East Broadway

[monkey king]

I guess if you're an AF with a story to tell about losing your roots and becoming white it's pretty easy to get funding to make shitty movies.

http://www.angelfire.com/home/qaf/east_broadway/interview.html

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0409301/

At least nobody has come here asking AA's to support this crap.

[silkie]

This film portrays a mixed race relationship. How do Chinese people feel nowadays about mixed-race relationships on screen?

I have to say I wasn抰 sure if I was going to offend Asian people with Grace ending up with Andrew in the film.


awe shit! she gave away the ending!
I guess I will have to spend my money elsewhere...

[jaehwan]

awe shit! she gave away the ending!
I guess I will have to spend my money elsewhere...

Hahaha! I really really really thought that Asian woman was going to turn down that rich white guy and go out with one of those Chinese guys from East Broadway--after all, the movie is called "East Broadway," isn't it? Silly me..! I'm going to have to spend my money elsewhere too...

[monkey king]

awe shit! she gave away the ending!
I guess I will have to spend my money elsewhere...

Hahaha! I really really really thought that Asian woman was going to turn down that rich white guy and go out with one of those Chinese guys from East Broadway--after all, the movie is called "East Broadway," isn't it? Silly me..! I'm going to have to spend my money elsewhere too...That would be quite the switch, a movie where the AF rediscovers her roots and doesn't give herself to the white knight, but that's just in the genre of fantasy. I mean, this movie actually would have had potential if it had gone the direction of the AF examining why she feels so inadequate in the company of upper class whities who luncheon, if she were to awaken to the realization that her culture and background are worthwhile too, if she were to find meaning and substance in who she is and not in how she is received by whites. Instead, it's just another version of "Pretty Woman", a whore makes good.

[zhangfei]

I walked out of yet another sloppily scripted, shot-on-video New York indie only last week. East Broadway applies the Cinderella myth to a young Cantonese financial wizard who has her own corner office and a studio on the Upper East Side. 'Poor' Cinderella! She wants to play with the really rich folk who live on Park Avenue! It's hard to sympathise with such a goal, even though there was a convoluted plot line about illegal sweatshops in Chinatown.


But he is a good guy who cracks down on sweatshops in Chinatown!

[Catatonic]

I mean, this movie actually would have had potential if it had gone the direction of the AF examining why she feels so inadequate in the company of upper class whities who luncheon, if she were to awaken to the realization that her culture and background are worthwhile too, if she were to find meaning and substance in who she is and not in how she is received by whites. Instead, it's just another version of "Pretty Woman", a whore makes good.

Would that character have felt as equally inadequate in the company of upper class Asians or AAs?

(Seems to me like a rip-off of one of "the Joy Luck Club" characters.)

[silkie]

I mean, this movie actually would have had potential if it had gone the direction of the AF examining why she feels so inadequate in the company of upper class whities who luncheon, if she were to awaken to the realization that her culture and background are worthwhile too, if she were to find meaning and substance in who she is and not in how she is received by whites. Instead, it's just another version of "Pretty Woman", a whore makes good.

Would that character have felt as equally inadequate in the company of upper class Asians or AAs?

(Seems to me like a rip-off of one of "the Joy Luck Club" characters.)

Yep, being in NYC I notice that there is definitely a class division between the rich Asian people and the ones in Chinatown. The former would send their kids through the whitewashed machine. Quoting this kid that I've met, "my parents worked hard, got rich, and then made me into a white person."

Now, a story about a Chinatown girl and a whitewashed Asian guy (or reversed) would be more interesting, because it attacks things from two different angles of growing up Asian in the US.

[monkey king]

I mean, this movie actually would have had potential if it had gone the direction of the AF examining why she feels so inadequate in the company of upper class whities who luncheon, if she were to awaken to the realization that her culture and background are worthwhile too, if she were to find meaning and substance in who she is and not in how she is received by whites. Instead, it's just another version of "Pretty Woman", a whore makes good.

Would that character have felt as equally inadequate in the company of upper class Asians or AAs?

(Seems to me like a rip-off of one of "the Joy Luck Club" characters.)

Yep, being in NYC I notice that there is definitely a class division between the rich Asian people and the ones in Chinatown. The former would send their kids through the whitewashed machine. Quoting this kid that I've met, "my parents worked hard, got rich, and then made me into a white person."

Now, a story about a Chinatown girl and a whitewashed Asian guy (or reversed) would be more interesting, because it attacks things from two different angles of growing up Asian in the US.Damn, maybe that's the movie we should be making!

[wuwei]

I mean, this movie actually would have had potential if it had gone the direction of the AF examining why she feels so inadequate in the company of upper class whities who luncheon, if she were to awaken to the realization that her culture and background are worthwhile too, if she were to find meaning and substance in who she is and not in how she is received by whites. Instead, it's just another version of "Pretty Woman", a whore makes good.

Would that character have felt as equally inadequate in the company of upper class Asians or AAs?

(Seems to me like a rip-off of one of "the Joy Luck Club" characters.)

Yep, being in NYC I notice that there is definitely a class division between the rich Asian people and the ones in Chinatown. The former would send their kids through the whitewashed machine. Quoting this kid that I've met, "my parents worked hard, got rich, and then made me into a white person."

Now, a story about a Chinatown girl and a whitewashed Asian guy (or reversed) would be more interesting, because it attacks things from two different angles of growing up Asian in the US.Damn, maybe that's the movie we should be making!

we really need to just bite the bullet and do it. I refuse the notion that Asian men are not artistic and creative as whites, or Asian women, just refer to any part of Chinese fine art/literature.

[jaehwan]

That would be quite the switch, a movie where the AF rediscovers her roots and doesn't give herself to the white knight, but that's just in the genre of fantasy. I mean, this movie actually would have had potential if it had gone the direction of the AF examining why she feels so inadequate in the company of upper class whities who luncheon, if she were to awaken to the realization that her culture and background are worthwhile too, if she were to find meaning and substance in who she is and not in how she is received by whites. Instead, it's just another version of "Pretty Woman", a whore makes good.

"Pretty Woman" with an Asian, I mean, Asian woman/White man, flavor.