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Posted: 19 Dec 2011 03:08 PM PST

KLANG: Controversial rapper-turned-filmmaker Namewee is tackling gangsterism in notorious Klang in his new movie titled Hantu Gangster.

"I've always wanted to do a gangster movie," he said.

"But I don't want to do just any gangster movie. It has to have elements of comedy and horror," he told The Daily Chilli on the movie set in Taman Pengkalan Batu Klang.

Those who have seen his runaway hit Nasi Lemak 2.0 will agree that Namewee has a peculiar way of making his social commentaries – be it in his movies or music.

"I've got friends who are gangsters," he revealed. "I know how the triads work."

Joking that the real gangsters will support him, Namewee said: "My movie is a patriotic film. It's nothing controversial. The message is positive. We even got the police to help us."

Hantu Gangster brings together Namewee and a multi-racial Malaysian cast comprising Diana Danielle, Farid Kamil, Noh Hujan, Mizz Nina, Dennis Lau, Reshmonu, Datuk David Arumugam, Datuk Jalaluddin Hassan, Wah Gor and Fa Chai Bao.

The action-comedy casts both Namewee and Farid in the lead roles.

Ironically, Namewee did not know that Diana, who plays a school teacher and his love interest in the movie, and Farid are a real-life couple until he hired them.

"That's why Diana and I accepted his offer," Farid quipped. "He did not try to exploit our romance in the movie. Our character attachment is not cliched."

Produced by Fred Chong's ProdiGee Media, Hantu Gangster is slated for a National Day release on Aug 31 next year.

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The art of deceit

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 01:09 AM PST

Who knew there were so many movies about fibbing, lying and subterfuge?

SOME say it is human nature while others call it a sin. Either way, none of us can dare deny the fact that we have lied, probably more than once, in our lives. Most people might even know a compulsive liar or two.

Somehow, we seem to come with a ready-made segment of our minds which specialises in fabrication.

Let's not pretend that we haven't told a harmless white lie before (or so we'd like to think) to save our derrieres from sticky situations.

But during desperate moments, desperate measures need to be taken!

While most of the tall stories that slip out in the heat of the moment leave us well and good alone, a fraction find their way back to haunt us.

If you feel the guilt creeping in, here are some Pinocchio-worthy Hollywood movies, that have spun more webs of lies than you can count, to make you feel better.

> The Truman Show (1998): Imagine living your entire life not knowing that your every move is being filmed and scrutinised into a TV show.

For Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey), life has been little more than a staged act. Without him realising, his life has been broadcasted from thousands of cameras placed in his "home" which is a set populated by relatives and friends that are actually crew members.

However, little by little, Truman begins to discern tiny flaws. His "long-dead" father returns to the set dressed as a hobo, people constantly appear at the same place at the same time and his car radio begins to receive snippets of the crew talking.

To actually discover that millions of people have been watching you since you were born must be disturbing.

Heck, finding out that you were living with mere strangers must be a huge blow! Who said reality TV had a conscience?

> Catch Me If You Can (2002): This is a biographical comedy depicting the life of Frank Abagnale Jr (Leonardo DiCaprio), who is better known as the expert at cheque-forging, an infamous imposter as well as an escape artist.

At the mere of age of 16, Frank ran away from home and became a conman for a living. His cons only get bolder as he impersonates an airline pilot, doctor and lawyer, earning US$2.8mil in one go.

As he lies his way through situations, Carl Hanratty (Tom Hanks), an FBI fraud agent, tries to hunt the tricky crook down but he slips through his fingers time and time again.

This is the story of a man whose intelligence fuelled his ability to cheat, lie and deceive.

The movie grew to become critically-acclaimed and a financial success. We can't help but think that the real Frank Abagnale Jr has got it all in the bag: a million bucks and now even a movie about him!

> She's The Man (2006): She pretends to be a boy, sneaks into her brother's school, lies to her friends and roommate, all just for the one sport that she loves – soccer.

The "man" in this movie is none other than Viola Hastings (Amanda Bynes) who impersonates her twin brother, Sabastian, to join the soccer team at Illyria (Viola and Sebastian are names of Shakespeare's characters from Twelfth Night).

But life only gets harder for Viola when the soccer team accepts her and her lies became increasingly suspicious to some of her schoolmates. However, everything goes perfectly well for Viola all thanks to her ludicrous lies that enable her to scrape through trouble each time until one day, the real Sabastian shows up unexpectedly.

Despite the fact that Viola is by all means a horrible liar, it's surprising that her teammates and coach believe everything she says. Even as her lies gets weirder, nobody but her rivals realise that she is female!

So girls, in the unlikely event that you would like to impersonate a boy just to play soccer, try lying about something daft like having skin problems to avoid taking your shirt off. That will probably save you from getting busted.

> Just Go With It (2011): From children to an Austrian online sheep seller, almost everyone in this movie is a liar.

Though the attraction for any man out there would be the hot blonde bombshell who plays the part of Palmer (that would be Brooklyn Decker), the story here really revolves around Danny Maccabee (Adam Sandler), a successful plastic surgeon and all around womaniser.

His supposedly fool-proof plan is to worm his way into the hearts of women by feigning a broken marriage but this only seems to unimpress her. Desperate, Danny forms a fake family out of the blue by convincing his long-time best friend and office manager, Katherine Humphrey (Jennifer Aniston), to be his wife and her children to be their children.

Add a trip to Hawaii into the equation and bam! the lies only keep getting bigger and bigger!

But as with all feelgood Adam Sandler movies, all's well that ends well when Danny realises he is, in fact, in love with Katherine.

It is the typical movie where the characters constantly build lies (each more ridiculous and hilarious than the last) to put up a show but instead of it exploding, the truth is discovered instead! As corny as it is, here's a web of lies that's works out well for the liars in question.

> Liar Liar (1997): This movie is about an accomplished liar who is unable to lie for an entire day all thanks to his son's birthday wish.

In this comedy, Fletcher Reede (Jim Carrey) is one of the best defence lawyers in California, and his talent of course, rests in the art of lying. When Fletcher misses his son's birthday party, Max makes a birthday wish to prevent his father from lying for a day.

For Fletcher, lying plays an important role in his job. But he later discovers that he is unable to withhold the truth after facing a series of embarrassing events. He has always been a loving father, but it is his dishonest ways that brings his family apart.

In just a span of 24 hours, poor Fletcher actually finds himself turning into a straightforward person. After all the disasterous occasions, who wouldn't?

Indeed, Fletcher Reede is one of those characters you can't help but love even though he lies almost compulsively.

This is one of those feelgood movies that'll definitely leave you in stitches. And after you're done watching that whole string of movies, you might just think twice the next time you cook up a harmless half truth!

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Man of the hour

Posted: 18 Dec 2011 11:51 PM PST

American actor Robert Downey Jr. has been acting for many years ... many, many years. He made his screen debut in his father's movie Pound in 1970 at the tender age of five and he has not looked back since. Working in both TV and film has garnered this 46-year-old both recognition in his acting circle as well as with many fans around the world.

Although the Oscar has eluded RDJ twice (one for Best Actor for his lead role in Chaplin; and the other for Best Supporting Actor in Tropic Thunder), he has won numerous other awards including the Golden Globes, the People's Choice Awards and the Screen Actors Guild Award to name a few. He was one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People; Entertainment Weekly's Entertainer of the Year and he was number five in People's Magazine's The Sexiest Man Alive 2009.

But the accolades and recognition did come with a price. In the late 90s to the better part of 2001, Robert Downey Jr. was frequently in the news not for his acting but for his drug-related problems that led to several appearances in court – one for being under the influence of a controlled substance and falling asleep in one of his neighbour's home.

Court appearances and drug rehabilitations did not seem to matter to the actor, with many in the industry thinking he would meet an untimely death.

After a year in one of California's substance abuse treatment facility, RDJ landed a role in the hit TV series, Ally McBeal, playing the new love interest of Calista Flockhart's title character. Although his role in the series garnered him a Emmy Award nomination and won him a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor in a min-series or television film, he was fired after two drug arrests.

In an interview conducted after he won the awards for his TV role, Downey Jr. said he was at his lowest point in terms of addiction and that he didn't care if he was to ever act again.

But in 2001, the actor decided he had had enough and that he was ready for a change. He told Oprah Winfrey in an interview "I told myself, I've lost my job, my wife left me and I'm a wreck. I don't think I can continue doing this. So, I reached out for help and I ran with it."

Downey Jr.'s return to fame wasn't as immediate; he starred in several semi-independent films and TV series including Family Guy, all the while hoping to land a blockbuster film – something he hadn't had the opportunity to do since he began his career.

His shot to fame came in 2008 when he took the lead in the critically and commercially successful franchise, Iron Man. Soon to follow was Tropic Thunder and then it was time to take on the role as Sherlock Holmes.

Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes tore the box office topping several records and finishing second only to Avatar. Downey Jr. won the Golden Globe for his role but the Oscar prize still eludes him.

In an interview held recently in the United States to promote Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows, the ever witty, good humoured actor tells us the paycheck he received for returning as the super sleuth wasn't the only reason he came back.

"The main reason to return for another round was that we had a really fun group of people the first time around. We have the right combination of people, and Guy Ritchie likes an atmosphere that isn't intense. You don't feel like there's hundreds of millions of dollars around you. It's very British in every sense of the word.

"I remember when Jude (Law;\, who plays his sidekick Dr Watson) and I were doing the press for the last movie, we went around telling people what a good movie it was and that maybe they should ask for another one. I'm glad that happened.

Was the sequel easy to come back to?

I think it's simple to do because (author, Conan) Doyle is a great and inventive writer particularly with these characters he had. You could never run out of interesting material.

You have, shall we say a few rather physical scenes in A Game of Shadows, how do you stay fit and if you were accosted (like you are repeatedly in the movie), would you be able to defend yourself?

I have to be very careful what I say because this would be used against me if I ever got in an altercation, so I probably shouldn't say anything. I feel very confident in my abilities. Nonetheless, I started martial arts instruction for the film. As to my physical regimen, 70 per cent of what I do is just to maintain my mental health while I'm doing everything else – it's definitely helpful. Also interfacing with Guy being a martial artist, gave us a bit of a shorthand when we're talking about some of the action in the movie and all that stuff but if you're asking if I believe I could defend myself, I could take all comers. I shouldn't have said that.

You did Chaplin and Holmes twice. Why do you think you're attracted to British characters?

There was actually a third one, this film Restoration about 15 years ago with Mike Hoffman, but I had Chaplin and that came and went. I am just glad I can do an accent or it would be really embarrassing.

Sherlock Holmes, The Avengers, Iron Man 3. Will we ever see you in a small independent movie?

I want to do all kinds of stuff. There was was time when I would do whatever I was cast to do. Whatever I wanted to do wasn't an option because I couldn't get a job. Now, I got a bunch of jobs I am now required to do and I'm happy to continue doing. Sherlock probably foremost among them because it's just so much fun and so challenging, and it's something that I can do probably for a few more years as opposed to the superhero type thing. But most of this is leading to the types of films I wind up making with the missus.

It's an exciting time for you, three movies in the can, and now a baby on the way.

I've never been happier and I'm still kind of miserable but it's getting better. I am just so lucky, and the luckiest thing that ever happened to me was this person I met (his wife and producer Susan Levin) and then the fact that our combined DNA is about to be unleashed on an unsuspecting public – is fantastic and I expect great things.

When is the baby due?

Yeah, late-February and it will not be a pleasant ride home if I say anything else. I really can't. I can't spill the beans. It's killing me. I know so many things that I could tell you that I just mustn't. (Susan was sitting in the back of the room during this interview, enjoying Robert's jibes as only an adoring wife could. By the way, the couple is expecting a baby boy.)

Music plays a big role in the film. What's on your play list?

I would say lots of Steely Dan. I would also admit to a fair amount of Cheap Trick and Super Tramp. Of course, Led Zeppelin is a staple of one's existence, and I have been in my mid to latish 40's now rediscovering The Beatles.

Any new year's resolutions?

What's left to give up? Chastity? No. What kind of resolution would be good? I don't know. I guess I can get a little moody once in a while but how do you resolve not to do that anymore? Let's see, do you want me to give something else up?

What was your last year's resolution?

The last resolution? But they never work. You mean, what was the last solemn oath I made that I promptly broke (laughs). You know, probably the usual.

Does acting still mean the same to you?

Well, what it means to me is that I am given credit for something I don't actually understand and I am not embarrassed at all about that, and I certainly don't have any impossible complexes about it, but all I know is I was put in a position to have enough experience doing it so that by the time I became all right at it, I still don't really honestly understand it. which to me is great.

It's like a good relationship. Take my wife, I don't know what the heck's going on inside her head. I think it's magnificent, and I'm in love with her and stuff. but I don't understand acting any more than I think men understand women. She could be hanging out and then she'll run into some other pregnant girl, and they go into like a huddle like they play on the same team, like they're on the Stealers or something – there's all these mystical things that women do and are capable of -- and I kind of feel the same way about acting.

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