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I'm not a fan of this kind of government influence in filmmaking, but so long as the Chinese are at it maybe they could turn their attention to Hollywood's prop
by Inconel 10y ago
I'm not a fan of this kind of government influence in filmmaking, but so long as the Chinese are at it maybe they could turn their attention to Hollywood's propensity to depict Asian males as undesirable emasculated nerds and Asian females as fetishized objects.
- seanmcdirmid 10y agoLike Big Hero 6?
- Inconel 10y agoI've yet to see that film, although the reviews look pretty good so I'll have to give it a view when I get the chance.
- seanmcdirmid 10y agoIt has a very good portrayal of Asians, at least, though still nerdy (but the trope is subverted multiple times). Hollywood is getting better at it. Miraculous ladybug also defies the trope, but in a mixed race context (Chinese-French).
- Inconel 10y agoI don't watch many major movie releases anymore so I could well be out of the loop and misinformed. If Hollywood is truly getting better at not using the kinds of ethnic, racial, and gender tropes that make for cheap laughs and storytelling then that is very good news to me. And thanks for the movie tips!
- seanmcdirmid 10y agoThe first is a movie, the latter is a cartoon. Hollywood is huge, everyone has their own standards.
- krapp 10y agoAnd yet every time Hollywood adapts a Japanese property they seem to be unable to find any Asian actors in California to portray any Major roles.
- seanmcdirmid 10y agoLikewise, when japan does live action versions of their anime, they are unable to find Caucasian actors to fill roles that are obviously Caucasian. Tamaki Suoh in Ouran Host Club obviously has blonde hair and blue eyes in the anime, but in the live action becomes completely Japanese! Perhaps they just couldn't find an actor that looked the role?
- krapp 10y agoJapan is 98% Japanese - that comparison doesn't even make sense. >Perhaps they just couldn't find an actor that looked the role? Of course they could, but the problem is it seems as if they wouldn't dare try. They stopped looking after "the one hot female lead we put in every sci-fi movie now."
- seanmcdirmid 10y agoYes they are. Yet they present a diverse universe of characters whose ethnicities are clearly not Japanese or are very ambiguous. Note that for this reason, there was no controversy about the casting of the GIS protagonist in Japan itself. The vocal critics have all been Asian Americans. But that doesn't really say much, as this movie is being judged as an American one rather than a Japanese one; the lack of Asian American actors getting roles like these bothers me also.
- krapp 10y ago>Note that for this reason, there was no controversy about the casting of the GIS protagonist in Japan itself. The vocal critics have all been Asian Americans. Because Asian Americans are more aware of the lack of diversity in roles for Asians in American movies. Japanese people would have no idea about that because where they live, every hero on every screen in every Japanese movie is Japanese. I'm well aware of the style in anime to present characters as "stateless", and why it's done, but that isn't the problem. Asian actors appearing to not be on equal footing with Caucasian and African American actors when it comes to the roles they're allowed to portray is the problem. I'm sick of seeing the same few faces in everything.
- flukus 10y agoI can think of plenty of anime that does the same, westerners are likewise typecast as the big strong idiots.
- wodenokoto 10y agoRed 2 has a Korean male assassin whose main role in the film is to be eye candy for the female audience. So it seems things are changing.