The fact that the romantic interest in Deborah Gibson's character is the Asian Male scientist is a positive move. Maybe Hollywood's innate racism against Asian characters in general is waning.
And before anyone says anything, I'm a male poster who is German/Irish/English/Scottish. ;)
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Yeah I know. It's sad when an Asylum film is the best portrayal of this.
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An Asian is the lead role in an completely frivolous romantic storyline in an awful movie... Still a long way to go!
"German/Irish/English/Scottish"? lol I think the word is Caucasian!
Well, the German side doesn't get long with the others... ;)
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Now the Asian dude is banging the hot white chick in The Walking Dead. Quite a progress, isn't it?
shareIt would have been positive if the guy was any good. He was awful. Mind you, so was everyone else in this pile of excrement.
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No, it's a start. Quality of a script or acting has nothing to do with Hollywood's innate anti Asian bias. Once they have overcome that hurdle, like they did with African Americans decades ago, will the better scripts come.
It's interesting. We have MALE Asian major characters (B.D. Wong in Law & Order SVU, Tim Kang in "the Mentalist"), but Asian men are asexual in Hollywood. We never see romance, nor sex, in relation to them. Asian women, on the other hand are either dragon women or sluts or only 'equal' to others when they mate with white or black males. (the one obvious exception is the wonderful inclusion of the Korean couple in the show "Lost") :)
There was a fascinating quote in the 1970s series "Jewel of the Crown" in which a British officer in Colonial India said that women of 'color' were in some way being elevated to "white status" by marrying white men. But white women could not be romantically involved with men of color, because it was an affront to their race and they would be 'demeaning themselves'. A very different (and racist) view from the 19th century, but the quote stuck with me my entire life.
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He may have been awful in an awful movie but he was hot.
shareI have to admit I was shocked when they threw that whole romantic angle in. Partly because as intimated in the OP, Asian males do not very often get portrayed as romantic leads. Up till then I had been wondering when we'd get to see Lorenzo Lamas's character's heroic side which would win Debbie Gibson's heart.
Mainly I was shocked because the kiss and subsequent sex (which of course we didn't see) came completely out of the blue. The writers clearly have no concept of setting up that kind of thing.
Mainly I was shocked because the kiss and subsequent sex (which of course we didn't see) came completely out of the blue. The writers clearly have no concept of setting up that kind of thing.
I know.....what a mistake
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Mainly I was shocked because the kiss and subsequent sex (which of course we didn't see) came completely out of the blue. The writers clearly have no concept of setting up that kind of thing.
Oh, they gave a clue ... when they first meet "tinkling" music plays. It is hilarious.
I'm just shy that way
Exactly. And the actors had zero chemistry.
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