Amok Dan Pendekar Bujang Lapok
YSF 513: FILM AESTHETIC
MALAYSIAN CINEMATIC VILLAINS
AMOK (1995) & PENDEKAR BUJANG LAPOK (1959)
NAME: HIDAYAT BIN HAMID
MATRIX NO: P-KOM 0112/12
COURSE: SCREEN STUDIES
1. Amok (1995)
Director: Adman Salleh
* Nasir Bilal Khan - Wan Man * Ramona Rahman – Natalie * Hans Isaac - Rem
Amok is a 1995 Malaysian film directed by Adman Salleh and original story by Malaysian famous writer and poet, Salleh Ben Joned. As a drama and thriller genre, Amok revolves around the contrast nature of three different characters. Wan Man, a village youth who learn and practicing silat in his village. He then fell in love with a foreign woman, Natalie - an American Peace Corp volunteer who came to a village on the east coast to pursue her PhD study in Malay Psychic. Natalie, described as an independent girl, part of the Flower Power influence arising from Woodstock event and also practicing drugs and free sex. The film is set in the early years of the 1970s, the era influenced by hippie’s lifestyle, rock music, drugs and The Vietnam War protests by young Americans.
Another character is Ram, Wan Man’s best friend who are greatly influenced by the tourists free sex lifestyle and culture Traditional cultures and Islam religion practices by Wan Man and the villagers, as well as the inherited mystique elements in inner Wan (also known as Saka) troubled by the encounter with wild culture brought by Natalie and the Americans. All these feelings finally exploded with Amok.
Amok
According to Oxford Dictionary, Amok or Amuck originally came from Malay word, which means to behave uncontrollably and disruptively: The behavior was identified in Malay Archipelago such as Malaysia and Indonesia and often associated in Malay culture. In this film, Wan Man is subjected as the main character that runs amok as the director. Adman Salleh associated both different
MALAYSIAN CINEMATIC VILLAINS
AMOK (1995) & PENDEKAR BUJANG LAPOK (1959)
NAME: HIDAYAT BIN HAMID
MATRIX NO: P-KOM 0112/12
COURSE: SCREEN STUDIES
1. Amok (1995)
Director: Adman Salleh
* Nasir Bilal Khan - Wan Man * Ramona Rahman – Natalie * Hans Isaac - Rem
Amok is a 1995 Malaysian film directed by Adman Salleh and original story by Malaysian famous writer and poet, Salleh Ben Joned. As a drama and thriller genre, Amok revolves around the contrast nature of three different characters. Wan Man, a village youth who learn and practicing silat in his village. He then fell in love with a foreign woman, Natalie - an American Peace Corp volunteer who came to a village on the east coast to pursue her PhD study in Malay Psychic. Natalie, described as an independent girl, part of the Flower Power influence arising from Woodstock event and also practicing drugs and free sex. The film is set in the early years of the 1970s, the era influenced by hippie’s lifestyle, rock music, drugs and The Vietnam War protests by young Americans.
Another character is Ram, Wan Man’s best friend who are greatly influenced by the tourists free sex lifestyle and culture Traditional cultures and Islam religion practices by Wan Man and the villagers, as well as the inherited mystique elements in inner Wan (also known as Saka) troubled by the encounter with wild culture brought by Natalie and the Americans. All these feelings finally exploded with Amok.
Amok
According to Oxford Dictionary, Amok or Amuck originally came from Malay word, which means to behave uncontrollably and disruptively: The behavior was identified in Malay Archipelago such as Malaysia and Indonesia and often associated in Malay culture. In this film, Wan Man is subjected as the main character that runs amok as the director. Adman Salleh associated both different
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