Posted on 08/17/2018 9:36:49 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
You've probably already read about how "Crazy Rich Asians" is the first major studio release to feature an all-Asian cast in 25 years -- since The Joy Luck Club accomplished that feat in 1993.
And yes, this movie is a singularly special and important event for those in the Asian-American community, who are finally beginning to sense a change in an industry that has, over the past quarter century, seemed afraid of putting more than one of us onscreen at once for fear of somehow freaking out or turning off non-Asian viewers.
(Don't look now, but "Crazy Rich Asians" serves up whole screens of Asians at a time, and none of them die, all of them speak English and -- wonder of wonders -- every character looks and acts extremely different, so you won't have an issue telling them apart.)
But as much of an event as this is for us, the truth is that anyone -- Asian or not -- should see the movie. It achieves what few films in recent memory have accomplished. It reminds us that the ultra-wealthy generally don't live up to the sales pitch that they, Hollywood and the Republican Party have collectively tried to sell us.
This narrative consistently presents the staggeringly rich as different from -- and better than -- the huddled masses.
They're "makers" who pull the rest of us "takers" up by our bootstraps, while creating jobs, disrupting industries and changing the world.
[SNIP]
Consider "Crazy Rich Asians" something of a second opinion. Most of the rich folk in the movie are indeed "crazy," if you redefine crazy as "petty, tawdry, narcissistic and devious."
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
"Do you understand the words comin out of my mouth ?"
If CNN hates it, it might be worth seeing, or perhaps CNN just hates Asians, at least those who haven’t proclaimed that they hate “white” people.
A Latina friend of mine saw it. She said it was pretty funny.
Similarly, I had zip interest in somebody’s Greek wedding, regardless of how big or fat it might be.
Unfortunately, Michelle Yeoh isn’t doing any Kung Fu in this film. LOL.
Black guys were cast in the following Broadway shows:
As Alexander Hamilton in HAMILTON.
As Hans in Frozen.
Joy Luck Club actually did have a white man in it.
He was a subject of derision.
He disrespect the chinagirls’ parents by putting copious amounts of soy sauce on the family-style food (not just his own plate), ruining it for everyone.
Because you know, white people are inconsiderate a-holes.
Sorry, sounds like another token film....
Just like the plethora of films where they gender bend and make the female the lead instead of the male, now its going to be asians telling the same old story...
Can’t see buying a ticked to it myself.
Well, a lot of us are. Approximately half in the United States alone are this way. They vote Dem/Green/Social Democrat/Communist...
They’re ALWAYS the same old story. But if you like rom-coms, it looks pretty solid. Also from what I saw in the trailer the story very much is oriental. It’s not JUST the same old “one not worthy”, it actually does deal with how Singapore families, especially the rich families, and culture works.
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