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To: hoosierham

Whenever I read complaints like this I think, ‘Look at the Three Stooges, Marx Brothers, Gilligan, W.C. Fields and look to, if you know Asian Martial Arts cinema to the way whites are portrayed there. We’re always the bad guys or the stupid missionaries.’ The Asians have noting to brag about when it comes to fair portrayal of whites. But, at least Charlie Chan has better writing.


20 posted on 08/11/2010 11:52:19 AM PDT by ReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it*s the new black. Mmm Mmm Mmm.)
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To: ReneeLynn
The Asians have noting to brag about when it comes to fair portrayal of whites.

Or blacks.

One of the major exceptions to this is John Woo's 1995 "Don't Cry Nanking" (aka "Nanking 1937") which unfortunately appears to never have been released in this country. It is a big screen, big budget treatment of the rape of Nanking, and truthfully shows European and American diplomats and missionaries doing what they could to protect Chinese during the Japanese occupation.

There are all sorts of historical oddities I've learned watching Asian movies made for Asian audiences, including the fact that the Japanese drafted ethnic Chinese in Taiwan into the Japanese army.
21 posted on 08/11/2010 2:31:03 PM PDT by Nepeta
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