The Departed's William Monahan just won the best screenplay based on material previously produced or published. And the introduction goes "Mr. Monahan based his Boston mobster screenplay on the Japanese film Infernal Affairs." Please... This is the freaking Oscar, get the fact straight at least. Apparently Mr. Monahan was too overwhelmed to correct the mistake when giving his Oscar acceptance speech.
After all, Oscar can't tell the difference between Hong Kong and Japan.
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Last Friday, Someone idiot in NY asked me to change the commission in one Japanese trade. I politely asked that guy to check with his Japanese trader first. If he doesn't know who the trader is, then I will step in. Hong Kong is not part of Japan and Japan is not part of Hong Kong. That guy didn't reply my email. He is learning.
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Well he thought you control the whole region, got the power to override all trades. Probably you could, right? Wow you da man. Just that it makes better sense for the Japanese trader who originates the trade to correct it.
ReplyDeleteYes, idiots are everywhere. I count myself as one sometimes.
Yesterday a Taiwan buyer sent RMB cash to me to buy my DVD, when I asked for HKD, Taiwanese may think that we are under communists' dicatative rule
ReplyDeleteThe Time magazine actually made a similar mistake a year ago saying that the "Internal Affaris" was Korean made. I always thought that its correspondents are more travelled. Maybe I am wrong. After all, 90% of the American population don't have a passport and President George W Bush never travelled abroad before he became the president.
ReplyDeleteVincent
Prof Vinci made a minor mistake too, it's "Infernal Affairs", not "Internal Affairs"
ReplyDeleteThe Time magazine is not like it was before. Look, it was kissing up to the public and declaring that you were Man of the Year by surfing porn on the Internet... Nobody freaking reads their flagship Time magazine anymore. They just laid off some 289 jobs. No more fact checkers. Their information is just slightly more reliable than crap written by bloggers.
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