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'Crazy Rich Asians' dazzles with $34 mil 5-day opening

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Just reading this listing makes you realize what a load of dross Hollywood movies are.

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Anyone seen the movie Crazy Rich Asians - like to see your opinion

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Asian cast (Crazy Rich Asians), Black cast (Black Panther)....... people warming up to different casts

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And they (Crazy Rich Asians) turned down a more profitable deal with Netflix too, in order to take a chance and prove that people will go see such a movie in theaters

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I'd love to see more Asians, but somehow I'm not looking forward to this one. I loved how Lucy Liu appeared in Charlie's Angels and they didn't make any fuss about her Asian heritage. Hell she even had John Cleese as her father!

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No martial arts? Are these crazy, rich Asians the next super villains in an upcoming Jackie chan movie and this is their backstory?

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Who the hell is Henry Golding? Is he a famous actor from Malaysia or some Hollywood influenced nobody? Highly doubt they couldn't find a real Asian already famous leading male actor.

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Going virile: How ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ redefines Hollywood’s Asian man. Finally, there are moviemakers and writers who can debunk these racist stereotypes

https://theundefeated.com/features/going-virile-how-crazy-rich-asians-redefines-hollywoods-asian-man/

There’s a scene in the new movie Crazy Rich Asians when Singaporean actor Pierre Png walks out of the shower toward his gorgeous wife, played by British model Gemma Chan. The camera lingers on him and his fitness-app abs for a few seconds longer than normal, his shirtless body objectified just as thoroughly as actresses have been for decades. Think Halle Berry in Swordfish. (I don’t know why I can’t think of a more recent movie, but that was the first, most blatantly gratuitous nude scene that came to mind.) But there’s a clear objective to this objectification: detonation — to blow up the stereotype of the emasculated Asian man. In the wise words of Leon Black from Curb Your Enthusiasm: “Topsy-turvy that m—–f—–.”

If you’re not familiar with Hollywood’s troubled history of portraying Asian men, think of how it used to be a given that the black actor gets killed in a horror film, unless you’re LL Cool J. Well, it’s a Stephen Curry free throw that if an Asian man pops up in a mainstream movie, he’s going to be asexual. Even the positive portrayals. Let me refer you to the case of Asian Men v. Romeo Must Die. Jet Li plays the titular Romeo, Aaliyah is the Juliet character, and Li doesn’t even get to kiss her. How do you do a take on Romeo and Juliet and make one of these star-crossed lovers more interested in kung fu than Aaliyah?

Emmy Award winner Brad Simpson, who produced the film with Nina Jacobson and John Penotti, didn’t realize the depths of the stereotype before making this movie and reached a new level of woke regarding the difference between diversity and tokenism.

“Don’t make the mistake that some people do, which is to feel like: I brought in one person of color, or one person who’s different from me into this process, therefore I have diversity,” stated Simpson. “Real diversity comes from having a multitude of voices who are in a dialectic with each other, talking about culture and identity. As I got more involved in this process, the idea of the goofy Asian guy or the desexualized Asian guy was something I became more aware of."

“I hope it shows off a whole spectrum of the Asian man as desirable, as attractive, and hopefully leads to more work for all these amazing actors who are of Asian-American descent, who are used to being kind of neutered in their roles. Let them be the romantic heroic lead. Let them be the action hero that isn’t slapstick comedy, that doesn’t have to be Jackie Chan, even though I love him. It’s time for a new paradigm shift.”

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