Foreign Flicks

Goron: When I want to look something like more original, I started to watch some Korean movies or Indian movies from Bollywood, which are really interesting. I was fairly surprised. Try it guys because Korean movies are great. Are great.

Michael: Korean movies are good but the ones – the typical thing about Korean movies, they always end bad.

Win: They always end with cancer.

Michael: Whereas Hollywood movies, usually there's always like it has a good ending.

Goron: And actually, Japanese movies do the same thing. The happy ending is not so granted. And probably many people like them for this reason.

Michael: And I would say that even Norwegian movies, they try to, you know, go out from the norm that movies are supposed to end nicely. And that they have like a shocking ending. It's like reading a novel with a shocking ending that you wouldn't expect to happen.

Goron: Because I think some love movies really have a bad effect on the real life because people are trying to have the same relationship that they see on the movies. And then when it's not like – love is not like that. It's not that beautiful. It's not like happy ending all the time. And so they…

Michael: Oh but…

Win: Yeah.

Goron: And then – and they are shocked when their real life – they see that they…

Michael: But not all movies are like that. I mean, even animation movies like you've seen Up, right?

Goron: Well, the plot is like they fall in love, they have like a nice time, and then the problematic moment. You know, they overcome like the difficulties, and then at the end, they live all together. Happy ending.

Win: Well, that's the usual Western discourse of how you produce a movie. But I think nowadays, movie producers are trying to do a lot of different things from the past.

Goron: Yeah, they try but basically…

Michael: It's interesting to say because maybe why we prefer movies to have good endings and why we prefer them to be very harmonic is because maybe we don't want to watch depressing things. We want the movie to give us a good feeling in the aftermath.

Goron: To give us hope.

Michael: Yeah, give us hope, give us like good thoughts. And you know when I watched Up for instance, which is an animation. When I just saw the first part of the movie, it really – I almost cried just watching it. I never cry to an animation film like that before. It was really, really touching.

Goron: Right. I cried to the Lion King. [Laughs]

Michael: When I was younger, I cried to the Lion King.

Goron: No, I still cry when I see that.

Win: I mean it's good to be emotional.

Goron: Oh yeah. When the movie is good, it's good forever.