Kim Jong-Il: The Spielberg of North Korea
If you're wondering what the top dog of the North Korean summer blockbuster season is, it might just surprise you to learn that it's not "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" or "Superman Returns." Rather, it's the somewhat more muted "Diary of a Student Girl" that is packing in the crowds all over the North -- not that the proletariat has much choice -- and its creator is none other than that famously tempestuous missile-wielding auteur himself, Kim Jong-Il.The North Korean's official news agency KCNA reports that "Diary" -- which conveys the trials and tribulations of a girl and her younger sister as they strive to be scientists -- is screening "before full houses in [the capitol] Pyongyang every day, evoking lively response from people of all walks of life." What's more, KCNA says that the film "embodies the Juche-oriented idea of aesthetics of leader Kim Jong Il," and that Dear Leader found time during his "continuous inspection tour of frontline army units" to work on the script and produce the film, hailed as "a masterpiece of the times." (Juche is the guiding North Korean ideology of self-reliance.)
"Dear Leader" Kim has long had an obsession with film, claiming to have written and directed several movies. He also allegedly kidnapped the director considered the Orson Welles of South Korea and his actress wife, forcing them to create propagandist pictures for the Communist state.
Of course, we would tell you that "Diary of a Student Girl" was the top hit of 2006 in North Korea, but it's not even 2006 there -- the North's calendar starts in our 1912, the birth year of Kim Il Sung, so over there, it's Juche 95.
Reader Comments
(Page 1 of 1)1. Cool Shades. - Funny Nose
Posted at 1:17PM on Aug 11th 2006 by Da Critic
2. Kim Jong ROCKS!!!
Posted at 1:21PM on Aug 11th 2006 by BlackMetal
3. Kim Jong ROCKS!!!!
BlackMetal
Posted at 1:29PM on Aug 11th 2006 by BlackMetal
4. Male or Female
Nasty
Posted at 1:42PM on Aug 11th 2006 by steve
5. Alex R, doppleganging me now.
Grow up child.
The One and Only
BlackMetal
Posted at 1:48PM on Aug 11th 2006 by BlackMetal
6. This man SCARES me!
Posted at 1:49PM on Aug 11th 2006 by kathryn
7. You're stirr worthress Arec Bardwin!
Posted at 1:52PM on Aug 11th 2006 by Kim Jong-Il
8. BM - That would be someone else posting under your name. Thats not cool.
Posted at 2:09PM on Aug 11th 2006 by Alex Rogers
9. BM - That would be someone else posting under your name. Thats not cool of them. You know I do my own talking.
Later
Posted at 2:10PM on Aug 11th 2006 by Alex Rogers
10. Okay Sorry Alex. Yeah I kinda had a feeling you'd come at me head on , not try to slander me all sneakily.
Whoever you are thanks, imitation is the truest form of flattery. but you need to get your schtick down better I have never used so many exclamations. Nor would I post a lame one liner like that. So unoriginal fake BlackMetal please find your own stage name would ya?
Kim Jong was however the man who invented the toaster, and first to walk on the moon =P. And those two things are pretty neato..
BlackMetal
Posted at 2:25PM on Aug 11th 2006 by BlackMetal
11. No more fighting BM. Thats was so Thursday.
Posted at 2:30PM on Aug 11th 2006 by Alex Rogers
12. Few peolpe know, Kim Jong-Ils, favorite film is "The Godfather" by Francis Ford Coppola.
Posted at 2:59PM on Aug 11th 2006 by Brian Miller