cam sungai).
Time aku tulis ni meka still setting up cameras (dua bijik melekat kat keta) one on the bonnet, one attached to the back window...and one more static if I'm not mistaken.
Eh...ok ler..enjoy these pics first. Kang aku update esok. Ni pun entah sampai kol brapa ni....
Note : Kalau nak tengok pics dari orang yang balik awal - CLICK HERE untuk blog Budiey.
Arini nak review sikit Puaka Tebing Biru.
It was long, it was draggy, they didn't seem to have a clue how to edit it, and the horrific thing yang Umie Aida becomes, resembles Jim Carrey from The Mask, except with a fteish for toes.
Eeeeewww!!!
Entahlah...seriously I did put a lot of expectation in Osman Ali's work sebab aku tau hasil kerja dia. But I suppose sebab ni first full length feature film dia so ok ler....aku nak kriitik pepanjang...rasa tak adil lak.
Sebab walaupun aku rasa lemau sikit (banyak actually kecuali cinematography jer ok), tapi ada colleague aku si Aqidah kata dia tiga ari tiga malam mengigil takut nak berak kencing dan sebagainya sebab teringat pilem tu (of course she is alos prone to exaggeration)
So instead of a direct review as promised, aku akan go on my famous lists of why you should watch and why you shouldnt watch the movie.
Remember this is not a comprehensive list. Pepandai ler korang tengok sendiri dan nilaikan.
10 Why you SHOULDN'T watch Puaka Tebing Biru
1. Kalau ko pernah tonton Nang Nak - too many resemblances, except Nang Nak was good. In other words... no originality. Even hantu dia pun ala ala Ju On meets Nang Nak and a touch of The Ring.
2. Plot banyak lobang - cam si Umie punya character. Nama kawan baik tapi scare Nasha punya character half to death...pastu bila jumpa hanya bagitau Nasha minta restu ibu dia....er....wasn't she going to do that before you scared the shit out of her. Korang tengok paham ler.
3. Character development zero. Ko tak rasa persahabatan antara Umi dan Nasha (art imitates life ke?) Character Fahrin lak cam beriyaelak kawin tetiba love sampai mati katanya. Keji....suka ati jer tuko jalan cita
4. Continuity dan realism takde langsung. Dok apartment mewah ala penthouse gitu, tapi ada loteng beratap zink, Jalan nak balik ke rumah Nasha yang ala ala KL Sentral lak ikut jalan utan ala Kenny Hills (memang Kenny Hills pun kata Gaya). And shall we mention laptop sponsor yang di pakai Nasha hanya nak taip se ayat dua yang takyah caj berapa lama pun leh tahan battery dia?
5. Costume direction cam $%^&*. Rumah usang nak mampos bertahun tinggalkan tapi perkakas semua lengkap ok! Amik ko...make up effects failed big time sebab nampak cam Halloween lak. And I mean Toys R' Us punya Halloween ok.
6. Apa watak si Corinne Adrienne tuh? No character developement tapi nak banyakkan watak nak complicate kan lak. In that vein...there were unnecessary characters that took too much space, and could have been used for more development. By the way, she is the worst in the movie, as her acting is as good as watching a stationary object. About the same quotient of emotion.
7. Trying to be too artsy at the wrong time. Most of the scenes were well shot and would have made for a nice coffee table book...but they didn't contribute to the movie.
8. Someone forgot to edit it! Filem tu bertahan selama 2 jam dan 7 minit. Itupun aku dengar meka da potong 40 minit. Keji ok....ko ingat epik??? Then treat it like one ler...
9. Pretencious. Makes you think kononnya, but in more ways than one, it was a n-brainer. In fact if you actually thought about it, you would have laughed your head off.
10. If you're looking for a horror...this is not it. Hardly in fact. Too much drama...too little horror.
10 reasons why you SHOULD watch Puaka Tebing Biru
1. If you like watching Fahrin topless and bathing in what almost seems like slow motion but isn't. A tad too cheesy and semi-porno for me. (in other words, if you like men)
2. If you like watching women hug and tough each other in what seems seriously lesbian (rasanya tu ler tujuan meka wujudkan watak Corinne yang muncul tetiba) (in other words if you like women)
3. If you like watching Fahrin getting jiggy with Umie Aida (if you like straight relationships)
4. If you have a fetish for toes (yuck! though I know some wouldn't mind biting at Fahrin's toes)
5. If you don't really care about logic.
6. Small dirty kids terrify you, as do dirty unashed and unkempt women who seem to place a lot of emphasis on hair care. (your money's worth la masa tuh)
7. If you like Jim Carrey masa dia berlakon The Mask. She looks more or less like that....except I think The Mask was more scary.
8. Kalau selama ni ko ingin bercuti ke Pulau Pangkor dan tak kesempatan tapi sanggup bergembira ngan pemandangan yang ditunjukkan.
9. If you love Nasha Aziz and Sharifah Amani (and a little bit of Fahrin) like I do. By the way, tuk aku, Nasha dan Wan Maimunah paling meletop dalam filem ni. Yang lain average to bloody papan.
10. If you have RM10 to spare, and you really want to do something to support the Malaysian film industry.
Ok so the reasons weren't all that great...but then again neither was the movie overall. I would say it's a waste of money to even watch....and yes, kalau ada sapa nak carut "but you don't pay", I do, because kalau aku suka movie tuh, aku akan tengok sekali lagik or more depending on how much I like it where Iwill pay for the ticket to support it.
But don't take my word for it...tengok la kalao nak gamble korang on whether you guys will like it or not.
Apapun...poster lebih menakutkan daripada the actual film...pada meka yang kecut sikit tengok fiem horror...dan cepat pengsan dan melatah....this is the movie for you. Too mild for me.
Just a little bit of extra info pada yang nak tau, here's the credit and cast list untuk Puaka Tebing Biru.
TENAGA PRODUKSI PENERBIT : Tayangan Unggul Sdn Bhd
PENERBIT EKSEKUTIF KANAN : Gayatri Su-Lin Pillai
PENERBIT PENYELARAS : Haznil Izham Ismail
PENGURUS PRODUKSI : Zulkifli Ibrahim
PENGARAH / CERITA ASAL / LAKON LAYAR : Osman Ali
PENOLONG PENGARAH : Nor Zahirah Abd. Rahman, Pauline Tay Siew Lian
PENGARAH FOTOGRAFI : Khalid Zakaria
PENATA RIAS : Mohd. Zaini Abd. Rahman
PENGARAH SENI : Nazrul Asraff
Nasha Aziz - Ratna
Umie Aida - Ayu
Fahrin Ahmad - Mohsin
Sharifah Amani - Atilia
Wan Maimunah - Mak Esah
Mislina Mustaffa - Ara
Alisa - Ika
Corinne Adrienne - Anita
Apapun, I'd like to thank Gaya (ampun mencarut), Anita (love you babe...) and the rest of the Tayangan Unggul family for the invitation and the opportunity to blog.
Walaupun mencarut, aku harap ni diterima sebagai kritikan yang honest as honest can be ya.
Apapun, am looking forward to Osman's next movie hoping it'll be better. Apapun sebelum kita end entry ni, aku ada a little trivia untuk korang.
Tengok gambar kat bawah. Yang mana satu Umie Aida dalam Puaka Tebing Biru. That's easy isn't it...the one wearing poster colour and a bad wig....sheesh! I think Jim Carrey seriously lebih menakutkan.
Note : Untuk gambar-gambar babak dari Puaka Tebing Biru dan juga di sebalik tabir pembikinan Puaka Tebing Biru, click HERE!
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Dan kalau nak puaka yang sebenar, klik SINI (takde kaitan ngan filem...cuma tuan punya blog ni menakutkan)
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