The Fighting 44s

Here’s a thoughtful post by Roger Fan (Breeze Loo!) on being Asian-American in Hollywood and the upcoming remake of Red Dawn. The entire site, “You Offend Me You Offend My Family” is worth checking out. They’re the new (more popular, more successful, more adjusted) 44s! :P

The original Red Dawn was filmed in the 80s, and was about the Russians invading the US. They make their way to a town where local highschool students decide to band together to fight back under their athletic banner, the “Wolverines”. For the remake, since the threat of the Cold War is long behind us, the enemy will instead be the Chinese. And all of the requisite Hollywood trademarks for asians are there — hordes of enemy asian guys who don’t speak English and a hot asian cheerleader on the American team.

Roger talks about what happened when he was invited to a script reading to play the enemy Chinese.

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