> Their main audience is English speaking people, not tibetans.
Even before that, it's an American production directed by an Italian American filmmaker, whose native tongue is English.
> If they do it in Tibetan, there's a lot of people who won't go to see a subtitled movie.
Which is even more important for Tibetans since they need their voice to be heard. To the OP who is Chinese, actually the Tibetans need to have their voice heard because their land is suffering under Chinese invasion/oppression. You are a little too naive here.
The cast of this film are composed of Tibetans living in exile. Most of them are fluent in English and some of them even use English as their daily language. It is much better than people expecting the cast of this film speaking in Mandarin or something. The Dalai Lama himself is fluent in English.
But there is one scene in Tibetan, and happens to be the most moving scene in this film.
> I think it's just a marketing ploy.
Not really--or at least that didn't work since the film was almost ignored in the American market, while was successful in France, Japan, Spain, Germany and other non-english speaking countries. But Martin Scorsese insisted it should be in English because he wanted his audience to feel that it is about themselves, that the people feel the protagonists are talking "to you" and not reading subtitles. It contains so many important messages about humanity so that makes sense.
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> Hmmm, that's not what the Dalai Lama thought when he met Chairman Mao.
Watch and decides for yourself, since YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE FILM AND YET SPEND SO MANY HOURS ON THIS BOARD, fool.
The depiction of Mao is indeed right out of the Dalai Lama's autobiography, including little strange details of his worn-out sleeves and shiny shoes. And the Dalai Lama indeed gets impressed by Mao in this film that YOU HAVEN'T EVEN SEEN.
If you had, you would have never made this idiotic comment, just would have stated your impression. This is a place to discuss the film Kundun, and you are not discussing the film at all--which you can't since YOU HAVEN'T EVEN SEEN IT.
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