Terrific little Western, only one to treat the chinese any good LOL
Suzy Amis was just great in this movie
How come her career didnt kick on?
First, I agree this is a splendid film, and since it's a Western, it is a splendid Western. As for "only one to treat the Chinese any good" I beg to differ. Another nontraditional Western, from 1991, called Thousand Pieces of Gold, also by a woman director, Nancy Kelly, also treats Chinese immigrants with dignity and respect by portraying them with honesty. I highly recommend it. Stars include Michael Paul Chan (lately of The Closer/Major Crimes), Rosalind Chao (ed. note: yum yum yum) and Chris Cooper.
As for Amis, as noted elsewhere around here, she married James Cameron after appearing in a minor indie flick he did that went straight to video (Titanic; 1997), and I can only guess that she prefers family-ing over acting. I believe she runs a school she founded in L.A. Perhaps she'll get the bug again when her nest clears out.
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Oddly, the portrayal of Asians in the West was a point of criticism by many reviewers of the film. I recognized immediately, however, that the character, an outcast of society just like Jo(sephine), was simply looking for the same things that S(he) was.
shareRead Chiung Hwang Chen analysis on the film! There was nothing odd about criticizing what the mass White audience majority felt good about. It was an accurate depiction of the racist West but the film sure went to town on making Tinnman?? an effeminate he-bitch! If it were colonial times the film would depict the tough times of that period with the slave willing to fight through it unlike what was shown in The ballad of little jo.
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