Movie producer Ma da apologizes to Thanh Loc and Cam Ly

Director and producer Nhat Trung publicly apologized for cutting out many heartfelt scenes of Meritorious Artist Thanh Loc and singer Cam Ly in the movie Ma da.

Meritorious Artist Thanh Loc and singer Cam Ly had many scenes cut from the movie Ma da.

On August 17, on his personal Facebook, director Nhat Trung - representative of the producer of the movie Ma da - posted an apology to Thanh Loc, Cam Ly and the audience.

Accordingly, the movie Ma da was widely promoted and impressed the audience with the appearance of artist Thanh Loc on the big screen and the first acting attempt of singer Cam Ly.

Thanh Loc and singer Cam Ly appeared briefly in Ma da.

Thanh Loc plays the role of an exorcist, helping Mrs. Le (played by Viet Huong) find her daughter who was kidnapped by a ghost. He only appears in three scenes with a duration of about 5 minutes.

Cam Ly plays a mother whose son is also murdered by a ghost. She appears in three scenes, but when the climax touches the audience's tears, the film suddenly switches to another scene.

Director Nhat Trung wrote: “Trung would like to apologize to artist Thanh Loc and singer Cam Ly because during post-production, many scenes that they had put their heart and soul into had to be cut.

This was required to get the current finished film and this resulted in your roles being reduced in length compared to the original plan.

Besides, the crew's failure to officially notify the two of you in writing early was a complete mistake. As one of the producers of the film, Trung would like to take full responsibility and blame for this mistake on his part."

Fans of the two artists are very upset with the actions of the film producer Ma da.

The fact that the film cut out most of Thanh Loc and Cam Ly's appearances made some viewers very upset and caused controversy on film forums because they said they went to the theater to buy tickets to see Ma da because of the two artists' reputation.

An audience commented: "This apology may be too late when you guys did not receive respect from the producer and were hurt.

Even though you are great artists and often receive many invitations, because of fate and compatibility, you came to the film crew, waded through rivers and water, filmed for more than half a month, endured mosquito bites but still happily accompanied.

Yet when the film was released to the big screen, it was completely cut out, and they weren't even allowed to film close-ups, making them look like extras. Worse, they weren't even informed that the film had been edited from the original. Isn't this an extreme disrespect?

There are viewers who frankly stated that cutting down the screen time of the two artists Thanh Loc and Cam Ly is unnecessary because their names are also one of the factors that attract audiences to the film:

Director Nhat Trung caused controversy when he cut a scene without clearly discussing it with Thanh Loc and Cam Ly.

"As an audience, I would like to rate the movie as not good and not coherent, with disjointed content.

As fans of the two artists, we are not upset because our idols do not appear on the big screen much, but because of the crew's disrespectful attitude towards the artists and the audience.

If you already cut it like that, then why upload the trailer? Isn't that just hanging a sheep's head and selling dog meat?

According to Nhat Trung, he had a direct meeting with artists Thanh Loc and Cam Ly, and is currently discussing further to find the most reasonable solution to ensure all parties are satisfied.

PV contacted musician Minh Vy, manager of singer Cam Ly. He clarified that director Nhat Trung only met him to discuss, and singer Cam Ly did not want to meet the producer. Musician Minh Vy did not share more.

Similarly, Meritorious Artist Thanh Loc said that he "has no further comment on this matter".

Ghost with familiar motifs of horror movies

Despite the impressive folk legend of “ghost skin pulling gio” and the lives of corpse recovery practitioners, Ghost skin still has some limitations.

In the first scenes, the scares are done quite well, when the film uses all kinds of measures from jumpscare, makeup to loud sounds to create horror effects.

However, as the series progresses, these scenes become predictable and appear too often, with similar repetitive styles.

The film's plot is a bit long-winded and disjointed in the middle, making the story not really engaging and sometimes confusing for the audience.

Ma da 's idea was novel, as the profession of body retrieval had never been exploited before.

However, instead of delving into this topic, the screenwriter chose to follow the beaten path when exploiting the child and the strange toy.

This makes the film popular, similar to previous works such as Guardian Angel, Ghost Child, Annabelle: Creation, or Murder Doll ...

Additionally, the voice acting of some characters does not match the mouth movements, reducing the naturalness and smoothness of the movie viewing experience.

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