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Curious, are these sitcoms something the community asked for, or are they what someone thinks should make good tv? The Asian community has an opportunity to forge the kind of representation it wants to put out there, unlike the black community that has to spend all of its time erasing decades of negative portrayals before making headway. Sieze the opportunity and tell the stories you want told
As someone who grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area I’ve always hated when a production is set in San Francisco and there are no Asian people who play pivotal roles. Sure they’ll have a character run through Chinatown, and then you’ll see the same 5 Japanese character actors that Hollywood loves to cast as “Asian” in those scenes. But it always struck me as very ridiculous for Hollywood to set a show like Party of Five, or a movie like Princess Diaries, set in a San Francisco high school and the entire background cast is white. Have these casting directors ever left their studios? They’d see that there are American cities where Asian people are a huge part of the population. It’s so lazy that they don’t even bother to at least throw one “friend of the main character” into the mix.
20:29 The father's words are more caustic than what the subtitles translate. He's actually saying in Cantonese, "...You really are of no use. Everything you do is half complete." Saying that you are of no use is the ultimate put down my mother would always say to me. To say that you are of no use means you are worthless.
This video makes me think of the film Gook. Touches on the way that asian (in this case Korean) and Black Americans (during the time of riots following the death of Rodney King) engage with one another (particulary in Los Angeles) and it was...interesting. Worth the watch. If anyone is interested.
Ok , so i found this video after the one i watched over crazy rich asians , I remember watching this show all american girl , was shown on the norwegian screen as well!
I was an early fan of Margaret Cho comedy stand up and All-American Girl just wasn't funny. Newsflash...sit-coms are supposed to be funny. Fresh off the Boat was a step up from All -American Girl but that isn't saying much when that step is still at the very bottom of the ladder. And whitewashing any show based on a specific background as if the majority audience lacks the intelligence to "get it" is just insulting to everyone involved. At the start of the day, a sit-com must be genuinely funny.
My biggest memory from this memory, besides the kick ass action which is great, is the line "Wipe yourself off, man. You dead." Which is an utterly stupid line, but Tucker totally sells it.
Wilson's departure seems too well timed. Chuck finally learned to make and appreciate meaningful connections in his life thanks to Wilson so after being rescued there wouldn't really be a place for him in his life (and not because people would be weirded out by him talking to a ball). It's entirely possible that part of Chuck's subconscious he embodied in Wilson knew this and allowed him to fall off the raft and not make him aware till he was too far to save. Basically, the split personality was self-aware and knew it was time to go and let Chuck move on.
due to there`s a posibility strangers will do bad things to us, that`s why there`s a word saying stranger danger. but the thing is that not only stranger(s) will do bad things to us but even some of the people that we knew in person have a possibility to do bad things to us. in the case of s.a., it is also has been reported the suspect is someone pretty close with the victims; siblings, relatives, educators, neighbours, etc. =(
Watched this many years ago and never noticed anything racist. It’s not that different from many of Jackie Chan’s other movies with cops fighting crimes and protecting innocent people.
I'll suggest you films of- Rittik Ghatak, Mrinal Sen, Rituporno Ghosh, Anjan Dutta's earlier movies, couple of Koushik Ganguly and Srijit Mukherjee's movies. You'll gonna like and enjoy.
indigenous/native people lived and THRIVED in nature for thousands of years. That movie just showing you how far removed we've become from the our planet. This movie just fear mongering Propaganda and I honestly don't blame him for his efforts.. £u¢k th!$ $¥$t3M
Yeah, yeah , yeah guess what visible minorities, I have some terrible news for you. There are no white sitcoms that accurately portray the “white” experience. Sure sometimes it can be close but in the end they just become cartoon characters that have to give way to entertainment.
3:45 ey man to quote the great G Reilly "nobody smells fried chicken and thinks of racism". But yeah Rush Hour is a classic total opposite people being forced to work together. as the story progresses, they get to know that both of them are not so different.
My parents, Italian-German-Jewish-Irish-Scottish-Catholics from Queens, New York. They would line us up and smack us whenever we did something wrong. If we did that wrong thing more than once, the punishment was worse.
The irony was that Eleanor knew nothing of what it means to truly be a family. She does not have that close family bond with her children like Rachel has with her mom. Another irony is that she thought Rachel was just a social climber and wanted Nick for his money and status when she didn't, everyone ELSE in that family and sphere is after that. Rachel loved Nick for who he is. I enjoyed the film and think we need more like it.
I can tell you the reason they cast non-Asians to play Asians on screen. 'It's fear.' Fear of not making money. Note: The UNHOLY unbelievable cost to make a movie today dictates that every aspect must be right and NO chance/risk taking. Also: The producers know who their paying audiences are. (age 15 to 34 & White) They know who will pay to see the film & buy the DVD & Stream and the producers direct it toward them. It's all about money and has always been about insuring the box office cash flow.
I liked the video, but reading the comments and pondering over your video again, you might look for a part 2. I get that JLC is telling a story about Asian American daughter, so most of the inerviewed are women. However, as touched in the early(and later iirc) parts of the video, asian men have also several representation issues that isn't explored throughly like the asian women.
It was dah problem, a real life drama story that was twisted into a comedy. The writer shoulda seen how inappropriate his life story mangled into humor actually was but he green lighted dah $how and now complains.🧐
I just watched this for the first time and it’s sad to see comments that completely missed the whole point of the movie. A little girl makes a mistake and suffers her whole life because of it, and people are commenting that they hate her? It’s like the fan base of Attack on Titan all over again. People should be allowed to be human. I guess it says a lot about the issues with society right now and too many people have a very black and white way of thinking-just like the little girl they are hating on. Anyways, I loved this movie.
