Yet another bullshit movie...Falling for YT

[SamuraiJack]

http://www.fallingforgrace.com/

Falling For Grace is about Grace, a banker from Chinatown, who wants more than anything to be part of the Upper East Side socialite world. When she is mistaken for an heiress at a fancy junior committee meet & greet, Grace decides to run with her new identity. When she falls in love with one of the most eligible bachelors of Manhattan, her white lie grows to a more complex level, especially since Andrew, the man she's in love with, is attempting to shut down the very sweatshop where Grace's mother works.

A cross between Mike Nichols' "Working Girl" and Ang Lee's "The Wedding Banquet", Falling For Grace was hailed "The Next 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding'" at Robert DeNiro's Tribeca Film Festival. KVMR-FM says "'Falling For Grace' is one of this year's most charming feel-good movie."

More brainwashing material for Asian girls to chew on. Are there any Asian American women directors/filmmakers/authors that actually write about an Asian guy and Asian girl falling in love? If so, I'd really like to know...

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...DuE&refer=home

Would John F. Kennedy Jr. ever have fallen for a girl from Chinatown?

It's a question Fay Ann Lee tries to answer in ``Falling for Grace,'' a romantic comedy she wrote, directed, produced and stars in.

The movie, which was independently financed and shot in New York City for about $3 million, was inspired partly by Lee's encounters with JFK Jr. in Manhattan a few years before he died in a plane crash in 1999. Lee said she frequently saw him at restaurants, on the street, at the bank and at a tennis club where she was a guest and he was a member.

There's the inferiority complex. Holding YT as the ideal mate. Pining for him. Blech.. you should see the youtube video...

``I know how to write the Asian family because I'm Asian,'' Lee said. ``I can portray the way we are and that we do have normal lives.''

What she captured is the Asian girl's dream of going for a rich white guy. (not every Asian girl, but those who have been programmed to do so)

``I wanted to be an actress,'' said Lee, who perfected her American accent by watching sitcoms such as ``The Mary Tyler Moore Show'' and ``All in the Family.''

This adds credence to my theory that the more bullshit American media someone watches, the more they get brainwashed and find YT more physically attractive (and Asian men less attractive)

At one point, Lee said, she turned down a request to change the Asian character to a Hispanic one so that Jennifer Lopez could play the role.

``Jennifer Lopez didn't grow up in Chinatown,'' Lee said earlier this month following a screening in Sausalito, California. ``I could write an Asian character, but I couldn't do a Hispanic character.''

How nice of her to refuse to change the Asian female character into someone non-Asian.

[Heyyu]

Originally Posted by SamuraiJack

The movie, which was independently financed and shot in New York City for about $3 million, was inspired partly by Lee's encounters with JFK Jr. in Manhattan a few years before he died in a plane crash in 1999. Lee said she frequently saw him at restaurants, on the street, at the bank and at a tennis club where she was a guest and he was a member.

``I kept running into him,'' Lee, 39, said in a phone interview last week as she crisscrossed the U.S. to promote her film. ``It was like the universe was giving me a gift -- a plot for a romantic comedy.''

LOL, those are traits of a stalker right there. I could imagine her hiding behind the bathroom gym and just "pop out" when JFK Jr. walks by. Somehow I think if I tried the same thing with Jessica Alba there might be a restraining order against me by now...

[SamuraiJack]

Well if you do a search on her youtube video where she speaks frankly about how she got the idea for this film, she actually says, "I wondered if I guy like him would ever fall for a girl from Chinatown"...

"a girl from Chinatown" reads "an Asian girl"

it seems like she has an inferiority complex regarding being Asian.

[nskripchun]

Hey, her acting experiences include "Miss Saigon" and "The Joy Luck Club"!

ISN'T IT OBVIOUS THIS MOVIE WILL BE AWESOME????

(/sarcasm)

[VeryAngry]

"Close down her mother's sweatshop".

How fucking charming.

What the fuck!

[awong]

more so called aa film makers that only think of the same exact material that dont know the word creative yawn back to watching my asian shows and not supporting crappy fluff like this

[tkguy]

This movie was talked about here a while back.

Interesting thing about it was the fact that BD Wong was the original director but he got fired or quit.

http://www.cinematical.com/2006/04/2...east-broadway/

The movie changed name many times. Used to be called "east broadway". I think "saving grace" was another title.

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

[SamuraiJack]

Originally Posted by tkguy

This movie was talked about here a while back.

Interesting thing about it was the fact that BD Wong was the original director but he got fired or quit.

http://www.cinematical.com/2006/04/2...east-broadway/

The movie changed name many times. Used to be called "east broadway". I think "saving grace" was another title.

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

You're right, here's the thread:

http://www.thefighting44s.com/forum/...ead.php?t=3906

Is it still difficult for Asian actors to get roles on Broadway and in Hollywood? Are the roles still quite stereotyped? What about the situation for Asian directors? How have things changed do you think, in the last five years, especially in independent movies?

I think it really is still quite difficult for Asian actors. There just aren’t enough roles written for us. It’s great to see Asian characters on a huge hit show like Lost but they really are few and far between. I think the casting people I know really do make a concerted effort, but they can only do so much if roles are not being written.

The good news is there appears to be more and more Asian writers/directors. Having jumped head first into the indie world of filmmaking, I’ve gotten to befriend some of them - like my pal, Michael Kang who had his film, The Motel, at Sundance, and my friend, Georgia Lee, who also had her feature, The Red Doors at The Tribeca Film Festival last year. So, it appears that there are generous financiers out there supporting burgeoning filmmakers like myself.

She seems aware of the limited opportunities, yet she's still completely clueless.

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’t sure if I was going to offend Asian people with Grace ending up with Andrew in the film. But having been to China earlier this year to Tsing Hua University where I screened a rough cut of the film to Communist Chinese students, I was relieved to know that they were not only accepting of a mixed race relationship, but welcomed it.

That was my reaction as well when I saw my first mixed-race (read AF/WM) relationship - little did I know...and neither do they.

[xian]

That was pretty thoughtful for her to test how Asian people might react by going to one communist university in China.

That's like saying, "I wasn't sure how black people would feel about me wearing a white sheet on my head, so I went to Pluto and found some people who looked black there, and they were totally cool with it! OMG I'm such a good filmmaker!"

[xian]

I heard that the film takes a tragic turn when the YT lead accidently burns his beautiful skin in the sun. Suddenly, they decide to have sex, but she inadvertently amputates his tiny penis because her vagina is slanted in the wrong direction.

Then she gives his a massage and dances around his corpse with little paper fans. It's the hottest scene ever!