Posted on 10/05/2009 5:07:49 PM PDT by GOPGuide
Then again, in turn, his performance doesn’t seem quite so bad when compared with Mickey Rooney in the role of Mr Yunioshi, Holly’s bucktoothed, yellowface Japanese neighbour. Though the problem here is less with the acting than with the stereotypical nature of the role. “O me so sorry! Me love you long time!” It makes The Black and White Minstrel Show look like a government ethnic minority recruitment campaign. Apparently, director Blake Edwards subsequently expressed regret, saying “looking back, I wish I had never done it”, but this doesn’t change the fact that one of the most acclaimed films of our times, which gets shown more than some new releases, and has become a byword for romance viewing, is racist.
Indeed, one audience at a free outdoor screening in California, last year found it so objectionable that the film had to be replaced with a screening of Disney’s Ratatouille after protests. No such luck for us in Kent.
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You gotta admit, Rooney’s character was an extreme racial parody. It was racist. It was just acceptable at the time.
Short answer:
Nope! Not anymore.
Makes me wanna throw up.
Are we series, or just fat-you-us?
Didn’t Warner Oland play Charlie Chan? Of, for that matter, Peter Sellers as Dr. Fu Manchu?
Pleeeeease. I’ve had it up to here with neophyte opinionistas who have no knowledge of what has gone before.
I liked Charlie Chan movies.
You want racist (by this lady’s stds, not mine)? Go watch one of those Hong Kong martial arts movies from the 60s.
Hey, Libtards....get a life...better yet...get a job.
Feel free not to watch it.
Idiot.
Dear Satham Sanghera:
Who cares what you think, you effete, humorless Teabag?
Sincerely,
B-Chan
The author has way too much time on his hands.
The movie was made less than 20 years after the end of World War 2. We had not yet had time to develop the delicate sensibilities we have now.
Loved that lovely lady, Audrey.
If you are talking about white people before 1940, the answer is NO. Pre 1940, you white people were all racist, all the time. (This is also true of other people.)
Breakfast at tiffany's was a 1961 release, so the fact that it was racist is no surprise.
Nobody was ever more glamorous and attractive IMHO.
The scene in My Fair Lady when she appears at the top of the stairs to attend the Ball shows her as perhaps the most elegant creature ever created.
Did I mention that I like her? Even my wife knows (she doesn't feel very threatened at this point.)
I remember the film, and if I recall, I kinda liked it.
Well, thats one thing you got.
LOL!! That’s not the reply I was expecting, but yours was funnier. Thanks for making me LOL
Remo and Chuin were great in that movie. One day I will pick up the books.
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