This is what happen when you fan the ego of a little boy too much and leave it unchecked.
Last year, Zhonghua Secondary School student, Amos Yee was the winner of both the Best Actor and Best Short Film awards at The New Paper’s inaugural FiRST Film Fest for his film, Jan, a funny, witty entry about a boy desperately trying to cajole his three friends to help a girl who has cancer:
url=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjnxM15e5dk”
This year, his mentor from the FiRST Film Fest, Singapore’s top box-office director, Jack Neo gave him a small acting role in his upcoming Chinese New Year movie, We Not Naughty 《孩子不坏》. Instead of being grateful for the exposure, the boy ranted off and criticised the movie at a press conference:
“Do you realised that the film has a lot of fade in and jumps from scenes over and over and over again,” the Zhonghua Secondary School student said and added, “That is confusing.”
That’s not all. On the development of the characters in the movie, he said, “You can do it at the beginning but it goes on for the entire film.”
“And that bothers me,” he revealed, “and my whole family agrees that it’s freaking messy.”
Then he made this stupid video insulting Chinese for “copying American New Year” by celebrating Chinese New Year:
Goodness.
I bet this boy gets fail grades for his history.
The world now adopts the Gregorian calendar (also known as the Western calendar, or Christian calendar) as the internationally accepted civil calendar. However, this do not mean that the 1 January we know of is the only marker for a new year.
Does Amos know there’s another lunar calendar for the Chinese?
Does Amos know there is also a Hijri calendar (or Muslim calendar or Islamic calendar) as well as many other different calendars for other cultures?
Does Amos know that the Chinese lunar calendar can be traced back to during the Shang dynasty(1766-1123 B.C.) while the current Gregorian calendar has only been in existence from the 15th century?
Technically, the Westerners “copied New Year” from the Chinese by Amos’ logic. This is really besides the point because with globalisation, people from around the world are learning to accept, respect and sometime tolerate others’ culture and practices.
It is sad enough that Amos, as a young Chinese boy do not embrace his own heritage; what’s worse, choose to denounce and poke fun of it publicly for the world to see.
There’s a Hokkien saying which should be conveyed to Amos: “Kiang Jiu Ho, Mai Kay Kia” (yes, you may be smart and talented, but you don’t have to overly flaunt it till you make yourself look stupid).
[Update: 21 Jan 2012] Mr Brown made a spoof video dedicated to Famous Amos:
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Oh shit.. I thought he's in primary school and commented that he should go and study for his psle............
This idiot can't even SPELL "PRONUNCIATION"!! See on his board? "PronOUNciation" hahahahaaa.... disgrace! And he's trying to teach here? A lesson for the same caliber as he is - idiots. No matter how you slang, it is very fake! You're still a Chinese. You're hoping that The US will offer you a "green card" or what? LOL
A total disgrace...trying to act smart...
Oh dear, I was prepared to tolerate that coz I mistakenly thought he was only 10 years old or less. Ok, at 14 and still so uneducated is not very acceptable.
He is reusing his first tactics of video making...and it is really irritating.
The accent....
ARGGGH
WAH LAU EH!
Sibey noisy!
and this joker did a video on THE IMPORTANCE OF LEARNING CHINESE. LOLOL!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7b6Gz8_ix_w
No wonder LHL worries over future generations of ministers. I see this kid + all the other Gen Z fiasco.... I think I better retire elsewhere next time o.0
he's going to later say, "o, i was misunderstood and taken out of context (cus my emphasis was that the non-chinese enjoy the chinESE neeeuu year just as well" too?
o man. even his award winning thing is irritating. WAHKAO.
as si ginnah as the video portray, i think he is acting for american audience. he probably has a lot of american subscribers & commentators that he just wanted to ride in the popularity of ENTERTAINING his american audience. I kinda think he just wants to be like Peter Chao or Dee Kosh - sort of like riding on the success of youtubing that sort of thing. 小孩子 ‘假厉害’ 讲的话，不用太认真。lolol
My initial gut reaction was to type a similar comment about the young punk but then I remembered:
1. I probably did and said dumb things when I was 14 - don't remember, that was a really long time ago.
2. If we keep on adopting this kind of attitude towards our youngsters, they're probably are going to have their creative spark kicked out of them before it has a chance to evolve into something better.
3. There's a reason why America is still ahead of us in being innovative and creative - because they don't do shit like that to their kids.
So I think that you Singaporeans should hang your heads in shame.
And carry gun and kill anyone they hated!
I think you should have your head examined. There is a difference between being creative and being outright disrespectful and vulgar. You shd be the one to bow in shame to even think this is creativity. Disrespect and vulgar? Would you pat your son on the back and said well done for being creative if he celebrates your death and showers with vulgarities?Do u teach your son to disrespect the government? You are very sad. Or perhaps you are no better. AT least he is 17, whats your excuse?A MORON? Or do you treat your government or father the same way? Shame on you not to know any better and to interfere in our affairs. Examine the situation in your own troubled country before you speak. Your so called creativity has created a mayhem that it is out of control in your country.. So do not teach others what you cannot handle.