Publicize guidelines for awarding Datukship to artistes..

True, I don't have any qualifications for the entertainment industry. But this is triggered by these factors:

1. The way art is expressed always symbolise the characteristics of its origins in terms of ethnics and way of life.
2. the effort (more like sacrifice) of EnFiniTi Productions for Puteri Gunung Ledang movie in the name of local art (and history).
3. that I have said in my 'Tiara that fits for the Puteri' entry that I will elaborate on why Yusof Haslam should not be our society's favourite filmaker. That that brought me a few emails asking for promise to be fulfilled (you're ready with bullets to shoot is it?).
4. the update regarding Malaysia Film Fest 2004 in Singapore made known to me by MyShinShin. Notice all movies are produced by local directors are not 'Datuk's'?
5. the fact that the Datukship title became terribly diluted during the previous Bolehyears (note: previous).
6. since local movies and music hardly attract the non Malays, how our artistes can prove that their 'perjuangan' has benefitted our society in any terms at all, hasn't been outstanding enough.
With exceptions (of those still alive):

a. Ali Bakar for his fight in putting local rock music in a better place.
b. Pak Ngah for his fight in making traditional Malay songs accepted again through Noraniza Idris and Siti Nurhaliza.
c. Noraniza Idris and Siti Nurhaliza in putting their belief that their albums can sell through the bigger market segment although filled with traditional songs and lyrics.
d. S.M Salim for not giving up although he had to go through very difficult time, for a long time in earlier stage.
e. Zainal Abidin for his belief in singing songs with words of advise concerning the environment and the society in his lyrics instead of love lines.
f. Azean Irdawaty for taking only parts of typical Malay characters no new blood would wanna be seen doing.
g. Raihan and Yassin for consistency, continuity and putting a new breathe in 'berdakwah' through music.
h. Sharifah Aini for being able to keep the diva image in order for her to keep receiving invites to sing her evergreen songs (since P.Ramlee days till now).
i. Erma Fatima and husband, Badar for their belief in making movies which involves thorough research and understanding about our society and history. In investing on good shooting equipment and using new techniques everytime although materialistically they may not as fortunate as Dato' Effendi and Tiara, they still pull it off at getting investors, I'm sure it's a lot of hard work.

7. that people in the entertainment line plays a big role in becoming the society's influencer, especially in helping to make the world a better place.
8. that the price of cinema tickets for watching small budget local movies is the same with foreign multimillion dollar movies. The price of CD's used to be the same, luckily there are changes now.

Back to what I have against why the Malaysia's Six Million Dollar Man for getting Datukship although he mentioned once that he doesn't make 'filem rubbish', although a foreign movie critic called him the Malaysia's Spielberg (arrgghhh!!).
Maria Mariana, Gerak Khas the Movie, Pasrah, Sembilu, Bayangan Maut, Tragedi Oktober, Janji Diana all are cheaply produced movies with zero creativity involved.

Stop the bullshit about instilling morale among the teenagers, none of his movies have unpredictable storylines nor with lessons that leaves any marks in any of us. He knows his kind of storyline can make him tonnes of money which then be used not in investing for better filming equipment, but build bigger house, send wife to Hong Kong for shopping and publish those stories in the papers.

Poor Malays who thinks it is worth paying RM10 per ticket to watch his movies at the cinema. At least one thought it is more worth it to buy pirated VCD version, because it is so bad, you won't feel cheated on his money making scheme which is just as good as 'Skim Cepat Kaya untuk Six Million Dollar Man'. Think about it.

Gerak Khas The Movie 3 with the rape scene's act of a man trying to strangle and rape Misha Omar, yet he says "Sudah lama saya idamkan awak!" What an insult to anyone's intelligence, as if the audience don't get what the rapist's intentions by just through watching his actions? A crook can utter such proper Bahasa sentence? So stop the bullshit that GKTM tells us the real life of our local policemen and scenario of the city crimes. Don't worry, we still know better without the need to watch it. Tell me, how these factors got him a Datukship? Then he moved into doing a jointly produced movie with Aziz M. Osman... I thought 2 brains are better than one, but see what one of us has to say about it:

Excerpt: NARATIF FILEM MELAYU BANGANG & MEMBANGANGKAN?
by Faisal Tehrani
Friday, February 07, 2003

The first page content of our Malay newspaper no longer stupid and non beneficial for our people's minds like it used to be. I hope improvements can be seen in this arena too.