You’ve probably heard the new film 21 is based on Ben Mezrich’s best-selling book Bringing Down the House, which recounts the true story of a group of MIT students who devised a method of counting cards and took Las Vegas casinos for millions.
In the real-life version, most of the students were of Asian descent — the idea being that casinos are less suspicious of Asians with lots of money to gamble away. But in the reel world of Hollywood, we have pretty Caucasians Jim Sturgess (Across the Universe) and Kate Bosworth (Superman Returns) leading the cast. The filmmakers threw in Asians Aaron Yoo and Liza Lapira to placate angry activists, but that hasn’t stopped some in the community from expressing outrage and threatening a boycott.
This isn’t the first time that Hollywood has taken a page from Asian American history and literally “whitewashed” it. Here are two more films from the not-too-distant past that took liberties with the facts.
COME SEE THE PARADISE (1990):
In 1942, more than 100,000 Japanese Americans were forcibly interned in a time of xenophobic wartime hysteria. Almost 50 years later, Hollywood finally tackled the subject, but because the story of Japanese Americans torn from their homes and forced to live in concentration camps was obviously not dramatic or commercial enough, director/writer Alan Parker decided a love story between a Caucasian man and a Japanese woman was needed.
Dennis Quaid played union rabble-rouser Jack McGunn, who falls for Lily Kawamura (Tamlyn Tomita) while working in her father’s Little Tokyo movie theater. Their relationship is met with resistance by her traditional family, so they run off to Seattle and start a family until World War II throws their lives into chaos — he is sent to war, she and their child to camp.
Come See the Paradise isn’t a bad film. The scenes focusing on the Kawahara family — their prewar life in Los Angeles and the camp years — are fully realized and offer insights into the Japanese American experience. Anchored by Sab Shimono’s quietly moving performance as the family patriarch, the film comes to life in these moments.
It’s the Jack-Lily romance that bogs things down. Their relationship feels inauthentic and undercuts any attempt to tell a believable story about one of the great injustices of American history.
TRUE BELIEVER (1989):
Korean American Chol Soo Lee was jailed for the 1973 murder of an alleged Chinatown gang member in San Francisco. Beginning in 1977, Korean American journalist K.W. Lee wrote over 120 articles arguing that the younger Lee (no relation) had been falsely convicted, an effort which led to a nationwide movement culminating in the release of Chol Soo Lee in 1983 (see “The Story of Chol Soo Lee” in the March 28 issue of AsianWeek).
This story became the basis for the 1989 film True Believer about a young Korean American wrongly accused of a gangland murder and the man who helps free him. And who played the heroic crusader? James Woods, playing an attorney who works tirelessly to free the innocent Shu Kai Kim (Karate Kid 2 baddie Yuji Okumoto).
The contributions of K.W. Lee are completely brushed aside, as are those of the other Asian Americans who worked tirelessly on the case, including Jay Yoo, Grace Kim, Ranko Yamada, Tom Kim, Warren Furutani and Luke Kim.
At the time of True Believer’s release, K.W. Lee told the Charleston Gazette he enjoyed the film “as fiction … but it was not a true picture. They have completely preempted the struggle of Asians.”
And as 21 has shown us, not much has changed in 20 years.
Philip W. Chung is a writer and co-artistic director of Lodestone Theatre Ensemble. Lodestone’s next production of Nic Cha Kim’s Trapezoid opens on April 19 in L.A. For more info: www.lodestonetheatre.org.
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What about Starship Troopers? Wasn’t Johnny Bravo supposed to be a Filipino dude? Great job Phil!
grasshopper, we are all tripmaster monkey
in mars terrain called hollywood
agg Yeah, whites are out to get us. White-washing everything, taking our women, taking our men, taking our jobs, taking our pets. It has got to stop! When we eliminate them, we can start on the blacks, browns, reds, greens. They all look down on us, I know it, i do!!
They should have cast William Hung in the lead.
Arthur Hu,
Now that last comment you made on this post is just self-hatred.
( … and i’m one of your defenders on this site)
The reason these Hollywood bigots produce such diversity-negligent films is because we idiots keep buying it.
So, if you continue to patronize their whitewashed tales of whiteness, then YOU are a part of the problem, not the solution.
If you want to be a part of the solution, you will flood the market with pirated copies of their diversity-negligent media. The Hollywood bigots don’t deserve our money.
SUPPORT PIRACY OF DIVERSITY-NEGLIGENT MEDIA! It’s the only solution.
You’re joking right..? This article is just overboard and anyone supporting a boycott is just being ridiculous. Activist community expressing outrage? It was a poor film to begin with and you want to make a big deal about it? Lets be honest, the two asian actors that were in this movie were less than stellar. There are bigger fish to fry and the Asian community (at least, here) is crying about not being represented in a major Hollywood motion picture. And what’s with this “not too distant past” of movies I haven’t even heard of? 1990 and 1989.. That’s over a decade old! You guys getting fired up about this.. jokes.
Poor movie? It was the #1 movie for the weekend. Main guy in the History Channel version was Russian, but the girl looked like she had some Asian in her makeup. I might actually pay real money to see it in the movie theater (until I figure out how to get free screenings as a reviewer…)
From the MIT Campus paper
http://www-tech.mit.edu/V125/N43/43vegas.html
Incidentally, Mezrich’s “Bringing Down the House” is now being turned into a feature film by Kevin Spacey, who will play the MIT professor who trained the blackjack team described in that book. During the talk, Mezrich mentioned the stereotypical Hollywood casting process — though most of the actual blackjack team was composed of Asian males, a studio executive involved in the casting process said that most of the film’s actors would be white, with perhaps an Asian female. Even as Asian actors are entering more mainstream films, such as “Better Luck Tomorrow” and the upcoming “Memoirs of a Geisha,” these stereotypes still exist, Mezrich said.
MIT didn’t allow filming on campus (killjoys…)
At least it’s a bit of American history contributed by our Nerds on campus, yay for the Asian geek Model Minority stereotype, now we’re gambling cheaters. Lets see if these guys make it into those pinko/commie Asian American history textbooks.
I’m sorry but just because its the #1 movie over the weekend doesn’t mean it was a great movie. Try forming your own opinion before sitting back and letting the television spew its ratings at you. If you haven’t seen it and you don’t plan on seeing it I would suggest you reserve your opinions about it. I went to see it with my gf and I wasn’t impressed. However, I believe the argument is that the film is whitewashing our history. I think everyone decided to conveniently ignore the statement, “Inspired by a true story.” I could see how some people might get upset if it was BASED on a true story, but that’s just not how it pans out.
Um…I didn’t like the movie. I think Jimmy Sturgess has SOME talent (however overrated he may be), but I do think that they should have put an Asian actor as the lead role. They probably could find better people, but Hollywood…make some of the best movies, but they are the worst people. I hate (and love) Hollywood, but I don’t like this movie. Objectively speaking of the movie, I didn’t like it. Jimmy’s acting is not very good, and it was boring.
If the whites wont want to see lead Asian actors like the Hollywood execs want me to believe, do they really think that Barrack Obama would get elected President as they sink more money into his campaign? Something does not add up here.
Arthur Hu, I know you’ve got to be joking when you say “Poor movie? It was the #1 movie for the weekend. ” Because I know you’re not juvenile enough to believe everything you see or hear on television. Almost EVERY movie, once premiered, has that little tag-line: “No.1 Movie In America!” added to its commercial the following week. Does that mean that every single one is the best thing ever conceived since sliced bread? No. It means that a lot people saw the commercial, trailer, etc. and said “Hey! That looks like a pretty cool movie.”, then went and bought a ticket. That’s it. In fact, this movie was terrible in my opinion. I watched it last weekend, and was superbly disappointed, it lacked real substance, and was exceptionally slow to start. This movie was a complete swing-and-a-miss.
I’m sorry, but I don’t see why this is has developed into such a big debate. “Oh the studio executives are racist! Hollywood is racist! America is racist!” No, if some known asian actor, like William Hung had DECIDED, had CHOSE to audition for the role, I’m sure he would’ve either been chosen for his acting ability, or, be given a fair chance just like anybody else auditioning for the role.
The fact is Hollywood is only concerned with making money. They put whomever they feel will make a ton of cash, into their movies. Jim Sturgess is currently popular because of “Across the Universe”, THAT’S why he was placed in there. They decided not to chance their luck and put a new, unknown actor in. Am I saying what they did is fair? No. Especially to the MIT students who expected to be immortalized in a movie based on their actions. But it not being fair does not mean it’s being completely racist.
Example: “I Am Legend”. In case you didn’t know this, the character played by Will Smith, Robert Neville, is originally white. Will Smith is black. Know why they put him in that role, even though he’s not like the original character? Because he brings in the box office ratings, and the loads of money. Not because he’s black and the studio executives want to bring down “White America”.
I’m not saying racism doesn’t exist, it does. There are loads of people who are intolerant of others based on something as silly as skin color. I myself, being Hispanic, have had to endure racist comments based on the illegal immigration problem currently going on, even though I’m not Mexican. But it sure doesn’t help the problem of racism when people blow little things like this out of the water.
I just watched this movie today. I liked it. If you look on the Rotten Tomatoes website, most critics don’t like it, but most of the RT community did. I personally don’t care what critics say.
I don’t understand why some of you are so up in arms over this. This film isn’t a documentary.
I think we’re doing pretty well as a group. But it’s like some of you think you should be playing a role, as if you’re thinking–waiting a minute, we’re minorities, we should be protesting something. We need a cause. You see how black activists act and now you think this is what Asian Americans should be doing, too.
Is this how we’re going to be? Getting all excited if an Asian woman wins Miss America or something just as lame? Or getting all pissy because a Chinese guy wasn’t cast in a friggin’ movie?
Please save your energies for something real, like when Vincent Chin got his head beaten in with a baseball bat and then the two white guys who did it get probation and a fine.
Movie casting may not be as “real”, but it’s part of an overall anti-Asian attitude that leads to incidents like what happened to Vincent Chin. Anti-Asian media reports, surrounding the success of the Japanese auto industry in the 1980′s compared to the American auto industry, influenced those two out-of-work white Detroit auto workers to attack Vincent Chin, a Chinese American, because they thought he was Japanese. Media of all kinds, including movies, does have an effect on people’s actions.
I fail to see WHY an asian actor HAD to portray the original MIT students. It is a fictionalised account, so obviously an ACTOR was chosen. If the asian community (such as the author of this piece) is so angered by the article, why did he not get a studio in China to make this movie. If Hollywood decide to make a movie, they have every right to cast whoever they want. I’m not saying racism is not a problem, but certainly not in this case. Up until VERY recently India was stereotypically portrayed as an overfull train with goats walking around inside. True this was highly belittling of a country that is growing to be a major economic power. However, if that is what Hollywood did then there isn’t anything that can be done!
It is a movie, a fictional story.
What is most interesting is the difference between a book and a movie, if this was made into a fictional novel (instead of a movie) and the protagonist was a Caucasian, would people create such a fuss? Although the situation is almost identical, it is this overblown stigma of capitalist Hollywood making money at the expense of others. They made a movie, whether it was good or bad (for this article) is irrelevant, whether it was racist is a much stronger question. In my opinion it was not. Actors were chosen because of quality. Laurence Fishburne is most certainly could not be accused of “Whitewashing” (how quickly his role in the movie was overlooked by this article). What if the part of Kevin Spacey had gone to Denzel Washington, and Kate Bosworth and Jim Sturgess had been played by Hispanic actors? It is unlikely simply because there are more Caucasian actors but if this was the case then could Hollywood be criticized of “Whitewashing”?
This issue comes up numerous times. In the film The Great Escape (WWII escape movie), Americans are portrayed as playing a major role in the escape (while in real life they did not even participate). In the movie Escape to Victory, the football star Pele is part of the cast, and he is in a prison in Germany, would this have been likely in the war?
My point is simply that Hollywood takes a LOT of liberties when it is dramatising a true story, however, this does not mean it is purposely trying to be racist.
The reason that we have to raise an issue w/ movies like these is that if we continue to allow Hollywood to pull this routine, they will never cast Asian leads. They’ll always be able to use the excuse that an Asian lead won’t generate enough box office revenues. The catch is, Asian actors will never get enough popularity to draw big revenues if they’re never cast in lead roles in the first place. Using Allan’s example above, Will Smith does draw big revenues these days. But 30 years ago, he would never have been cast in a lead role. But the Black community eventually was able to break through Hollywood mold with its activism. It took time, but now there are actually Black leads in mainstream movies. That is why the Asian community must remain active and protest movies like 21. If you passively let Hollywood use the “won’t draw enough revenue” excuse, you’re doing exactly what they want.
Just from the comments defending the movie’s cast selection is the main reason why we’ll never see Asian faces in American media. You’re part of the problem because as long as you’re around, white society will use you as a weapon to bash down the rest of us.
“He doesn’t see anything wrong with it so it must be ok!”
You’re apologists, nothing more. You fail to grasp that this leads to bigger problems. You’re playing checkers in a game that requires you to play chess.
Also, the rational that we shouldn’t complain because the movie sucked is just retarded.
It’s like the following example:
“Who cares if whites and blacks have to use seperate bathrooms at that diner, the food over there sucks!”
Do you know how much influence Film&TV have on the American society?
Well, unless you’ve been living under a rock, it has a LOT. Which means that what we see on shows and movies can really affect our outlook and feelings on things, no matter how great or small the degree.
Thankfully, we’re starting to see more Asian actors on TV shows (Grey’s, Lost, Heroes). However, most Asians, even on these shows, don’t play average Americans.
You know what that means?
It means society doesn’t see us as AVERAGE AMERICANS.
And that’s a problem if you’re talking about an equal country.
And just like others have stated regarding surfacing more Asians in the media, if not now when?
Tobb:
Actually, you are UNDERstating your point.
The influence of “movies,” Hollywood’s especially, is humongous, just as are the major pro sports.
Between the two of them, they have mnnaged to produce “leaders” addicted to “winning” at all costs, including genocide and simple waterboarding.
And behind both behemoths in our “cultural” lives, it’s likely the p.r. geniuses and spinmeisters who make or break the “stars” of either “teams” OR administrations.
And don’t forget, the MEDIA, which are all owned and controlled by the oligarchs, are simply shills and well-paid cheerleaders for the “victors.”
What’s “casting” got to fo do with it? Forget art.
As for “minorities,” yeah, look to te boxoffice.
Frank Eng
P.S: Art Hu, “pinkos and commies”? Wow. Or should I say Aiyahhhhh!!!!!
But great to see all the participation and input. At least we’re “watching,” and some are thinking.
As an Korean-American filmmaker, I think it’s kind of flattering actually. It’s normal for human beings to claim ownership of traits that are deemed noble or good and disown those traits that we deem beastly. In this case, white actors imitated real-life brainy Asians. They wanted to claim this as their own trait. Some of you say, insulting. I say it’s flattering. Uhm, Jesus was white too, well, wasn’t he? All the paintings look like he is anyway.
I suppose that it comes down to this:Do you feel that the accomplishments of people can only be viewed from the light of the cineplex?
We cannot say that Hollywood is being racist-we can only assume it, and assumptions are more often proven wrong from their lack of evidence.Yes, there is business modeling, sociological factors, back-door dealings, etc, but can you say with certainty that Hollywood is racist?When things are said like “Hollywood never casts Asian leads” (which has been commented here) are we sure of that or would we like to rephrase?
What about the Asian or Asian American actors in Hollywood now? What about the producers, directors, casting agents? Isn’t this their fight on their ground? Couldn’t they get more Asians into lead roles if they worked on it?
Yes, it’s often silly and with no good reason when Hollywood comes up with some grand scheme (Charlie Chan) that seemed like a good idea at the time but ends up being proved not so. The victory here is that through discourse you can lead people to a truer understanding of the real history. If the film had been made with Asian actors there would still be complaints, Hollywood still would have taken liberties with the story, but here the film serves as a vehicle to a story that the world may have never heard.
Blow up your tv. I can’t believe how many people there are who feel that more representation in Hollywood is going to give credibility to us as “Average Americans”. Why would you want that label anyway? Shouldn’t you be proud of your own culture? Your own heritage? I don’t see why you would let Hollywood dictate who you are.. better yet.. who WE are.
….like Frank Eng wrote in the above post…it is good to know that some of us are watching and thinking. i personally support wholeheartedly all the outrage directed toward this movie and its casting decisions…OPEN YOUR EYES people. take a good bleeping look around you and while you are it take a good long whiff too. Do you notice anything? Cuz I do. Centuries of prejudice, stereotyping, condescension, hate, apathy, and just plain ignorance swept under the rug yet again in the name of capitalism. Do you think America would be where it is today if not for activists and leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. and Thurgood Marshall? If you believe so, then please think again. There is so much to say, so many stones that need to be turned over and exposed and it is talk and excuses like “oh they chose him and him because they are bankable actors” or “look at Harold and Kumar, Harold was Asian wasn’t he?” that just completely infuriates me and trivializes the whole thing. Many great points have been made by the above posters but if you look closely the ones who are defending the casting decisions are missing the point entirely. Its not about us calling Hollywood rascist (even though some of us may feel that way for good reason). I feel that it is about finally getting some bleeping acknowledgement. Period. Yes, that’s right, I said it. I am sick and tired of seeing Asian-Americans, Asian-American history in America, Asian-American contibutions to America and American history and culture to include pop-culture just get brushed outside, take a backseat, or “appeased” with a little footnote somewhere in a textbook. Jeez…there is so much I want to say but the point is this…there are Asians in America, we have been here for a while, we have contributed to American society, culture, history, you name it since we have been over here. Don’t you think it’s past time Hollywood and America outside of the Asian communities started acknowledging it? I mean actually acknowledging it? Cuz I think it’s saying something when the majority of our major hollywood actors happen to all be extremely adept at martial arts. No, we are not all related to Bruce Lee (a popular misconception/lame ass joke/insult which I find hilarious and sad at the same time and is also another sad outcome of Hollywood capatalistic interest at its best/worst and an excellent reason why the Asian community in America needs to stay active and voice their outrage) because guess wut people, hard as it may be to believe but NOT every Asian person is related to Bruce Lee, not every Asian person knows kung-fu, and not every Asian person eats rice 24/7. and yes I do believe that it’s been past time to start drilling that into people’s thick skulls. One powerful way to do that is through the evil Hollywood machine and that is why we are pissed. Because Hollywood has prime opportunites to acknowledge and shed light on Asian America yet nearly every single time one comes up they cop out.
If you made it this far in my rant then I applaud you. Props to JJ, Melissa, Jiu, Rob, Tobb, Frank Eng, Papa G, Oafie, and Adrian for making execellent points and shedding light on the whole issue.
-Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. (William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar )
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Interesting article, debate and comments.
In my opinion, I have noticed that Mainstream Hollywood seems to have a pattern of making white versions of some Asian films or stories. For example, the much hyped up film The Departed ,was based on the Chinese film, Infernal Affairs. The Japanese film Shall We Dance?, had to be redmade with a white actor lead. Why is the rest of the world expected to buy and watch (mainstream) American movies and TV, when most of the Hollywood executives do not promote more Foreign films, without remakes? America may be a little too self-centered on its mainstream culture, to appreciate foreign films, or films with more ethnic American representation. I personally only buy movies/TV DVDs that depict Asians and Asian-Americans in a positive manner. Your purchase choices should
reflect your social views. Ron S.
Dear SICKandTIRED
& Aznkarateboy:
Wow.
And Bravo!
As someone who fought the selfsame battle(s) as you appear to be fighting, albeit more than six decades ago, I am happy to welcome you to the troops, even as I am more than sad that it is necessary.
You would think that, by now, even “Main Street,” you know, “Stix Nix Hix Pix,” would be hep to the jive of what’s really going on, has been going on, and will continue to go on. Unless, of course, the neocons manage to get this nation into the end-game war, and don’t doubt that the likes of Lou Dobbs aren’t working overtime for same, In which case, all bets are off.
I was on the set of “Dragon Seed,” as a bit player?, no actor moi, watching Katharine Hepburn emote as a Mainland peasant girl, make that woman. She was funnier than Luise Rainer, but not nearly as hilarious as the rest of the dragon seeds. You have NEVER in your wildest dreams ever assembled a more wondrous assortment of “white” actors, from Turhan Bey to Akim Tamiroff, from Hurd Hatfield to young Frances Rafferty, even the estimable likes of Walter Huston and Aline MacMahon, as “Chinese.”
That noted, the morphing of Chinese MITechnicians into “whiteys” at least precludes the larger “insult.”
And, may I add here, that, whereas one Virginia Wright of the L.A. Daily News lifted me out of Hollywood Reporter drudgeries and gave me a daily byline, I had the distinct honor of an HR ad salesman sniffing, as he walked past my desk, “You poor man’s George Jean Nathan.”
This because my review of “Captain Kidd” lost him his take from a six-page color spread the producer cancelled.
And, after being “gray”listed during the McCarthy purges, I labored more than 27 years as an “editor sans portfolio” for Daily Variety, hunkered over a desk at the printing plant and out of sight of the red-baiting censors.
None of this matters, even to me, it’s just one more sample of a sampler of “chocolates” for the lesser breeds.
But, shed no tears for this refugee from the contumacious, contumelious?, for I have survived.
Survived to greet and embrace you, and to place thumb firmly to nose in the direction of “our” “betters.” in or out of “casting” offices or couches.
As for the “producers,” few of them, if any, truly “produce.” Anything but profit or loss, that is.
So, S&T, don’t sweat it. They’re not worth it. And it will all come out in the wash. Eventually. Even if we may not be here or there to witness same.
What matters is what we, individually and collectively, can contribute to the positive, constructive, and creative witness to our times.
word Frank, word.
Dear S&T:
Brevity noted. And admired.
So go read Huang Fong. I do. And am properly instructed.
On the other hand, when you read, you might also try the shorter pieces on the Info Clearing House blog and/or Counterpunch, although the latter, today, is lengthy indeed, like yesterday’s? London Guardian intramural musings on what it means to be a “Jew” in Palestine today.
That said, Doug Valentine’s offering on McCain is positively negative, as in, Obama-smearers, lop-ching!
Contrariwise, the “progressive” blogs continue to rain on the latter’s parade, as in parading the candidate’s views on “markets,” love ‘em, and AIPAC, kowtow.
D’ya think it possible he’s just shining everyone on, and when he takes office, he will appoint Farakhan Secretary of “defense”? Then Wright for the wrongs of :Interior”?
A;ll too deep for me. Or is it shallow?
Whatever, Valentine’s account of his dad’s experience of authentic “war” in the jungles of Borneo? is enough to turn stomachs, not to mention coats.
And note well, the media’s immeidate plaint of corporate shenanigans in re the Google/Yahoo matter, when no one raised an eyebrow at the Microsoft “offer,: other than Icahn that is.
By the way, Hollywood, even Gollywood, isn’t “evil,” it is, very simply, greedy, like almost everyone else.
And my point remains, just don’t buy into that smoke-and-mirrors pitch OR rules and values.
Unless you really believe that :Gone with the Wind” is a “classic” and that John Wayne was an “actor.”
“Good” guy maybe. But an actor? Nyah.
So sweat not what “they” think of “us,” just concentrate on what “we” think of “ourselves.
Frank Eng
P.S.: All that what’s-in-this-election-for-me merde is swill for the pigs. All of “them,: especially those “race”-oriented.
Mr. Eng…..I cannot understand the sentences that are staring me right in the face lol. you write like some kind of philosopher poet. i will leave it at that. =] (too tired to decipher your posts even though i am sure goodies and secrets galore would be revealed if i were to crack the code…)
Dear S&T:
Sorry.
Truly.
And I still think your original “howl” above is absolutely great, but being “Asian” or any of the subjoined groups is only one, albeit a major and defining one, facet of each of us.
Hollywood, and films, have been, continue to be?, less and less I think, a major “cultural” factor in American “hegemony” of the PAST century
But, as Obama is proving today, its biases and blindnesses are becoming more irrelevant.
Remember: the boxoffice ideal is aimed at the “12-year-old,” not even pubertal.
Dig today’s “racist” “comments” in comparative wealth and title, juvey perceptions of the pissing-contest variety. More relevant comparisons would be which dictator chalked up more kills, as in genocides.
LOL. I’m not sure whether that’s, Lord, oh, Lord, or Laugh Out Loud?
Frank Eng
P.S.: But isn’t all this a great little phenomenon, that ‘Asians” in “America” are finally speaking up and out and at ‘em? Especially your likes.
absolutely wonderful Frank. i just wish to see more of my brethren on the battlefields. =] and less of them being sated with scraps from the enemy’s table.
Someone needs to flog jeff ma for being the pussy, self-hating, ingrate that he is. Thanks for contributing to hollywood’s anti-asian stance! I hope you realize that no matter how much you ingratiate yourself to hollywood, the hollywood people will STILL see you as nothing more than a ch**k. And when your kids are discriminated against, you can pat yourself on the back for a job well done.
Srsly, jeff ma is a poor excuse for an asian-american man. In fact, he’s just a poor excuse of a man because he lacks the courage to stand up for himself.
Frank Eng. Will you shut up? What the hell are you writing? If you can’t make your point without making me feel like I’m reading philosophy, just shut up. Your comments are long and rambling. You need to learn how to get your point across efficiently in such a forum because NO ONE has the patience to read all your drivel.
hey mky,
are you being held at gunpoint and forced to read frank eng’s comments? if not, i suggest you just skip over them if they irritate you so much. some of us actually do appreciate true insight and wisdom, and though his comments are not exactly the most straight-forward, they do contain a significant amount of depth and perception! critical thinking–try it out sometime.
anyway, keep doing what you are doing, frank. i believe you are one of the few who’s got their heads screwed on tight.