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42 asialife HCMC Saigon Electric is highly anticipated for its depiction of coming of age issues faced by Vietnamese youth in a honest and touching way. By Chi Mai. Photos courtesy of Chang Phuong Films.
his December Vietnam’s theatres will welcome the Trelease of Saigon Electric, one of the country’s first hip hop movies directed by the awardwinning Vietnamese American filmmaker Stephane Gauger. Saigon Electric (Saigon Yo! in Vietnamese) is a new experiment by California-trained director, writer, producer Gauger, who in 2007, added more than a handful of international awards for his film Owl and the Sparrow into his existing collection of international acclaim and prizes. “This is my most commercial movie so far,” he says. The film is a coming of age story of Vietnamese youth set in the hip hop subculture of Saigon’s streets. The movie is a fresh attempt by Gauger to “give the teenagers a voice and present to an international audience a fresh new look at the dreams and struggles of Asian youth.” The plot centres around Mai (Van Trang), a traditional ribbon dancer from the countryside, who comes to Saigon to pursue her dream of dance. Though she fails her audition to the national dance academy, Mai befriends Kim (Quynh Hoa), a dancer from the city’s underground hip hop scene who aspires to enter the international dance contest in South Korea with her crew. On the path to their respective dreams, the two young girls from differing backgrounds and personalities become good friends as they learn to overcome hindrances associated with growing up: egos, self-doubt, jealousy, competition, social discrimination and romance. Their winding roads see them meet with Do-Boy (Ha Pham Anh Hien), Saigon Fresh’s hiphop dance crew captain, and Hai (Khuong Ngoc), a young man born with a silver spoon in his mouth who had a thing for the wild Kim; they also encounter other young fates representing the fresh seeds of the Vietnamese nation. “Except for a few trained professionals, most of us were firsttime actors. Many are involved in the real-life hip hop scene in Saigon so somehow it felt really natural being together in this particular movie,” says Quynh Hoa, who herself is a 20-yearold hip hop dancer. Gauger notes that, “we were very happy with the amateur actors we got from the large number of dancers who came to audition. They are just so natural for the movie.” After a month of acting for the first time the student cum hip-hopper Hoa says she realized how successfully the movie captured a part of the underground world she and her peers had experienced. “Of course, in real life not all of us [hip hop dancers] let loose in night clubs, seek escape in drugs or get wild and wasted,” she says. “But at the end of the day, I was truly impressed that the movie captured a world that we are familiar with. Not just the dancing but all these issues that kids endure.” There is much expectation that Saigon Electric will honestly reflect an underground culture and the vigorous spirit of a new generation of urban Vietnamese. It is a topic that has yet to be given the due consideration it deserves. Choreographed by American awarded choreographer Ricky Cole, Saigon Electric has all the ingredients of being a big hit and is already garnering buzz amongst the young. Saigon Electric, produced by Chanh Phuong Films, will be released tentatively on December 17, 2010 in Vietnam and early 2011 in the United States and beyond. asialife HCMC 43
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