Crazy Rich Asians - from the producer of The Hunger Games

[terry78]

Romcoms kind of give off the "I need a man to be happy vibe" which is not exactly trending nowadays for obvious reasons.

 

[jed]

Saw the trailer. Looks great.

This poster is great but...I don't know....it seems like she is looking directly at him but he is not looking at her at all. Bad photoshopping?

 

[Gold Samurai]

It honestly gave me 50 Shades vibe. I haven’t read the book but nothing in the movie really stood out to me beyond it having a non-white cast. So I guess that’s progress.

Yeah. I too got a fifty shades vibe. It must be the way it's shot.

It's part PG fifty shades/ lower tier movie youtube recommends you watch.

I'm using this trailer as an example

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It's something that will barely register in theaters but a studio cranks out

 

[Silvermoth]

I think if people read both books they would see there’s a significant amount of difference in quality between fifty shades of grey and crazy rich asians.

Crazy rich asians is wonderful and nuanced. Fifty shades is a step up from my dog spot

 

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[Vaibow]

It honestly gave me 50 Shades vibe. I haven’t read the book but nothing in the movie really stood out to me beyond it having a non-white cast. So I guess that’s progress.

A non white cast is progress?
Well, check out the asian market, you are about to be mind blown.

but on a serious note, they looks fun... without being too preachy or in your face, plus a few cool, niche actors.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

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Exclusive first look at Crazy Rich Asians from iTunes https://***********/iTunesTrailers/status/1023916118405210112

 

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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/crazy-rich-asians-story-behind-rom-com-1130965

The new film's creators turned down a "gigantic payday" at Netflix to ensure the first Asian-American-focused studio movie in 25 years would be seen in theaters and, if all goes well, reshape the Hollywood landscape: "The biggest stage with the biggest stakes — that's what we asked for."

Kevin Kwan's heart was pounding. It was a Friday evening in October 2016, and the author of the breakout 2013 novel Crazy Rich Asians was in his Manhattan home, on a conference call with the producers of the planned film adaptation — Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson and John Penotti — and its director, Jon M. Chu, along with their respective legal teams, about 22 people in all. They had a massive decision to make.

Behind one door: Warner Bros., which had outbid other traditional studios with a distribution offer for Crazy Rich Asians a week earlier. Behind the other: Netflix, the great disrupter, which had come in hot the following Monday, dangling complete artistic freedom, a greenlighted trilogy and huge, seven-figure-minimum paydays for each stakeholder, upfront. Now Warners had come back with not so much a counteroffer as an ultimatum, giving the filmmakers just 15 minutes to pick an option. Jacobson spoke up: "We're going to go with whatever Kevin and Jon want to do."

Kwan's lawyer, Peter Nichols, was pulled over on the shoulder of Pacific Coast Highway texting his client furiously. Kwan and Chu had already tried to rationalize the cash grab: "Maybe we donate a percentage of our extra income to great causes," Chu recalls the two having discussed the night before. "But where does that money go? Right back to trying to get to this position of getting us [Asians] on the big screen."

No wonder Kwan, 44, was nervous. "I could sense every lawyer on the call shaking their heads: 'Ugh, these stupid idealists.' Here, we have a chance for this gigantic payday instantaneously," he says. "But Jon and I both felt this sense of purpose. We needed this to be an old-fashioned cinematic experience, not for fans to sit in front of a TV and just press a button." Adds Chu: "We were gifted this position to make a decision no one else can make, which is turning down the big payday for rolling the dice — but being invited to the big party, which is people paying money to go see us."

 

[Teelie]

I think they made a good choice. Streaming is already immensely popular and wouldn't be a bad choice either but their goal was to get asian representation on the big screen and that is what they did. Sometimes people do remember money isn't everything.

 

[Deck Rickard]

A non white cast is progress?
Well, check out the asian market, you are about to be mind blown.

but on a serious note, they looks fun... without being too preachy or in your face, plus a few cool, niche actors.

Yes, we're all aware that Asian actors have prominent roles in Asian movies. The problem is that Asians and Asian Americans are HEAVILY underrepresented in American cinema, particularly in leading roles.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

From Constance Wu's Twitter:

 

[Deck Rickard]

Love her. Even though this movie (story wise) isn't really my cup of tea, I may go see it simply to support more representation of Asians and POC in general on film.

 

[terry78]

I know she caught some heat from some for being all activist and dating a white guy but she's down with the struggle regardless.

 

[Teelie]

I don't see why she can't date who she wants while still advocating for more representation. Does that mean you must date inside only an acceptable catagory if you want to represent or advocate? It works against equal representation when they say you must only live inside the limitations of race, gender, ethnicity, etc.

 

[Pink Ranger]

I don't see why she can't date who she wants while still advocating for more representation. Does that mean you must date inside only an acceptable catagory if you want to represent or advocate? It works against equal representation when they say you must only live inside the limitations of race, gender, ethnicity, etc.

The criticism against Constance Wu is totally off base. I like her, and she's a great advocate for the Asian American community.

As I am an Asian male, though admittedly someone who really doesn't care for male-female relations in my own life, I'll attempt to explain the source of the criticism. A lot of it comes from loser incels and MRAs, but like the incel movement itself, does have a basis in a more nuanced discussion of social mores. Generally speaking, white-male/Asian-female ("WMAF") pairings are an extremely common interracial pairing in America. It is vastly disproportionately higher than the opposite configuration.

There are no real stats on this, but anybody in the Asian-American community knows this: some WMAF relationships are colorblind; two people fall in love, who happen to be of ethnicity A and B, but it doesn't enter into the relationship as such. I think Constance and her hot guy fall into that category. Some WMAF couples, however, are in fact a result of the AF openly rejecting and discounting Asian men as being good partners, for them OR FOR ANYBODY. This does not necessarily represent the majority of cases, but is a significant plurality.

And trust me, Asian women who think that way do NOT keep it a secret, and it has a bad effect on Asian men and the Asian community as a whole. Generally speaking, such open rejection occurs on three levels:

1. I'm only attracted to white men for personal reasons (fair enough, but if a guy went around announcing this, we'd call him a low-level *****e; look at the flack that some African American men get for saying that they only like white women, for instance)

2. I'm married to a white man, and thank god for that, because I'd hate to have Asian in laws (okay, I get it, but really, you're making it harder for hetero Asian men to find their own relationships among non-Asians, so, not cool)

3. I date white men because they're inherently better for the following reasons (NOT okay, I'm sorry, but the c-word applies here, the word being Check Your Privilege).

And I think one of the issues that hasn't ever been discussed is that Asian American women and feminists who have a voice, regardless of whether they believe or practice any of the above, are DEAFENINGLY silent on the issue, both in the public sphere but also in the day to day world as well. I have NEVER heard an Asian woman call out another Asian woman for gratuitously bashing Asian men, or even criticizing the specific racism directed at Asian men by white males.

I mean, when some white women have been trying to get African Americans arrested for no reason, other white women call them out. When some Muslims commit violence, other Muslims call them out. Historically, when some white men have committed atrocities against African Americans, other white men have stood shoulder to shoulder with the black community, sometimes risking their lives to do so.

Yet, this issue, which is well known in the Asian community, goes absolutely unacknowledged by Asian women, leaving the only voices on this issue to be some extremist incels on the internet. And when it comes to the public sphere, Asian women have way more sway than Asian men, although admittedly both have less presence than virtually any other ethnic group.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

I am only half joking but... Asian men need to make a play for African American women. The head exploding on all sides will be worth it. Plus for me as a Hispanic man I get Blasian chicks out of the deal.

 

[Pink Ranger]

I am only half joking but... Asian men need to make a play for African American women.

Lol, I'll do my best, but I think it won't end well. But the point isn't about Asian guys not getting laid, it's about the role liberal progressive Asian women have played in enabling and normalizing straight white male privilege and the specific forms of racism directed against Asian men (and also elderly and blue collar Asian people as well, to a lesser extent).

 

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[samsnee]

I find it a little odd that they are promoting this as the first major movie with All Asian cast, but the lead actor is half-Caucasian? I’m sure they did an open casting call but you’re telling me they couldn’t find a single Asian actor who could do the role?

 

[Pink Ranger]

I find it a little odd that they are promoting this as the first major movie with All Asian cast, but the lead actor is half-Caucasian? I’m sure they did an open casting call but you’re telling me they couldn’t find a single Asian actor who could do the role?

Yeah, that's a really loaded casting decision here. When there's an unspoken assumption that Asian men are unattractive and can't be leading romantic roles, and this movie is supposed to be about breaking down such barriers, that the romantic lead is a guy that's clearly half white and has a white name, that really takes away from the SJW message this movie is trying to make for itself.

 

[samsnee]

Right? Give me an Asian male with a flat nose and slimmer eyes. That shows me you are serious about avoiding the Asian male stereotype.

 

[Pink Ranger]

Right? Give me an Asian male with a flat nose and slimmer eyes. That shows me you are serious about avoiding the Asian male stereotype.

Let's make a movie that finally celebrates the inherent beauty of black women, and cast Megan Markle as the lead.

 

[Dr.]

...takes away from the SJW message this movie is trying to make for itself.

Would it matter to SJWs if Golding identifies as Asian?

 

[Pink Ranger]

Would it matter to SJWs if Golding identifies as Asian?

If this was movie was just a piece of consumer porn like Sex and the City, fine. But the SJW virtue signalling of this movie as something empowering for all Asians is a bit of a joke when one of the key casting decisions basically reinforces one of the more hideous stereotypes put upon the Asian community, men in particular.

I know Henry Golding identifies as Asian, but if you consider that a really central part of casting was getting the actor with the right look, "so beautiful that he could walk between raindrops," and they end up with a guy who's clearly half white, what does that say?

It's like colorism in the black community. I'm sure Megan Markle identifies as black, but imagine if you filled out the principal female roles in Black Panther with women who look like her.