On Burmese Movies, from the Black-and-White Era to the Age of Surround Sound

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In this episode, my cohost Mol Mol from BLAY (Burmese language academy of Yangon) and I discuss the movie-going experiences in our own times. In my boyhood in the 80s, movie theaters in Yangon were weather-beaten colonial buildings, with only a few offering air condition -- a luxury confined to the embassies and high-end hotels. On the other hand, Mol Mol grew up with multiplex theaters in megamalls like Junction Square, where surround sound and air condition were a given. But the films that we both fondly remember happen to be the same: Cultural phenomena like မှုန်ရွှေရည် (Hmone Shwe Yi) and သင်္ကြန်မိုး (Thingyan Moe), to name but two. So silent your cellphones, grab your popcorn, and join us in the theater of nostalgia. (Music clips from Uppbeat.io)
Vocabulary
ကြိတ်ကြိတ်တိုး to be thronged with people

ရုံတင်တယ် to screen a film in a theater

ဇိမ်ကျတယ် / ဇိမ်ခံတယ် to indulge in luxury

ဖလင် film

သည်းခံပါ please be patient

ပိတ်ကား the silver screen

ခေတ်ပြိုင် contemporary, from the same era or period

မင်းသမီးတစ်လက် an actress (လက် is a counting word for actors)

နောက်ခံဘဝ backstory

အဓိကဇာတ်ကောင် the main character

စိတ်နာတယ် to be deeply wounded (emotionally); to become resentful

အရက်စွဲသွားတယ် to become addicted to alcohol

ဇာတ်ဝင်တေး/ဇာတ်ဝင်သီချင်း movie theme song

စိတ်ပြေသွားတယ် to lose one’s anger or resentment, to thaw (emotionally)

ခပ်ဆင်ဆင် similar

ကိုလိုနီခေတ် the colonial era

လုံးချင်းဝတ္ထု full-length novel

မှီငြမ်းတယ်/မှီတယ် to be based on, to be inspired by

စာတည်းမှူး editor

နားလည်ရခက်တယ် to be difficult to understand

လျှို့ဝှက်ချက် secret

နှိပ်ကြယ်သီး press button

မခေဘူး not bad at all, can measure up

ဂန္တဝင် classic

အတ္ထုပ္ပတ္တိ (pronounced အထုပ်ပတ်တိ / အတ်ထုပ်ပတ်တိ) biography

မှတ်မှတ်ရရ memorably

ကလဲ့စားချေတယ်/လက်စားချေတယ် to take revenge, to avenge

နောက်ဆက်တွဲ sequel

ရုပ်ပြကာတွန်း illustrated comic

သရုပ်ဆောင်တယ် to perform, to act

အထင်ကရ renown

ဂိုဏ်းခေါင်းဆောင် gang leader

သွေးထွက်သံယို bloody, violent

အရောင်စိုပြည်တယ် to be rich in colors

ရုပ်လုံးပေါ်တယ် to be vivid

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