Hayden and Ken

LMAO... why don't y'all just chill da fawk out? What a funny slew of responses. Cracked me up, seriously.


Plenty of people react negatively to black guys with non-black women (esp. white). But somehow - for some random reason, white people seem to have less negative reactions if it's some washed out (read: "MULLATO!") black guy with light skin, green eyes, and 'cute curly-fries' spring-y hair with out the kinkiness. It's crap - it's residual racism that's left over from the days when people actually believed 'whiteness' was a more valuable trait. The days when the half-white 'house negros' got the extra leftovers after the mastah and his family had their dinner - while the dark-as-midnight 'field-negroes' starved for the night in their huts. Same thing for Asians - white people luuuuuuve Keanu Reeves (a half-Asian that looks like a white dude), but make it a NATIONAL SPORT of pissin' on full-blooded Asian males. Yet some more nonsense.

But it's really not that white people are card-carrying KKK members. Most white folks I know are pretty decent people, but some aren't aware of the subtle prejudices they carry - and the original poster just had a mental hiccup. And if these things happen, it's upto minorities to let know them know about these things in a non-threatening way - aka OPEN COMMUNICATION, PEOPLE! There's no need to flame people to a crisp - in most cases they don't mean any harm.

And you know, the bottom line is that we all have our subtle prejudices that are the sums of our upbringing and background. There is not ONE SINGLE PERSON in this country that doesn't carry at LEAST a smidgen of sub-conscious bias. I've met some pretty damn racist black people - and THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE THE POSTER CHILDREN FOR ANTI-RACISM! But the truth is that they are no different from a white person or a yellow person or a brown person. It's human nature for us to imperfect. It's unrealistic to expect people to be 'squeaky clean' in that sense - but the noble thing would be to recognize and ADMIT that these prejudices exist. Thats' the first step - we're all stuck with each other whether we effin' like it or not, and the sooner we decide to just drop our petty racial BS, the sooner we can kick back and have a great time. Heheh...

Who knows... heheheh.

No matter what some people say how wrong White Girl and Asian Guy. It racism by some of you poster. In the real world, there is more White Girl/Asian Guy relationship and marriages. In Europe and Asia, it more common than the US.

You cannot accept White Girl with Asian Guy. It no difference 25+ years ago with White Girl with Black Guy. Even today, people stereotype any attractive white girl with a black guy as the girl slut, marrying for the money, or sex thing.

Asian guy with different stereotypes can't touch a white girl. It play wrong especially there a age difference in this case. Even if it was not an difference, the same people will find some other excuse.

Sad to say, we like to make issue out of everything. Some white and they will not admit it has the White superior complex. It Ok for White Guy on the White Horse rescue the minority and white women from the evil everyone else. It not ok for Asian guy rescuing the White maiden from the evil everyone else especially if evil person white.

You never see a movie with E.g Imagine Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt abusing and raping some poor White women. Some Asian Guy(Jet Li or Chow Yan Fat) saving the white maiden girl. These movies do exist in Europe Asian Male Hero saving European White Girl.

As for Interracial couples, I many Asian Guys with White Girls. The sad thing, some of the white girls seem to age faster than their Asian Husband. A perfect example is my college buddy is 40 and wife is 34, there has been some situations
where people thought older white lady married younger man. My college buddy always say, my young wife. People say, are you sure.

Thanks for the spoiler!

I think that Addie was 16-years-old for a reason. We're supposed to feel shocked about the age difference in the beginning of the movie and even Liam suffers from guilt over it on numerous occasions. Liam is reluctant to so much as kiss Addie and chooses not to become intimately involved with her because, as he reminds her, she is "still just a young girl."

Liam is a conflicting character and Addie being 16-years-old only brings that conflict outside for us to see in their relationship. Gosh, everything in this guy's life is conflicting! From his family issues to his struggle with acknowledging both his national and ethnic roots. This movie was about Liam trying to find love for himself as much as an identity (and sanity).

However, when Liam leaves for Shanghai, Addie is turning 17-years-old. When she returns from Paris, another year has passed. So, we can safely assume that by the end of the movie, Addie is either 18-years-old, or very close to turning 18. The difference isn't just a number either. Addie went to Paris and was independent for a year. She learned to rely on herself during that period of time and not on Liam, who "made her think that she needed him when he was the one that actually needed her." I think that by the end of the movie, Addie is an adult -- legally and mentally.

I don't know how this turned into a race discussion exactly. I also felt disgusted by Liam's relationship with Addie in the beginning of the film and it had nothing to do with Liam being Asian or Addie being white. Anyone would (or should) feel upset at seeing an adult in their late 20's dating a 16-year-old. Personally, I was mislead by the "romantic comedy" label into picking up this movie because I am white and mostly date Asian guys. So, Liam being Asian and Addie being white didn't make any difference to me in what I viewed as acceptable and unacceptable with their relationship from a legal and moral perspective.

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myeh that big gap age is pretty awkward. and it reminds me the movie "Take the lead" with Dante Basco.. wow.. what are they trying to do with those poor asian (male)-actors? I dont see much positivity for them in Hollywood yet...

I have to agree...no wonder this thing went straight to DVD, I got creeped out just reading the synopsis, and after realizing that Ken Leung is like 37 it just got creepier.

Maybe if they made it about a college girl it would be a lot less creepy.

So far (3 minutes into the movie) it at least seems to include some funny references, although they almost all seem to be the kind of thing that's only funny for a very small amount of people. For example, he mentions that he went to Dalton at the audition at the beginning of the movie, but I'd estimate that 99.8% of Americans would have no idea that that was supposed to be funny. The fact that he's from Queens may or may not have been somewhat humorous as well in a "oh how stereotypically nyc asian" sense, but that would be funny pretty much just for an asian american from Queens. The jab at LA's public transportation only even makes sense since his character knows that other cities have much better public transportation (such as his hometown of NYC), but the vast majority of Americans happen to think of public transporation as sucking or being nonexistent (the only west coast exception in fact is San Francisco, and even on the east coast you're left with the residents of NYC, Boston, and Washington DC).

Point is, it's creepy because of the age difference, and so far all the jokes are in-joke references. On the bright side, the Dalton reference did get a chuckle out of me (and no I didn't go to Dalton).

One other thing that creeps me out is the fact that the only person who's ever called me that has been my brother when we were kids, but that just applies to me lol.

Ok, finished the movie...and it's not really funny enough the rest of the way to really be a comedy at all, so much as a movie that makes very little sense. For one thing you can't just up and move to Shanghai since you need to go through a lot to get a resident visa. And if Kelly Hu's character is so intelligent and well-spoken and speaks pretty good English there'd be no chance in hell her only job opportunity would be being a waitress who "has" to marry some guy...what, her siblings aren't capable of working? Or is Kelly Hu's character supposed to be really young and have really young siblings? Dunno, but seriously a lame plot copout to extract him from China.

That and the fact that Kelly Hu's fake chinese accent was pretty awful. *sigh*