Comments on: Jackie, Jet, and some white kid.

By: jaehwan

jaehwan — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:16:08 +0000

The Oregonian had a good review re: the white boy thing.

By: TheMac

TheMac — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:57:24 +0000

“have you seen Blood Diamond? Leo plays a white South African who apparently has a deeper connection to the continent than all the Negroes gettin’ capped/enslaved/amputated over diamonds.”

He played a native South African, and a major part of the story was that he WAS a white African, and therefore he was, in many ways, in the cultural middle of the British-African trade. It may be playing to ‘familiarizing’ white audiences with African issues without freaking them out, but it certainly wasn’t as ridiculous as, say, “Last Samurai” where Cruise just became the great Asian leader in three months of something.

I’m going to reserve my opinion on “Forbidden Kingdom” for when I see it on DVD, and because I don’t necessarily think the a). English and b). ‘Americanization’, so the speak, are the worst things in the world. The inclusion of a possible ‘awesome white guy who must be taught all the secrets of your culture to be a hero’…that’s the breaker for me.

By: The Fighting 44s » Blog Archive » The Aung Sung Suu Kyi Narrative

The Fighting 44s » Blog Archive » The Aung Sung Suu Kyi Narrative — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:27:42 +0000

[...] going into battle with the Asian woman writing words of love on his back. Wow, just in time for the new Jackie Chan/Jet Li movie. Someone call David Henry Hwang and Bai Ling!) In the video, she also doesn’t appear to be [...]

By: RAGE

RAGE — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:37:22 +0000

yep , wow what a let down , kinda like the fast and the furious 3 , it took place in Japan , yet the lead Asian character dies and the bad guy gets his love interest stole from him by the white guy … wow …

By: t-tocs

t-tocs — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:03:36 +0000

As usual, the white kid gets to make out with the Asian girl.

[img]http://pic.people.com.cn/mediafile/200712/25/F200712250808242727413557.jpg[/img]

By: Zenkazi

Zenkazi — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:52:38 +0000

heeehehahahah!

By: timmyhos

timmyhos — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 02:23:40 +0000

Did anyone catch who the girl was? It’s Liu yi Fei from Return of the Condor Heroes.

By: CJF

CJF — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 04:04:27 +0000

I’m not watching this crap.

Warlords is going to be good though, with T.K., Lau and Jet

By: Xian

Xian — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:14:07 +0000

[b]Does he even have the name recognition as Jackie and Jet?[/b]

No one does.

[b]Is The Dominant Culture THAT sad and insecure??? [/b]
Yes.

By: Kuroyama

Kuroyama — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:19:28 +0000

I just watched the trailer again… I still dont understand how writing a white kid into ancient China makes this a more marketable movie. Is The Dominant Culture THAT sad and insecure??? Even CTHD didnt resort to writing euro faces into an ancient Chinese story…

How did the producers of this thing say to themselves…

“Let make a period piece Chinese movie!”
“Yeah!”

“Lets get Jackie Chan!”
“Yeah, yeah…!”

“AND we get Jet Li!”
“Keep going!”

“Theyll fight each other!!!!”
“meh…yer losing me!”

“Huh? Jackie CHAN and JET LI….fighting! with the whole costume kung fu thing!! The music!! Great sets…!!”
“Im just not quite… it needs something!”

“It needs… I dont know!”

“OK… try this on. Jackie…?”
“Yeh…”

“Jet…”
“OK…”

“And,…A fresh young ALL AMERICAN!!! HE will be the CHOSEN ONE!!!”
“OH YES!!! YESSSS!!!! Oh My GAWD!!!!! I can FEEL the ticket sales!!!”

….I betting the actual pitch made even LESS sense than the scenario I just wrote.