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BEST & WORST MOVIES
(Updated Wednesday, Jan 22, 2025, 06:39:09 AM to reflect the 100 most recent valid responses.)

Would you go to a movie because it features an Asian in a positive starring role even if you weren't otherwise interested?
No. | 14%
Yes. | 69%
Yes, if the Asian were male. | 17%

Which of the following is the Greatest Movie Ever for Asian Americans?
Enter the Dragon | 15%
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | 14%
Romeo Must Die | 5%
The Corruptor | 2%
Dragon: Bruce Lee Story | 57%
Joy Luck Club | 7%

Which of the following is the Most Offensive Movie Ever for Asian Americans?
The World of Suzie Wong | 1%
Sixteen Candles | 13%
Breakfast at Tiffany's | 24%
Year of the Dragon | 25%
Tai Pan | 1%
Joy Luck Club | 38%

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Simon,

I would agree with you that there are no Asian males positively portrayed in Joy Luck. However, the problem is not so much the movie itself, but the dearth of movies featuring Asians--let alone Asian males--in a positive light.

BTW, there are many negative portrayals of white males as wife beaters and abusers. If you watch the Lifetime channel, there are lots of those sorts of movies. But because there are many other movies showing white males in a positive light--kind, loving, sensitive, intelligent, etc.--we don't tend to get a general negative view of whites as brutal wife beating bastards.

We need more screenplays featuring Asian males in a positive light. So start writing, folks!
Asian Dominatrix Saturday, October 13, 2001 at 13:19:50 (PDT)

Joy Luck Club was all about bashing the Asian male. It was the worst and most offensive movie for AA.
Simon waruik0@hotmail.com Monday, October 08, 2001 at 23:30:40 (PDT)

yup rush hour 2 sucked, those gangsters would have killed chris tucker at the club and the message parlor a long time ago, they would be like "who this black guy think he is..." the first one was good tho.
yttr Friday, October 05, 2001 at 22:47:46 (PDT)

GREAT NEWS PEOPLE!!!

The Lover (ou "L'amant" en francais), starring Tonly Leung and Jane March, is coming soon on DVD!! It's a STEAMY interracial love story with VERY attractive AM/WF individuals. Also, the cinematography is BRILLIANT, as is the acting. The only qualm I have is that the story doesn't really say much, but hey, Jane March is a hottie.... =)

Here is the URL -- go pre-order it at Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/ B00005PJ6R/qid=1002279139/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2_2/002-6367924-2773631

Jane March Fan Friday, October 05, 2001 at 03:56:31 (PDT)

As a non-Asian my opinion may not be as valuable as an Asians' might be, however I chose "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" as the best because it shares some of the history and myths of China that many of us did not know. Of course, I like Chow Yun-Fat in anything. He is my favorite actor and I have great hopes he will become an American super-star!
Charlotte Guymon Lacyguymon@aol.com Friday, September 28, 2001 at 08:37:16 (PDT)

Let's be realistic if cynical,
Jackie Chan is an actor who wants
to
(1) have his individual movies be
successful
(2) have each movie he makes lay
a foundation for future movies,
or at least not adversely affect
future movies
These are his priorities, not to effect
social change. In a monetary sense, he
is very successful. He is not a social
change advocate.

Opinion on JC Friday, September 28, 2001 at 08:25:01 (PDT)

Sixteen Candles SUCKS! I can't stand Long Duck Dong. This idiot has made my life miserable in school and I'm not even CHINESE!
HATE THE DONG Thursday, September 27, 2001 at 11:48:08 (PDT)

i think the Joy Luck Club was a really good movie. It help some people understand Asian a little more.
Jessica shuichic85@yahoo.com Thursday, September 20, 2001 at 18:25:25 (PDT)

Asian Dominatrix,
You Go girl! Truth be known all over this site!
Asian Dominatrix's Admirer and Servant Saturday, September 08, 2001 at 15:15:50 (PDT)

I think Chris Tucker is the Modern day Lincoln Perry. You know Stepin Fetchit!!! The stereotypical shuffling bug-eyed Negro who makes you laugh with his slap happy antics.... Jackie Chan doesn't give a squirt about the portrayal of Asian women and men as it affects Asian Americans. He lives in a Hong Kong Mansion most likely feeling sorry for Asian Americans or crackin jokes about them.
S. Ray Thursday, September 06, 2001 at 20:45:06 (PDT)

How about Madame Butterfly? (The Puccini opera that was made into a movie) It's your basic interracial love story: big, strong white man falls for delicate submissive Geisha. They marry, he treats her cruelly, then leaves for three years. She remains endlessly loyal to him, rejecting another proposal from a worthy suitor. When her husband returns with his new (white) wife, the woman kills herself.
Just try to imagine inversing the races in that story, just as one character did in David Henry Hwang's play M. Butterfly: (Bear with me. I'm paraphrasing here)Beautiful blonde homecoming queen falls for a Japanese buisnessman. They marry and he treats her poorly then leaves for a few years. During those three years the girl is endlessly loyal and constantly prays to his picture. When she finds out he has remarried, she kills herself. She must have been insane! The story doesn't sound nearly as poetic the second time around, does it?

Elizabeth, Eurasian Lady ElisabethJuliet@aol.com Tuesday, September 04, 2001 at 13:37:11 (PDT)

Regarding the portayal of Asian women in Rush Hour 2, my reading seems to be the very opposite of most I have read on this site. I interpreted the treatment of Xhang as being counter-stereotype. She is not the meek, passive Asian female often represented in other films, but she is strong and absolutely fearless, and, yes, not blindly obedient, but rather a "strong woman" (an understatement, I know) who catches everyone off guard.

Now, this raises the question that this film's portrayal is just an exchange of one stereotype for another: the "dragon lady." I'm thinking this is not the case, because that image conjurs one of an evil woman who delegates others to kill and abduct without getting her hands dirty, so to speak.

I'd love to know what others think about this.

I'd like
An African American woman against stereotyping Friday, August 31, 2001 at 21:06:30 (PDT)

The Rush Hour Movies, especially #2 are downright awful in that the Asian man is playing a buffoon to a Black man who is in turn either making fun of all Asians or is chasing after Asian women as a fetish while some of them worship his supposedly big black "manhood." It is downright disgusting! Chris Tucker should be ashamed of himself for portraying Black men the way he does, and Jackie Chan should be DOUBLY ASHAMED for portraying Asian men and all Asians the way he does.
Angry AA Male Thursday, August 30, 2001 at 08:04:52 (PDT)

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