They did sort of a bad job with matching Malee and her mother. They didn't look alike at all, really. But of course since you never see her dad, it's a plunder, but that's really no reason to have them not look alike.
sharei thought about it, and i'm pretty sure her mother was supposed to be the one of asian decent because her last name what Chaung and i'm sure she wouldn't keep her exhusbands? name if they were even ever married.
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I think in the commentary the director said she was adopted but this didn't come through in the movie.
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i'm sure she wouldn't keep her exhusbands? name if they were even ever married
Er....... I'm pretty sure Annabella Sciorra was not playing an Asian.
shareDivorced women keep their ex's last names all the time. It's far easier to have the same last name as your children.
The only strange part of any of this is spending any amount of time analyzing the racial/genetic makeup of fictional people and coming up with convoluted "solutions" and backstories to something that has zero bearing on the plot of the film.
Movies are IQ tests. The IMDB boards are each person's opportunity to broadcast their score.
I think the mother was married to an Asian man and he left her. That would explain her having the same last name as Malee. She doesn't necessarily have to change her last name; maybe their not divorced but separated.
shareIf you're a cross between two different 'races', you're gonna look different. Heidi Klum and Seal's kids are gonna have a different skin tone that her.
sharei think the fact that they didn't look alike served to better illustrate the fact that their lives were so separate and distant from one another.
shareI think her dad was the Asian parent, thus her last name being Chaung, despite the fact that her parents may have been divorced. Many children of divorces keep the father's last name regardless of which parent they end up with.
As far as her not looking like her mom, you obviously haven't taken in the fact that she was of mixed heritage and her looks just leaned toward more of her father's side since Asian genes can be very dominant. Of course the opposite can be true and many mixed children can end up looking completely "pure blooded" in which you could never tell they were mixed in the first place.
I tell this from a personal perspective by the way. Being of mixed heritage everyone says I look like one parent over the other, in which in the case of the other parent they say I look nothing alike. So, I know this situation all too well, and I think they portrayed this situation in a very realistic manner.
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Iggznuz is right have you ever seen the show Jon & Kate + 8 Jon is half white and half Korean minor the hazel eyes he looks pure Asian and there kids who are only 25% Korean look it more than they do white. I assumed that Malee's dad was Asian and her mom was Hispanic.
shareThe actress' name is 'weizenbaum', that's german. she could be adopted, 'mixed', whatever in the film/in real life. duh. & who cares?
that's seriously what you have to say after seeing this? LAME
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She was adopted!
Remember when Jacob, Malee, and Leonard were playing cards in the basement? In order to give Jacob the gun, she tells Leonard she was offended about what he said about adopted kids.
I wasn't sure when I saw this part if she was adopted. I thought maybe her father was Asian. But, now that someone posted that it was stated in the commentary that she was, it makes sense.