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hmm.
i am not smart enough to meta on this, especially today, but i followed a link off of friends-friends to another reason to not waste my time or money on pirates 3, basically confirming my fears from when i heard they'd cast chow yun-fat in the first place. the village voice review summed it up nicely:Ah, but I have forgotten Captain Sao Feng! Luxuriating in the hysterical chinoiserie of his exotic Singapore lair, this outrageous Oriental (played by Chow Yun-Fat) has been wedged into the Pirates panoply in order to exude colorful slant-eyed menace, enable the destiny of a white woman, then die. Impaled by one of the many large wood splinters incessantly flung about the narrative, Sao Feng bestows a totem of Super Piratehood to Miss Swann. Off she goes to join a reunion of the Super Pirates and fend off the snooty imperialists of the Dutch East India Company.
A WORLD OF UGH.
so. it was interesting, sad, and not surprising. but from there i found a story from last month about how hollywood is totally failing to cast chow yun-fat as a leading man, and this article on the slanted screen, which i've now bumped to the top of my netflix queue. it includes this telling quote:And Gene Cajayon, the Filipino American director of the 2001 film "The Debut," the first Fil-Am movie to be released nationwide in the United States, talks about the revised ending for the action movie "Romeo Must Die," a retelling of "Romeo and Juliet" where the R&B star Aaliyah plays Juliet to the Chinese actor Jet Li's Romeo. The original ending had Aaliyah kissing Li, a scenario that didn't test well with an "urban audience." So the studio changed it. The new ending had Aaliyah giving Li a tight hug. Says Cajayon, "Mainstream America, for the most part, gets uncomfortable with seeing an Asian man portrayed in a sexual light."
Which makes you wonder: When was the last time, on an American TV show or movie, you saw an Asian American man as the object of attraction?
and THAT all was interesting, and it tickles something in the back of my brain about the painful shortage of hiro/ando fic, and the way ando's sexuality in particular is treated as a joke in canon.
but like i said. not smart enough today. so i hurl links out into the void.
i am not smart enough to meta on this, especially today, but i followed a link off of friends-friends to another reason to not waste my time or money on pirates 3, basically confirming my fears from when i heard they'd cast chow yun-fat in the first place. the village voice review summed it up nicely:Ah, but I have forgotten Captain Sao Feng! Luxuriating in the hysterical chinoiserie of his exotic Singapore lair, this outrageous Oriental (played by Chow Yun-Fat) has been wedged into the Pirates panoply in order to exude colorful slant-eyed menace, enable the destiny of a white woman, then die. Impaled by one of the many large wood splinters incessantly flung about the narrative, Sao Feng bestows a totem of Super Piratehood to Miss Swann. Off she goes to join a reunion of the Super Pirates and fend off the snooty imperialists of the Dutch East India Company.
A WORLD OF UGH.
so. it was interesting, sad, and not surprising. but from there i found a story from last month about how hollywood is totally failing to cast chow yun-fat as a leading man, and this article on the slanted screen, which i've now bumped to the top of my netflix queue. it includes this telling quote:And Gene Cajayon, the Filipino American director of the 2001 film "The Debut," the first Fil-Am movie to be released nationwide in the United States, talks about the revised ending for the action movie "Romeo Must Die," a retelling of "Romeo and Juliet" where the R&B star Aaliyah plays Juliet to the Chinese actor Jet Li's Romeo. The original ending had Aaliyah kissing Li, a scenario that didn't test well with an "urban audience." So the studio changed it. The new ending had Aaliyah giving Li a tight hug. Says Cajayon, "Mainstream America, for the most part, gets uncomfortable with seeing an Asian man portrayed in a sexual light."
Which makes you wonder: When was the last time, on an American TV show or movie, you saw an Asian American man as the object of attraction?
and THAT all was interesting, and it tickles something in the back of my brain about the painful shortage of hiro/ando fic, and the way ando's sexuality in particular is treated as a joke in canon.
but like i said. not smart enough today. so i hurl links out into the void.