why no one calls it racist??
it insulted the " holy " birth of a chinese
shareMaybe because not everybody takes this 75 years old film as seriously as you do.
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Different cultures, that's all.
To an English woman of that era the idea of pouring cold (sea) water directly on a newborn was unheard of.
Emily was just afraid that the baby would catch a chill. I doubt that race even entered into it.
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Not to mention the stir-fried cat for dinner. Whoops, I mentioned it!
share Stir Fry Cat ! My curiosity is peaked. Do they give an ingredient list I wonder? I am danged sick of feeding stray cats. They're going to be feeding me for a change! Well, not me, exactly. The title of this film intrigued me. "Rich and Strange" They should make several remakes. Each as a biography of ultra famous ultra strange individuals.. Can you think of any?
The movie comes on TCM in an hour.
Thnks for the idea War-Ped
Whither goest thou, America, In thy shiny car in the night? ~ Jack Kerouac
Sorry, no ingredients for stir-fried cat – just a passing reference made by a maverick Chinaman, as I recall. As for feeding cats, that's very benevolent of you, but I highly doubt they'd ever return the favor.
"Rich and Strange" could be and A&E series profiling just about every celebrity of the past few centuries, except the ones who became "Squandered and Strange."
Let me know what you think of this film. For a Hitchcock film, it's not very Hitchcock, though of course it is very early in his career.
I didn't like the way those two people kept yelling at the Chinese room cleaner! Three times he was yelled at, and with the meanest tone! Get Out! Twice he yelled and once they both yelled "GET OUT!" I didn't get what the broom fellow said when he finally got to the pint where he stood in the door. His bad teeth and his mouth moving but no sound came out. Could it be that there was no translator on the set?
And that husband was a candy ass whiner. I wanted to pop that guy!
I kept thinkin "Hitchcock"? Where's the McGuffin? The ugly woman was down his alley tho.. He married her, I think.
Oh the cats! Do you remember me telling you what business I was in..? how I have clients who I cook for while they're working or getting ready for having a party or something? I am a kind of caterer. I don't deliver the goods tho. They come and pick their orders up. How would they know? If I happen to run out of squirrel or possum or rabbit or something, I can always use stray dogs or cats. It's all in the marinade and dipping sauce anyway. I could use a good dry rub and barbecue or soak overnight and bread and chicken fry it. Down here if it comes with a side mashed potatoes and gravy they eat anything! I could probably even leave the skin on the cat...
Anyway, the film was unique. Very very unique.. in a good way.
Whither goest thou, America, In thy shiny car in the night? ~ Jack Kerouac
It's been a year since I've seen this film, and my memory of it is pretty hazy. Much of the dialogue was hard to make out, at least on the videotape I had, which I think was on the cheapo Laserlight label. I do remember the husband looking like he should be fronting an '80s New Wave/romantic band like Ultravox or something.
I think food is what you make of it, and a lot of our revulsion to eating certain animals is psychological, especially for the "cute" ones. But I work with a guy who will literally eat anything, and once when someone brought their dog in, he remarked: "I wonder how that thing would taste?" He was dead serious.
They didn't know they were eating cat til the *beep* hung the pelt up on the wall. They had dug in to their rice bowls fist first and had it all over their faces and they were lovin' it like crazy till this little guy comes out of nowhere and pounds that stretched out cat skin on the wall. If you don't know what yer eatin, it ain't so bad! You know they got that guy on television who eats'em penises. Ya ever seen him? Ryan Seacrest? Andy Dick? Keith Olbermann? Nooooooooo The guy, the food guy. The bizarre food eatin' guy on the travel channel! goodness War-Ped your filthy mind..
The sound quality of the film was really bad. it was made before censorship cause the fellow cussed once or twice. That female lead was beautiful. What a lilting beauty she was, but that dumb ass husband of her who fell for the gyspy! Anybody could tell she was a gyp! Took a thousand pounds, two tickets to the mainland and split and he goes whining back to his little wife about it. The movie was plain unrealistic. This couple goes off with a few bucks and they each find new lovers. They got no kids and the female deserves better than what she has in that "Ultravoxy" puke she married. I'd a took off with that older gentleman in about a second! Some guy come back crying on my shoulder after being dropped by some old streetwalker and then get all pissed off when I tell him I knew about her kind the whole time. I'da thrown' the guy overboard! I would Rolled him first tho. Took whatever he had left.
Whither goest thou, America, In thy shiny car in the night? ~ Jack Kerouac
I leave the response to this one for those wiser than myself.
Smoke me a kipper. I’ll be back for breakfast
I'm sorry you read this before seeing it b/c that moment is a complete surprise and the funniest in the film!
Reminded me of a memorable scene in Hill Street Blues involving Belker undercover.
One of the most memorable moments of HSB! I'm sorry they read about this scene too, it really is a surprise.
shareAnother politically correct asswipe looking for any excuse to accuse Caucasians of racism.
shareI've watched that scene several times and not once did I sense an insult. She sees a baby and gets upset when they dump cold sea water all over it. Seems like a reasonable response to me and not the least bit insulting.
I surely didn't know it was a "holy" birth myself and I think their handling of it, with an explanation (the tender way the man held the baby, how the baby wasn't hurt) was quite sweet, actually. Not to mention, it was informative to the audience how things were done in other cultures.
Why is it everyone is so stupidly quick to scream racism?! Hmmmm. I guess it takes one to know one, eh? Perhaps you're racist against unknowing English? Sure sounds like it to me. You expect everyone to know right away what is happening and if they don't, they're "bad" people. Yep, racism.
That wasn't the racism. The racism came when the other Chinese are shown just watching, with no emotion, one of their group drown. I think the English couple was too far away to help.)
shareFred: "Ugly, isn't it?"
That was racist, the rest was ignorance.
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