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Changing race and ethnicity?

posted 9 years ago by jeffyoung1
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Did anyone else find it truly creepy how two, evil Asian boys decide to medically transform themselves into two, evil white boys? Bond interrupts the procedure sequence on the second Asian villain so the dude has to walk around looking like Nosferatu. Why would anyone want to do that to themselves. Also the bad side effect is permanent insomnia, requiring using a dream-inducing chamber in order to avoid insanity.

[–] 9 years ago

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[–] TreeShaman (806) 5 years ago

Because it's a cool idea that resulted in a shocking twist. And there is a deeper meaning which ends up being explored towards the end of the film: General Moon rejects his son because of the gene therapy, even though he knows that Graves truly is his son.

[–] LordBAElish (2015) 5 years ago

Its one of the many crazy, over the top, stupid things they did in this movie

[–] Moonglum9 (10709) 5 years ago

It's just the usual whitewashing of Asians in the movies. Despicable!