The Forbidden Kingdom
Some of you may know about the upcoming movie, The Forbidden Kingdom. Here's a promo trailer for it:
http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/11/15/the-forbidden-kingdom-promo-trailer/
Before all I knew about this movie was that it was a collaboration between Jet Li and Jackie Chan. Now that I've seen the trailer I'm hella excited for the movie given the epic setting and the period costumes and of course the blinding fast martial arts extravaganza of Jackie and Jet AND WHAT THE HELL IS A RANDOM WHITE GUY DOING THERE?!
Yes, until I read this article I didn't know anything about the PLOT about the movie. But now I see that it's about a white guy "who is obsessed with Hong Kong cinema and classic Kung Fu movies" (in other words, WARNING: FRIED EGG) who finds a mystical staff and gets transported back in time. This seems terribly unnecessary and just seems to be pandering to a US audience. I guess I shouldn't be surprised given that it's an American distro/director/project and not a Hong Kong project, but that extra bit just seems terribly ridiculous.
All I can say is, if said white guy happens to get into some sort of romance with any of the Asian girls shown in the trailer, there will be a massive explosion of BAM. And not the good kind either. I've got my eyes on you, Forbidden Kingdom.
http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/11/15/the-forbidden-kingdom-promo-trailer/
Before all I knew about this movie was that it was a collaboration between Jet Li and Jackie Chan. Now that I've seen the trailer I'm hella excited for the movie given the epic setting and the period costumes and of course the blinding fast martial arts extravaganza of Jackie and Jet AND WHAT THE HELL IS A RANDOM WHITE GUY DOING THERE?!
Yes, until I read this article I didn't know anything about the PLOT about the movie. But now I see that it's about a white guy "who is obsessed with Hong Kong cinema and classic Kung Fu movies" (in other words, WARNING: FRIED EGG) who finds a mystical staff and gets transported back in time. This seems terribly unnecessary and just seems to be pandering to a US audience. I guess I shouldn't be surprised given that it's an American distro/director/project and not a Hong Kong project, but that extra bit just seems terribly ridiculous.
All I can say is, if said white guy happens to get into some sort of romance with any of the Asian girls shown in the trailer, there will be a massive explosion of BAM. And not the good kind either. I've got my eyes on you, Forbidden Kingdom.
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So the whitie in question is Michael Anthony Angarano, who is young and cute, so I actually wouldn't mind if he ends up with a cute Asian girl. Film is a shallow medium after all, it's just unfair when the girl is always cuter than the guy. ...and beyond appearance, it's also unfair when the girl has clearly invested more in the relationship than the guy who hold higher standards for women than he himself follows.
I don't mind the 'Asian woman thing', as long as it's not creepy, as it so often is. I think X2 made a point with that, I mean, they already used the mutant thing as a gay metaphor, "have you tried not being a mutant?" There was this creepy scene, where the white middle-age powerful politician guy, William Stryker, was questioned by Wolverine, why he keeps such particular company if he hates mutants so much.
The mutant working for William Stryker is Lady Deathstrike, a blank-faced, young pretty Asian woman in sexy clothes. In that scene, Stryker yanked her over by the ponytail, and administered that mind control thing he's been using on his pet mutants. He said that the mutants 'have their uses as long as they can be controlled'. Creepy, METAPHOR, since the Asian woman character, 'Lady Deathstrike', is deadly, but powerless, because she is NOT a powerful person, she has been subjugated as his powerful tool.
I doubt that Hollywood would ever give the Jet Li or Michael Anthony Angarano fangirls what they want; homoerotica yay! I can only hope that there could be subtext! Like in the Jet Li movie The One, it was totally canon that in one of the multiverse his character was married to a man.
Thanks for your site. I love it. I'm glad you are writing about this.
I live in the SF Bay Area, which is generally diverse and open-minded, and I'm a white chick dating an Asian man. I always noticed that white guys and Asian girls often date/marry, yet you very rarely see white girls dating Asian guys.
One notable exception to the coupling norm: I once saw a black woman with an Asian man. They had children! I wanted to take a picture.
oh gosh. where to start.
in response to a rant entitled "white girls dont want us"
its just not true.
first of all i just want to say that you have been mislead.
i am a white female who grew up on brad-pitt-worshiping-media or however you put it. i think brad pitt is unattractive. i actually dont like white guys. i have a preference for asian males. its not a fetish. i have legitimate reasons. i think that asian males are more attractive, smarter, and they treat females better. i find white guys to be offensive and sexist. its really about preference.
i would really like to know what your opinions are based off of. i've ever asian male/white female couples. it doesnt offend me that white guys date asian females. you seem to have this theyre-taking-all-of-our-women attitude. im sure any asian male who wanted to pursue a white female could. but you just cant have an attitude that they will automatically shot you down simply because you're asian. yes, there are girls who wont say yes for that reason but i bet that there are girls of certain races that you wouldn't consider as well. you're giving off a very hostile vibe directed at these white males and its just not right. i hope you'll reconsider your views at least on that topic. after all, i would more sooner date an asian guy than a white guy so there must be something wrong about what youre saying.
OK I laughed so loudly that the guy in the cubicle next to me had to come and see what I was doing. Too funny, dude.
I don't usually make commments but I think this is the year everybody is gonna hear from me if I have something on my mind. You touched on a topic I've been griping about for a while now; I am tired of every story line revolving around a white guy. The white guy has always gotta be "that guy". You know what I mean, the white guy has to be the guy who is going through a transformation, who is learning something, who is getting the girl or whatever. I spoke with a friend of mine, he's a black guy and a writer. None of his characters are black or asian or anything but white. He believes that no publisher or producer will touch his work if the main characters are not white. I think his belief is widespread and mis guided. As a girl I know I am personally tired of the attitude that white is right. It's all right in my opinion.