YOURSAY 'To invent conspiratorial theories is simply laughable. Accept that it bombed because it is an inauthentic piece of revisionist history masquerading as truth.'

Tanda Putera makers cry hired guns, conspiracy

Peacemaker: Tanda Putera's makers know that they have been found out, the street slang is "kantoi". They were nothing more than propagandists for segments of Umno out to glorify some Umno heavyweights while villainising other Malaysians, their contributions and stature.

As for the criticism, it comes with the turf. If you set out to make a "historical" film and it's sparse on truth and heavy on propaganda you have rightly earned the ire of right-minded viewers. So stop whining. You are just a failed filmmaker.

Sirach: Who was it that said, "you can put lipstick on a pig but it is still a pig". Likewise, if a film is of poor quality, let's not try to find excuses for the battering it received from critics and the fact that it bombed at the box office.

To go to the extent now of inventing conspiratorial theories is simply laughable. Accept that it bombed because it an inauthentic piece of revisionist history masquerading as truth.

Ex-wfw: Are you surprised by such reaction? We shouldn't. The mindset has been moulded to feel with pride and self-aggrandisement though slogans and mob reactions and when they fail it cannot be because of their lack of competence, it must be someone else attempt to jeopardise the national interests.

After all they are the best within their own world; a world with self-proclaimed greatness within their vocabulary of Utusan Malaysia.

We will see many more of such self-pity; it has been the aim of the powers-that-be to create such society and if we can't find more Malays in the mould of Rafizi Ramli, Nurul Izzah Anwar, etc, we can only wait for the inevitable outcome that will take more than a few generations to change.

Ferdtan: Who are behind the Tanda Putera's official Facebook page; is it the disgraced director, Shuhaimi Baba or the producer?

What is the reason for prolonging the issue of the failure of the film? It bombed in terms of paid viewers. The excuse of conspiracy by paid cyber critics hired to attack them by oppositions is ridiculous.

All of us attacked the film for its evil motive of causing disharmony to the different races in the country; and surely we are not paid. When the filmmaker's argument failed they sickeningly use the race baiting of opposition (principally DAP) that they were jealous of the Malay filmmakers.

Either they are making excuses for the colossal failure of the film to savage their reputation as filmmaker (which I doubt), or are trying to convince Finas (National Film Development Corporation) that they are still good, at least when more future funding is concerned.

I guess they must be worried that the decision-makers in Finas may use that film failure to stop funding for them.

Odin: I remember someone was acting and talking tough, knowing that Umno was behind her. She airily dismissed criticisms of her intentional misportrayal of Lim Kit Siang, the DAP, the Chinese, etc, attributing what she had done to creative licence.

She threatened to withdraw the licence of any cinema operators who would not screen her celluloid folly as if she was some big shot whose authority was supreme and unquestionable. And so on and so forth.

There is an English idiom that is so very apt for her circumstance. It is 'pride goes before a fall'. She was so very proud in the sense of being unbearably arrogant. Now she has fallen hard and flat on her face.

And she is not only displaying the mentality of a spoiled five-year-old brat but also one of Umno's traits, and that is, everyone else is wrong or bad, except herself. What she needs is a good, tight slap right across her face.

Whatsup: These mediocre filmmakers had conspired with an unpopular minority government to produce a film to inflame and divide rakyat, and with the money safely in their pocket, strange that they should cry conspiracy against this trash movie.

So, stop blaming others, these filmmakers know full well it's going to be a flop from day one when they join Umno to incite hatred among the rakyat.

Abasir: May I suggest a new storyline for the next Shuhaimi Baba production? Forty-four weapons go missing from the police armoury; the entire police force is puzzled but no one is questioned, an audit confirms the loss together with the loss of 29 cars and an unknown number of handcuffs; the nation is aghast at this breach of national security.

And then wonder of wonders, the IGP declares that an underwater demon reached out from the ocean and just pulled them all in. The home minister wholeheartedly agrees and then shouts - no more questions.

The transforming nation is now transfixed on that overwhelming question - how lah? There is panic everywhere as men chain their cars to their porches and women their virtues. The National Security Council meets in an emergency session at PM Najib Razak's house during which time Saifol the coffee boy is seen scuttling in and out.

Outside, Maha, the wise oracle of Bodohland offers some wisecracks about Najib and explosive disclosures, while Pemandu ponders the next consulting gig with McK.

Wira: This recalcitrant director and filmmaker has been pitting one race against another, like what Umno had been doing, to cajole Malay cinema goers to support this movie so that she may be handsomely rewarded.

After having failed in that, she is now cooking a conspiracy theory. I am so happy that our Malay brothers and sisters are much wiser than her.

LogicalMalaysian: The director and those involved must be fools. What do they take Malaysians for? During the last election many Malaysians did not vote along racial or party lines. We voted for what we thought is right.

If these fools claim they have portrayed the truth and history, how come they left out the part that Tunku Abdul Rahman mentioned about the backstabbing by Abdul Razak Hussein.

Yes, we passed the word around that we do not want to watch this movie, not because Lim Kit Siang was allegedly portrayed distastefully and the Chinese appear to be smacked but because it was not a truthful historical account.

The drama that unfolded, as Tunku sadly recounted, was instigated as a power struggle in its most uncouth form. The Tunku had reiterated that if it was position that Razak wanted, then he would have gladly given it up to him.

Instead, according to Tunku, why should Malaysia face such a dark blot in history because of a bunch of fanatics, hell-bent on cause ruckus and bloodshed - all for personal greed and glory.

Abasir: When all else fails, cry wolf - the big bad wolf of conspiracy by the forces of darkness. Shuhaimi Baba, maker of third rate pontianak movies will now serialise her exposure of the conspiracy by 'opposition politicians'.

Well, I suppose she has now got Malaysians on the edges of their seats waiting for the next thrilling episode of 'The Unmaking of Tanda Putera'.

Samurai: This is what the Umnoputras are good for - blaming others. It's never their fault, their failures and faults are always due to someone else conspiring against them, trying to cut them down, marginalise them (marginalise the majority?), steal their opportunities, take all their wealth, threaten their religion etc etc.

Well, it works well for Utusan propaganda, but it sure won't work in the real world as this crappy waste of celluloid has proven.

EugeneT: One of Malaysia's top Malay language film producers is David Teo (a Chinese, in case some people don't know) of Metrowealth International Group. He has made 82 Malay movies, more than half of which were box office hits such as the 'Jangan Pandang Belakang' series, 'Kongsi', and 'Adnan' and 'Sempit'.

The Tanda producer says, "Those who understand the local film industry will know that only Malay film makers can sustain themselves through films using the national language. These are the people who struggle for the industry. Are (the critics) trying to de-motivate us to boost Malaysian films which do not use the national language?" Enough said.

CiViC: This is not over? It came, it flopped, it went, and it is still trying to get some attention? Get a life.

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