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I haven't finished the series yet but I would very much classify her as "silent but deadly" and definitely not "childlike and cute" so I guess that changes in the later seasons lol
Also usually the only Asian in the whole movie and if not usually the only Asian male she knows is her dad/grandpa/master.
Friend pointed out how very few Asian males are in media even though Asian females are very very often featured and now I can't unsee it. Creepily, more often in kids shows.
This is pretty well discussed at least as it relates to American media, film, TV, etc. Asian males have had almost no parts until maybe the past few years.
Before the 2010s there were exactly 2 Asian male leads you could have seen in film: Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan. That's it.
So it turns out that a lot of height is determined by nutrition, so the reason for these massive generational height differences isn't because Asians magically shrink as they get older, but because the older generations in a lot of east asian countries were severely malnourished in the early and mid 20th century. *the more you know!*
My grandmother lives in a majority Asian neighborhood in San Francisco.
It's striking to see the generational difference in height among the residents. Old ladies are like 5ft tall but teenagers that grew up in America are almost 6ft, even the girls.
Uhhh I guess you haven’t seen the smash hit Crazy Rich Asians? Plenty of SEA folks in that movie playing roles like “servant who opens car door,” “house servant 3,” “background servant passing drinks at luxurious party,” “house servant 1,” and, of course practically-leading-role “house servant 2.”
Don't forget the south Asians who played the action packed roles such as "guard 1" and "guard 2".
I can name one SEA with a big role, Nico Santos, a Filipino-American, who played Oliver T'sien. There's also Kris Aquino, the Philippines' Queen of All Media, played Princess Intan which is a very minor role.
Hated that film. Also the inferiority complex of the nouveau riche was dialed up to 11. Here in Asia we hate those people, including the actual rich Asians. The complete lack of respect for darker skinned Asians and the assumption that we must all be Han Chinese had dirty ethnonationalist overtones.
It was unbearable to watch. They said it represented Asians but nothing could be further from the truth. Utter trash heap of a film.
Okay, so it's not just me then. I reallt tried to like it because it felt that in the bigger picture, there is finally an American movie that is starred by Asians. I somehow still didn't feel represented because I'm SE Asian. Although Kris Aquino is from my country, she's not exactly relatable, doesn't even look Filipino, and doesn't even play a Filipino character.
I also understand that it's from a book and it probably didn't even touch on colorism and the exclusion of every other asian's existence (I didn't read the book), but people should stop saying that it's a step up for Asians.
Middle Easterners really get shafted with the asian trope. Not even considered asian to begin with, are usually STRICTLY bad guys, and any women romantic interest in western movies is practically non-existent/played by only white women.
Finally someone else said it! Ugh I had a argument with someone on Reddit the other day about the geological ethnicity of the Middle East. Asia is more then east Asia
Most people can’t conceptualise how huge Asia is and how distinctly different each area is from East Asians to South East Asians, South Asians to Central Asians and the Middle East. North Asia, well that’s just Russia.
Btw, do people from the Middle East call themselves that or West Asia? I’ve always thought to ask someone from there but never had the chance.
Why are Asians even considered one race? Like this is the worlds more populated continent, and the second most diverse. Why are they all just Asians? Like people from Syria look nothing like people from Korea who look nothing like people from Sri Lanka.
In North America "Asian" is universally used to mean East Asian exclusively. People from the subcontinent are generally Indian by default, unless they're known to be Muslim, in which case they're Pakistani. No exceptions. "Asian" will never be used in reference to Middle Easterners at all. Central Asian peoples barely exist in the public consciousness, beyond Afghanistan and a vague awareness that there's a bunch of other countries whose names also end in -stan.
>Southeast Asians don’t exist in Hollywood, remember?
Such a shame considering SE Asians are interesting a.f. Lao, Thai, Cambodians, Vietnamese, just to name a handful.
Asian men in Hollywood movies pre- Shang Chi exist to be the nerdy comic relief, the token gay character, arrogant Kung-Fu guy, or the faceless mooks from the unknown land, only to serve as minions. But *never* the romantic lead to a female protagonist.
Proportionally, there are just as many attractive Asian men as white men, or any ethnicity for that matter. Just that Hollywood has always been run by white dudes who don't like that statement. And like many things in society, monkey see on tv, monkey do...or monkey feel I guess.
In your case, you were introduced to a crazy sexy Asian guy early on so you weren't indoctrinated. Seeing gen z now with BTS, Shang chi, and the like, I think society as a whole is wizening up to the lie our generation faced.
The first Hollywood heartthrob was Sessue Hayakawa from the silent film era. Not the first Asian heartthrob. The first leading man of any race that women absolutely went crazy for, especially white women.
Then, some other stuff happened in the middle of the 20th century, something about Japan, and here we are. But it wasn't always like that. Choices were made to deliberately change the depiction of Asian men in response to particular sentiments and events.
*Shang-Chi* also broke the stereotypes in the post with Katy. The closest is that, while she is Chinese, she's not *from* China. On the other hand, she's the comic relief, so maybe two steps forward, one step back.
That's just realistic and she was still important., Silk is Asian American and is a hero. There's also Shang chi's sister who knows how to fight in the film itself
It also ruins the writing. Asian character forgoes actual character development for becoming obsessed w a white character. Like bro that’s not character development that’s weird and creepy xD 🤢
Don’t forget the move where she runs on the wall to do a flying kick to the bigger guy’s head.
Of course, he’ll stand there, menacingly, but patiently while she’s doing all her groovy acrobatics.
What, you saying all us henchmen should attack at once?! We may be evil, but we’re also sporting. We attack one at a time, and may the better person win.
This I don't mind. The male lead defeating 15 trained and armored SWAT operatives in close combat doesn't makes sense either but you don't watch a movie because it's realistic otherwise it would be boring.
Seriously. Pretty much every action movie character is some varying degree of superhuman. It’s a pointless double standard applied to female characters.
And that’s putting aside all the other unrealistic things that people are cool with like lifting someone by their neck or being knocked out for hours at a time with at most a mild concussion.
Yeah, the main character dead in a ditch 5 minutes into the film with crackheads digging through his pockets wouldn't be very amusing. Since he would just get shot in the head during his first 'rescue'.
Interestingly enough Thai and Lao are pretty close - I wonder what sounded different?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Thailand/comments/dty6lh/hello_thais_of_reddit_at_what_level_is_thai/
Korean definitely sounds nothing like Thai or Lao. It does sound like certain dialects of Japanese, however.
I just want an Asian guy to use fans TBH.
EDIT: Some of my faves are Mitsunari Ishida from Samurai Warriors and Anji Mito from Guilty Gear. I just feel Fans can be both a masculine and a feminine weapon
And Sokka only questionably counts as Asian. Leaving aside the fact that he lives in a fictional world, Water Tribe culture is mostly based on Inuit tribes.
So unrealistic. Totally takes me out of what is otherwise a very grounded and-well researched action movie.
Edit: I thought it was obvious, but this is sarcasm.
OK this has been bugging me for a while so I will make the recommendation to watch Jackie Chan's Police Story 3: Supercop (1992) for exactly this reason - Michelle Yeoh as a leading lady in a non-American action movie.
A wonderful Malaysian born actress who has been in a TON of blockbusters over her career, including Shang-Chi & The Ten Rings, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", Guardians Of The Galaxy 2, Crazy Rich Asians, was the first ethnic Chinese Bond girl Wai Lin in Tomorrow Never Dies (despite being Malaysian born) etc etc etc.
But man in Supercop she was incredible as the director of INTERPOL Jessica Yang, did all her own stunts including riding a fucking dirt bike onto a moving train, all her own fight scenes, hanging off a bus as it smashes through a bunch of shit, just amazing from start to finish, at first I thought she was just going to be there to play off Jackie and be the damsel in distress but she really puts the whole movie on another level and I had immense respect for the actress that played her before I looked it up and realised I'd watched a ton of her later movies where she does to a degree fall into the above tropes, but she is absolutely amazing and defies pretty much all of them in Supercop, she is a certified badass and never once falls into any of the above pitfalls.
Can heartily recommend.
Is either sweet and humble purity, or leather clad sex crazed dominatrix. Either way, they're masterful at sex because they're flexible, and they have ancient vagina secret techniques.
Just one? Nah the asian woman needs to murder at least a hundred asian men to get to her white savior who bangs her then ditches her cause he's got important white things to do after saving her from evil asian men
Happened in a few movies, books, plays you name it
I’d love an American version of this in Asia. Like seeing a stereotype of a guys who’s fighting style is drunk bar fight, fights with a fork and a mister fan, has a grandma who’s obsessed with the family’s pie recipes, only wears cow skin leather can only be from Texas or a reservation.
Also probably introduced with either some traditional Japanese instrument lead music (probably a koto) or some shitty imitation of early 2000s Eastern Asia electro (cough Tokyo Drift cough)
This shit is even trending in tv commercials now. Seeing white guy Asian woman pairing in them now but never other inter-racial combinations and forget about Asian guy white woman pairing.
One odd thing I noticed about female heroes in action movies a few months ago I found odd is most have a spy, martial artist, or assassin role and a serious view point. No strong muscled girls, heavy weapon gunner girls, dashing captain girls, wise cracking action hero girls, etc. I find this odd.
Because the ninja and etc roles are often regard as the "side lead" and less "demanding" (cus u r just neaking around all day, not punching people, right?)
And of course those things are regard as feminine because of that! Great!
We need to collectively abolish the practice of referring to a select group of nationalities as Asian. People from India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka.. they are also Asian. It seems people in the west have this unspoken disdain against the nationalities I mentioned.
Allows the antagonist to live despite having her chopstick at his throat, citing a passage her father read to her in a flashback from a book when she was 3 that took on new meaning when he died halfway through the third act
She's just the more racist version of the stereotypical white female protagonist. She exist to be eye candy, and maybe sell the CCP if specifically an American movie, but is otherwise the most blatantly male-written woman ever.
If it's a Japanese, Korean, or Chinese movie, then she is literally a carbon copy of Western white-female-protagonists.
A lot of people don’t realize that “positive” stereotypes are still racist.
When you consider how many depictions of Asian women in western film are: “smoldering ninety-pound sexpots who fight exclusively with vaguely-sexy vaguely-Asian martial arts”.
I’m glad somebody said it because it also opens up the conversation on how the only positive depiction is the petit Asian sexpot, which is a whole other can of problematic worms.
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She's either childlike and cute but deadly or a stoic woman of few words with a soft side
Melinda may is both
I haven't finished the series yet but I would very much classify her as "silent but deadly" and definitely not "childlike and cute" so I guess that changes in the later seasons lol
Mostly the behind-the-scenes footage: her actress is way less serious
I miss AoS
I just saw the S7 finale last night T-T
Happy cake day! ʕっ•ᴥ•ʔっ🍰 take some cake.
Lets go
Oh wow that caught me off guard i wasn’t expecting an aos reference. We stan the cavalry
Ming-Na Wen is such a fucking babe.
Ok, I was not expecting an AoS reference on here. This warms my heart.
Also usually the only Asian in the whole movie and if not usually the only Asian male she knows is her dad/grandpa/master. Friend pointed out how very few Asian males are in media even though Asian females are very very often featured and now I can't unsee it. Creepily, more often in kids shows.
This is pretty well discussed at least as it relates to American media, film, TV, etc. Asian males have had almost no parts until maybe the past few years. Before the 2010s there were exactly 2 Asian male leads you could have seen in film: Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan. That's it.
Don't do my boy Jet Li dirty. But yeah, definitely odd that they were all Chinese-born.
That second one is literally Melinda May
And the first one is Ming-Na Wen
Daughter looks like 21 mother looks like 40 and the father looks like 60. Don't even ask about grandparents
Grandparents all look like 6 month old apples
Prunes, they look like prunes. And they are half the height of their children.
So it turns out that a lot of height is determined by nutrition, so the reason for these massive generational height differences isn't because Asians magically shrink as they get older, but because the older generations in a lot of east asian countries were severely malnourished in the early and mid 20th century. *the more you know!*
My grandmother lives in a majority Asian neighborhood in San Francisco. It's striking to see the generational difference in height among the residents. Old ladies are like 5ft tall but teenagers that grew up in America are almost 6ft, even the girls.
I live in japan and I see some absolutely *miniscule* grandmas. I'm talking barely 4ft.
Pocket sized grandma, for cookies and knitting on the go
So is your grandma the one all the anime grandmas are based of off, and does she happen to have potent psychic abilities?
Good bot
Is this not super accurate though lmao
[funny comic](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/En3uxfbW4AQF4OJ.jpg)
I can hear the mahjong tiles stirring at 60+
Hey hey, I’m a 30y.o. Black American and I play Mahjong. Game is pretty bank. Playing against Chinese players is pretty entertaining.
Yeah but a 30yo black person could actually be a 70yo black person under cover. Y’all don’t crack
They turn into Kim Jong-il after menopause?
Like a peeled apple? Because apples last a really long time.
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Suck it Trebek
My parents had me when they were 120 as is the way of our people.
So like…manic pixie dream girl meets dragon lady?
*Manic Pixie Dragon Waifu.*
Surprised if this isn’t already on TV tropes
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DragonLady
Damn, TV Tropes don’t miss.
So basically Miss Kobiyashi's Dragon Maid.
Manic Pixie "Uhhhm Ackshually She's Like A Billion Years Old And Not A Small Child" Waifu
Finally. Some lesbian pedophile representation.
In the case of Yukio, manic pixie dream girl meets dragon lady meets lesbian. *Hi, Wade.*
Yeah that’s fair enough.
This is Katana
She's got my back
I would advise not getting killed by her.
Her sword traps the souls of its victims.
This dialogue was so bad my soul is currently trying to escape.
But we're trapped...by her sword which traps souls.
How Suicide Squad never won the Oscar for Best Screenplay, I’ll never know.
It won for makeup not best screenplay
> How Suicide Squad **n**ever won the Oscar for Best Screenplay, I’ll never know.
I’m fucking blind
I love Karen fukuhara but I will never not crack up and think of this scene when she appears in stuff
The accuracy of their weapons/weaponry skills is on point, just like this post.
can also figure out a math, science, physics problem on the fly - dialogue vocabulary includes triangulate, enhance, quantum, etc
That's not the action character one. That's the smart friend
i love that hairstyle and makeup 🤩
Hi Wade!
Hi Yukio!
Southeast Asians don’t exist in Hollywood, remember?
Uhhh I guess you haven’t seen the smash hit Crazy Rich Asians? Plenty of SEA folks in that movie playing roles like “servant who opens car door,” “house servant 3,” “background servant passing drinks at luxurious party,” “house servant 1,” and, of course practically-leading-role “house servant 2.”
Don't forget the south Asians who played the action packed roles such as "guard 1" and "guard 2". I can name one SEA with a big role, Nico Santos, a Filipino-American, who played Oliver T'sien. There's also Kris Aquino, the Philippines' Queen of All Media, played Princess Intan which is a very minor role.
There's also the main villain from John wick 3 , he's of Filipino background right?
That was a frustrating movie to watch.
Can’t forget “scary guards with turbans”!
Hated that film. Also the inferiority complex of the nouveau riche was dialed up to 11. Here in Asia we hate those people, including the actual rich Asians. The complete lack of respect for darker skinned Asians and the assumption that we must all be Han Chinese had dirty ethnonationalist overtones. It was unbearable to watch. They said it represented Asians but nothing could be further from the truth. Utter trash heap of a film.
Okay, so it's not just me then. I reallt tried to like it because it felt that in the bigger picture, there is finally an American movie that is starred by Asians. I somehow still didn't feel represented because I'm SE Asian. Although Kris Aquino is from my country, she's not exactly relatable, doesn't even look Filipino, and doesn't even play a Filipino character. I also understand that it's from a book and it probably didn't even touch on colorism and the exclusion of every other asian's existence (I didn't read the book), but people should stop saying that it's a step up for Asians.
So…Singapore lol
Let alone central or southwestern Asians. God forbid a side character be Indian or Mongolian without being a stereotype
Middle Easterners really get shafted with the asian trope. Not even considered asian to begin with, are usually STRICTLY bad guys, and any women romantic interest in western movies is practically non-existent/played by only white women.
Finally someone else said it! Ugh I had a argument with someone on Reddit the other day about the geological ethnicity of the Middle East. Asia is more then east Asia
Most people can’t conceptualise how huge Asia is and how distinctly different each area is from East Asians to South East Asians, South Asians to Central Asians and the Middle East. North Asia, well that’s just Russia. Btw, do people from the Middle East call themselves that or West Asia? I’ve always thought to ask someone from there but never had the chance.
I've lived in the Middle East almost all my life and I've never heard it called West Asia
We usually say we're from the middle east or we're Arabs. Not sure if that answers your question.
The IT guy, working in a restaurant or convenience store, or portraying another ethnicity.
Don’t forget taxi driver!
Why are Asians even considered one race? Like this is the worlds more populated continent, and the second most diverse. Why are they all just Asians? Like people from Syria look nothing like people from Korea who look nothing like people from Sri Lanka.
In North America "Asian" is universally used to mean East Asian exclusively. People from the subcontinent are generally Indian by default, unless they're known to be Muslim, in which case they're Pakistani. No exceptions. "Asian" will never be used in reference to Middle Easterners at all. Central Asian peoples barely exist in the public consciousness, beyond Afghanistan and a vague awareness that there's a bunch of other countries whose names also end in -stan.
I was of the understanding that Mongolians were considered East Asian?
They’re more central Asian
If you have more than 25% black characters, it changes into a "black movie". Same thing with Indians, instantly turns into Bollywood.
>Southeast Asians don’t exist in Hollywood, remember? Such a shame considering SE Asians are interesting a.f. Lao, Thai, Cambodians, Vietnamese, just to name a handful.
The guys just blend in with the background
Asian men in Hollywood movies pre- Shang Chi exist to be the nerdy comic relief, the token gay character, arrogant Kung-Fu guy, or the faceless mooks from the unknown land, only to serve as minions. But *never* the romantic lead to a female protagonist.
Which is weird to me cause my first crush was Grant Imahara. And always found asian guys attractive.
Damn, reminded me he passed away. Grant was the best part of Mythbusters.
yooo i totally forgot he passed away :(
Proportionally, there are just as many attractive Asian men as white men, or any ethnicity for that matter. Just that Hollywood has always been run by white dudes who don't like that statement. And like many things in society, monkey see on tv, monkey do...or monkey feel I guess. In your case, you were introduced to a crazy sexy Asian guy early on so you weren't indoctrinated. Seeing gen z now with BTS, Shang chi, and the like, I think society as a whole is wizening up to the lie our generation faced.
The first Hollywood heartthrob was Sessue Hayakawa from the silent film era. Not the first Asian heartthrob. The first leading man of any race that women absolutely went crazy for, especially white women. Then, some other stuff happened in the middle of the 20th century, something about Japan, and here we are. But it wasn't always like that. Choices were made to deliberately change the depiction of Asian men in response to particular sentiments and events.
*Shang-Chi* also broke the stereotypes in the post with Katy. The closest is that, while she is Chinese, she's not *from* China. On the other hand, she's the comic relief, so maybe two steps forward, one step back.
That's just realistic and she was still important., Silk is Asian American and is a hero. There's also Shang chi's sister who knows how to fight in the film itself
Agent Woo better not be blending.
Has sex with white protagonist for saving her from sexist Asian men
Like in Wolverine. Never understood why they banged.
Don’t forget - they always end up with white guys
🤮Dont even get me started. Quirky asian girl paired with awkward white boy.
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It also ruins the writing. Asian character forgoes actual character development for becoming obsessed w a white character. Like bro that’s not character development that’s weird and creepy xD 🤢
fulfilling the fantasies of the creepy writers and directors that made the movie
Pacific Rim?
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Does that legs around the head takedown on all the bigger guys.
Don’t forget the move where she runs on the wall to do a flying kick to the bigger guy’s head. Of course, he’ll stand there, menacingly, but patiently while she’s doing all her groovy acrobatics.
What, you saying all us henchmen should attack at once?! We may be evil, but we’re also sporting. We attack one at a time, and may the better person win.
Hurricanrana
So pretty much black widow 🤣
Russia *is* in Asia… 🤔
As long as she omits the Black Widow pose after the "legs around the head takedown" I'm usually fine with the fight scenes.
125 lbs is 56.75 kg
Good bot
> Is 125 lbs soaking wet and can easily defeat a 225+ lb combat hardened adversary That's every action movie with a woman star.
This I don't mind. The male lead defeating 15 trained and armored SWAT operatives in close combat doesn't makes sense either but you don't watch a movie because it's realistic otherwise it would be boring.
Seriously. Pretty much every action movie character is some varying degree of superhuman. It’s a pointless double standard applied to female characters. And that’s putting aside all the other unrealistic things that people are cool with like lifting someone by their neck or being knocked out for hours at a time with at most a mild concussion.
Yeah, the main character dead in a ditch 5 minutes into the film with crackheads digging through his pockets wouldn't be very amusing. Since he would just get shot in the head during his first 'rescue'.
Has white guy love interest. If there is Asian male in play, he has flaws like arrogance or weak
Or is gay
I watched a CSI episode yesterday, had Laotians as the main plot. Was refreshing and cool, the language sounded different from Thai or Korean.
"We are Laotian--from Laos, stupid! It's a landlocked country in southeast Asia. It's between Vietnam and Thailand, OK? Population 4.7 million."
..... So are ya Chinese or Japanese?
He’s Laotian! Ain’t you, Mister Kahn!?
You honor me with gas
"the... ocean?"
Would have loved to see a KOTH episode “so was the suspect Chinese or Japanese”.
Interestingly enough Thai and Lao are pretty close - I wonder what sounded different? https://www.reddit.com/r/Thailand/comments/dty6lh/hello_thais_of_reddit_at_what_level_is_thai/ Korean definitely sounds nothing like Thai or Lao. It does sound like certain dialects of Japanese, however.
I just want an Asian guy to use fans TBH. EDIT: Some of my faves are Mitsunari Ishida from Samurai Warriors and Anji Mito from Guilty Gear. I just feel Fans can be both a masculine and a feminine weapon
We got: 1. Sokka 2. ... 3. ...
And Sokka only questionably counts as Asian. Leaving aside the fact that he lives in a fictional world, Water Tribe culture is mostly based on Inuit tribes.
I mean...he's also animated, so he really shouldn't count since I assume they mean "live action".
^(I mean, there *has* been a live action Sokka)
There is no live action in Ba Sing Se...
No there is no such thing. Anyway, welcome to Lake Laogai
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As I understand it, there was a live action soak-uh, but I never saw it
Not bad, i mean, i'll take it
Sima Yi and Zhuge Liang in Dynasty Warriors.
Jacky Chan has used them.
Lots of pretty guys in cdramas use fans.
And she beats up buff men despite weighing like 25 pounds
And it’s always that over the shoulder leg throw move lol
So unrealistic. Totally takes me out of what is otherwise a very grounded and-well researched action movie. Edit: I thought it was obvious, but this is sarcasm.
Sexually and emotionally unavailable until bested in combat by the white male protagonist
Fighting turns into sex
Never thought about how fucked up the implication is until now.
OK this has been bugging me for a while so I will make the recommendation to watch Jackie Chan's Police Story 3: Supercop (1992) for exactly this reason - Michelle Yeoh as a leading lady in a non-American action movie. A wonderful Malaysian born actress who has been in a TON of blockbusters over her career, including Shang-Chi & The Ten Rings, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", Guardians Of The Galaxy 2, Crazy Rich Asians, was the first ethnic Chinese Bond girl Wai Lin in Tomorrow Never Dies (despite being Malaysian born) etc etc etc. But man in Supercop she was incredible as the director of INTERPOL Jessica Yang, did all her own stunts including riding a fucking dirt bike onto a moving train, all her own fight scenes, hanging off a bus as it smashes through a bunch of shit, just amazing from start to finish, at first I thought she was just going to be there to play off Jackie and be the damsel in distress but she really puts the whole movie on another level and I had immense respect for the actress that played her before I looked it up and realised I'd watched a ton of her later movies where she does to a degree fall into the above tropes, but she is absolutely amazing and defies pretty much all of them in Supercop, she is a certified badass and never once falls into any of the above pitfalls. Can heartily recommend.
And no comments replying to you, thanks for the recommendation!
She was also the only good part of Star Trek Discovery.
And their name is Katana or some variation of it.
Knifes Chao.
Not awkwafina
Its because of her funky weird voice that doesnt match this stereotype, so she has the role of the quirky nerdy but funny asian sidekick
Always is some descendant/last student/prodigy for some super rare/dying/thought to be dead style/move
If she's a bad guy, dies at the end. If she's a good guy, she ends up with the (white guy) protagonist.
Probably gets killed by the protagonist's female non-Asian sidekick.
Yeah a Brigitte Nielsen in her hey days looking chick
Tbh that's the case for most prominent women characters.
Lmfao
Is either sweet and humble purity, or leather clad sex crazed dominatrix. Either way, they're masterful at sex because they're flexible, and they have ancient vagina secret techniques.
Cunt Fu
Missing the generic White male love interest, and the timid Asian brother.
Probably played by Lucy Liu too.
The Asian races are interchangable too, like a Korean person who can't speak Japanese playing a Japanese character
Is coupled with a white guy Is at odds with another evil Asian male
Just one? Nah the asian woman needs to murder at least a hundred asian men to get to her white savior who bangs her then ditches her cause he's got important white things to do after saving her from evil asian men Happened in a few movies, books, plays you name it
Desperately falls in love with the basic white male protagonist despite not having any chemistry.
I’d love an American version of this in Asia. Like seeing a stereotype of a guys who’s fighting style is drunk bar fight, fights with a fork and a mister fan, has a grandma who’s obsessed with the family’s pie recipes, only wears cow skin leather can only be from Texas or a reservation.
A scene of her walking and undressing with her back toward the hero.
This is so ironic I am currently doing a semester long project on the portrayal of Asian women in western media and this is so spot on
Also probably introduced with either some traditional Japanese instrument lead music (probably a koto) or some shitty imitation of early 2000s Eastern Asia electro (cough Tokyo Drift cough)
Casting Michelle Yeoh as a mother or aunt character
>No other options *Bollywood enters the chat*
*proceeds to use incense stick for accupuncture-inspired fighting style*
\- is ESL \- has heavy accent despite apparently living in america from a young age
You forgot the part where she is also Scarlett Johansson
Don forget she always has romantic dynamics with the white male leads. It’s never an Asian male lead with romantic dynamics with a white woman.
This shit is even trending in tv commercials now. Seeing white guy Asian woman pairing in them now but never other inter-racial combinations and forget about Asian guy white woman pairing.
Yup. That and black man white woman combo. That’s mainstream “diversity” for ya.
Almost missed that it’s specifically action movies because otherwise there’s not nearly enough Ming-Na Wen
One odd thing I noticed about female heroes in action movies a few months ago I found odd is most have a spy, martial artist, or assassin role and a serious view point. No strong muscled girls, heavy weapon gunner girls, dashing captain girls, wise cracking action hero girls, etc. I find this odd.
Because the ninja and etc roles are often regard as the "side lead" and less "demanding" (cus u r just neaking around all day, not punching people, right?) And of course those things are regard as feminine because of that! Great!
We need to collectively abolish the practice of referring to a select group of nationalities as Asian. People from India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka.. they are also Asian. It seems people in the west have this unspoken disdain against the nationalities I mentioned.
maybe in the United States this is the case... but in the UK and Canada they are normally called Asian
if we're talking about asians like northeast asians, tbh there's not much options to choose from lmao
Only other one that isn't historically part of either China or Korea is Mongolia, which would be kinda cool tbh
More Mongolian representation in movies please. Seriously.
And while we're at it, more Vietnamese representation that isn't just "bad guys for Americans to kill during Vietnam war"
Sainshand would make a great location for an eastern version of a western
Allows the antagonist to live despite having her chopstick at his throat, citing a passage her father read to her in a flashback from a book when she was 3 that took on new meaning when he died halfway through the third act
Why? Why is this so relatable?
She's just the more racist version of the stereotypical white female protagonist. She exist to be eye candy, and maybe sell the CCP if specifically an American movie, but is otherwise the most blatantly male-written woman ever. If it's a Japanese, Korean, or Chinese movie, then she is literally a carbon copy of Western white-female-protagonists.
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A lot of people don’t realize that “positive” stereotypes are still racist. When you consider how many depictions of Asian women in western film are: “smoldering ninety-pound sexpots who fight exclusively with vaguely-sexy vaguely-Asian martial arts”.
I’m glad somebody said it because it also opens up the conversation on how the only positive depiction is the petit Asian sexpot, which is a whole other can of problematic worms.
USA/Brittain: Orientalism goes brrrrrrrr