Comments on: Hollywood and Asians: Why Protests Alone Won’t Change Anything

By: FAFSA

FAFSA — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 08:48:45 +0000

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By: John

John — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 05:35:21 +0000

BTW, I don’t care if they don’t consider me American, as long as I get my tax breaks and financial aid. We are the 21st century blacks, like 60 years ago when they had white people play black in black-face, we have the last air bender played by some mutt Mexican-looking white kid.

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By: John

John — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 05:30:30 +0000

Why don’t we NOT PAY freakin’ Hollywood? Why would I pay someone to make me look bad? I say bit torrent and bootleg!!! Burn Hollywood, I never watch their movies because I can guess the plot in 99% of the movies anyways; which basically goes something like this. I$H goes down, hero comes to squash I$H, and gets the girl (unless he’s Asian, or an woman, who then goes for the whiteboy).

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By: ax7dp3

ax7dp3 — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 03:51:59 +0000

CALL TO ALL ASIANS TO BREAK THE STEREOTYPES!!!!

By: BlueCrush84

BlueCrush84 — Mon, 30 May 2011 06:56:50 +0000

I think the best way for Asians to break into film making is social integration. Like Harold and Kumar then cast was diversified. It’s kind of like baby steps.

Doing films where there is an Asian lead or Co-star that is just American devoid of the stereotypes.

Kinda like what a lot of white actors do to break into Hollywood; they act black films and latino films and intergrate.

Working with Black Directors to break into Hollywood.

No man is an island especially in USA.

By: T

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 11:13:16 +0000

I thank all of you are racest asses and don’t haave the right to say those thaings about asians if you don’t like the movie then don’t fucking watch it.It must of went over perty good howebver their were Fast & the Furious and if my memory serves me right the last one was about tacking down a latino drug lord and so was the 2nt. I thank all of you that are talking crap about asian film mackers are just jellous because you could do it better it dosent mater if you are black,white,asian,latino whaat ever it is how pashion about it because like I said before their must of been a perty good tern out because like i said thay maid 4 and thay were alll filmed by diffrent film makers and eaven some diffrent actors and they seemed to stay and the same line as the first.

By: Hyunjin

Hyunjin — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 05:04:40 +0000

1)
Marketing (and there lack of) is a huge issue.

e.g.
BLT opened up wider in cities that didn’t even know the film was coming (such as Philadelphia: a HUGE audience of Main Line students under pressure to succeed and who are pretty much left to do whatever they want as long as their grades are good). Compared that to the marketing work that went into BFGWedding where they went mad to make sure people knew about the film BEFORE the film came into town and followed that up to make sure seats were filled. And FYI: I thought “White on Rice” was released last year.

2)
I never heard of any Irish-Americans protests over the casting made in “The Departed” nor a single protest of actor Cliff Curtis playing ethnicities other than his own.

However, there is indeed great umbrage in a great percentage (majority?) of the Asian-American community when Asian actors cross over into different Asian ethnicity roles.

On one occasion, I asked a bunch of Korean-American college students what they thought of a specific actress for a role and the first response was “(frowning) Isn’t she only half Korean? Yeah, I’ll rather having someone who is 100% Korean.”

By: ‘The Goods,’ ethnic media and putting your money down | Harry Mok

Sun, 25 Apr 2010 17:36:05 +0000

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By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 18:36:53 +0000

It’s not only on film making that Hollywood is racist against Asians .Like the Academy Awards show, where they credited the original writer of the movie “The Departed” as a Japanese . The script was not written by a Japanese but a Hong Kong resident.And there is also a censure against broadcasting pictures of actors with their Asian spouse. Like the Ellen show, where Josh Holloway appeared as a guest .They would usually show pictures of celebrities’s on the back screen of the stage ,but when Josh Holloway came on to talk to Ellen , there was no mention or pictures showing that Josh Holloway’s wife is Asian .There are so many examples of Hollywood’s racist censure against Asians. Maybe we Asians have to be super rich to have a say at what work is credited to who or what is broadcasted live on television. That day will come , We Asian are rising up.Just you wait………